{ femgen posting opens on Monday, and I've yet to write even a word. }

[delga]

Helloooo eljay! People who are still alive: you guys; me. It has been long enough that I have stacked up a list of things to talk about, but watch as this devolves into another episode of M Never Remembers What There Is To Talk About, this week with special guest star, me.

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I started the new job! Well, no, first I left the old one, and did embarrassing things like hug everyone and cry in public. But then I started my new job! It is...not what I thought it was going to be, frankly, and yet still great. I am at that point right now where I feel like my line manager and the lovely lady who is training me weren't expecting me to be up to speed yet. So they sort of gave me a bunch of stuff to do, and now it's done. And it's not that there isn't work to do, it's just that there isn't the time or the resource to train me that quickly. So I'm just trying to get stuck in, and learn the wider process, and then apply that knowledge to what I'm doing. It's an efficiency game at this point.

Everyone is so young. So young! I mean, like, in their 20s and 30s. That is young! I am used to working with the 45+ age bracket. It's very odd to be working with peers. I am not used to having to adjust myself socially. And sometimes I feel like that girl in the corner of the room that nobody talks to. Because I am, and because I am oddly situated in the room. But at the same time, everyone is pleasant, and helpful, and there are other new people, too, and it's okay. I need to become part of the woodwork, and then things will be less stilted. Half the issue - if there is any issue at all - is that after two weeks in Cambridge, I was left there to fend for myself, and then worked full time until I finished. So it's weird to go from that to a really empty induction schedule.

Things I will only be mentioning once: jesus, getting my IT access sorted has been an epic nuisance, and for something quite straightforward, it has been a colossal pit of nonsense.

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And then London set itself on fire earlier this week. Everyone else is talking about it in a more eloquent fashion than I am, so I don't have anything to add, but I will say that for all that happened, I'm glad the actual ruckus seems to be dying down. For a little while, it felt extremely televisual. How Don Delilo.

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Oh, hey, so: Spooks' tenth series will be its last, and my feeling is part nostalgic sadface, and part "yeah, okay, it's time". In the meantime, I am trying to write a Spooks-related big bang entry (not what you think; telling you right now), and I'm reading John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. That's right: a book. An actual novel. My commute is so much more conducive to reading now, even if I can't get a seat on the train most mornings. I'm really enjoying the book, too. It's exactly my thing, and I don't know why I didn't get to it sooner.

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Next Wednesday I have the day off, but will be traipsing into The City anyway to see Betrayal, and then Butley. I have the whole of the week after that off, too, and will be spending some of that in the city, and some of that in Edinburgh. That impromptu decision might cost me in several ways but is going to be so worth it, as I'll be meeting up with one of my oldest eljay friends, noorie. Also, you know, Edinburgh. Am currently awaiting a skype call in which we will bash out the details, but my train tickets arrived yesterday, so that's totally happening.

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Other stuff? Everyone should be watching The Hour, if only for the delicious Anna Chancellor:

Also, in typical BBC fashion, there are ~spies. Seriously, it's my absolute favourite thing right now.

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And that's that. I mean, there's other stuff, but fuck if I can remember.

Comments

[eleigh.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure we've had the exact same new job experience. Only I suspect I was without stuff to do for a lot longer. It's been almost 8 weeks and I'm still getting all of my IT access sorted. You have to get approval from like 8 people before you can get a program installed and if one person is on vacation and can't approve then you're just screwed even if you need that program sooner.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Ah, my hold up is that IT is just dumb. End of.

Why on earth would you need so many people to sign off on a thing? What I'm finding is that IT just don't listen.

[eleigh.livejournal.com]

Oh don't get me wrong. Our IT is dumb. I spent like 10 minutes on the phone yesterday about a ticket I submitted because the guy couldn't figure out the problem. Even though I gave a detailed description AND attached a screenshot of the issue. I mean I have worked IT before. I'm aware of how to describe a problem.

I have no idea. They're very particular about the programs, I guess, because they give you access to medical records but you'd think by hiring people they'd assume they'd need access to that stuff.

[belantana.livejournal.com]

I hope your IT is sorted by now, and/or they have received a big kick up the arse. I bonded with the IT guy over Kate Beaton comics, and now he's usually helpful, perhaps this will work for you?

After your rec was followed by about twelve other people demanding I watch it - argh, The Hour! It's lovely so far. Haven't seen much of Anna Chancellor yet but what I have is hand-clappingly brilliant. (Also hand-clappingly brilliant is Dominic West's plummy accent.) I'm a bit confused about Freddy at the moment but I'm hopeful he'll come round, and of course, yayyyyyyy, spies. Which links nicely into yayyyyy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the very first spy novel I read and a mind-blowing revelation to my ten-year-old self.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

It sort of is, and sort of isn't. I thought IT was dumb at my last place, but at least we could get stuff done. I don't know



THE HOUR. I LOVE IT. I want to be Lix, basically.

[belantana.livejournal.com]

Awwww, never mind! I should record some of my own someday, if I can ever find something to suit my accent. Thanks for trying :DDDDD

I am very much looking forward to more Lix! Downloading ep3 now. *bounces*

I spent the whole first two episodes trying to figure out where I knew Bel from, because she's so familiar, but when I looked her up on imdb it turns out I've seen her in nothing. Does she... look like someone?