dodgyhoodoo tends to complain about Thursdays. Thursday, for him, is the new Monday, a la Arthur Dent ("I never got the hang of Thursdays"). Some days, my Thursdays are similar. Today is one of those days.

There are certain things that I more or less balk at having to do. I have, in the space of two weeks or so, cleared a backlog of four months. That's what ( Read more... )

I'll talk about the industrial action later, since I've sort of seen it from both sides today. Right now, though, I am tired, I think I've worked myself into yet another case of lurgy (or possibly the same case of lurgy that is just never going to get better no matter how much vitamin C I intake if I don't take better care of myself), and I plan to ( Read more... )

I am having One Of Those Days.

I was late for work owing to the more-or-less standard public transport woes. I guess it froze last night, to judge by the salt scattered all over the train platform this morning. Anyway, I wasn't very late, so that was alright. Still, not a great way to start the day, particularly when you have no idea what desk you ( Read more... )

Here's this meme again. mitchy gave me age 25. Ooooooooh shit.

I was dating:
I wasn't, which was frankly a good thing. That year was a welter of therapy and trying to get my life back in order after I had a total mental breakdown and I really didn't have the headspace. I don't think I started seeing cholten99 until late 2003 or so.

I wanted to be:Self- ( Read more... )

I haz a meme. kelemvor givez it me. And he gave me age 17. TEENAGE ANGST GO!

I was dating:
Expect this to be complicated; I was seventeen. Let's see. For most of it, I was dating Gopi Flaherty, who was a year above me in school and ended up going to college in Pennsylvania while I was doing my last year of A-levels. There was a lot of off-again, on-again ( Read more... )

I need a day off. I need a day off. I need a day off so badly I CANNOT STAND IT ( Read more... )

Talking faster on your dictation tapes will not make us type faster, and certainly will not make us type more accurately while we're typing faster. And if your words are quite literally getting jumbled in your mouth because you're trying to speak with the speed of an auctioneer, you're wasting your own time as well as ours because you have to go ( Read more... )

...does not constitute an emergency on mine!I am being shifted to yet another new department next week. It's a bit like Pass the Parcel. Still, I'm not precisely sorry. I cannot get out of this one fast enough. Today is one of those days where I just want to kill EVERYONE ( Read more... )

So I've been quiet for awhile, beyond the occasional rant. It's probably about time to rant about work, and why I need a new job, like, yesterday.

My co-admin was supposed to be leaving for greener pastures in September; something about having a job offer for something more in his skill set with a delayed start date. September came and went ... ( Read more... )

So ... the trailer for the Hunger Games film came to my attention yesterday:

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So now I have a few things to say to anyone who just dismisses this as 'Battle Royale with American kids'. Because before I actually knew anything about Hunger Games ... I admit I said it too, though mostly as a frame of reference. It's wrong. I'm not talking 'it's a ( Read more... )