{ te dijo te amo / I prayed that the days would last / they went so fast. }

[delga]

I still haven't seen more than five minutes of the most recent Being Human. Am beginning to consider that when these things take effort, I should just drop them already. I have no idea what happened in this week's Glee except the amazing swim coach made a minor appearance to bitch out Sue Sylvester, and Santana danced with Ricky Martin. IT WAS GREAT.

The Mother and I didn't watch any more early Justified and won't tomorrow, either, because we're people with social lives all of a sudden. I very much enjoyed The Devil You Know, from Rachel competently dealing with the bullshit she deals with all the damn time, to Raylan realising he was probably going to have to help Dickie Bennett. Brilliant.

I also enjoyed Fringe despite its earnest attempts to gross me out, and I enjoyed the parts of Smash that I saw (I love Debra Messing, and yaaaaaaaay, Raza Jaffrey!) though I will probably not keep up with it.

I swing between being desperate to watch Borgen and heavily reluctant. Sigh.

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I wasn't expecting to be overly invested in the IFTAs last night, but then Colin Morgan presented the award for TV Best Actress, and Ruth Negga won it for Shirley, and suddeny it was something else entirely.

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Work. What do I say about work. I had my appraisal this week, and managed to type it up. I also had a couple of days of things to do. The problem with my job is that when we are at high capacity, we need two more people to get things done. But it's so inconsistent that I spend a lot of time twiddling my thumbs, despite asking for, and completing, other work. I like my job a lot - when I am actually doing it. Otherwise it's a bit of a time suck. At least I'm getting paid? Yeah.

That said, have been looking at what it would take to set up an independent cinema. The answer is: insanity. And yet. Fuck, I know nothing about business.

Anyway, only working three days next week, and then five days off, hurrah.

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House/flat-hunting = dead end so far. This is less because of options and more because I am the worst. But. Whatever. Not thinking about it right now.

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Today I watched Beginners (Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent, and a dog) which was exactly what I needed to watch today. It was about starting over - in life, in love - but also about the history of people. I liked it for what it was, and will definitely watch it again, though I can see how some people might find it very surface-level.

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Jaw-ache resulting from toothache. I just have to survive a week before my dentist appointment. At this point it's fifty-fifty as to whether or not I will make it.

Comments

[eleigh.livejournal.com]

But it's so inconsistent that I spend a lot of time twiddling my thumbs, despite asking for, and completing, other work.

Do you also feel guilty when you're twiddling your thumbs? Because when I have nothing to do (like most people. February is apparently a quiet month for my company) I feel guilty. I didn't feel that way in my other job but I think that's because even if I wasn't terribly busy there was usually at least some small thing to do every day. Not to mention there was no big brother monitoring every move I made on the internet so I could check gmail, twitter, tumblr, and facebook when I didn't have things to do. Sometimes I miss that job. And then I think of all the really bad days I had compared to the only one really bad day I've had so far in this job and I get over it. I just wish I consistently had stuff to do.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

No, I don't. I did when I first started, but now I just get a bit irritable because it's not like there isn't work - it just hasn't progressed enough in the pipeline to get to me, which is frustrating, and not my fault, but somehow still my problem.

I end up doing a tumblr check every ten minutes, which I do feel a little guilty about. On the other hand: I have shit else to do.

[twincy.livejournal.com]

The Devil You Know was so, so excellent.

Independent cinema. !

I liked what I saw of Beginners but I ultimately couldn't finish it for... reasons having very little to do with the film. I would like to be able to watch the rest of it, but that seems unlikely to happen. Um, I'm glad you enjoyed it?

Speaking of things unfinished: I really ought to have read the last twenty pages of Weight before the semester started - now I am tits deep in postmodernists & haven't the time. It's marvellous, though. I like that you said the same thing about it that you did about Saving Grace when you sent me that - I'd either love it or find it insufferably tedious - though I still haven't made my mind up which end of the spectrum Saving Grace falls on.

Aaand I'm rambling. In other news, I have no idea what even is going on with Being Human these days. Did they recast?

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

! I read the fic you sent me! I had to read it out loud to get into the rhythm of all the diacritics, but I liked the storytelling of it. When I realised what had happened to the protagonist (there's a line there about the girl at the bar not knowing what to make of the Cloud that came back as Strife, or something), I had to stop and go back, and read from the beginning. Thank you for the rec.

Who even knows with Being Human. Lots of people left! Now there are new people! A person has come back from the future with the intention of...killing herself as a baby? That bit's a bit Terminator, and still I don't know.

[twincy.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to leave feedback on that fic, but I can never quite pin down what it is that I find so wonderful about it. (Yeah, the character's name is Cloud Strife. The one referenced who died was called Zack Fair, because Japanese games are all about heavy-handed symbolism when it comes to naming.) (Zack is my faaaavourite. Not least because he's voiced by Rick Gomez in the English translations. !)

A person has come back from the future with the intention of...killing herself as a baby?
.... okay, then. I don't think I even made it through the second season, nor do I see that happening any time soon. Anyway, for some reason I thought the same characters were still there, but the actors had been replaced. Um. I'm glad they didn't go down that route again. (The original pilot cast is still the Being Human cast of my heart.)