Yup, so it’s been a while. You may have noticed that my last entry was just a Katy Perry video. There was initially a 3000-odd word post accompanying it, inclduing an explanation for the video, but mostly about an all-girls training day that we had on the ice. Then I deleted it my accident and got so fed up that I couldn’t be arsed rewriting it. There is, however, a different version that I wrote for the company’s website if you are so inclined. Just replace all instances of ‘Team G’ with ‘Team V’ (marketing didn’t like the vagina references) and try to imagine the ‘V wings’ that my boss asked if he’d earned yet.
The last few months (!) have been full of stuff and yet seemingly uneventful. My 101 in 1001 finished recently, which probably warrants a post in itself, but I got quite a few things crossed off my list in the last couple of months. I got my Learner’s licence (3 months till I can sit my restricted), bought a car, finished reading all of Jane Austen (especially liked Mansfield Park, watched the version that I had on DVD soon after which I wasn’t overly impressed with. It had Billie Piper (who I usually like) as Fanny Price, but I don’t think she played her diffident enough. Also not enough time on Fanny’s childhood. Any recommendations for good versions?)
Without reading the list (because I CBA) I can’t think of any other major ones but will write a whole post on it, maybe with a new list, soon.
Am currently reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which The Norwegian (aka Samson) lent me aaages ago and am still only 200 (of over 500) words through. It’s cool when Victor Hugo’s talking about Quasimodo and Esmerelda and the story’s actually happening, but then he will spend more than 30 pages describing what Paris looked like from the air in 1482, which, for me, doesn’t really add much to the story! I feel like Alice before she falls into Wonderland: ‘And what is the use of a book without pictures or conversation?’
Oh well! I can add it to my list when I’m finished. I am enjoying it in general.
What I am not enjoying at the moment is the flu. I should have known better than to spend four nights out at The Norwegian’s house last week when he had it, but the time away from Franz and hanging out with him was worth it. We planned on going skiing but then the snowpocalypse happened and all the fields were closed. Instead we enjoyed the sunshine that was deigning to shine on us here on the Coast (do you know how often it happens that the rest of the country is being meteorologically vomited upon, and it’s beautifully sunny here? Not very) and went for a wander (aka epic bushbash) up the back of town one day. There were track markers but we kept following the wrong ones, so it took us a bit longer that it otherwise might have. The view from the top was worth it though!
It does mean time off work, though. There hasn’t been much of that going around lately – it’s been a pretty quiet winter but because a lot of people left we’re still short-staffed. I’m hoping to get some time off in November once all the Noobs have started so I can go and visit the fair and flattened city of Christchurch. I managed to get a couple of extra days off last week which was good but not really enough to recharge the batteries.
Have been going to pub quiz pretty regularly this winter, with varying success. Last night was our best showing in a while – got third, mainly because the reigning champions were absent. The time before that we came 11th out of 12 o.O
OK that’s it for now, need to empty some more space in my head. Off skiing tomorrow for the first time since I was 15. I’ll be quite happy if I remain unbroken by the end of it!
Au Revoir x

