Miscellany
Monday, December 20th, 2004 19:55![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeAt the weekend I went to see "Napoleon Dynamite", which was fantastically weird. Napoleon was incredibly uncoordinated and gormless looking with a shambling run and I don't know how the actor playing his friend Pedro managed to keep his eyes so dead throughout the whole film. My favourite character was Deb with her ski-pants and side-ponytail and her money-making activities. The film description on the Broadway web-site says to make sure you stay for the post-credit sequence, so I did but the curtain went down the moment the credits finished. According to imdb, the post-credit sequence should be of Kip's wedding to his Internet girlfriend La-Fawnduh. So that was annoying - I have e-mailed Broadway to ask what happened to it.
I also saw "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events". At one point you could hear all the little kids in the audience asking their parents what a realtor was, which was amusing. They obviously haven't seen enough US TV to know that realtor is Americanese for estate agent. The film looked wonderful and that, together with Jude Law's Lemony Snicket commentary is what makes the film something out of the ordinary. I also liked the paper cut-out animation of the children's adventures during the end credits. I haven't read any of the books, so I can't really comment on how well it was adapted for the screen, but it seemed a bit rushed, so maybe three books to one film was too many.
Everyone at work has terrible colds, bad enough to take time off work (which I normally think is totally pathetic and wimpy if all you have is a cold). Mine started with a cold for one week, then 10 days ago developed into an extremely bad cough. On Wednesday I went home form work sick in the late morning as I was incredibly hot with a bad sinus headache, while N followed my example a couple of hours later, as she felt incredibly cold and ill. My cough seems to be getting a bit better now, as the coughs are still enormous phlemgy rumbling affairs, but they are less frequent.
I moved desks again this weekend and now I am back in the same building as the majority of my department. I went up to see some of my friends and found that they still have a weighing scales on the floor by their desks. It seems that Tub Club (an unofficial weight loss and weight maintenance club) is still going, so I have joined up again, at the cost of £2 towards the price of the scales. I did my initial weigh-in, which was just about as bad as I thought, but when they sent me the link to the spreadsheet, I was depressed to notice that my weight is exactly the same, to the very pound, as when Tub Club was originally launched in January 2002. And that was after Christmas, so I am going to have to be extremely good over the holidays. I blame the stressful and depressing project that I was working on for the last two years - who can concentrate on diet on exercise when all they can face doing when they get home from work is eating comfort food and watching television?
I also saw "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events". At one point you could hear all the little kids in the audience asking their parents what a realtor was, which was amusing. They obviously haven't seen enough US TV to know that realtor is Americanese for estate agent. The film looked wonderful and that, together with Jude Law's Lemony Snicket commentary is what makes the film something out of the ordinary. I also liked the paper cut-out animation of the children's adventures during the end credits. I haven't read any of the books, so I can't really comment on how well it was adapted for the screen, but it seemed a bit rushed, so maybe three books to one film was too many.
Everyone at work has terrible colds, bad enough to take time off work (which I normally think is totally pathetic and wimpy if all you have is a cold). Mine started with a cold for one week, then 10 days ago developed into an extremely bad cough. On Wednesday I went home form work sick in the late morning as I was incredibly hot with a bad sinus headache, while N followed my example a couple of hours later, as she felt incredibly cold and ill. My cough seems to be getting a bit better now, as the coughs are still enormous phlemgy rumbling affairs, but they are less frequent.
I moved desks again this weekend and now I am back in the same building as the majority of my department. I went up to see some of my friends and found that they still have a weighing scales on the floor by their desks. It seems that Tub Club (an unofficial weight loss and weight maintenance club) is still going, so I have joined up again, at the cost of £2 towards the price of the scales. I did my initial weigh-in, which was just about as bad as I thought, but when they sent me the link to the spreadsheet, I was depressed to notice that my weight is exactly the same, to the very pound, as when Tub Club was originally launched in January 2002. And that was after Christmas, so I am going to have to be extremely good over the holidays. I blame the stressful and depressing project that I was working on for the last two years - who can concentrate on diet on exercise when all they can face doing when they get home from work is eating comfort food and watching television?
