I just watched Armstrong and Miller on Jonathan Ross from last night and it’s back on 16th October. So there’ll be a double dose of Alexander Armstrong on Friday nights and a lot less chance of me not laughing at Mr Smith in SJA.

Rather than talk about how crap I feel today after the fun I had yesterday at work, I thought I’d talk about what DVDs I want to buy. I have trouble with buying DVDs because I constantly tell myself I can’t afford them and spend all my money on books instead. Which isn’t a bad thing in itself, but does mean that I the list of DVDs I want constantly gets bigger. So six months ago I decided I was allowed to spend up to £10 a month on DVDs. Consequently I now have Red Dwarf I-VI, Doctor Who: The Green Death, The Princess Bride and Harry Potter: The Order of the Phoenix. And have spent October’s budget…

But still, here’s what else is on my list: Read more…

Today, or yesterday depending on how you count it, I’ve been ill for seven months.

Things I have been doing:

Watched Generation Kill, which turned out to be surprisingly good. After seven episodes I can name seven characters, which is pretty good going (Ray, Trombley, Reporter, Brad, LT, Captain America (who I recognise from somewhere but can’t work out where), Godfather). Plus there’s also the bloke that wears glasses who lost his helmet. There may or may not have been other speaking characters, I got a bit confused – they all dress the same, it doesn’t help!

I finished v2 of my Sarah and Harry ficathon story. So I have a draft or two to go and it will be about 5000 words. Handily, the SG Rare Pairings ficathon starts up once that’s done and I’m hoping there will be some Jack/Elizabeth prompts for me to write (and I’ll be leaving some, just as soon as I work out what). Then there’ll be Yuletide and I so want to add Teachers to the list of fandoms. And after one episode of Merlin I want to request Gaius & Merlin again.

I’m meeting Avon on Sunday, yay!

I have a new shower. It’s cunningly fitted into the corner of the bath so if you want to stand under it you have to stand on the bit of the bath that starts going upwards. So I take it down – which required me to take the shower head off so I could get it out from the middle of the soap dish so it would actually stretch far enough to shower with, and to rinse the bath with.

There really isn’t anything else at all going on in my life at the moment. Just lots of things I want to do.

It’s been a weekend of thrills, excitement, hope, nervousness, patriotism, doubt and ultimately relegation. Yes, it’s been a weekend filled with British tennis. It’s really depressing when you think that we put our best men in there and couldn’t beat Poland, yet the Spanish B team still won their semi-final match. I think maybe we deserve to be down in Group II for being shit at tennis. Apart from Andy Murray and one man does not make a team.

In other news, there is no other news. I just really can’t be bothered this weekend and I’ve had a weekend of mostly just sleeping and watching the tennis.

I am so bored. It’s not lack of things to do, it’s not being able to do things I want to do. It’s a really nice day outside with sunshine and blue sky and probably getting quite warm by now. I’d love to go and do something active, but the best I can really do is a slow walk to the shops and back again and then I’ll need a lie down afterwards. But I want to play on the Wii and go swimming and go off somewhere on the train since the station is so close. But I can’t do any of those things.

Instead I’ve taken a load of people off my LJ friends list, mostly because they didn’t post and it’s not as if there aren’t other ways of reading my friends locked posts on the rare occasions that I make them. I can’t remember when the last one was. I added people on Twitter, though, on the basis that I play with them in TR regularly so I feel like I ought to know them a bit. I did add loads of people before but it was just too much to keep up with, so I am keeping the numbers of people I’m following on Twitter down for the moment.

The most exciting thing I’ve done all week was yesterday when I got my hair cut and bought some coconut ice from the olde sweet shop that’s new in town. And then found my shower didn’t work when it came to washing my hair… I need to phone my landlord but can’t quite work up the enthusiasm. It doesn’t help that my letter from the estate agents with his name and number just gives his first initial and last name and I failed to write down his first name. I might be able to remember it except that his first initial and last name are exactly the same as someone at work, so all I can remember is that his first name isn’t the same…

It’s been an… uneven week this week I think. But I am up to 2000 words in my Sarah & Harry ficathon fic and the high single digits in my first head exercise – which is a big improvement on the two I could manage at the weekend.

I discovered my freeserve account has been deleted. I was about to say it was my first email account, but it wasn’t, because we first had a general family one, that’s now just dad’s, and my second was my uni one. And the third. So it was my fourth email address in fact. I’ve had rather a lot since then…

It’s no good to me anymore anyway, since all I get on it is spam (which I had Gmail filter for me anyway) and I only used it for dial-up access. But Zen, who provide my ADSL, also give you a dial-up account, so I can just use that.

I also haven’t logged into my Gateworld account for a while, so all the emails will have been deleted and I’ll let it delete my account as well, I think. I just used it as a spam trap, so all that happened was that it was full of spam.

These days I filter my main email account through Gmail, so it gets spam checked twice and I rarely get any. Although Gmail likes to randomly decide emails are spam, which is less than helpful… And it would also be nice if hotmail and yahoo would believe my email address isn’t spam. It seems to be universally hated by both of them, which is really annoying.

This week hasn’t been too bad a week. It helped that it was only four days long and working from home Thursday afternoon. Although I spent the whole week confused so I forgot that it was the day I buy the newspaper until Thursday evening. It is all on the website, it’s just such a pain to read that way, I’d far rather have the paper.

This weekend I even felt well enough to clean the flat and go out to Sainsburys, so that’s an achievement. I’d quite like to go out for a walk at some point, as I currently get no exercise. I couldn’t fit that round cleaning, though, but maybe next weekend I’ll do that instead.

I’m onto the head moving exercises, which are really hard. But I knew they were going to be because I already don’t nod or shake my head, and try not to turn round at work when I hear something interesting from behind me.

I am working on watching all the stuff on my PVR so I actually have some space to tape everything that starts this autumn. After having had the prompt for a week I managed to come up with the whole plot for my Sarah & Harry ficathon story. I even started writing it. I seem to be on about 300 words at a time at the moment, which is about half my usual, but will get there in the end as long as I keep up with it.

For some inexplicable reason half the week’s TV is on tonight (Last Chance to See, Miss Marple (who I don’t like as much as Poirot) and Joanna Lumley doing something with cats. And the US Open is on the radio from tomorrow, so hopefully there’ll be lots of exciting tennis to listen to and they’ll get it done quickly because I really can’t stay up late these days.

And now I need to have a lie down so I won’t be too dizzy to cook dinner.

Nearly there now!

40.53 / 50kg (81%)