Back in my first year of work or so, I used to get to work, and then go to the toilet, sit down on the (quite clean) cubicle floor, and nap for another 15 minutes or so. I was that tired ( Read more... )

So many shows I want to watchhhhh. I really want to watch the new season of Doctor Who really badly, all the trailer clips and really short interviews and really short making-ofs (which is cool is this what is replacing Confidential now that it's gone?) of the new episodes ont he BBC website is making me happy but also making me ITCH for the new ( Read more... )

It's been years since I randomly posted about my life. What in the world is a blog for if I don't do that? O_O ( Read more... )

Dad just walked into the kitchen and laughingly called my mom "Mommie", because he knows she doesn't like it and it makes her sound older. After the requisite protests from my mom, my dad said "I get a kick out of irritating you ( Read more... )

I’m flying off to Osaka and Kyoto this Friday for a super short trip, coming back next Wednesday. Everyone at work seems to think that I’ve already visited Japan this year, but no. This is my first trip this year. And I’ve been dying to go. Originally I wanted to visit in maple-leaf season (紅葉), and it was supposed to be a post-birthday November ( Read more... )

My office network used to block all things Google (Gmail, google maps, google docs etc) but now everything works. But now my office network blocks the new-blog-post function of LJ. Everything else works, comments, reading posts, but just can’t get to the new blog post page. So I’m typing this in an email and mailing it to myself. O_o ( Read more... )

Who needs blind dates when I've got delicious Sherlock/John + His Dark Materials fusionfic AND pictures and videos of Mr Cumberbatch to come back to?

In other news, chalk it up to a relatively okay blind but ultimately awkward and quite probably failed date. Yay.

Sherlock/Bennie improves my exposure to english music.

He was interviewed recently by Graham Norton on BBC 2 Radio (Graham Norton... I recognise him from TopGear! Man, I'm so holding out for Bennie to be on TopGear too!) where Graham Norton played the song "Set Fire to the Rain" by a British singer called Adele in the midst of the interview. And ( Read more... )