T'eyla Minh

A very silly icon based on Mitchell & Webb's 'cheezoid' sketch from Thursday night. It amused me far more than it should have done. :)

Possibly to be used on general silly posts, but mostly made because I am ridiculously amused by silly voices. Although not quite so much as I am by people getting hit in the head...

I appear to have started a meme. :)  Go me.

In other news: today is my last official day of leave (at least until 2/3 May, when I'm having two half-days to accommodate Rocky Horror; that'll be flex anyway).  The weekend doesn't count.

I have achieved very little, as usual, but at least I cleared my floor of boxes.  Today I might get off my arse and watch something, rather than sitting in front of the computer all day playing Solitaire.

I desperately need a bath - I'm sure you all wanted to know that - but I'll wait until I've changed the bed.

That's it.  Nothing else.

I just went on a mini adventure to the post office.  Not my usual post office, hence the adventure.  I had only the vaguest idea where it actually was, so ended up going the long way there and the short way back, up the ends of roads I'd only seen from the other side.  Quite strange.  Also, it's very windy and rainy.

In any case, Eni's very late birthday present has now been posted and should arrive, postal service permitting, very shortly.

I'm about to install one of our old games that I never got around to playing, John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles.  I watched my mother playing it briefly when we first got it about five years ago, and I suspect I may only be able to play it in daylight...

Nothing else to report.  I need to pack a bag later.

LJ informs me that it's tengirlsago's birthday, so Happy Birthday to her. :)

There's going to be a post here later. I say that all the time and then never have the energy to do it. But there will be, because my LJ is sorely overdue a Good Long Rant.

There may be a few changes around here.

Tonight I have to go to Tesco to get caster sugar and self-raising flour. Tomorrow I have to make cakes, which I will probably bring home again after the party because nobody'll eat them, as usual...

For now, I have a couple of dreams to post about, so I'll do that...

That was quite a pleasant weekend.

Friday, er... not much, really. Watched the usual evening fare of The IT Crowd with Noel Fielding guest-starring as the Goth in the Cupboard ("Why are there no Cockney goths?" "They're too cheerful...") followed by My Name Is Earl... and then some of The Friday Night Project though I wasn't really paying attention.

Saturday we headed back to mine earlyish so I could get changed and such, since we were going out to meet metalmikey666 and rubytitania in order to get ticket money off them. First we headed out to Scruffy's to meet someone else, but he wasn't there. Then off to the Windsor for some food, and then finally on to the Flapper to meet Laura and Mike.

We stayed there til about midnight just drinking and chatting, so it was quite subdued.

The new taxi system on Broad Street is frelling annoying. We hailed a cab before it could turn around because I didn't want to pay the inevitable extra it would cost to get back onto the Hagley Road, seeing as they're all pointing towards town (er, stupid?), and one of the taxi marshalls made us get out again and wait in the queue, which meant the journey cost me £11.50 instead of £9.00. Yes, I'm sure it's safer and more fair and whatever, but it's still bloody annoying that I have to fork out an extra two quid because the taxi's facing the wrong way.

Sunday was spent doing nothing, really. Watched De-Lovely in the evening and that was about it. Also saw the final episode of Rock School and watched Final Destination 2, which was... well, easy.

Today I need to leave work fairly early to go to town and get wrapping paper and David's birthday card, because it's tomorrow and I'm woefully unprepared. On which note, I'll send sweeterthing's card tomorrow... so it should only be, oh, four days late.

I need to get back into my previous motivated mindset, as these past couple of weeks I've been sort of dwindling again back into evening non-activity. Mostly I'm getting home a lot earlier these days so actually have time to do things, but I still feel like I'm not really achieving very much, and after a brief writing/reading spurt I seem to have dried up again.

Also feeling like my journal is becoming rather redundant and I'm only updating it out of habit these days.

Is anyone still reading?

No? I didn't think so. Well, I'll probably continue to fill cyberspace with nothingness anyway.

Right. Once more, I have a pile of typing to do, but luckily most of our Chairs are on leave this week, so I'll have time to get through it all. Too much time, probably.

Okay.  Can anyone hazard a guess to where I might have stashed away seven passport-sized photographs?  I need one for my CentroCard form and it took me about six months to find them the last time...

This is infuriating.  I can see them, I just can't find them.

Edit, 21.44: Never mind. I found 'em. I'd conscienciously 'tidied' them into a carrier bag of miscellaneous junk under my bed. I really need to stop putting all of my junk into carrier bags and actually sorting it out...

yoshithedragon slogged through the pouring rain last night to turn up at my house unannounced to make up for random horribleness on Wednesday night.

I have the best boyfriend ever.

:)

I forgot to add this.

Whilst watching The Worst Witch, as mentioned, I realised that Harry Potter is basically a glorified version of it (which it's been accused of before, I think), but not only that, the characters are very very similar.  (This is in jest, HP-fans.  Don't hurt me.)  Observe:

Mildred Hubble - Ron; not particularly good at spells and a bit ditsy.  Has a certain talent for flying after a lot of practice.
Maud Warlock - by the 'best friend' reasoning, Harry; she's slightly better at the magic, but there's no direct connections there.  Mildred's the main TWW character but she's not very Harry-like.
Ethel Hallow - some bizarre hybrid of Hermione and Malfoy, as she's good at everything but also a complete bitch to Mildred... her father works for some wizardy council, I think.
Miss Hardbroom - well, blatantly Snape. :)
Miss Cackle - Dumbledore; friendly and approachable head mistress.
The flying teacher whose name I've just forgotten - ditto...
The Grand Wizard - Gilderoy Lockhart; all the women fancy him.

Okay, mostly direct links and some rather more tenuous ones.

That is all.

...Priscilla-fic exists.

I have read none of it yet, so can make no comment on the quality. ;)

But that's purely a matter of opinion. ;)

Where do you live?

If you use the map function you can pretty much find your exact street (at least for the UK; haven't zoomed far enough in on the US just yet to see if the streets work on that) even though bits of the satellite don't zoom in completely.  There's lots of in-depth pictures of the East side of Birmingham, but not for the middle or North, South and West.  Humph.

Anyway.  Clickity click. :)

(If you zoom in to a random number, you end up in the middle of Europe somewhere, in a desert.  Try to find yourself without the map first; I guarantee, no matter how good your Geography skills are, you'll be lost within seconds. :D)