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Tonight I have stayed in with chili, chocolate and Coke and watched some actually quite awesome TV. Great Daily Show episode, Winter Olympics with a gold medal montage which had me almost teary, Johnny Depp on Jonathon Ross and now drunk rock stars (including Matt and Dom) at the NME Awards. So drunk. There must be a lot of alcohol on those tables.

New temp job continues to go pretty well. I've found my feet anyway. Must not get carried away with the slightly better pay though, I need to be saving for traveling, and it still is only a temp job.

Finally got a hold of Outrageous Fortune S5 and stayed in bed most of last Sunday watching it.

( Outrageous Fortune Season 5 )

Also, I finally saw the Robyn Sparkles episode of HIMYM. So awesome.

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: HIMYM

I did stay up and watch the Golden Globes last night, for reasons passing understanding, but I bailed after the Best Series Drama because sleep was quickly becoming a more important need. I survived relatively well today considering

( Brief thoughts )

Note to self: Just, don't read the ASkars/Kate Bosworth threads, there lies the crazy comments.

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Sherlock Holmes: Not amazing, but a hell of a lot of fun to watch. RDJ and Jude were all sorts of awesome and I loved the soundtrack, but then it was Hans Zimmer, whose soundtracks I seem to be drawn to. It had some very similar notes to the PotC soundtracks actually.

( Dollhouse 2x12 )

Avenue Q: Some friends and I went to see the Saturday matinee and it was so, so good. I already knew some of the songs (and omg 'The Internet is For Porn' is so good live) but the rest was just as great. I would definitely recommend it.

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This meme amused me. Gacked most recently from

musesfool

1. Bold the names of guys you'd definitely sex it up with.
2. Italicize the names of guys you might do after a little persuasion.
3. Leave the guys who don't do anything for you alone.
4. Put a question mark ? after the guys you've never heard of.
5. Strike the guys you wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.
6. Add THREE more guys to the list.

( Um, there's a lot of bolded text under here ... )

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I got offered a month extension on my temp contract, which is good, I guess, but I think I do need to look for something else. I really like the crazy people I work with, but it's not really what I'm interested in, and I keep watching my friends book holidays in Europe and with this current job, I'm just not going to be able to do that. I came here to live in London, but also to see Europe, so I'll have a look around and maybe talk to my recruiter. *sigh*

The episode I just watched of Law and Order: UK was actually pretty damn good, and there was Jamie and Freema. Very pretty.

Also, wow the ITV News reports from Haiti are just, yeah. Need to remember to donate when I get paid.

Current Mood: confused
Current Music: ITV News

Bad: Got home from work at 10:30 tonight. *sigh*

Good: Friend who is living in the UK is in Christchurch at the moment and has said she'll call me tomorrow night, which is awesome. Not quite as awesome as if I could have gone down, but awesome none the less.

Bad: Reading more articles about people on their OE in the UK returning home. Considering other options like Ireland, Canada, or leaving it six months and see if things improve. *sigh* Is it bad that the thing that bugs me the (second) most is that I've told everyone (including my boss) that I'm going, and what they'll think if I put it off?

Good: My friend was recently in Australia and located a Garrison Uniform John Sheppard! I have been wanting a Sheppard action figure for ages, and just could not find one here. He's awesome! I would also like to point out this was organised over Twitter. Who says it doesn't have its uses? ;)

( Plastic!John and friend hang out )

Edit: Good: The Daily Show was on tonight. *happy sigh*

Current Mood: disappointed

I spent the day at a web conference, Webstock, in fact, and dude, it's awesome. I went last year and loved it and I thankfully got the opportunity to go again this year and it just makes you feel so positive about the internet and what you can do with it and what people are doing with it now.

Also, tremendously geeky event. Lots of Twittering (including one whole conversation on Imperial Star Destroyer vs USS Enterprise that a speaker started), more than one presentation referenced WoW, there was also a zombie apocalpyse, a non-fandom description of \o/, the stupidity of You Tube comments and one entire presentation on what it meant to be a geek/nerd/dork by the guy who wrote the awesome article, N.A.D.D. (Nerd Attention Deficit Disorder). And coffee, lots of really good free coffee.

Watching Rachel Maddow clips to fill in The Daily Show withdrawal. Seriously. It's only a week, but I miss you, Jon. I do love Rachel though. I should watch her online much more often.

I also have this niggling feeling about my Grand Plans for an OE this year. I'm just wondering whether this year is really the best time to do this with all the stuff I've been hearing/reading (yeah, I probably haven't helped myself on this one) about the economy and job situation. I really do feel quite strongly about needing to go out, but I just wonder if it might not work out quite as well as I think. *sigh* Being an adult is hard.

Current Mood: geeky
Current Music: Rachel Maddow Show online

*yawns* I worked eight hours today, and have a week of work ahead of me. Joy. However, I came home and watched SGA 514 and it has brought me joy.

( SGA: The Prodigal )

As for things that don't bring so much joy, like general elections. Eh. I didn't start to get really depressed about the result until I started thinking about the probable National cabinet. Ugh. I'm also sad the Greens didn't do better (though c'mon the special votes which mean they might get one more seat) and surprised that ACT got 5. Dude.

Two good things did come about. No NZ First. And Grant Robertson beat Stephen Franks in Wellington Central.

Anyway, should get an early night, otherwise tomorrow will be even less fun than it is already shaping up to be.

Yuletide: successfully signed up for. Kinda scary what fandoms I offered, but I do find it interesting how I go back to the same fandoms for requests. Quite excited about it now though. :D

Icons: Not so much.

Current Mood: exhausted

I have thai coconut, chili and lime prawns, bok choi and rice and it is awesome. Strangely I have political blogger Ezra Klein to thank for this, as he posted this prawn recipe and then I got a serious craving. So glad I tramped to the supermarket to get them. Somedays, I can actually cook things. \o/

Weekend was very low key and I spent basically all day Sunday reading. I am reading a lot more books at the moment, and this pleases me because the last few years I have rather failed in that department. I just finished Douglas Coupland's Microserfs and now I've moved onto Jack Goldsmith's The Terror Presidency, both are well worth reading.

On top of this, what had the capacity to be a crappy work day, wasn't all that bad.

Now Bones and then new Dr.Who.

Edit: "Elephants are not purple. This is wrong." Oh, Bones. <3 Ten minutes in and this episode is already awesome.

Current Mood: content
Current Music: The Books - Enjoy Your Worries You May Never Have Them Again

Yuletide: Done!
Work: Done for 12 days! Fuck, yes.
Christmas Shopping: Er ... will be done tomorrow, hopefully?
John Sheppard: Awesome beyond the telling.
Joe Flanigan: Still the prettiest.

Also, I just re-downloaded Google Earth. Oh. Oh. See this is why I both love and fear Google.

However, I do have a January to-do list for work. Yes, already. I'm really trying not to think about it.

Not at work for 12 days. OMG YES. I cannot tell you how happy this makes me. I don't hate my job, but I was just at the limit of what I could stand. I need to plan big leave for the middle of next year. Oh, yes.

I could totally get used to this surfing the net while curled up in bed thing ... oh, laptops.

I kind of want a SGA moodtheme but I don't know if I could part with the Doctors.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Sneaker Pimps - Wife By Two Thousand

Today? Work is eh. I can't organise things. At all. But I did catch up with my friend who was in Wellington for the day and that was awesome.

In other news,

sheafrotherdon's 'Hush! John and Rodney are Sleeping' Challenge is awesome. So cute. So just what I needed right now. *snuggles them*

Random links:

Daily Show writer, Rachel Axler's strike diary in the New York Times.

Daily Show writer, Steve Bodow, in the New York Daily News.

21 good books that need to be made into great films, right now. (via The AV Club). I love their Jonathon Strange and Mr Norell casting too. Iam Holm would be fricking perfect. Would be interesting to see how they'd make a movie work though.

And it's partner, 20 Good Books made into not-so-good films.

Also, I bought an RFK biography from a second hand book-store, which I'm going to add to the Biographies I Really Mean To Read pile on my bookshelf. I seem to be collecting them about all sorts of historical figures I find fascinating, in the hope that one day I'll actually get around to reading them and not just flick through them. I have one on Lenin, now one on RFK ... all I need now is Alan Turing, Robert Oppenheimer and many, many others. (Pile might have been a little misleading a term).

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Hmm. Thunderstorm seems to be over now.

I had a pretty crappy day at work. I was over-tired because I was up until *cough*3am*cough* trying to figure out a network card driver issue and on top of that I spent most of my day doing a rather monotonous task (OMG if I ever have to edit another footer) which had some rather crazy time-pressure, and I kept getting requests to do other things and cranky e-mails which made me feel like I wasn't doing my job properly, which to be fair is someone else's who I'm filling in for, and I already think I'm blowing it ... yeah, anyway, crappy day.

And then I came home and watched 'Tao of Rodney.'

( *flail* )

I'm feeling a lot better now. ;)

I really thought that fandom was overselling the gay on this show, but dude, they so aren't.

(I also caught 'Echoes' which wasn't quite as flail-inducing, except for the fact that Sheppard and Rodney followed each other around the entire time).

Oh, I adore these mood icons sometimes. *stares*

Current Mood: better

I keep meaning to post and just, not. I said to myself I'd use this more, and comment more, and be on IM more, but it's not really happening. Shocker.

My day has been okay. My pay raise went through, yay! And a back-dated one at that. Mmmm. MacBook, thou shall be mine! But there's still so much to do at work, and eh.

I have this post in my head about sci-fi and how I react differently to it in books in comparison to tv, as I just finished two William Gibson books (yay reading) and one was Neuromancer, which is supposed to be a classic sci-fi text, and which I certainly enjoyed, but didn't love, and that made me think about my reaction to most sci-fi books as opposed to more strictly fantasy books, and how that again differs from sci-fi tv.

( oh hell, I've already started writing it (not spoiler-y for any of the books mentioned) )

Also, a large number of SGA episodes may have just 'fallen' into my possession. I believe I'm starting mid S2 and will no doubt skip around a bit, because my brain works like that sometimes. It's probably something I'll regret, but eh. It makes things interesting.

( Random thoughts on 'Critical Mass' 'Grace Under Pressure' 'The Tower' and randomly 'Adrfit.' SGA in general really )

I wouldn't say I'm totally hooked, but then, I'm not about to stop watching either. :p

Finally, your political geek link of the day: The US 2008 Budget in a zoom-able, number filled, crest-tastic graphic. Honestly, just fascinating, and the numbers are mind boggling. Especially those DoD ones. Dude. o.O

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Regina Spektor - The Flowers