My own personal rebellion.

[zoetrope]

I'm kind of over this whole being-a-grownup, working-for-a-living thing.

The place I'm working keeps extending my contract which, on the one hand, yay money. On the other hand, I've been looking forward to lazy unemployment for a while now.

I've got three (3!) vid ideas that I want to work on - one of which I have a rough cut of - but I can't do that until I can get away from London and back to my home town where my beautiful computer lives. So all these fun projects are on the back burners for a while, and every time I start counting down to when I'll be able to work on them, the date is pushed back once more.

All this is probably not helped by the fact that, while the place I'm working is perfectly pleasant, no one really goes out of their way to be friendly, so I'm fairly isolated. I sit in this little section of the office on my own, and no one greets me in the morning or invites me out for lunch. And my mental health hasn't been great recently, which is not helped by this enforced isolation. I spend most of my time bugging people via email!

On the other hand, it's awesome being in London and getting to see Juicy and DMJ all the time, and my lovely iPhone now means that I'm no longer feeling stranded without internet at my dad's house.

Also, podfic is my refuge at the moment. It occurred to me today, as I was buying my breakfast, that it feels delightfully subversive to be handing over my £1.20 while listening to a pretty hard-core sex scene. I had to fight from blushing, but I was still pleased. My own personal rebellion. Yay for fandom, slash, and podfic, say I.

I'm more than ready for it to be Christmas already, please, any time now, okay?

Things I've been enjoying recently:

Newsweek's 'Inside the Election 2008' article. Long and fascinating. Good way to kill time at a boring job!

We Feel Fine: An exploration of human emotion, in six movements (but less pretentious than it sounds!)

The Telegraph have a crazy signs section, some of which I think are fake, but many of which are completely hilarious. This is my current fave:

Comments

[rossywar.livejournal.com]

oh, so you don't want to me at all? thanks. :(

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'm sorry. Really it's just J and L because I know they're online most of the day, whereas I assume you're busy with other stuff.

[remote-control.livejournal.com]

It was a bit like that for me in my last job (the enforced isolation thing, not listening to hardcore fic on the way to work) and it was horrible. Here's to lazy unemployment soon, yeah? :)

[khaleesian.livejournal.com]

Hey, I totally hear you on the 'longing for lazy unemployment' front. But I'm kinda distressed to hear about the isolation of your workplace, and on that note, I'm officially inviting you out to lunch...uhm, of course, I have no idea where you work. I'm at Bank stations, i could get anywhere.

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Oh, that would be lovely! I'm in Battersea though, at the moment, which is a nightmare trasport-links-wise. Would love to meet up in the evening some day though - would be great to catch up!

[khaleesian.livejournal.com]

When I get back from the States (post Thanksgiving) we will have schmancy Christmas drinks. I hear Battersea is good for pubs (where isn't?)Still love my icons BTW

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Hee, man, looking at that icon is a blast from the past *g*

Schmancy drinks sound fabulous. After 8th Dec I'll be up and down between home and London, but I'm sure we can coordinate things - I'll hopefully not be in Battersea then, so can come to you! Have a great Thanksgiving :)