Uh, hi guys
I haven't updated since February? O_o
I kind of haven't kept up with my f-list since then, either. So, hi! What's up in your life?
I have been busy, mostly spinning wheels, but some key highlights have been coming off my meds, a trip to Lisbon for a few days with travel-buddy!J, and a couple of days in Exeter with same.
I did a couple of months temp work, but I have so much on over summer I decided not to really work. Financially speaking, it's a... bold move. >_> I've got the odd day of temp work though, and I'm doing some freelance stuff proof listening to audiobooks and pulling together some paperwork for someone. I am beginning to wonder whether I can drum up enough freelance stuff to keep myself afloat. Not having to be in an office 9-5 would be so great.
The training dig is on at the end of this month, and A is coming over for
smarla's wedding, also at the end of this month. In July, we're back to the Roman site, this time for two weeks, instead of four days. It looks like it was a glassworks, the third found in the UK, so that's pretty exciting!
Next Wednesday I am going to see Newton Faulkner live. Man can play guitar:
And the other night I went to see Thor, knowing absolutely nothing about it. Seriously, I found out it's a comic adaptation while I was in the car on the way there. It was, as expected, big dumb fun. It was surprisingly good with the female characters. The weakest of them still tazers him because he's being a bit psycho and alarming. The romance is desperately rushed, but oh well, what does one expect. Whatever else you can say about it (e.g. an awful lot of movie for not a lot of plot), there are no weak women. That's worth quite a lot in my book. I did feel a little short-changed by the minimal gratuitous shirtlessness though. (Although the quality was high. It just seems a shame when he clearly put in a lot of hard work.)
The thing is, though, you see. I don't think I was supposed to come away with a crush on Loki. I wasn't, was I? And yet. How often do you get an 'Ebil Plan'* that's even coherent, let alone actually clever? "Oh, you sneaky little bastard," were pretty much my (admiring) thoughts on the subject. He has a lot of motivations, but none of them are really malicious. OK, there's an element of messing with his brother, but he's a Trickster, so what do you expect. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, really. I always preferred Edmund to Peter as well.
Anyway, now I have to watch Iron Man, because it turns out there's this whole epic series thing going on that I'd missed. Whoops?
*He's more or less the baddie - that's not a spoiler, that's Norse Mythology.
I kind of haven't kept up with my f-list since then, either. So, hi! What's up in your life?
I have been busy, mostly spinning wheels, but some key highlights have been coming off my meds, a trip to Lisbon for a few days with travel-buddy!J, and a couple of days in Exeter with same.
I did a couple of months temp work, but I have so much on over summer I decided not to really work. Financially speaking, it's a... bold move. >_> I've got the odd day of temp work though, and I'm doing some freelance stuff proof listening to audiobooks and pulling together some paperwork for someone. I am beginning to wonder whether I can drum up enough freelance stuff to keep myself afloat. Not having to be in an office 9-5 would be so great.
The training dig is on at the end of this month, and A is coming over for
smarla's wedding, also at the end of this month. In July, we're back to the Roman site, this time for two weeks, instead of four days. It looks like it was a glassworks, the third found in the UK, so that's pretty exciting!
Next Wednesday I am going to see Newton Faulkner live. Man can play guitar:
Click to viewAnd the other night I went to see Thor, knowing absolutely nothing about it. Seriously, I found out it's a comic adaptation while I was in the car on the way there. It was, as expected, big dumb fun. It was surprisingly good with the female characters. The weakest of them still tazers him because he's being a bit psycho and alarming. The romance is desperately rushed, but oh well, what does one expect. Whatever else you can say about it (e.g. an awful lot of movie for not a lot of plot), there are no weak women. That's worth quite a lot in my book. I did feel a little short-changed by the minimal gratuitous shirtlessness though. (Although the quality was high. It just seems a shame when he clearly put in a lot of hard work.)
The thing is, though, you see. I don't think I was supposed to come away with a crush on Loki. I wasn't, was I? And yet. How often do you get an 'Ebil Plan'* that's even coherent, let alone actually clever? "Oh, you sneaky little bastard," were pretty much my (admiring) thoughts on the subject. He has a lot of motivations, but none of them are really malicious. OK, there's an element of messing with his brother, but he's a Trickster, so what do you expect. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, really. I always preferred Edmund to Peter as well.
Anyway, now I have to watch Iron Man, because it turns out there's this whole epic series thing going on that I'd missed. Whoops?
*He's more or less the baddie - that's not a spoiler, that's Norse Mythology.