So over the weekend I watched The Fantastic Mr Fox. And in general, I thought it was really good. I loved the ye-olde feel to the animation, I loved the humour of the physicality and just. Yeah. It was pretty cool.

A lot of that was, however, for me, over-ridden by some issues I had with the stereotyping.

( Cut for situational spoilers rather than specific plot ones )

The deadline for submitting prompts for boxathon is today, people.

(If you don't know, boxathon is a ficathon for writing something in shows that you love, but somehow have never written in ( Read more... )

I'm on Mikeyway this morning and so am able to actually post without firefox crashing. \o/ FTW

So I'm posting just because I can.

What - you want more? My glee isn't enough? I could be all stereotypical and talk about the weather (Dude - fucking cold. November is never usually this cold) or tell people how the promotion is going (more power and ( Read more... )

I was gonna post a whole thing but instead me and Jac got all stranded when my tyre burst. And this was the point that I found out that my car-related spanners etc didn't fit the nuts on my tire.Yeah ( Read more... )

This sentence actually came out of my mouth at work:

"Hey - I haven't seen the invisible kitty recently..."

...I just...

I'm not that bright?

(I told the invisible kitty story, right?)

So it's a meme. Stolen from just about everyone.

1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like ( Read more... )

Two days left of this job before I move on to my new, higher paid, hopefully cooler job. \o/ FTW! I am so DONE with this role. I keep spending loads of time reading h2g2 because the only website my work let us on to is the BBC news one and they don't know yet that I can jump from that to there. Bwuahahaha! *Is cunning ( Read more... )

I - uh - got a promotion at work \o/

Different department, higher profile, higher grade.

...

*Breathes*

My interview was yesterday and I wasn't meant to find out until tomorrow - but my new boss called this afternoon as she was too excited. Exact words? "I'm absolutely thrilled to say that you got the position. You were outstanding." (emphasis ( Read more... )

I was thinking earlier - it surprises me how many fangirls of the slash persuasion have, like, proper jobs ( Read more... )

Why is it that uber-boss types can fuck stuff up from a great height without knowing what people below them even DO?

e.g. using my work:

Work: *Happens*
Uber-Boss: Let's do this! It'll make work happen more efficiently!
Me (bossling): Um - no it won't. In fact, all of the ideas that you've suggested will cause chaos and the minions may, in fact, ( Read more... )