It's the weekend!
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nineveh_ukOh hurray! Also, I don't seem to have bacterial sinusitis. More hurray! Still going to ask for a consultant referral, though. I can even justify it on economic grounds if I cost working days lost. But mostly, I would like to just be miserable with a cold because I've got a cold, and troughing the necessary amounts of OTC drugs really cannot be good for one.
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They didn't even pay me for that.
But mostly, it is the weekend!
I am going to:
- see The Artist tomorrow afternoon. It is striking how many people who have seen it have said that they scarcely noticed it was a 'silent' film.
- tackle my ironing to the accompaniment of skiing on TV.
- watch Borgen, the office's new obsession (who knew there were so many fans of Danish crime drama? Or that the head of one of our faculties is so obviously aware of the wilder shores of fanfic.)
- get up late one day.
- go to the gym/for a run. Only 9 weeks until holiday, so some intensive training is now required.
- get back into the fic-writing too. I reckon I can get Peter Wimsey in bed with a very attractive witch within two thousand words. Unfortunately first I have to get him through a slightly boring conversation with a portrait.
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They didn't even pay me for that.
But mostly, it is the weekend!
I am going to:
- see The Artist tomorrow afternoon. It is striking how many people who have seen it have said that they scarcely noticed it was a 'silent' film.
- tackle my ironing to the accompaniment of skiing on TV.
- watch Borgen, the office's new obsession (who knew there were so many fans of Danish crime drama? Or that the head of one of our faculties is so obviously aware of the wilder shores of fanfic.)
- get up late one day.
- go to the gym/for a run. Only 9 weeks until holiday, so some intensive training is now required.
- get back into the fic-writing too. I reckon I can get Peter Wimsey in bed with a very attractive witch within two thousand words. Unfortunately first I have to get him through a slightly boring conversation with a portrait.
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Date: 2012-01-20 10:06 pm (UTC)I ought to be either working all weekend or spending time with my neglected family but I am abandoning both tomorrow for a choral workshop in which I will attempt to sightread Tippett for the sheer hell of it. I am perhaps overconfidently assuming the Mozart will be fine
I am watching last week's Borgen now because the TV box lost reception in the first ten minutes last week. It is far too good to end up weeks behind with. And the satellite dish now has a new apparently important bit that wasn't working and has been happy since Thursday so I can record it too.
Getting up late sounds a very good idea.
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Date: 2012-01-20 10:29 pm (UTC)Glad to hear the recording is now working. Really must buy a box...
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Date: 2012-01-21 06:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-20 10:49 pm (UTC)Unlike those mentioned in yesterday's Guardian for demanding their money back from the cinema, not having been aware it was a silent film before watching it.
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Date: 2012-01-21 12:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-20 10:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-21 01:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-21 06:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-21 12:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-20 11:13 pm (UTC)or reporting or tight third ("Peter did not habitually believe everything he was told, particularly by eighteenth-century portraits--the seventeenth-century ones were far more reliable--but the portrait of Araminta Colquohoun-Snaith, the mistress of Gervaise Wimsey (the second of that ilk) had told him that Gillian Puddlemore would next manifest herself on April 19th at 4 pm in Room 1219 of the Russell Square Hotel. Peter took a deep breath and, allowing a few minutes for the lady to re-compose herself after the putative stresses of materialization, knocked on the door at 4:04.")
I mean, of course this is knocked together in a minute and you wouldn't be that clumsy, all I'm saying is that if you want to cut the cackle and come to the 'osses, in under seven lines, you've got Wimsey, a hotel room, a bed, and a witch.
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Date: 2012-01-21 12:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-21 01:04 am (UTC)Want. *grin*
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Date: 2012-01-21 12:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-21 01:37 am (UTC)KINDLY PRODUCE FIC NOW PLEASE.I am highly intrigued by these developments.(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-21 12:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-21 08:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-21 12:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-21 09:36 am (UTC)(I meantersay, I am very much looking forward to reading your account of said encounter.)
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Date: 2012-01-21 01:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-21 03:44 pm (UTC)BTW, I thought The Artist was the best film I've seen for years - how could those people not realise it was silent? They must've been related to the couple who sat behind me when I saw Sweeney Todd, who said to each other "Hope they don't keep singing - I hate musicals."!! Don't they find out anything about a film before they go and see it?
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Date: 2012-01-21 07:07 pm (UTC)I occasionally hoped they stopped singing in the film of Sweeney Todd, but that's because I like musicals ;-)