Her Life is a WIP

I took an exam this morning - for an internet and IT certificate - and it was quite funny because it's been ages since I had to sit an exam. Brought back some memories. Let's hope I did ok and will be able to add something to my CV next week *fingers crossed*

Speaking of work, there's a new campaign against homophobia at the uni with those two ads, respectively showing a girl and a boy. The one with the boy says something along the lines of "Here's a boy who likes boys but this boy who likes boys doesn't like boys who don't like boys who like boys... You think this sentence is complicated? It's nothing compared to this student's life." It does work because when I was reading the sentence I was like "wtf is that, that sentence is just -oh, ok." Same text for the girl, only, with "girl who likes girls etc." obviously.

Changing the subject. There's a meme going around where people associate five things with you and you have to ramble 'elaborate on the subjects given'. turps33 gave me five things some time ago and I finally 'elaborated' :

( Disney Store, Brendon, Methos, Christmas, French Posse )

I said 'elaborate'? I guess I meant 'rambled on'. Same difference :-p

Oh, and a miracle happened! I found three episodes of K-Ville on-line! Subtitled in French which - as odd as it may sound - is a bit distracting but, yay! Not 'one' but 'three' episodes in English of K-Ville, woohoo! Also! I have all of Sons of Anarchy now sitting on my HD. Me happy :-)

You guys, I'm knackered! I can't really explain why because, sure, work has been hectic the past two weeks but nothing out of the ordinary, and yet I'm absolutely dead on my feet. Getting out of bed has been torture all week long. Same thing with Cookie so, I don't know, there must be something in the air.

Still on the subject of work, yesterday was quite interesting (though tedious and boring as well, depending on whether we could go to the lectures we wanted or not). We participated in a "Teaching Differently" seminar; the different lectures and workshops dealt with the different new technologies teachers have at their disposal to teach. My absolutely favourite "panel" was this round table in a room with comfy sofas and chairs, which was nice enough, but what I found brilliant was that the discussion was held in Second Life!

I'm not used to second life so this really was original to me, to see professionals using a virtual world to hold their discussion. There was an elf! And an avatar that looked like Dr Manhattan. It was so much fun. Also, very interesting as discussions go. Definitely my favourite panel.

On the fannish front, a little Kaamelott marathon was done the past few days ; no matter how many times I watch that show - and I have the DVDs so I've watched it many times - it never ever fails to make me laugh. I know the jokes and lines by heart, I know the punchlines, I know everything, and yet it still makes me laugh each and every time. Without fail. I love that show so much ♥ ♥

What else? I'm quite impatient to be tonight because the FP is having a little Weekend in Lyon - well, FP minus moimoietmoi, which is sad - and I can't wait to be with the girls. MCR fest will happen, a yummy Japanese restaurant will be visited, Starbucks will be raided and other many awesome things will be done. Can't wait!

Hero Corp is rubbing off on me, I believe; I think I'm developping my own kind of superpowers! I just have to look at someone and they will give me what I want. Like, yesterday? We were having lunch with a couple of co-workers and P. was eating an orange... it smelt really good and I was looking at it and thinking of maybe trying the puppy eyes on her so that she gave me a slice? And that's when she looked at me and, just like that, without a single word exchanged between us, she offered half of her orange to me! I think from now on I'll call myself Captain Yeux Doux \o/

Still on the subject of work; Cookie and I are turning our department into TV Show Central. There's been some nice exchange of dvds the past few days; I burnt Being Human for J. who also got T:TSCC s1 via Cookie. I lent my copy of Pushing Daisies to P. who, in turn, gave me the first season of The L World. Nice!

Unrelated now; a little meme. It's Friday, I'm home and the weekend is here, a meme is just perfect for lazying around.

From crazybutsound | People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blog and replace any question that they dislike with a new, original question.

And I guess I should tag people, if only to see see what their answers to #18 would be, but whatever...

( The usual meme where you speak about yourself. A lot. )

And now, off to read Panic and J2 fics; always a very relaxing way to end the week, methinks.

Something I love about working here is that you can take your time in the morning to settle in the new work day. I mean, when I worked at Disney Store eons ago, there was no way to start the day calmly. It was all about jump in your uniform and go to the floor; no cappuccino, nothing. Even when you started at 7.00 AM, had gotten up at 5.15, and really, really wished you could have something to make you just a little more aware of the world around you. Same thing with the other jobs I had.

But ever since I started working at the uni, it's different, and I just love the fact that I can make myself a little cappuccino and take it to my desk - or our wee coffee room whenever I have a couple of minutes to spare during the day - and just sip it while checking my (work related) mails. Such a smooth start, I love it :-) Incidentally, it's also a good indicator of how the day will go; sometimes I can't even start drinking aforementioned cappucino - in those cases, I know that chances are it's gonna be a long day.

State of my cup today? Unfinished, and I made it at 9.00, so. But it's okay because I helped solve a crisis and I finished another project, so I feel very accomplished as of right this minute - you never know what can happen in the course of an hour, so let's appreciate this moment of work-related satisfaction *appreciates*

And, obviously, I'm taking a little break now *waves*

Changing the subject. Blogs? Are love. Which, why yes, they are, I've had my LJ for more than five years now so it's not as if I had an epiphany or anything but, seriously, you have Neil Gaiman informing you that he's blogging in his bath, then telling you all about his guilt at having answered a journalist's question maybe a little too bluntly. You have Gerard Way complaining about cereals. Or Ryan explaining that he's sleeping on an air mattress in Brendon's guest room and feeling maybe a little jealous that Spencer seems to have a deluxe model and just - celebrities' blogs! Are so much love there's no words for it ♥ ♥

PS: Hey, London weather? Please not to be mean and force the Eurostar People to cancel our train on Saturday due to snow, ok? I'm really counting on our little FP weekend in your gorgeous city. Kthxbai.

ETA: It's snowing!

Crazy work is crazy! It's trying to kill us d.e.d! At 4.59 PM I got a msn message from Cookie along the lines of 'WE NEED TO GO NAO OR THEY WILL STOP US!' which prompted me to switch everything off and all but run to Cookie's office, only to find that one of our co-workers had managed to catch her before she could leave and the poor girl was typing down some stuff. Trying to leave that department on time is like trying to avoid the slash in Merlin. It's just not possible!

But, anyway, we did leave and I made it home and turps33 sent me some wonderful links and omg! There's no way to textually render my love for My Chemical Romance! How adorable are those guys? To think some people think they're, like, the antichrist or something: have they ever watched vids of the guys? With the giggling and the hugging and the carebear and unicorn talks? No, really, I'm asking!

There're those A Look Back vids which I've been watching over and over and I think my favourites are part 4 and part 5; part 4 because there's Gerard talking about MikeyWay's French pirate period - and it's not just because of the French pirate thing but because there's never a time when I don't adore it when Gerard calls his brother MikeyWay - and also because of Frank's laugh - which I'm totally addicted to - and Frank's adorable and heartfelt 'oh, Mikey'. And part 5 because - dude, is anyone even following this paragraph? I'm lost and I'm the one writing it! Wait, I'm gonna put some space here...

So, yeah, part 5 is also a favourite because of this little gem : ( and because I'm not totally cruel, I'll cut this - but it hurts me because I wish everyone in the world could be witness to Frank and Gerard's adorableness! )

Aww, seriously! How adorable is that scene? *loves on Gerard and Frank. And Mikey and Ray and Bob, too, of course!*

Between MyChem and Panic, the adorablemeter and the dorkmeter are going off the charts! I chose so well when I fell for those bands! Not that I 'chose' to, but whatever, I love loving them! ♥ ♥

angeliksmall has abandoned me to go frolicking in London and she won't be back till Tuesday *pout* It's very sad when one of your favourite fangirls isn't working with you anymore. Un seul être vous manque et tout (votre service) est dépeuplé [/de Lamartine quote] Is it Tuesday yet?

I finally have Panic Live in Chicago in my possession!!! I went and bought it during lunch-break yesterday. I planned on watching it last night but alas it wasn't meant to be. I also wanted to write my Christmas cards but that didn't work out really well either. I only wrote four of them before my eyelids started to droop and there was no stopping them. Still, four is better than none so yay Christmas cards!

Another yay is for Twitter. Because, yes, I have a twitter account now. I promise I won't be twittering from my mobile to my LJ, though. I didn't really plan on getting a twitter account, not even when people on my flist were falling in love with it, but then MCR decided to be unbearably adorable over there and I had to know what they were saying, so I joined. And it is fun. Not just to stalk follow your favourite bands but overall. I don't know if I'll use it regularly - I have a Facebook account and I haven't been there for ages - but at the moment I'm visiting the site everyday.

And this has nothing to do with anything but apparently I fucked up my left arm; not only does it hurt but I can't really move it. I have no idea what I did - it started hurting yesterday so it can't be last weekend's Big Top, can it? - but it sure is annoying. And of course it had to be my left arm, so I have to try and pretend to be right-handed for awhile.

Now, back to editing lessons on insurance law, which is as boring as it sounds. Except for how it's actually fun because I'm basically doing beta work for university teachers. Which is a load of fun in and of itself. I get to correct mistakes made by teachers! I bet many students would love to do that, talk about revenge lol

One of the reasons why I quite enjoy this job I have? The schedule. I don't have to be at work before 9.00 AM. And if by chance I were to arrive at 9.15 AM? It wouldn't be a problem either. So why am I in my office since 8.00 AM this morning? Because the universe hates me? Maybe. Or maybe because we're waiting for an important delivery - today is Teh Big Move where most of us are going to swap offices, so exciting! - and someone had to be there at 8.00 AM. Someone being either angeliksmall or me. She wanted to sacrifice herself because she knew I'd be tired from Big Top Weekend #1, I told her I'd do it because of the two of us, I'm the one living closer to the university. So here was I at work an hour before the regular hour.

Not complaining too much, I'm taking that time to cruise the net. I can't start on my work, anyway, because we started moving stuff on Friday and I'm actually stealing someone else's desk as I type this - all my stuff is in a little box, and the desk I used has been given to someone else. Mine will be waiting for me later on. Exciting day, I'm telling you!

Actually, I'm thinking I could try and work a little on my Merlin fic? It's horrible, I'm at the last chapter, it's been started and everything and RL being what it is, I still haven't finished it. And now I'm like 'omg what if writer's block strikes again'? *has fear* So I'll try today and if I can't, I'm hoping once I'm caught up with Merlin it'll all go easily and I'll finally be able to write "fin" at the end of the story.

So, hey, my weekend. Big Top? Went really well. And we sold candy floss again \o/ Except you tend to forget how to do the spinning if you haven't practiced in a while, so we had to practice before being able to sell the stuff and the training? Is always so much fun! I think at first we had more candy floss on us - in our hair, on our shirts, everywhere - than on the actual little stick :-p

Oh, and upon our arrival at the big top, we were greeted by a - real live - camel. And I got to caress a snake. Fun times! Plus, we did well and at the end of the weekend we were tired and sore but happy, so it's all good.

And! Omg! I bought my Christmas tree. There won't ever be a time when I won't find the time to buy my Christmas tree, Big Top and crazy schedule or not. Also! I downloaded Folie à Deux last night - I'll buy the CD, that's a fact but I didn't want to wait - and I can't wait to listen to it all. I also think I might start with one song in particular - just a hunch.

The talk this morning at work is still about Obama's victory - Americans might be happy to know that their reputation went up a notch since Tuesday/Wednesday.

We have a question, though - why is Ohio so important to win the election? A couple of co-workers turned to me and went "could you ask in your blog thing?" So that's what I'm doing, asking "in my blog thing" - hi, blog thing people!

So, back to the question, why Ohio? It's not just because of the electoral college, right? So is it because somehow people in Ohio have a knack for voting for the guy who'll end up in the White House? We could look it up on-line, mind, but in a way that's what I'm doing, right? Since I'm asking in my blog thing.

Changing the subject, would be it a bit annoying redundant if I said I was tired? Cause I am. I should manage to go to bed earlier now that crazybutsound went back home but sleep is still eluding me. Except for last night, when I sorta crashed on my couch while watching The Simpsons. I hate doing that; I always feel like an eighy-year-old woman *pout*

Oh, and the Nano thing? I started mine. Like, I'm committing to writing two words of a fic everyday |/sarcastic] Ok so I'm not, of course, but I've been thinking of writing some Merlin fic for a week or so and I've even written down a couple of lines. And I've talked about the "plot" to a couple of mates. I haven't written anything for around a hundred years so the only pleasure left writing-wise is talking about the fics I want to write - it's still something, at least. I mean, I've gone through some periods when the muse had completed deserted the place. Now he's here and talking to me, even though he's not helping with the writing process. Small steps.

I'm strangely unmotivated today. Might be because I wasn't supposed to be at work at all, but in training. But because of the strike they cancelled the class so back to work it was. I mean, it would have been too weird if I'd stayed home, right? Problem is, my mind wasn't wired to be here today, so it has some troubles connecting. Silver lining though, due to aforementioned strike, we'll leave an hour earlier [ETA: Or not. Turns out Cookie and I even left later than usual *pout*]

My first two thoughts when I woke up this morning? 'Friday!' Immediately followed with 'Supernatural!' True story, too.

Work was crazy today! Crisis! Deadline! Absent People You Need to Talk To! Bloody signatures I couldn't get and absolutely needed to make things work. I swear next time? I'll forge some fake documents. I will, Boss Man, mark my words!

But I survived and it was good. Also, I did manage to go to lunch - an hour late but I thought I would have to skip it altogether, so that was a miracle in and of itself - and I got to eat with my cousin Ludivine, who's a Starbucks addict like me so that was a lovely break. Grande Caramel Macchiato always make things better *nods* And good company too, of course!

Then got home and downloaded SPN 4x04. Which I just watched. ( Here some spoilery spoilers that will spoil you. )

So I did enjoy it, but after the insane L.O.V.E I had for the past three episodes, this was more of a I-love-SPN-by-default kinda appreciation.

Ok, now... I think I'll go and watch Pushing Daisies 2x02. And then maybe follow with the Lee Pace theme and watch The Fall again.