Up, down, turn-around ...
Aug. 20th, 2010 01:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlbeerGood news: Strikes are off. I have a holiday!
Bad news: I don’t have a job past Monday!
Yes, really. Funding issues mean that my last day will be Monday. This Monday just gone I was told I probably had a month, which wasn't great, but I had time to prepare and then yesterday, "oh sorry, not so much. This Monday. Sorry about that." My bosses did try to change it, but it didn’t work. I mean, I’m a temp and I get it’s precarious, they are within their rights to terminate my contract that quickly but still, it sucks hard. So fucking hard.
My boss gave me a very nice card and chocolates today (really good champagne truffles even) to say sorry. He’s awesome. I'll miss him.
My recruiter. Less awesome. Not returning my call. I have other options to try but still, you'd think she'd be in touch.
Anyway, happier things.
I caught up on True Blood's latest two eps, and
I definitely preferred the latest ep, but the other wasn't too bad either, even the death scene at the end wasn't nearly as gory as I'd feared.
[It's the weird thing about spending so much time on Tumblr recently, you get a much more visual take on fandom than LJ which is more text-based (picspams excluded). I saw so many .gifs and pics of Eric killing Talbot that I'd built it into something much more in my head than it actually was. I'm finding it with Fringe as well, but in a slightly different way ... and this might be a thought I continue into a longer post rather than a True Blood review]
Anyway, poor Talbot. He'd didn't deserve that, but wow, am I enjoying vengeful!Eric. Mmm.
Loved that Jessica had some screen-times. Especially loved kickass!Jessica with Sookie and in the montage with Bill. The Sookie/Bill at the end though ... seriously?! With the death metal. I *so* could have done without that and them getting back together so fast. And the shower scene. And the scrapbook ... and all of it. Ugh.
Pam was back! And her scenes with Eric were so, so good. He was panicking. Oh, Eric. <3
Bill going to fairy-glowy land was ... eh.
Russell however was amazingly fucked up. With the spine .... I mean, ew, but awesome. The show sort of redeemed itself there. Insane. And now I really need to know what happens next week.
Note: My enjoyment could have been helped by the fact that I'm outright skipping parts of the eps (Jason/Crystal and Sam's storyline mostly). When the show is Eric, Pam, Russell, Jessica, Lafayette and the bits of Sookie and Bill I feel I should watch so I do get some idea of what is happening more widely on the show, it's a marked improvement. ;)
Mad Men is still pending. Should do something about that.
I wasn't going to mention Josh. Really. And then this happened:
I was innocently looking at this Cinematical post (okay, perhaps not that innocently as it’s about the title sequence in a movie I very well knew he was in, but anyway), and the YouTube clip that went with it wasn’t just the title sequence (which is pretty awesome btw) but the first ten minutes of the movie. About two minutes in … hi Josh with an electric guitar!
The singing I admit could be better (I'm under no illusions that a) that's him, b) if it is him he can sing), but guh, guitar. Even if he's miming. ELECTRIC GUITAR.
Mmm, guys with electric guitars. (People in general actually, as some women rock musicians have a similar effect). It's a big thing with me. And explains a lot of my attraction to Matt Bellamy. Let's not get me started on the starting riff to "Plug in Baby."
Seriously, when I wrote the list of things he could do/have done to make my crush worse, * I wasn’t seriously considering that he would actually, you know, have done them. You have to hit a ceiling with the awesome eventually, Mr Jackson, and I'm still waiting for it.
I sadly probably have Kristen Stewart fans to thank for this as she’s in the movie too and that’s probably the reason someone loaded in onto YouTube in the fist place.
* I'm cautiously adding to the list the coin trick Peter does in Fringe (t's really quite hot in an odd way), but at this point I wouldn't be surprised if Josh did actually do it. Bastard is clearly that awesome.
Random:
- (via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aurora_84) Awesome Fringe vid by hollywoodgrrl. It's gen and full of Olivia kick ass awesomeness, amazing editing and I think would serve as a great pimp vid into the fandom. So, go watch it. ;)
- You've probably seen it by now, buthackthis's post: How to Dress Your Man/Character: An Informal Tutorial Heavy on the PicSpam for Inception fandom is so cool. Lots of information on men's suits and totally reminded me that I really need to do that waistcoat picspam I keep meaning to do.
- The True Blood Rolling Stone cover I've seen linked everywhere with the naked and the blood does nothing for me. Nothing at all.
Anyway, should sleep or something. Had a pleasant evening just hanging with my flatmate and sort of watching Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Little planned for the weekend and I couldn't be more fine with that.
Bad news: I don’t have a job past Monday!
Yes, really. Funding issues mean that my last day will be Monday. This Monday just gone I was told I probably had a month, which wasn't great, but I had time to prepare and then yesterday, "oh sorry, not so much. This Monday. Sorry about that." My bosses did try to change it, but it didn’t work. I mean, I’m a temp and I get it’s precarious, they are within their rights to terminate my contract that quickly but still, it sucks hard. So fucking hard.
My boss gave me a very nice card and chocolates today (really good champagne truffles even) to say sorry. He’s awesome. I'll miss him.
My recruiter. Less awesome. Not returning my call. I have other options to try but still, you'd think she'd be in touch.
Anyway, happier things.
I caught up on True Blood's latest two eps, and
I definitely preferred the latest ep, but the other wasn't too bad either, even the death scene at the end wasn't nearly as gory as I'd feared.
[It's the weird thing about spending so much time on Tumblr recently, you get a much more visual take on fandom than LJ which is more text-based (picspams excluded). I saw so many .gifs and pics of Eric killing Talbot that I'd built it into something much more in my head than it actually was. I'm finding it with Fringe as well, but in a slightly different way ... and this might be a thought I continue into a longer post rather than a True Blood review]
Anyway, poor Talbot. He'd didn't deserve that, but wow, am I enjoying vengeful!Eric. Mmm.
Loved that Jessica had some screen-times. Especially loved kickass!Jessica with Sookie and in the montage with Bill. The Sookie/Bill at the end though ... seriously?! With the death metal. I *so* could have done without that and them getting back together so fast. And the shower scene. And the scrapbook ... and all of it. Ugh.
Pam was back! And her scenes with Eric were so, so good. He was panicking. Oh, Eric. <3
Bill going to fairy-glowy land was ... eh.
Russell however was amazingly fucked up. With the spine .... I mean, ew, but awesome. The show sort of redeemed itself there. Insane. And now I really need to know what happens next week.
Note: My enjoyment could have been helped by the fact that I'm outright skipping parts of the eps (Jason/Crystal and Sam's storyline mostly). When the show is Eric, Pam, Russell, Jessica, Lafayette and the bits of Sookie and Bill I feel I should watch so I do get some idea of what is happening more widely on the show, it's a marked improvement. ;)
Mad Men is still pending. Should do something about that.
I wasn't going to mention Josh. Really. And then this happened:
I was innocently looking at this Cinematical post (okay, perhaps not that innocently as it’s about the title sequence in a movie I very well knew he was in, but anyway), and the YouTube clip that went with it wasn’t just the title sequence (which is pretty awesome btw) but the first ten minutes of the movie. About two minutes in … hi Josh with an electric guitar!
The singing I admit could be better (I'm under no illusions that a) that's him, b) if it is him he can sing), but guh, guitar. Even if he's miming. ELECTRIC GUITAR.
Mmm, guys with electric guitars. (People in general actually, as some women rock musicians have a similar effect). It's a big thing with me. And explains a lot of my attraction to Matt Bellamy. Let's not get me started on the starting riff to "Plug in Baby."
Seriously, when I wrote the list of things he could do/have done to make my crush worse, * I wasn’t seriously considering that he would actually, you know, have done them. You have to hit a ceiling with the awesome eventually, Mr Jackson, and I'm still waiting for it.
I sadly probably have Kristen Stewart fans to thank for this as she’s in the movie too and that’s probably the reason someone loaded in onto YouTube in the fist place.
* I'm cautiously adding to the list the coin trick Peter does in Fringe (t's really quite hot in an odd way), but at this point I wouldn't be surprised if Josh did actually do it. Bastard is clearly that awesome.
Random:
- (via
aurora_84) Awesome Fringe vid by hollywoodgrrl. It's gen and full of Olivia kick ass awesomeness, amazing editing and I think would serve as a great pimp vid into the fandom. So, go watch it. ;) - You've probably seen it by now, but
hackthis's post: How to Dress Your Man/Character: An Informal Tutorial Heavy on the PicSpam for Inception fandom is so cool. Lots of information on men's suits and totally reminded me that I really need to do that waistcoat picspam I keep meaning to do. - The True Blood Rolling Stone cover I've seen linked everywhere with the naked and the blood does nothing for me. Nothing at all.
Anyway, should sleep or something. Had a pleasant evening just hanging with my flatmate and sort of watching Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Little planned for the weekend and I couldn't be more fine with that.
