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You are viewing the most recent 20 entries December 18th, 200908:09 pm: Snow!
It's been ages since I updated here, but I'm doing so tonight because instead of being out buying my christmas tree, I'm stuck inside because of snow. Still, snow! and I have south africans on video and can complete the Paul Harris dance now I'm away from the office, so it's not a bad evening even if less festive than I intended. So what's happened since I last posted? I started my new job - it's all going really well and it was definitely the right choice, even if being so close to my workplace means I don't get snow days. I have a swipe card and am in the process of recruiting a minion: bow before my power. I do now have to iron work clothes though, which I had successfully avoided for the past 31 years of my life I have achieved the coveted yoga sequence of going from a forward bend into a handstand and then into plank position all in one seamless movement. Go me! My teacher was right when she said I'd get it eventually, and private lessons have paid off. Now to make it look elegant... There was a date with a south african man called Ryan, but I'm not sure how fussed I am about a second one - certainly not as fussed as him which is probably a bad sign. I've received a distinction for my MSc ethnography module, and the first part of my discourse analysis module, and submitted the preliminary proposal for my final dissertation. I've just got to hope they accept the proposal and I'll be admitted to the final module. I will be back soon with test updates. We didn't get any for the one dayers, because the results were wrong and therefore do not officially exist in lemonbellaland. ETA: thanks for cards/presents ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fringedweller heatherbelles and writan_burETA Again: Thank you to fringedweller & laceymcbain for my virtual gifts. I only just noticed them because I am useless. fringedweller I will come and see kittens (even though I suspect they're quite large by now...). Any january weekends not good for you? Current Mood:  restless , rambling, snow!, the paul harris dance, work, yoga things i can do
November 1st, 200907:24 pm: Meme to distract from the impending doom
I start my new job tomorrow. I have new shoes, a shirt that fits, and a new notepad. I'm actually terrified. I ran for 50 minutes in the gym today, just to distract myself. Whilst there were many good reasons for taking this job, I am well aware that it could turn out to be a terrible, terrible mistake. Tomorrow I find out. Anyway: From fringedweller You leave a comment saying, "Resistance is futile." I respond by asking you five questions to satisfy my curiosity. You update your journal with the answers to my questions. You include this explanation in your post, and offer to ask other people questions. ( Answers Here )
October 22nd, 200909:03 pm: *settles down with a cup of tea*
I'm actually quite looking forward to seeing Griffin get his ass kicked on national TV. Given how much of an ignorant, deluded, bigoted twat he made himself look by simply replying to an army general in print, the visual version should be even more impressive. It's going to be only marginally less entertaining than it would be seeing him *actually* get his ass kicked. I don't appear to have an anti-fascist, semi-serious post icon. Batman will have to do. Current Mood:  curious , politics, the power of debate
September 28th, 200907:31 pm: South Africa Champions Trophy 2009
I'm not doing scores for everyone, for a number of reasons: 1) I might cry 2) I missed quite a bit of the last match because I was lost in some woods. 3) The world isn't fair, so it doesn't get my ratings. That'll teach it. 4) I might cry. I will however rate Graeme: Match points 110 Graemeyness points 674 Sveltness points 32 He gets 110 match points because that's his ten and everyone else's tens, seeing as no one else could be bothered to play cricket and Graeme did it all. That was a phenomenal innings, worthy of a win and certainly worthy of the man of the match award, (Owais Shah? Really? We're happy with that are we?). He scored half the runs (again) and one other person doing their job (whether bowler or batsman) would have secured that win. Those Graemeyness points are because he was Graemey throughout, all biff-y and determined and so, *so* disappointed at the end. He's given up trying to explain why it happened again, because it's really nothing to do with him. Also, Micky Arthur clearly had to dash from the balcony to the dressing room to check he wasn't breaking anything important (like a bowler for instance). It is about time they stopped making him do the post match conferences when they lose though. If they made the players who failed answer the inevitable questions, maybe it would make them buck up. ( "So Jacques, when was the last time you contributed in a vital, pressure-filled situation?) He's had more svelteness points before, I know. He was magnificently svelte this time, but almost to the point of being too svelte. It's getting quite hard to imagine him eating a Twix, and one of my favourite things in the world is imagining Graeme Smith eating a Twix. Incidentally, if I were marking Strauss he'd get -4987. That's a lower mark than Jacques Kallis has ever received, and Jacques Kallis is related to Satan and has funny teeth. By all means refuse a runner because you want to win, but don't blame the umpires or the player concerned, and certainly don't try it when you've had your worst fucking fielder off the field for half the game. In fact, I'm still quite angry about this so I'm taking the ultimate step: From this day forward StraussCat shall be officially known as BiffCat. Current Mood:  sad , graeme smith being fantastic, south africans being not quite excellent, strausscat, things that aren't fair
July 24th, 200908:42 pm: Indecision, thy name is me.
Oh god. Why am I so awful at making decisions? Not tough decisions, I can make those extremely well, quickly and with little angst. It's the other ones, where both outcomes are excellent that I just can't damn well make. So, here it is. I applied for a job, interviewed, got offered it. Hurrah you'd think. No, this is me, this just makes me confused. Reject me people! I'm far more comfortable with that. To make it worse I originally rejected the job, was unsure whether I made the right choice and then was phoned this morning by the new job person basically saying "what kind of job would you like?" They've removed the part I was reluctant to do, basically because they want me. That's incredibly flattering, don't get me wrong, but life is just so much simpler when there are no choices. I think the main problem is that there are many things I still like about my current job, and so that raises the spectre of giving up something good for the unknown. Which could all go horribly wrong. ( a pro/con list, of course. )Okay, I've made my choice, haven't I? Current Mood:  anxious , work
June 30th, 200906:53 pm: In Celebration
I can't do fancy picture posts, and I haven't been able to find Neil McKenzie to poke him until he thwacks me, but I did get to be quite stern in a meeting. And now I'm spending the eving watching Graeme score 154*. Current Mood:  bouncy , national graeme day
June 19th, 200908:17 pm: National Graeme Day
This is the kind of national holiday I can get behind. Some suggestions for what you can do to observe National Graeme Day: (BTW, just because you may not know who Graeme Smith is, it doesn't mean you can;t make an effort; This is an inclusive celebration) 1) Hit things really far 2) Get angry at administrators and have to be restrained by a colleague 3) Clean a cricket bat with nail varnish whilst half naked 4) Encourage your pretty young work colleagues to text you when they miss you 5) Injure both your arms and still insist on doing something that requires the use of both arms. 6) Eat a taco really quickly before anyone else notices 7) Be much larger in real life than people expect 8) Tell the truth even when it pisses off important people 9) Be svelte 10) get a huge crowd of Australians to cheer at you 11) Be statuesque 12) Covet other people's chips 13) Complete the to do list you have pinned to your fridge 14) Look suprisngly good in pink 15) Cheat on your fitness test 16) Have captainly hair 17) Point at people until they move 18) Be much better and significantly less whiny than KP 19) Covet shiny things 20) Try to touch your nose with your tongue when you're bored If you're wanting to celebrate the day from a different angle, (or you've done all the above things by lunchtime and want to challenge yourself) you could also choose from the following options: A) Celebrate National Ashwell Prince Day by being really, really annoyed about things B) Celebrate National AB Day by videoing everything, even when the people you're filming are getting a bit annoyed C) Celebrate National Dale Day by catching a small, naive crocodile D) Celebrate National Paul Harris Day by being good natured whilst everyone tells you you're not terribly good at what you do, despite the fact that you are. E) Celebrate National Morne Morkel Day by walking in the wrong direction F) Celebrate National Makhaya Day by yelling and whooping all day G) Celebrate National JP Day by being incredibly cool H) Celebrate National Albie Morkel Day by being a lot shorter than your brother I) Celebrate National Neil McKenzie Day by turning a light switch on and off J) Celebrate National Hashim Amla Day by growing an excellent beard K)Celebrate National Wayne Parnell Day by being much more attractive than a nineteen year old has any right to be L) Celebrate National Roelof Van De Merve Day by letting people call you Rudolph K) Celebrate National Mark Boucher Day by picking a fight with a phone box Current Mood:  cheerful , graeme smith's fantasticness, national graeme day, south africans being exactly like they a, south africans being excellent
June 17th, 200908:20 pm: Twenty20 India v South Africa Live! (rather than via the TV)
( Twenty20 South Africa v India, Trent Bridge in which I saw Graeme runs, Herschelle drank juice and South Africans were awesome yet again ) On another note: If you're going to turn up at a cricket match with 8 overs left, quite drunk and then attempt to chat me up, asking a stupid question ("so what brings you here?") and touching my leg repeatedly until I kick you in the ankle is not the way to do it. Current Mood: amused , graeme smith being fantastic, herschelle and cookies, men being stupid, roelof vandemerwe's own special tag, south africans being excellent, twenty20
June 13th, 200909:25 pm: Dilemma
I had a job interview on Friday and, despite it being quite a bizarre interview, I was offered the position. It's at a freelance training company with a very innovative approach to training which I could certainly sink my teeth into and would be quite exciting. However: It's freelance, which means whilst I would have a verbal guarantee of hours, and the wages for freelance are high, it's not the same as a fulltime job with guaranteed wage packet. I was orginally hoping I'd be able to sign on to do 10 days a year - which I currently devote annual leave days for - but they want 2-3 days a month or full time 10 days a month, so annual leave isn't an option. So I have choices: 1) Attempt to negotiate with my current employers to be released for 3-4 days a month. This isn't really an option as I already end up working evenings and weekends to get the job done. And I would like some sort of a life 2) Resign from my current post and take up the new one, with a gamble that a) I'll like it and b) I'll actualy get sufficient work. This isn't really a possibility either, as I'm still a bit too much of a coward to be entirely freelance. I hate the idea of not having a regular wage, even though the freelancing wages would be higher. 3) Contact the new company and explain that whilst I can't take up the position now, I would be very interested in working for them in a year when I plan to start my PhD. It's exactly what I want then, but obviously there's no guarantee that it will be available. Okay, it's clear I've made that choice already isn't it? Graeme's penguin is impressed by my ability to ramble on and on and then discover I knew the answer already. In other news: Geraint lightened up my week by appearing with sheep in a magazine and being funny and geraint-like on TV Graeme has been fabulous I see my first cricket of the season on Tuesday: About bloody time The butterpecan latte recipe did not work. Attention Mysterious Canadian Commentator/International Man of Mystery: You have failed me again. We should have spotted the flaw in this plan, owing to the recipe clearly being based on the concept that pecans can be made by mixing hazlenuts and almonds. Current Mood: mellow , flavoured lattes, international man of mystery, random stuff, work
May 28th, 200907:40 pm: It hurts me to have to say this....
but Stargate, you've let me down. I have an entire shelf of Stargate. It's my prized possession and the thing I would save first if there was a fire, (providing the cats had escaped by themselves and managed to take my west wing box set with them). It's a beautiful shelf, containing nine series of SG1 in their excellent box sets, all lined up in a nice neat row - Reminding me that at any point in my life I have 147 hours worth of Stargate SG1 I can watch. It's comforting and soothing. Until Today. Today my season 10 box set arrived. Today I had to add to my wonderful, wonderful shelf a stupid, plastic boxset that's only a 3rd of the size, half an inch shorter and doesn't contain the individual release disks in seperate cool boxes like the others. That *hurt* damnit. It's sat there, staring at me at the moment. Mocking me. Current Mood: crushed , stargate, things that will never be the same
May 23rd, 200904:28 pm: Damn Angels
I've been successfully resisting twitter. I have hated it to my very soul and vowed I would not get into it, much as I used to approach blogging, mailing lists, the internet and mobile phones: Now those were successful boycotts. Then Misha Barton Collins appeared on it and I'm hooked. Also, so far the only funny person I've found on twitter. Everyone else is kinda dull. ("I have eaten toast and been shopping" - really not information I care about whether you're my friend or an attractive famous person). Misha Collins, however, is clearly absolutely and totally nuts. Tags: angels, twitter
May 17th, 200907:46 pm: Help Wanted, Bribery Offered
I need to do a data collection and analysis exercise for the Ethnography component of my MSc. For this I need willing victims people to be interviewed. In particular, anyone who has worked as a carer/support worker. (Sadly, I'm far too responsible and focussed to be able to use this as an excuse to chat about Graeme Smith, Dean Winchester or KentCCC, hence the genuine research topic.) Requirements: 1) You are or have been employed as a care worker/support worker. 2) You are willing to be interviewed by me about your experiences. Your data will be completely anonymous and seen only by my OU tutor and me. 3) You are happy to meet with me. I will travel wherever is most convenient for you. 4) You will be easily bribed by free coffee and pastries I promise I'm not an axe murderer. Current Mood: hopeful May 16th, 200908:16 pm: Dear Supernatural.....
That's mean. really, really mean. You can't leave it like that. That's almost as bad as the car crash. I need an icon that conveys the simultaneous anger, frustration and utter joy of a good quality finale. That's definitely in the top ten all time finales, possibly the top five.* Yes, I keep that sort of list (*)For those of you who are interested:
11)Smallville: S4 - Commencement (A patchy season followed by an even patchier one, but this finale was phenomenal and had the added bonus of suprise Jensen Ackles)
10)SG1: S3 - Nemesis (You can't really beat little metallic bugs for suspense)
9)WW:S3 - Two Cathedrals (It's not suspense-laded, but it is a superb culmination of a season)
8) Angel:S3 - Tomorrow (I remember having conversations with two previously unknown colleagues about the way this ended: I loved darkAngel, and this was it.
7)BSG: S1 - Kobol's last Gleaming (Succeeded in bringing together three diverse storylines and left you hanging for the next season)
6)Grey's Anatomy:S5 - Here's to Future Days (An odd one for me, but I've just watched it and it made me shout out the revelation in surprise)
5) Justice League: S2 - Starcrossed (Flash holding a goat and many more significant things)
4) Smallville:S2 - Exodus(In true Smallville style everyone's in jepoardy, but this time we get Red!Clark)
3) BtVS: S2 - Becoming Part 2 (Not an explosion ridden one, but had me crying)
2) SPN:S2 - Devil's Trap (Will the car survive?)
1) WW:S1 - What Kind of Day Has it Been? ("Who's been hit, who's been hit?")
See, this sort of thing always gets out of hand:
ETA1: BtVS - The Gift would probably have been in there if it hadn't been totally ruined by a Sky trailer revealing her tombstone the week beforehand.
ETA2: Smallville might have had more if the show wasn't so tainted by the heartbreak it's caused me over the years.
ETA3: The finale of QaF (UK) should definitely make top five, possibly even top three.
ET4: SG1: In the Sperpent's Grasp should be top ten at least. I always neglect early SG1.
ETA5: The list for all time best final, final episodes of series would be entirely different and would include WW, BSG and SG1 (Moebius or Full Circle -if the series had actually ended there).
I'm stopping this now.
Current Mood: distressed , lists of stuff, spn
May 8th, 200908:19 pm: behold the wonder of the internet
This is either the most fantastically designed hoax aimed at a very particular market, or it proves the internet really does have everything. Also, it just me, or are there other cat owners out there who really, really want one? Tags: the wonder of the internet
April 23rd, 200912:16 pm: Procrastination stolen from beautifulworld
I don't have a crew. Technically, you are all my crew. I hereby vow to protect you from harm and ocassionally make mistakes in judgement. I was sort of hoping I'd be Jayne. I ticked "crazy" and "likes big guns".
Your results:
You are Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)
| Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) |
| 85% |
| Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) |
| 65% |
| Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) |
| 60% |
| Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) |
| 50% |
| River (Stowaway) |
| 40% |
| Derrial Book (Shepherd) |
| 40% |
| A Reaver (Cannibal) |
| 20% |
| Inara Serra (Companion) |
| 15% |
| Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) |
| 15% |
| Alliance |
| 15% |
| Wash (Ship Pilot) |
| 10% |
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Honest and a defender of the innocent.
You sometimes make mistakes in judgment
but you are generally good and
would protect your crew from harm.
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Click here to take the Serenity Personality Quiz
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