Small rant and some more cheerful Hugo babblings
It's time for the annual staff appreciation breakfast at work. Every year, I hope that they'll appreciate me with tasty bacon, pancakes and maple syrup.
Every year, they appreciate me with granola, yoghurt, fruit and wholemeal toast. In other words, the basic things that I eat every morning. Except I make my own granola and it is awesome. Or I have muesli from Dorset Cereals that is absolutely amazing, particularly the cranberry, almond and cherry. And my yoghurt is organic fat free gorgeous stuff.
Nope, a cheap (probably less healthy, hello sodium and fat content in mainstream granola) version of what I usually eat is not a treat and does not make me feel appreciated.
However, just to piss me off more this year there's an added bonus. Dieticians and fitness instructors will be there to help me plan a healthier life style and lose weight! Go me!
Except that my GI will probably hospitalise me if I lose more weight, my diet is very healthy despite IBD and I work out four times a week.
Yeah, I somehow don't think this breakfast is aimed at me. On the morning of the event (24th April), I shall eat my normal tasty breakfast at home and then sip juice and maybe nibble a corner of toast with my colleagues. If anyone tries to tell me how to lose weight, I'll throw the bloody juice at them. Argh!
< / rant >
In more cheerful news, the Hugo shortlist was announced over the weekend and I now know the sheer scale of my reading/watching task for the next few months. Um, wow.
One of the fun things about reading through awards lists is the chance to pick up things that I'd never normally read. This year that means that I'll be reading zombie novels for the first time ever. I've bought Feed by Mira Grant so that I'm in a good position to read her nominated works. I sense that I'll either love it or hate it. The rest are all things that I'm looking forward to and I've got some hefty reading to get through books 3 and 4 of George R. R. Martin's series so that I can read A Dance with Dragons.
It's nice to see that I've read at least one work from each of the novella/novellette/short story categories thanks to my Asimov's subscription. And obviously I've read John Scalzi's short story because it was such a brilliant joke last year.
Also, I now have an excuse to buy the Game of Thrones DVD boxset. Research! Vital! Hoorah!
All the other films seem to be available to rent from iTunes and I just happen to have an Apple TV that I could watch them on :-D And Captain America was already on my pre-Avengers list of stuff to watch. Um, why didn't X-Men First Class make the list? It was so good!
I've read the first couple of volumes of Fables and I've got volumes 3 to 5 on hold from the library. Only another....eight to read after that to get into position to read the nominated volume :-D Thankfully my library has them all. Woo! And Unwritten 4! And Locke and Key! It's just Digger that I might struggle to track down.
My horrible dilemma is which Doctor Who episode to vote for. All three shortlisted ones were brilliant. Argh.
The next few months are going to be fun!
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Every year, they appreciate me with granola, yoghurt, fruit and wholemeal toast. In other words, the basic things that I eat every morning. Except I make my own granola and it is awesome. Or I have muesli from Dorset Cereals that is absolutely amazing, particularly the cranberry, almond and cherry. And my yoghurt is organic fat free gorgeous stuff.
Nope, a cheap (probably less healthy, hello sodium and fat content in mainstream granola) version of what I usually eat is not a treat and does not make me feel appreciated.
However, just to piss me off more this year there's an added bonus. Dieticians and fitness instructors will be there to help me plan a healthier life style and lose weight! Go me!
Except that my GI will probably hospitalise me if I lose more weight, my diet is very healthy despite IBD and I work out four times a week.
Yeah, I somehow don't think this breakfast is aimed at me. On the morning of the event (24th April), I shall eat my normal tasty breakfast at home and then sip juice and maybe nibble a corner of toast with my colleagues. If anyone tries to tell me how to lose weight, I'll throw the bloody juice at them. Argh!
< / rant >
In more cheerful news, the Hugo shortlist was announced over the weekend and I now know the sheer scale of my reading/watching task for the next few months. Um, wow.
One of the fun things about reading through awards lists is the chance to pick up things that I'd never normally read. This year that means that I'll be reading zombie novels for the first time ever. I've bought Feed by Mira Grant so that I'm in a good position to read her nominated works. I sense that I'll either love it or hate it. The rest are all things that I'm looking forward to and I've got some hefty reading to get through books 3 and 4 of George R. R. Martin's series so that I can read A Dance with Dragons.
It's nice to see that I've read at least one work from each of the novella/novellette/short story categories thanks to my Asimov's subscription. And obviously I've read John Scalzi's short story because it was such a brilliant joke last year.
Also, I now have an excuse to buy the Game of Thrones DVD boxset. Research! Vital! Hoorah!
All the other films seem to be available to rent from iTunes and I just happen to have an Apple TV that I could watch them on :-D And Captain America was already on my pre-Avengers list of stuff to watch. Um, why didn't X-Men First Class make the list? It was so good!
I've read the first couple of volumes of Fables and I've got volumes 3 to 5 on hold from the library. Only another....eight to read after that to get into position to read the nominated volume :-D Thankfully my library has them all. Woo! And Unwritten 4! And Locke and Key! It's just Digger that I might struggle to track down.
My horrible dilemma is which Doctor Who episode to vote for. All three shortlisted ones were brilliant. Argh.
The next few months are going to be fun!
This entry was originally posted at http://selenay.dreamwidth.org/431389.html. There are currently
babbles on the entry on Dreamwidth