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Well that didn't work did it? After saying how eager I was to write more often I seem to have gone the other way and started to write less. This is simply no good.
Anyway, last Wednesday was my first book group meeting! So I trundled off to Skipton library, eager to talk about Sarah Waters' 'The Night Watch' which I think is one of my favourite books, simply because no other book has sucked me in quite so much. I don't really remember being compelled by a book so much since 'Cloud Atlas'. It turns out that having a book you love at your first book group meeting is both a blessing and a curse. It gives you something to talk about but if someone doesn't like it then you just want to punch them in the face. Funnily enough, when I first got there one of the ladies who interviewed for the job I went for there a year ago was on tea duty! I told her then and she just went, 'Oh God!' because, obviously I didn't get it (even though it was the best interview I had ever had and I know that they were gutted they couldn't give me the job because someone internally had got the job. Haha.) but she did remember me. She asked me what I was up to now. I made sure I told her about my MSc to get my foot in the door too! Hehe. After getting my tea I took my seat at the table. there must have been about 20 people there in total and it doesn't get much bigger apparently. With this being Skipton I wasn't surprised that I was the youngest there. I was surprised that I was one of only two males though! I sat down and I thought, 'God, this is like a WI meeting!'.
All was not lost however, and I really enjoyed myself. The housewife sector didn't really like the book and there were a few comments by other people that made me think 'what the fuck are you talking about?!' but otherwise the book was well received. I got chatting to a lady next to me who loved the book and it felt really good talking about how much we loved it. The refreshments were good too! Rum truffles, mini mince pies and posh juices :D The next one isn't until January now but I'll be going to the next one. It was really interesting hearing people's differing opinions about the book.
Good as the book group was, it came at a bad time as I had an essay in the next day! Although it was a bit of a chore it didn't turn out too bad. I was 1 word over the word count which pleased me as I never go over it! I had to do my references and amendments at Uni though so that took a while and I just got it in before my last lecture. I've got another one in in a week and a half which I'm a little more worried about though :s After that I am free to think about Xmas! Thursday was also interesting because I brought home the whole Dewey Decimal system home with me, which is four volumes, but I could only carry three :s I just wanted to look eager really. I ended up meeting James on the way back through Leeds as he was going for a night out with his old workmates, courtesy of The Daily Mail of all things. He didn't get in until late, the drunkard.
Speaking of James, he's been at his new job a week now. It's with the Legal Services Commission. more importantly he's on flexitime and this has made me very jealous. My job would be so much better with flexitime and there is no good reason why we can't have it. Grrr. Anyway, it seems like he's enjoying his job and that is the main thing. At least I have a commuter buddy now :D
The weekend's been quite quiet really. We didn't even leave the house for that much, other than to go food shopping. Morissons had a nice Xmas tree up in the foyer which made me eager to get one of our own. Hopefully after the 6th December Uni will have calmed down and we can pick up decorations for cheap! I'm not sure where we'll put a tree but I want one to put presents under!
We watched a few things including finishing off 'Life of Mammals'. The last one was a bit sinister with horrible killer chimps but hey, I've loved the series. I want to watch 'The Life of Birds' next I think. Hmm, I can't decide. It makes me sad to think that because of the BBC balls up with the Queen that documentaries and news are suffering cuts. Ironcially, it's documentaries that the BBC do the best, probably the best in the world and yet they're cutting funding and letting things like reality TV and 'light entertainment' go free, there's no justice. note how I didn't add that the BBC do the news the best, because they really don't . I fucking *hate* the news and its scaremongering. So speaking of things the Beeb do well, Cranford is really good. I've always missed out on period dramas. But I'm enjoying this, especially as it puts Dame Judi Dench back on our screens. Always a pleasure.
We watched 'Lilo and Stitch' too wich was great! It's very different to a normal Disney movie but it's really, properly, funny and Stitch is so darn cute. The fact that it's set in Hawaii and yet has aliens in is also very odd. The look of the whole thing is great and the chartacters are really inventive. I always thought that Disney had gone off the boil in the 90s but I was clearly wrong. Also, it's after watching stuff like that i have to say, how can anyone think that 2D animation is dead. It can still be utterly beautiful.
Super Scrabble was also played, which killed an afternoon. I lost so I won't dwell on it, but we watched Spice Girl videos while we played. They were so 90s! And wasn't Posh a rubbish Spice Girl? She hardly sung and didn't really *do* anything. The Viva Forever video is pretty freaky too. We also watched the Best bits of Children in Need (is it so wrong that we taped it and skip through it to get to the good stuff?). We didn't end up watching much of it really as I don't care for soap stars singing or variety show stuff so it wasn' t too long in the end. James observation that it is full of awkward talking is also true!
I have to mention that I'm really into Bloc Party at the moment. Yes I've caved. I did kind of stick them in pile of indie-bands-that-had-one-decent-song in 2005 pile, because in 2005 there were *loads* of bands like that but after liking 'Flux' I've caved in and gone for it. Their new album is pretty decent too I have to say.
I have to say though is that the highlight of my weekend was someone trading a pokemom with me globally via DS wIfi. Wonderful stuff. I didn't even need to be online while it was traded, I just logged on and someone had given me a Piplup. The wonders of the modern age. It's funny, I read a comment somewhere saying that we are lucky to live now rather than 200 years ago, which is true, but I bet that people in 2207 will think the same thing (also, how crazily futuristic does 2207 sound?! And yet it's the same distance away as 1807 is. Even 2107 sound futuristic and yet 1907 doesn't sound so old, there are people alive today who were born then!). It just makes me wonder what people in the future will think of us. Probably how horrible it is that we can die of cancer or heart disease just like how we think how horrible that people died of cholera. It is quite exciting to think that in my lifetime so many exciting things will be discovered :D
Anyway, last Wednesday was my first book group meeting! So I trundled off to Skipton library, eager to talk about Sarah Waters' 'The Night Watch' which I think is one of my favourite books, simply because no other book has sucked me in quite so much. I don't really remember being compelled by a book so much since 'Cloud Atlas'. It turns out that having a book you love at your first book group meeting is both a blessing and a curse. It gives you something to talk about but if someone doesn't like it then you just want to punch them in the face. Funnily enough, when I first got there one of the ladies who interviewed for the job I went for there a year ago was on tea duty! I told her then and she just went, 'Oh God!' because, obviously I didn't get it (even though it was the best interview I had ever had and I know that they were gutted they couldn't give me the job because someone internally had got the job. Haha.) but she did remember me. She asked me what I was up to now. I made sure I told her about my MSc to get my foot in the door too! Hehe. After getting my tea I took my seat at the table. there must have been about 20 people there in total and it doesn't get much bigger apparently. With this being Skipton I wasn't surprised that I was the youngest there. I was surprised that I was one of only two males though! I sat down and I thought, 'God, this is like a WI meeting!'.
All was not lost however, and I really enjoyed myself. The housewife sector didn't really like the book and there were a few comments by other people that made me think 'what the fuck are you talking about?!' but otherwise the book was well received. I got chatting to a lady next to me who loved the book and it felt really good talking about how much we loved it. The refreshments were good too! Rum truffles, mini mince pies and posh juices :D The next one isn't until January now but I'll be going to the next one. It was really interesting hearing people's differing opinions about the book.
Good as the book group was, it came at a bad time as I had an essay in the next day! Although it was a bit of a chore it didn't turn out too bad. I was 1 word over the word count which pleased me as I never go over it! I had to do my references and amendments at Uni though so that took a while and I just got it in before my last lecture. I've got another one in in a week and a half which I'm a little more worried about though :s After that I am free to think about Xmas! Thursday was also interesting because I brought home the whole Dewey Decimal system home with me, which is four volumes, but I could only carry three :s I just wanted to look eager really. I ended up meeting James on the way back through Leeds as he was going for a night out with his old workmates, courtesy of The Daily Mail of all things. He didn't get in until late, the drunkard.
Speaking of James, he's been at his new job a week now. It's with the Legal Services Commission. more importantly he's on flexitime and this has made me very jealous. My job would be so much better with flexitime and there is no good reason why we can't have it. Grrr. Anyway, it seems like he's enjoying his job and that is the main thing. At least I have a commuter buddy now :D
The weekend's been quite quiet really. We didn't even leave the house for that much, other than to go food shopping. Morissons had a nice Xmas tree up in the foyer which made me eager to get one of our own. Hopefully after the 6th December Uni will have calmed down and we can pick up decorations for cheap! I'm not sure where we'll put a tree but I want one to put presents under!
We watched a few things including finishing off 'Life of Mammals'. The last one was a bit sinister with horrible killer chimps but hey, I've loved the series. I want to watch 'The Life of Birds' next I think. Hmm, I can't decide. It makes me sad to think that because of the BBC balls up with the Queen that documentaries and news are suffering cuts. Ironcially, it's documentaries that the BBC do the best, probably the best in the world and yet they're cutting funding and letting things like reality TV and 'light entertainment' go free, there's no justice. note how I didn't add that the BBC do the news the best, because they really don't . I fucking *hate* the news and its scaremongering. So speaking of things the Beeb do well, Cranford is really good. I've always missed out on period dramas. But I'm enjoying this, especially as it puts Dame Judi Dench back on our screens. Always a pleasure.
We watched 'Lilo and Stitch' too wich was great! It's very different to a normal Disney movie but it's really, properly, funny and Stitch is so darn cute. The fact that it's set in Hawaii and yet has aliens in is also very odd. The look of the whole thing is great and the chartacters are really inventive. I always thought that Disney had gone off the boil in the 90s but I was clearly wrong. Also, it's after watching stuff like that i have to say, how can anyone think that 2D animation is dead. It can still be utterly beautiful.
Super Scrabble was also played, which killed an afternoon. I lost so I won't dwell on it, but we watched Spice Girl videos while we played. They were so 90s! And wasn't Posh a rubbish Spice Girl? She hardly sung and didn't really *do* anything. The Viva Forever video is pretty freaky too. We also watched the Best bits of Children in Need (is it so wrong that we taped it and skip through it to get to the good stuff?). We didn't end up watching much of it really as I don't care for soap stars singing or variety show stuff so it wasn' t too long in the end. James observation that it is full of awkward talking is also true!
I have to mention that I'm really into Bloc Party at the moment. Yes I've caved. I did kind of stick them in pile of indie-bands-that-had-one-decent-song in 2005 pile, because in 2005 there were *loads* of bands like that but after liking 'Flux' I've caved in and gone for it. Their new album is pretty decent too I have to say.
I have to say though is that the highlight of my weekend was someone trading a pokemom with me globally via DS wIfi. Wonderful stuff. I didn't even need to be online while it was traded, I just logged on and someone had given me a Piplup. The wonders of the modern age. It's funny, I read a comment somewhere saying that we are lucky to live now rather than 200 years ago, which is true, but I bet that people in 2207 will think the same thing (also, how crazily futuristic does 2207 sound?! And yet it's the same distance away as 1807 is. Even 2107 sound futuristic and yet 1907 doesn't sound so old, there are people alive today who were born then!). It just makes me wonder what people in the future will think of us. Probably how horrible it is that we can die of cancer or heart disease just like how we think how horrible that people died of cholera. It is quite exciting to think that in my lifetime so many exciting things will be discovered :D
