All Shall Love Me and Despair

My former coworker (he was in IT here until the end of last year) who joined us at the LotR showing/concert Saturday has read the "Sword of Truth" books that Legend of the Seeker is based on, and is watching the series, so we've been sending a few mails back and forth this morning on that subject. From his reply to my question if the Mord Sith appear in the books (rough translation, sorry):

The Mord Sith have a rather important role in the second part of the first book. ( small cut due to plot spoiler )

There's lots of torture and sex. ;-)

ROTFL!!! I didn't say anything about particularly enjoying those scenes in my e-mails! So what gave me away - was it the fact that Darken Rahl is my favourite character? Or was it something shirasade and I said on Saturday? *snigger*

when I would wake up most mornings* - certainly on weekends - feeling refreshed and fairly energetic...



*meaning "the time when I wake get up", which on weekends would by most others be called "noon"

I don't remember ever having been this socially active! This month I've had a spontaneous dinner at my former office mate's (together with my sister); the goodbye dinner for one of the project managers in our team at our boss's place; pumpkin soup dinner at the other project manager's place; and yesterday an even more spontaneous dinner - one of our illustrators who had been away for a couple of weeks invited us when she came to the office yesterday morning. Her birthday is on 29th December, but she'll soon go on holiday for two months (Canada/USA), so this was kind of an early 30th birthday party. It was fun, despite the 20 minute walk up the hill in freezing cold to reach the place. At least I had company, so time went by more quickly, and I was able to hitch a ride home.

( Otherwise... )

Of course this all has taken up a lot of time, therefore I've only been skimming/scanning my flist and also been rather neglectful about replying to comments. So I'm not ignoring you guys. :)

But now I have to get back to work. Laters!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ia94c7ef2006ea33d330903986e9722c8

Cue the William Tell Overture.

Justin Chadwick has signed on to helm "Ironbow: The Legend of William Tell" for Spyglass.

The William Tell legend centers on a crossbow marksman who, when he would not bow to Austrian rule, was forced to shoot an apple off his son's head in exchange for freedom. ( Read more... )

Wilhelm Tell by an American screenwriter - I'm not holding out for historical accuracy. Not that I don't think Tell's story, if he really existed, wasn't built up to much more than it was, but with regards to the period and the landscape etc. And the title - omg please! *eyeroll* Well, whatever - I never heard/saw more than casual mentions of the 2007 version so no doubt this will also pretty much go under my radar in the end. If I were more patriotic this might actually concern me. ;)

Can I leave work now please? *whines* I've not slept too quietly since sometime last week, not even on the weekend, so energy and consequently motivation is rather low right now. Doesn't really help that things are so quiet at the office, what with most of our team being on a business trip/on holiday (boss), or not working here on Mondays (part-timers).

Just need to keep telling myself that it's only today and tomorrow, then I'm off for a week...

Still without internet at home since I'm having problems with getting it to work, though at least the new harddisc is mounted and Windows installed. Won't have time to fiddle with it tonight either since we have a team dinner, sort of a goodbye affair for one of our project managers who's transferring internally to another team at our other office near Zurich. She'll still be here until about mid November, but will be absent a lot, hence we're doing this now in case there's no other occasion later.

Saturday I went out for pizza with my best friend and a friend of hers who's joined us before, occasionally. After a brief stop at my flat due to being finished too early to go on, we went to a club that we knew from waaaay back, but which has been closed for some years. They're not letting in anyone under 20 - hooray, no kindergarten! The music was pretty good so we got to dance some, and we had lots of fun and laughter, part of which thanks to one of the IT guys from my workplace who we already knew from our going-out-regularly times, and who's very cheeky. It's been ages since we did anything like this, so it was really great.

Weather is blah - we got lots of rain over the weekend and higher up some snow, down to a little lower than the treeline, though thank goodness not down in the valley as was predicted. Still, it's pretty cool. Autumn's definitely arrived!

Anyway - work! Hopefully I'll soon be back online at home!



PS: This is SO well deserved!!! If you haven't seen the film yet, do try and get it on DVD - it's out in several countries. It's not an easy entertainment kind of film, but it's very well done with great performances all around. Congratulations to Karl and the whole team!

So how does ODQ spend her weekend when totally computerless?

( Saturday )


( Sunday )

I guess that's about it - I know there were one or two other things I thought I'd have to mention, but obviously have slipped my mind. Can't be that important then! ;)

snagged from samena

My usual personality type result (INFP) with a slightly different interpretation... :)

( The Brutally Honest Personality Test )

Argh, I hate feeling as not-feeling-like-anything as I do now! Typical first-day-of-my-period day... I could watch the last episode of Return to Treasure Island. I could continue reading "Babylon Babies" or one of the non-fiction books I'm currently working my way through. I could read some of the fan fics I'm behind with. I could watch some of the other stuff I've had piling up for a while (like the Torchwood finale). I could go take a bath. I could decide to take one of the aforementioned books and snuggle up in bed with it and a hot water bottle. But of course I don't feel like any of that, and while I'm not particularly energetic, I'm not really sleepy either! Plus even though I didn't eat that much dinner, it's still lying heavy in my stomach. *rolls eyes* Tomorrow better be back to normal again!

Can anyone point me to a website with special, beautiful notebooks/journals? I need one that is around A4/letter size (bigger is better) with blank pages, but boy is that difficult! I've seen some gorgeous ones on eBay but of course they're either smaller than I need, or if the size is right then the pages are lined! Obviously they'd also need to ship to Switzerland.

Thanks!

No that's not an exploitation film or a whacky Hollywood comedy, but a documentary about two girls who joined the Black Tigers, the elite squad of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) a.k.a. Tamil Tigers. ( Rest behind cut because it's not very cheerful )


In more cheerful news, I got hailed on on the short way from the closest bus stop to home, and my thin silk skirt was thoroughly soaked and clung to my legs by the time I reached the door. I'm not complaining though - this is just another sign that IT'S SUMMER!!! \o/

Oh and I believe I forgot to mention that I'll have a two-week holiday from 7 July on. FINALLY!!! \o/ Speaking of which, the third and last volume of my "Serenity: Better Days" comic did arrive at the end of last week. Phew! Now I hope that my copy of "Shadow's Return" will get here soon... of course the slight delay in shipment was my own fault because I had forgotten to update my credit card's expiration date, although I was convinced I'd done it for all pre-ordered items... Duh!