My weekend so far, and other stories...
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annwfynSo far, I've had a very good weekend. Yesterday was unifex's birthday, and so I drove up (with assorted housemates in tow) to Hatfield, bearing chocolate, cake, and robotic fish for James. We got there, met with the myriad of other people who had also come to celebrate his Getting Old Day, and lo! It was good.
There was dim sum, and then there was Sweeney Todd, which was a fabulous film. I'm prepared to concede that it wasn't perfect, but as acid drenched gothic pantomimes go, it was pretty good fun.
I'm left pondering which of Sweeney and Mrs Lovett was the greater monster. Sweeney, on the surface, seemed to be the worst. There was no softness or gentleness in him - just this brutal lust for blood and revenge. Mrs Lovett, on the other hand, chilled me slightly more. She didn't need to get involved with killing people. She had no great injustices in her past. She just wanted her pie shop to make money and Sweeney to love her, and was apparently prepared for a huge number of people to get killed and eaten in the process. She was this terrifying example, I think, of the banality of evil, and Helena Bonham Carter played that particularly well.
Elsewhere, there was gossip on role playing games, computer games, and Doctor Who*, which was all geeky but fun, and I had an entire conversation withbadgersandjam which I don't think I've done before.
We finally left for home a little bit before midnight and got home a little bit before 1 am, which made me happy.
On a totally different note, my brain is not being a very well behaved place at the moment. I'm aware that there is nothing hideously wrong in my life, but I'm finding that I'm suffering from insomnia, feel tired all the time during the day, and find it very easy to panic about things. I'm trying to figure out what is bothering me, but I fear it may just be brain chemistry being daft, so be a little gentle with me over the next week or so!
*On that note, I found a load of discussions about racism in Doctor Who here which I thoughtbecky_spence, and maybe some other folk would find interesting.
unifex's birthday, and so I drove up (with assorted housemates in tow) to Hatfield, bearing chocolate, cake, and robotic fish for James. We got there, met with the myriad of other people who had also come to celebrate his Getting Old Day, and lo! It was good.There was dim sum, and then there was Sweeney Todd, which was a fabulous film. I'm prepared to concede that it wasn't perfect, but as acid drenched gothic pantomimes go, it was pretty good fun.
I'm left pondering which of Sweeney and Mrs Lovett was the greater monster. Sweeney, on the surface, seemed to be the worst. There was no softness or gentleness in him - just this brutal lust for blood and revenge. Mrs Lovett, on the other hand, chilled me slightly more. She didn't need to get involved with killing people. She had no great injustices in her past. She just wanted her pie shop to make money and Sweeney to love her, and was apparently prepared for a huge number of people to get killed and eaten in the process. She was this terrifying example, I think, of the banality of evil, and Helena Bonham Carter played that particularly well.
Elsewhere, there was gossip on role playing games, computer games, and Doctor Who*, which was all geeky but fun, and I had an entire conversation with
badgersandjam which I don't think I've done before. We finally left for home a little bit before midnight and got home a little bit before 1 am, which made me happy.
On a totally different note, my brain is not being a very well behaved place at the moment. I'm aware that there is nothing hideously wrong in my life, but I'm finding that I'm suffering from insomnia, feel tired all the time during the day, and find it very easy to panic about things. I'm trying to figure out what is bothering me, but I fear it may just be brain chemistry being daft, so be a little gentle with me over the next week or so!
*On that note, I found a load of discussions about racism in Doctor Who here which I thought
becky_spence, and maybe some other folk would find interesting.
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Date: 2008-02-03 11:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-03 01:47 pm (UTC)I'm having pretty much the same at the moment. I'm currently blaming it on a vague, unfocused dread of February, but may revise that opinion after I start my new job tomorrow. *fear*
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Date: 2008-02-03 08:03 pm (UTC)It may not be anything major, but the combination of minor things can spark it off.
:o) *hugs*
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Date: 2008-02-04 12:54 am (UTC)February does seem to be looming particularly ominously this year tho...
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Date: 2008-02-04 12:56 am (UTC)Three and a bit years back I had a horrible patch where I felt as if I was going to pieces with anxiety - panic attacks all over the place, bursting into big floods of tears every day - it was horrible.
I'm a lot better now, but I'm quite scared of going back there.
It's weird how lots of little things are actually worse than one big thing, isn't it?
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Date: 2008-02-04 07:08 am (UTC)It's also the reluctance to go face it which is terrible. I'm up, I'm dressed and all I need to do is eat something, but, I'm stalling.
Lots of little things mount up and aren't dealt with, big issues you can identify, recognise and attempt to deal with it. Small problems tend to slip under the radar, because, well, they are just little right?