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Oct. 18th, 2005 09:22 pmThings I have done in the past week, catching up on LJ and email not among them.
I have seen Serenity. And I loved it. Not entirely sure I enjoyed it; damn sure we were the only three hardcore fans in the cinema, what with the amount of times we sat bolt upright in our seats and went "NO!" at the screen. 'Twas amusing, except not.
I have caught up on my sleep. More or less. Mostly less.
Spent a very nice weekend with HelsinkBoyfriend which was way too short. Did the open top bus tour of Dublin thing on Saturday, wandered through Temple Bar and went out for dinner; aside from that just stayed near to home and caught up. Nice to spend some actual time together. Cons are fantastic fun and it's great to see everyone there and all, but when it comes to spending time with your fella, not so much!
Monday night, I came home from school with a sore throat, dosed myself on Disprin and went into Dublin to the Keith Urban concert. Which rocked. He played all my favourites (except Blacktop, and yes I'm bitter!) and I swore I would neither scream nor sing, a resolution which lasted all of one song, and really disappeared altogether by the time we got done with a fairly rousing rendition of You Look Good in My Shirt. The man knows how to work a crowd, can play a guitar like no-one's business, and damn, but he's pretty! And he threw in a cover of Jolene in the middle of one of the songs...since that's one of the songs that Marwan and the lads tend to walk around at cons singing my name to, I think we can all agree that that was a personal shout out, and he was singing it to me, yes? (Comments saying no will be met with instant defriending)
Otherwise, have just been cracking down on the kids, stomping on them for the most minor of infractions. Literally stopped an Irish lesson dead last week, threw down my book, told them all to put everything away, handed them out a good old fill-in-the-blanks and did so much shouting in the doing of that that they didn't move. After which I went around three or four of them and physically sorted out the desks in front of them (which looked like the bomb had dropped on them) and ordering them to keep them clean in future. And they have. Two of them (SatanChild and HomeworkDodgingSmartAssChild) are not on HelsinkiPrincipal Watch, and sitting right under my nose, where I'm keeping a sharp eye on them... I figure if I keep this up for the next two weeks, through to mid-term break, they should have got it into their heads that they need to behave a little better. Hating going in like a bitch, but by jingo, they need it.
Took the notion to re-read Rilla of Ingleside yesterday. *sigh&sniff* I feel a re-reading of the series coming on now.
I'm looking at all the people who have signed up for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
au100 and crossovers100 -- I'm feeling very tempted. And yet, the idea of (a)signing up and (b) picking a fandom has me all a-dither. Thoughts? Suggestions?
I have seen Serenity. And I loved it. Not entirely sure I enjoyed it; damn sure we were the only three hardcore fans in the cinema, what with the amount of times we sat bolt upright in our seats and went "NO!" at the screen. 'Twas amusing, except not.
I have caught up on my sleep. More or less. Mostly less.
Spent a very nice weekend with HelsinkBoyfriend which was way too short. Did the open top bus tour of Dublin thing on Saturday, wandered through Temple Bar and went out for dinner; aside from that just stayed near to home and caught up. Nice to spend some actual time together. Cons are fantastic fun and it's great to see everyone there and all, but when it comes to spending time with your fella, not so much!
Monday night, I came home from school with a sore throat, dosed myself on Disprin and went into Dublin to the Keith Urban concert. Which rocked. He played all my favourites (except Blacktop, and yes I'm bitter!) and I swore I would neither scream nor sing, a resolution which lasted all of one song, and really disappeared altogether by the time we got done with a fairly rousing rendition of You Look Good in My Shirt. The man knows how to work a crowd, can play a guitar like no-one's business, and damn, but he's pretty! And he threw in a cover of Jolene in the middle of one of the songs...since that's one of the songs that Marwan and the lads tend to walk around at cons singing my name to, I think we can all agree that that was a personal shout out, and he was singing it to me, yes? (Comments saying no will be met with instant defriending)
Otherwise, have just been cracking down on the kids, stomping on them for the most minor of infractions. Literally stopped an Irish lesson dead last week, threw down my book, told them all to put everything away, handed them out a good old fill-in-the-blanks and did so much shouting in the doing of that that they didn't move. After which I went around three or four of them and physically sorted out the desks in front of them (which looked like the bomb had dropped on them) and ordering them to keep them clean in future. And they have. Two of them (SatanChild and HomeworkDodgingSmartAssChild) are not on HelsinkiPrincipal Watch, and sitting right under my nose, where I'm keeping a sharp eye on them... I figure if I keep this up for the next two weeks, through to mid-term break, they should have got it into their heads that they need to behave a little better. Hating going in like a bitch, but by jingo, they need it.
Took the notion to re-read Rilla of Ingleside yesterday. *sigh&sniff* I feel a re-reading of the series coming on now.
I'm looking at all the people who have signed up for
au100 and crossovers100 -- I'm feeling very tempted. And yet, the idea of (a)signing up and (b) picking a fandom has me all a-dither. Thoughts? Suggestions?
