First two thoughts in my head as I sit down for tonight's blog. The day itself I have tried to obliterate from my mind LOL yes that bad. Only work related bothers, but still, that bad.
Third test is England v Australia in the Ashes of course. 93 for 1 at lunch on the first day, the English are. Good start, a long way to go though - good to see Vaughan finally get some runs, he is 41 not out currently.
Nine Songs, of course, is the movie I saw last weekend - yes, I know, I know, taking my own sweet time to talk about last weekend, but it has been an exhausting week. Anyways, Nine Songs charts a relationship from start to finish with explicit sex spliced in between nine concert songs. Yes, there was EVERYTHING showing at different parts of the movie, and apart from one scene there was nothing porn like about the whole thing. But really, it was horrid in a teeth grinding and barely able to keep myself from checking my watch to see when to go type way. If they had had a better plot, and got rid of the Antarctica scenes, and not show as much as they did sex wise, it could have been a GOOD movie, instead of a boring, excruciating to watch one.
That movie viewing of course being part of my 'there aren't any good new releases, let's see what the fuss is about and after this we will no longer talk or think about this whole sorry wreck of a movie' film festival lol. Maybe the reaction to it was kind of like how the viewing public found A Clockwork Orange first time around - my parents went to see it, it was rated R-21 in New Zealand, and couldn't see what all the fuss was about.
This weekend we have Wedding Crashers, dumb fun looking, in a Something About Mary kind of way, Look Both Ways, Aussie movie which looked good in a quiet drama kind of way on the ABC Movie Show last night, The Jacket, which has Adrien Brody and sounds good, Kung Fu Hustle, which looks an enjoyable mess of a movie - the Matrix fight scenes without a plot. No, not the Matrix sequels LOL. Might save the first two choices for when V comes up next month. Oh, and for the completists out there, I know it can't only be me, somehow I managed to miss mentioning that I had seen Fantastic Four a few weeks ago... don't ask how I discovered that I had missed mentioning it please LOL.
Well, at least there is the inkling of a smile on my mouth and in my eyes. Has been a long day.
Got to the train station this morning, with the announcement that my train would be ten minutes late, bloody Ekka special trains LOL, which then knocked on and made me five minutes late for work. Which I had a bloody late shift for anyways. So the prologue wasn't good for starters.
And then, as soon as I got into work, noted emails saying that a job that I had tried to push through for a customer the previous evening couldn't be done because it would muck up the processes. Grr. And then a later email said that the customer was trying to be put through to me (with a late shift, it's like I lose half the day even before coming in). Grr. Talked to a team leader to see how to resolve the issue, who would have a look at it, and told me not to talk to the customer until we had some resolution.
Customer rang back again, wanting to speak to me, for some reason it wasn't transferred, but I was feeling edgy already. When the team leader sorted out what I should do, I had to give the work to another section, whose phone number as on the contact list WAS NOT WORKING, so I had to send the work to our investigations area with one minute to go until a meeting. Was quite a quick, curt email to advise to keep an eye out for my work coming through, and then into the meeting. By the time my mind slowed down from the stress beforehand the meeting was fifteen minutes over LOL.
And the customer had rung through AGAIN while I was in the meeting, was put through to the correct section, but there was a huge stress point in my back for most of the rest of the day. And the beginnings of a great headache. LDU was getting even more stressed than I was, and probably made herself dizzy and sick, she left after only a couple of hours. She wasn't happy from the moment she came in.
After the week I have had at work, I so want to go out for a beer tomorrow night. Dancing would be good as well, but beer is the first port of call. Wonder who will be at the pub by the time I have finished off my second beer tomorrow night and am thinking home or socialising LOL.
Bumped into LNE on the way to the train station tonight. Was going home in the same direction on the same train as ADE, and they were doing a survey, Kiwis apparently like beer over bourbon, but bourbon is our spirit, whereas private school people like rugby union and rum. She always seems so happy and smiley, and I was thinking of chatting the extra fifteen minutes on their side of the railway platform, but thought I might make a silly person out of myself, again, with the discretion and valour thing. Sent LNE an email today, saying that I'm still interested in going upstairs if a general shift around is ordered. Would be nice.
England 151 for 1 at drinks in the afternoon session. Doing well, both Vaughan and Trescothick have centuries. Boy is it good to see these Aussies finally in a real dog fight, after about five years at least.
Will sleep well tonight, exhausting day.
Pauly
Third test is England v Australia in the Ashes of course. 93 for 1 at lunch on the first day, the English are. Good start, a long way to go though - good to see Vaughan finally get some runs, he is 41 not out currently.
Nine Songs, of course, is the movie I saw last weekend - yes, I know, I know, taking my own sweet time to talk about last weekend, but it has been an exhausting week. Anyways, Nine Songs charts a relationship from start to finish with explicit sex spliced in between nine concert songs. Yes, there was EVERYTHING showing at different parts of the movie, and apart from one scene there was nothing porn like about the whole thing. But really, it was horrid in a teeth grinding and barely able to keep myself from checking my watch to see when to go type way. If they had had a better plot, and got rid of the Antarctica scenes, and not show as much as they did sex wise, it could have been a GOOD movie, instead of a boring, excruciating to watch one.
That movie viewing of course being part of my 'there aren't any good new releases, let's see what the fuss is about and after this we will no longer talk or think about this whole sorry wreck of a movie' film festival lol. Maybe the reaction to it was kind of like how the viewing public found A Clockwork Orange first time around - my parents went to see it, it was rated R-21 in New Zealand, and couldn't see what all the fuss was about.
This weekend we have Wedding Crashers, dumb fun looking, in a Something About Mary kind of way, Look Both Ways, Aussie movie which looked good in a quiet drama kind of way on the ABC Movie Show last night, The Jacket, which has Adrien Brody and sounds good, Kung Fu Hustle, which looks an enjoyable mess of a movie - the Matrix fight scenes without a plot. No, not the Matrix sequels LOL. Might save the first two choices for when V comes up next month. Oh, and for the completists out there, I know it can't only be me, somehow I managed to miss mentioning that I had seen Fantastic Four a few weeks ago... don't ask how I discovered that I had missed mentioning it please LOL.
Well, at least there is the inkling of a smile on my mouth and in my eyes. Has been a long day.
Got to the train station this morning, with the announcement that my train would be ten minutes late, bloody Ekka special trains LOL, which then knocked on and made me five minutes late for work. Which I had a bloody late shift for anyways. So the prologue wasn't good for starters.
And then, as soon as I got into work, noted emails saying that a job that I had tried to push through for a customer the previous evening couldn't be done because it would muck up the processes. Grr. And then a later email said that the customer was trying to be put through to me (with a late shift, it's like I lose half the day even before coming in). Grr. Talked to a team leader to see how to resolve the issue, who would have a look at it, and told me not to talk to the customer until we had some resolution.
Customer rang back again, wanting to speak to me, for some reason it wasn't transferred, but I was feeling edgy already. When the team leader sorted out what I should do, I had to give the work to another section, whose phone number as on the contact list WAS NOT WORKING, so I had to send the work to our investigations area with one minute to go until a meeting. Was quite a quick, curt email to advise to keep an eye out for my work coming through, and then into the meeting. By the time my mind slowed down from the stress beforehand the meeting was fifteen minutes over LOL.
And the customer had rung through AGAIN while I was in the meeting, was put through to the correct section, but there was a huge stress point in my back for most of the rest of the day. And the beginnings of a great headache. LDU was getting even more stressed than I was, and probably made herself dizzy and sick, she left after only a couple of hours. She wasn't happy from the moment she came in.
After the week I have had at work, I so want to go out for a beer tomorrow night. Dancing would be good as well, but beer is the first port of call. Wonder who will be at the pub by the time I have finished off my second beer tomorrow night and am thinking home or socialising LOL.
Bumped into LNE on the way to the train station tonight. Was going home in the same direction on the same train as ADE, and they were doing a survey, Kiwis apparently like beer over bourbon, but bourbon is our spirit, whereas private school people like rugby union and rum. She always seems so happy and smiley, and I was thinking of chatting the extra fifteen minutes on their side of the railway platform, but thought I might make a silly person out of myself, again, with the discretion and valour thing. Sent LNE an email today, saying that I'm still interested in going upstairs if a general shift around is ordered. Would be nice.
England 151 for 1 at drinks in the afternoon session. Doing well, both Vaughan and Trescothick have centuries. Boy is it good to see these Aussies finally in a real dog fight, after about five years at least.
Will sleep well tonight, exhausting day.
Pauly
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