Getting Back to Work is Hard
Mar. 16th, 2010 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseGetting back to work is hard, and, what's up with this day light savings time change thing? Everyone I know (including myself) is getting their butt kicked by the time change. As I told Shawn this morning when we woke up (late, AGAIN,) it's not like my body isn't getting the same amount of sleep. My brain is somehow still wired to think I'm getting up at 5:30 am, even though the clock says 6:30 am.
Another reason to hate the former president, I say.
Today I got a lot of non-writing work done: collected our tax forms (whoot! Getting a refund!) and corrected a proposal I sent my agent that still had [troubled love interest] instead of a real name in the text and returned it to her. But otherwise, it's gray and rainy and hard to focus.
Squirrel!
Did you watch the Academy Awards? True confessions: I LOVE red carpet banter. It's so lame and stupid, but I find the whole glittery dress stuff vaguely amusing. It's my inner gay man, I suspect. At any rate, they had these little faux interviews with the characters from the various movies up for best animated feature, and the one for "Up" (which I still haven't seen) was so awesome, I'm still thinking about it. The Ed Asner character is sitting in one of those director chairs and the dog comes bounding up right into the camera while he's trying to talk. The dog says, something like, "What is this thing? Is it food?" A big tongue covers the screen, and then a disappointed, "It is *not* food!" Then someone yells, "squirrel" and the whole thing ends in chaos.
But lately that's been my new catch phrase, "It is NOT food!" I don't know why that amuses me so.
I suspect I should go/rent the movie. Instead, Shawn and I have been watching episodes of the first season of "Burn Notice" which isn't science fiction, but is a kind of serious/parody of the spy genre. And made of awesome. I think my favorite character is the crazy-ex-girlfriend (and ex-IRA soldier) Fi (Fiona). Our hero, Michael, is inscrutable in the way of James Bond, but gives these lovely voice-overs about the spy business which are often both hillarious and informative. Interestingly, they're very in character, because he's kind of a nerd spy. He likes to explain to the villians why they're being idiots (a prime example, he's waving a lighter near a pile of money he's soaked with gasoline, and he reminds the bad guys that "it's the fumes that ignite!") I've been enjoying the show tremendously.
How's by you?
Another reason to hate the former president, I say.
Today I got a lot of non-writing work done: collected our tax forms (whoot! Getting a refund!) and corrected a proposal I sent my agent that still had [troubled love interest] instead of a real name in the text and returned it to her. But otherwise, it's gray and rainy and hard to focus.
Squirrel!
Did you watch the Academy Awards? True confessions: I LOVE red carpet banter. It's so lame and stupid, but I find the whole glittery dress stuff vaguely amusing. It's my inner gay man, I suspect. At any rate, they had these little faux interviews with the characters from the various movies up for best animated feature, and the one for "Up" (which I still haven't seen) was so awesome, I'm still thinking about it. The Ed Asner character is sitting in one of those director chairs and the dog comes bounding up right into the camera while he's trying to talk. The dog says, something like, "What is this thing? Is it food?" A big tongue covers the screen, and then a disappointed, "It is *not* food!" Then someone yells, "squirrel" and the whole thing ends in chaos.
But lately that's been my new catch phrase, "It is NOT food!" I don't know why that amuses me so.
I suspect I should go/rent the movie. Instead, Shawn and I have been watching episodes of the first season of "Burn Notice" which isn't science fiction, but is a kind of serious/parody of the spy genre. And made of awesome. I think my favorite character is the crazy-ex-girlfriend (and ex-IRA soldier) Fi (Fiona). Our hero, Michael, is inscrutable in the way of James Bond, but gives these lovely voice-overs about the spy business which are often both hillarious and informative. Interestingly, they're very in character, because he's kind of a nerd spy. He likes to explain to the villians why they're being idiots (a prime example, he's waving a lighter near a pile of money he's soaked with gasoline, and he reminds the bad guys that "it's the fumes that ignite!") I've been enjoying the show tremendously.
How's by you?