Just wishing everyone a Happy New Year!!

Goodbye to 2009: even your bad times have had a silver lining.

xxx

First post in, oh, 6 months, and it's fandom related. LJ how I've missed you!

So I keep hearing stories about how bad and amazing Season 5 Supernatural is. So why have ITV not managed ot get a hold of the rights to show this in the new year? I hear vicious rumours that Virgin has bought the rights.

Looks like I shall have to wait for the DVD. GRR

Plus I missed Dr Who on Sunday.

My fandom week has been an eic fail.

Went to see a local band last night with funmonkey and house mate. Whilst waiting for the band to start, there was a supporting band. Who specialised in 80's electro...rock? It's probably the only way I can describe it. Men wearing bowler hats, tattoos and military overcoats.

I'm a fan of bad 80's music, but I when the fans shouted for an encore, I nearly cried.

The band I went to see rocked, though. So overall yay.

My cat has taken to sleeping in her litter tray.

She has a blanket and her own little box she adopted a while ago. She is old. Maybe she's lost the rest of her mind? Should I be concerned? Or simply chalk it up to being one of these weird cat things?

I'm fairly excited about going to a glam rock night on saturday.

Is that wrong? Or maybe just very, very right?

Is 24 too old to dye my hair weird and wonderful colours? Would it end up looking more emo than funky?

In other news, I'm seeing Basement Jaxx in a few weeks. That's a sentence that a week ago I was sure I would never be tempted to say. I'm so easily led astray.

Still can't decide if I like Dollhouse. Sometimes I want it to hurry up and get to where it's going. But then there is a typical Joss Whedon line and find myself giggling and wanting to keep him chained to my radiator for ever and ever. Don't worry, he would get treats and a shiny laptop so that he could stay in business.

How did I not know that Dr Horrible's Sing A Long Blog existed before the_funmonkey told me about it? From the first evil laugh, I was hooked.



I mean who can resist these two...




Am reading Watchmen in eager anticipation of the film to come out. I confessed to captainlogic that a lot of my knowledge of American history is being learnt from reading this. She wasn't suprised. I'm hoping that she wasn't suprised because my general ignorance has become commonplace, but for some other reason. I probably shouldn't ask :)

In other news...still no job. *sigh*

When did it become completely normal to attack my housemate on the floor with sceneted oils and the phrase, 'spread 'em bitch'?

It's only to massage the poor sod's slipped disc.

Honest.

Fic: Supernatural/RPF(Derren Brown)

I kid you not. the_funmonkey has actually written the above crossover. IT IS MADE OF AWESOME.

He's Not the Messiah, He's A Very Naughty Boy

I urge you to read it, right now. Even if you don't know either of them, it is still an amazing piece of prose that will have you giggling insanely, and desperate to find out what happens next. The ony down side is that it is a one shot, and I really would love to read more, so really not much of a down side I suppose.

Em and I were in Paris last weekend. Went to the Musee d'Orsay first of all, and we ooh'd and ahhh'd over all of the Van Gogh, Renoir, Cezanne pieces. But what did we go nutty over? The art nouveau furniture display downstairs. It was so pretty!!! Yes, the interior design course was a good idea apparently.

We ate far too much cheese and pastry. BUT I REGRET NOTHING. Hotel was flooded, but when walking all over the city we realised that we are actually getting to grips with where we are when in Paris. Felt vaguely smug and worldly.

Unemployment still pretty much sucks, but it does mean I get to study more. In fact thinking of moving back to Nottingham for the next couple of years where there are more jobs and cheaper rents than London.

Title: Antisocial Bastard
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: pg
Word Count:689
Summary: Ray is not amused with his partner’s anti-social behaviour, confronts him about it, and in the process learns all about Freudian slips. Taken from a prompt by Captainlogic.
Disclaimer: These are not my characters (more's the pity) and I am making no profit on this.

( Antisocial Bastard )

I last posted about the time that I got a new job. It was within advertising, and as I discovered, very much not for me. This is probably a good conclusion to come to as on Friday I was let go. My position was made redundant, but becasue I was still within the agreed probation period, no reason had to be given.

Have been through the tears, the anger and blissful joy, this weekend.

On the plus side, they're paying me for the next three weeks even though I am no longer in the office. On the bad side, I now have to go back to the drawing board.

Grr

Maybe now is the time to do what I have wanted to do for a long time, get a well paying job and save up to open my own shop (in about 5 years once the economy starts to improve, of course). Well paid, but boring I'd wager.

Another plus - at least, at least I'll have time to post more.

In other news, my two favourite ladies took me to Claridges for tea on Sunday evening for my birthday present. I nearly tried to steal the tea set and the tiny, tiny sugar tongs. Also discovered that I have turrets of the face when I see a particularly upsettingly bad pair of shoes. Thankfully there were far more beautiful pairs of shoes on show, including a particualrly nice pair of leboutins on Vistoria Beckhams feet. YES THEY WERE BOTH HAVING TEA AT THE SAME TIME AND PLACE AS US. Kaz even had a bitch face off with her. Em and I are so proud.

Question, Dean/Castiel - hot or creepy? I'm assuming it would be hideously blasphemous, yes?

Boss Lady: Have you been to the new office? What are the ceilings like?
Me: The ceilings?
Suit: Well I wasn't really looking at the ceiling.
Boss Lady: I don't like the ceiling here. I look at it and think, this is what being an egg must feel like.
Me:...
Suit: ...
Boss Lady: *continues to stare at the ceiling*
Me: So... Suit 1, where are we on the next account?

I've just started a new job and have decided that my new co-workers are completely insane. Not that this is a bad thing, just not entirely sure when it's appropriate to fall off of my chair laughing.

My friend has announced that she is pregnant! Yay! Only 7 weeks so far. I'm so excited for her. A bit of a shock to be honest by the sound of it. Her partner and her had been discussing it, but hadn't made a decision. I'm going to visit next week. Not that I have any idea about pregnancy or children to be honest.

Any help people?

In other news, only one more week before I leave my job and go to another! Yay!

Work parties should not involve alcohol and Twister. These are going to be the moments I miss when I leave in two weeks.

In other news, read a bloody awesome fic that I had seen rec'd somewhere: 'Her Eyes' by drachenmina

Rereading all of the Dresden novels. Keep forgetting how much I love Michael, and how much Murphy annoys me at the beginning.

In the back of a hair magazine is an advert for...

Illicetencounters.com

'Married but want more?' Is the heading to this advert and invites you to join their supposed 170,000 members in having an affair. But the shining moment in this otherwise hideous advert was this following warning label:

'Warning: Not everyone is suited to having an affair. They are not an alternative to working on or ending a marriage. Not all affairs have a positive effect on a marriage, some can be very damaging. Always consider other people and if you are going to have an affair, please select your partner wisely.'

Nice to know that there are rules to infidelity.

Just spent the day at flugtag at Hyde Park with fun_monkey and friend. I didn't know what this was until last night when she called me and explained that it was an event where people threw themseles into the lake under the pretense of flying on homemade machines.

It was fantastic.

Each team had to perform a show before they could 'fly'. I pretty much pinned all of my hopes on those who performed than just a random jumping dance. People dressed up as the Doctor and captain Jack doing a coordinated dance with the Tardis and a dalek pretty much had my vote.

Most of the contraptions people had built simply toppled over the edge at the very first moment, and often just before. A couple of memorable moments were had however. One was the one that actually flew 39 metres before the pilot fell into teh water, adn the other was a very tall man riding a wee childrens tricycle over the edge. They showed that clip many times on the big screen, and each time they showed it, I thought to myself, 'this must be getting old' and yet each time I laughed. He just seemed so sad cycling over the edge by himself after the rest of his team had flown over already.

Fantastic!

So captainlogic is pissed and rightfully so. Apparently there is someone called 'wickedplotbunny' who has been plagarising several people's writing, changing a few words and names and claiming it as their own, including captainlogic.

Their journal has been deleted, but the fics have been posted elsewhere so everyone be careful. Wickedplotbunny turns all of them into Ianto/Jack fic, but simply changes their names.

I spend hours trying to think of something original, soimething unusual to write about. How can one person simply decide to take someone else's work adn pass it off as their own? Do they have no imagination or conscience?

Wish I was. Somewhere warm. British weather is just a tease. Saturday was glorious sunshine. Today was thunder storms and heavy rain.

Met my frend from home and the_funmonkey yesterday. Drank far too much and went to the Green Carnation in Soho. Want to either decorate an entire house like it, or alternatively, convince the owners to give me a corner of the room as my very own.

Discovered this week a love of mojitos. Fear this may be a terrible discovery.

Spent far too much money yesterday in Reading. I haven't been in reading since the christmas after I graduated in 2006, so imagine my suprised when the_funmonkeyas if out of nowhere <\i>. Pleasant suprise, yes, but it is often understood that neither of us should have lives outside of each other. When we are not causing trouble, we are in our own seperate little boxes. I care not for this reminder that this is, in fact, our own delusion.

Other than that, I was apparently channeling my own version fo Jackie O yesterday (yes to my shame, it took me a second to realise to whom captainlogic was referring. I am not bright and was not rbought up in the US *grin*).

Am now hunting for jobs, but am tempted to escape for coffee for a while as I am finding it disheartening. Any tips?

On another note, I am going to see the Mighty Boosh in Nottingham in January!! Saw their live tour on DVD and fell slightly in love with Julian Barratt. Fantastic.