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...And some of us are in the gutter, thoroughly enjoying the view.
I was at the bitty campus today, and I got to sit at a desk of my own and with a computer that I now have the logins for. *grins* The IT guys haven't put another programme I need on that computer yet, but I won't be back there until monday anyway so that works out. I got to tell the new Duty Pupils where to sit and where to put their bags, I told someone where my line manager had gone when they needed to find her and what I knew about the staff cover forms and referred her to the other office lady when she was free, I spent the afternoon sorting and checking the entire school's worth of tutor groups for people who'd moved or left the school and had the Office Lady tell me that I'd just given her a big head-start on the term's work - and I got to go home early. ^______^
...Which was lucky, really, since at first I couldn't find my phone for the life of me (right at the bottom of my pocket under my mass of keys, gah) and then my key bent in my bike lock. O_O Still, I got home while the sun was setting and had no trouble avoiding the ice and frozen puddles, so I'm not about to complain. :D And I got a scalding-hot bath tonight as well as Koi's stir-fry. *glee!*
I am also absolutely shattered and probably going to go to bed in the next few minutes. *collapse* Night, guys!
Current mood:
sleepy.Current music: Koi's iTunes.
Rejoice, oh my people, for I now have more than one bath towel.
Unfortunately it got used for insulation as much as getting me dry, since the Cold Water Fairy apparently visited somewhere between my stepping into the bath and sitting down, since I would swear there weren't icy-cold spots in my nice warm bubbly bathwater before then. *zooms under duveet and shivers*
On the other hand, work went pretty well. I got up like a zombie and had to blink pretty hard to stay awake at points, but I'm blaming that on night-before nerves and waking up at half five in a panic, thinking I was late for work. (Hey, it was pitch black outside when I got up too, how was I to know? XP) The sudden attack of ZOMG SNOW! in the morning made getting to work an adventure, but the terrifyingly long list of 'oh, when we get you trained, you can do thisandthisandthisandthisandthisandthis for us too, as well as the exams! :D' aside, I think I can do this. The computer programmes all seem to be mostly common sense - when they work - so all I really have to worry about is getting used to eight am starts again. *collapses in a heap*
For now, though, I'm going to shake off the icicles and get a hot drink.
Current mood:
tired. And cold.Current music: Within Temptation, Angels.
Okay - I've just triple-checked the bike route down to Radegund Road, sorted my room and what I'm going to wear, and packed my bag with diary, notebook, keys and my new purse (since my old one was getting worn out at the edges and didn't really have room for the cards I kept in there anyway - and the new one smells of leather. Mmm.) I've imported my new CD, made Fiorello a new icon since he cut his hair a while ago and is generally far perkier these days than his other icon would suggest...all I need to do is wash and dry my hair into something approaching tidiness, and I'm good to go. *deep breath*
...Finding out some cough medicine might be favourite too. -_-;
There's a bag of clothes that needs to be charity-shopped at some point, probably saturday now, and I really do need to hoover in here, but - we'll see how jittery I get and how badly I need a distraction. ^_^;
I also re-found Pepper's mum's recipe for honey curry chicken, and if Koi wasn't making noises about doing tuna mac later I'd try it. *rereads* Oh, and Pepper? From the other night. *grins*
Current mood:
excited.Current music: Within Temptation, Never-Ending Story.
First of January 2009 - I wake up with my period and a stomach ache/horribleness from last night's dinner. I really hope this isn't a sign of things to come, though it could well be a pretty accurate analogy for most of 2008...
Current mood:
sick.
You can make your own Lego people! MY PLAN FOR WORLD DOMINATION IS ALMOST COMPLETE!
...Ahem. Sorry, too much Lego Batman. ^_^;
Current mood:
excited.Current music: Daaa da da DAAA daaa daaaa....
I just sat through The Dark Knight.
Just - ugh. I'm too disappointed to hate it; I think I felt the last of my childish idealism being flattened between the Joker's forehead and the interview table.
Fucking hell, DC.
Current mood:
disheartened.Current music: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. I'm trying to regain the will to live.
Eeeheehee. Trevor and Mum bought themselves a Wii for Christmas - which means that I've been doing better at bowling than I ever would have IRL. I suck at ten-pin bowling, but I was doing better than my Grandad, and he actually plays bowls competitively. XDDD I'm really impressed that my Nan and Grandad had such a good time playing with it, actually - normally they're fairly put off by computers in general, but they really had a good time with this one. ^_^ I still think Trevor's Mii looks like the guy from Are You Being Served, though - and for all that he was my favourite character in the series, I can never remember his name. *frowns*
My Big Nanna was really quiet again yesterday, though. :/ She was the last time I saw her a couple of weeks ago, but I really just want to hope that Mum's right and she's still getting over the 'flu that's been going around. It's not like her at all to sit in near-silence all day.
Enough food to sink a battleship means I get plenty of leftovers - before Ben and Lucy come over, anyway! - so I'm going to scrounge up a sandwich for lunch. I couldn't face breakfast, but lunch and Boxing Day telly sounds like a good idea to me. ^_^ As does staying in my new nightshirt, which not only looks like I should be wearing a Scrooge cap with it, it's got roses around the cuffs and on the shirt pocket. *squee!* ...No noticeable increase in perv/libido, but I don't doubt that Briar's still finding this terribly amusing.
...And! The Best Present Ever - I got a hot glue gun. Muahahahaaaaa! *gleeful cackle* Oh, this is going to be fun. >D (I also got a McFly CD, but I'm going to take that as a step forward since normally my Nanna gets me something with china mice and watercolours involved. *mildly bemused*) ...Glue guuuuuun! I'm going to be the fastest cosplayer in the West! Cardoom costume, here I come... >DDDDD
Current mood:
happy.Current music: Birds outside the dining room window.
I've got - twenty-three minutes to midnight, to totally bulldoze an Iron Maiden song, so I'm going to freely admit that I suck at Christmas cards and have done for the last two years, so this is for
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teamromy and theweranarchist; instead of a Christmas card, have the entire King's College Choir in their annual carol concert. Happy Christmas, guys. ^_^ (And if you ever want any chibis of anyone or anything, shout. I like doing nice things for my friends, but the 'flu killed me dede. *abashed*)To everyone else, whether they're in Christmas card range or not - have a fantastic holiday-of-your-choice, may you be spoiled rotten and fed all kinds of good food, and I'll see you whenever the hell I next get to a computer. I have to do a James Bond impression and hide the router when my brother gets here on Boxing Day. XD *Merry hugs to you all, and to all a good night!*
Now, one last thing before I bugger off to see if I still count as a Good Girl and present-worthy - stolen from
teamromy, if I remember right.The problem with IJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other.
So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.
Ask away.
Then post this in your IJ and find out what people don't know about you!
Indulge me. I'll be bored come Boxing Day. ;D
Love you all, guys, and take care of each other. And now I'm dashing off to my camp bed before Father Christmas turns up - apparently he's over Senegal at the moment, so I'd better run! *squees*
(And Pepper? Remind me to tell you about the image-bunny I had for an alternative Nativity. XD If Shinra didn't want to murder me before...)
Current mood:
bouncy.Current music: King's College Choir, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.
Most awesome idea for a kids' cartoon ever. ...Well, without giant robots. Lava-powered floating island! Shipful of shipwrecked zoo animals! Eeee! :D Pepper, you'd like this one.
Pretty intro theme that I can never remember...
...And, um, did anyone else watch this religiously when they were a kid? *sheepish*
Aha! I vaguely remember watching this from when I was a very, very little 'Bootscreature over at my aunt's house once, if only for strange sound effects and the talking trees...o hai, Silvain!
EDIT: ...Oh, the timing. XD
Explorer 1: Oh no! All our gasoline, water, food - it's all on that trailer!
Explorer 2 (AKA He with the Manly, Manly Beard of Hugeness): We've got to go down and get it.
Trailer, currently at the bottom of a very steep sand dune: *BOOM*
Explorers: .......
Current mood:
busy.
There should be a Bad Fairy of Practica Curses. You shove some girl in a tower and surround it with a rose trellis and give her a spinning wheel, some bugger's going to come along and say to himself 'hmm, I reckon I could break that!', and then there's a happy-ever-after. Me, I'd curse them with something that's really, really annoying but isn't 'important' enough to warrant a prince, like 'May you always run out of loo roll'. Something like that.
...That has nothing to do with anything, aside from me looking at the loo roll holder right before going to bed and wondering if I'm going to have to change it again. Carry on.
Current mood:
sleepy.Current music: Scala & Kolacny, Don't Break My Heart.