working on it

Bah - work screwed up 1) everyone's tax payments so we all got screwed for a £200+ extra tax bill this month and 2) my individual wage and overpaid me £260 too much last month, so took it back this month with no warning (We all got paid a random amount of many months backpay last month, no one had any expectation of what we were getting, and all got slightly different amounts, so there was no way that I realised this) - so this month's wagepack is almost £500 down. - Thank goodness for overdraft facilities :(

I continue to giggle inappropriately - once today when complaining to HR about the above - (I feel this may have undermined the assertiveness of my complaint about the 'no warning ' thing. And again when talking to the Help desk after I had locked myself out of my computer by incorrectly entering my password 3times. - G whispered that they would ask me what my password was (it was "Starsky'sBum!") and I realised I couldn't possibly tell them that - I told them I had locked myself out and the stern IT man was going "And that's funny is it?" oops. I think I'm bordering on hysteria at the moment - and G isn't helping. When I was on the phone to HR he was doing Mickey Mouse Tiny Tim/Scrooge quotes, and behaving generally very badly.

Oh and we had a nest of tables appear in our waiting room this morning - by tonight they had been stolen!

I did do some positive work in between all this unprofessionalism, some Court reports, and Risk assessments. I do do some work.

Although my Starsky& Hutch dolls arrived today, so I was a little distracted!

I received a fab packet of cuttings from Japan, and thought I'd share them with those of my flist who can see the beauty in the boys (and don't compare Starsky to The Hoff < you know who you are! )

Anyway - whilst I am not an authority on the pics, there are some here that may not have been seen widely outside of Japan. ( And there's one of PMG that is so beautiful I melted.. can you guess which it is )

Phew! - Image heavy.

there were loads more, not such good quality, plus what appears to be a season 4 episode breakdown, plus interviews etc - all in Japanese of course. But the pretty makes up for that!

Everyone who came to see me today was depressed (I don't think there was a cause and effect going on there!). It's been a hard day. I also had to drive for an hour to go and listen to a sex offender justify his offences for two hours, and then more depression and, well pah to that. Got back so late from work though that I missed all the trick or treaters!

I was very proactive today though - 'phoned my insurance company and told them I would leave them if they didn't match my lowest quote - they dropped £70 off price just like that. (which just shows how overpriced it was to start with I suppose, but it gave me a sense of achievement!)

My 'People' magazine arrived today (yup eBay rides again!) - all about DS and his arrest - I am suprised at the level of information they gave to a magazine - details of the abuse etc. It's made e more intrigued then ever to read his biog. - It's fascinating reading some of the 'insight' the article around the interview has - comparing it with the work I do now, and the approach that we take.

ack. Nother busy day ahead...

well then:

My last two nights have been eaten reading "Total Eclipse" - and I spent best part of today thinking about it in between - I was warned it was an .. involving read, and the author clearly worships Starsky's bum as much as I do!

kimberlyfdr - you made me cry! I watched your vid 'Used to Somebody' - and you made me cry. Love the concept, the use of Older DS, and oh. And I mean proper tears!

Hmm, This is an entirely Starsky & Hutch oriented update (for a change!) -

I joined a yahoo SH list, after a story was recommended that was only accessible via this list. And well, I don't know if I have been spoiled by LJ, and you know, people talking in a civil manner to each other(!) but it is terrifying! Somehow I get email notification everytime somebody posts, and it is certainly an active list. But.. well have I just come to it at a bad time, or is it always so full of animosity? I tend to delete without reading now - there are 84 in there from today alone, and I think perhaps 8 of them have been friendly sharing of info as opposed to argument. The last one I read talked about what an elitist, exclusive and unfriendly world LJ was... Don't get me wrong, I'm quite happy with debate and disaggreement, but oh my.

More tears: Reading Elizabeth Glaser's book - I'm finding it stunning. I'm of the age where AIDS was being discovered as I grew up, went through all the rumours and the scare tactic advertisements and government warnings etc, but I guess I'm that little too young to remember the very very first days. EG's tale of being abandoned by friends and barred from schools is horrifying. I'm trying to remember the dates and I don't know if it was just ignored in the UK in the early days, or if we had a better reaction - I certainly remember AIDS being featured as a storyline in 1985/1986 soap Eastenders and it being compassionately dealth with. I don't know. It's a terrifying read, and heartbreaking. I was weeping at work as I read of Ari's death. It goes beyond comprehension. I spent time in the early 90s volunteering at London Lighthouse, I guess I managed to blot out how v. badly people were treated prior to that.

hmm.. you know how things seem a good idea at the time..

I thought I would print off a fic to read, because I had heard it was long and didn't know if I could face sitting at pc for the hundred hours it would take... You know when you get to that point where you realise that this was a bad idea, but now you've started you kinda gotta finish...

I have just used a ream of paper and a cartridge and a half of ink!

Got some mobile reading to do tho!

Phew.

( I just watched Starsky Vs Hutch )

wibble.

Ulp! Well here it is - the sequel to my previous woe filled tale: here

Fandom: Starsky & Hutch
Pairing: Starsky & Hutch (no, really?)
Disclaimer thing: Not Mine!
Rating: There's a swear or two..
A/N: This is the sequel, there is not so much woe - though some remains of course... I think there is going to be a next bit too..

(I can't remember what else goes in the headings!)

Thanks VERY muchly to kimberlyfdr who done a stonkingly good (and stonkingly quick!) Beta for me x

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Well.

Our computers crashed today - and were down till 4.00pm. After I tidied, filed and disposed of everything in sight I sat like a zombie waiting for something to happen. Hardly anyone was in, I had no one to talk too, and a shedload of work that I could not do.

Also, I'd sent some fic to work to edit at lunchtime and couldn't even do that.

I came home and cooked a manktastic tea, and settled down to watch Starsky & Hutch to cheer myself.

Dandruff.

:(

This disgruntled me because I just didn't get it. It just seemed so clumsy and laboured. They normally do funny so well... Also disgruntled because I had written a snippet/happy fic, using Tyrone and Marlene from Huggy & the Turkey, and this ep kinda naffed it up! (How dare canon get in the way of my fic!). I will post it anyway, just getting final edits done.

My sequelesque thing is being read over (by me) before I inflict it on a beta. I will post them eventually.

Bed I suppose. One good thing about the naffed computers today, as I am now so far behind in my work I have evaded the dull as dishwater training I was due to suffer through tomorrow!

So, who can tell me why, when I told reception that I was very busy today and *wouldn't* be taking calls, I spent the day picking up the 'phone to: "I know you said you couldn't be disturbed, but...."
over, and over and over again!

grr.

an then I had to go shopping - I HATE on grocery shopping like upon an very evil thing. And I always go when I'm hungry and desperate. I buy things on a whim, and then two weeks later throw it away, out of date and untouched. having bought a filled roll at the bakery everyday because I'm too disorganised to make lunch. Today though I bought pickled silverskin onions in balsamic vinegar.. oh and beetroot and salad stuff - very seasonal! I hate shopping. Oh and I bought Tesco's finest baclava 'cos they lookd pretty (I should confess, if it is possible to buy *anything* in a minature version I'm suckered. whatever it is, if it's little and cutesey I have to have it -even mini 50p packs of plasticy wafer thin ham (that I won't give house room in a full size pack - I fed it to the cats, but still had to buy it. can we spell MUG?) I didn't like the baclave either..

I watched (of course) more Starsky & Hutch - and have now finished season 3 (trembles a little in fear and angst)
eps: Partners? HATED. ok, so I know it had all the pretty clips from previous eps, and a little bit of emotion arund each one. but I do NOT BELIEVE (having not seen season 4 yet!) that Hutch would be so spiteful, especially not in the face of the stories/memories Starsky was telling him. Nor would he be nasty to Huggy and Dobey. Why would he? They'd done nothing to him. Nope. Did. not. like.
Quadrowotsit - the cab driver one - glorious moment when Starsky's bum seemed to take full and beautiful centre stage... and the last one, deckwatch I think - This was very good. Tense and felt different. static and tension and very absorbing. Plus the tag was so very ds&pmg...

I have been in 6 shops now, when I have intended to buy a nailfile, and every time I have forgotton. I bite my nails normally see, but every so often they creep up on me and get long,and when that happens I try and be ladylike for a while and keep them....

ladylike! - yeah right! :)