What sort of week has it been?
Apr. 6th, 2008 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookzombieWell, a very busy one! Two long rehearsals plus the monthly trip to Oxford, plus some long working days on top of that. It's also been another one of those weeks when I've been very tired by the time I got home and so having some extra naps!
The work reorganisation has now taken place and I have a new line manager. He is someone I have worked with a lot over the last few years and I will be interested in seeing how he performs as a line manager. Watch this space. I also had my annual appraisal, which went about as well as could be expected (good at the things I'm good at, need to work at the things that don't come so naturally to me - all fairly obvious really).
For those who were puzzled by my slightly enigmatic Facebook status updates this week, I was supposed to get my new company car on Tuesday, but alas it arrived at the dealers with scratched paint work which they had to get repaired. This is fair enough: the annoying part was that it took two hours of telephone calls and waiting to find out that this is why it hadn't turned up. Communication is a lovely thing...
Other than that: we've had some updates from Matt andddothill in Tokyo and they seem to have been enjoying themselves a lot (yes, I am rather envious!). ddothill starts on his way home during the next day and Matt goes on to Australia.
Doctor Who last night was an enjoyable romp, perfectly entertaining without being anything terribly special. Overall I thought Donna was fine, but then I never got why everyone hated her in the Christmas special so much anyway (and, just to make my biases clear, I really dislike Catherine Tate's comedy show stuff). Torchwood was generally a much-improved show over last year (but I wish the show runners could get this messianic streak out of their systems).
But yesterday's real highlight was the final episode of Cranford on DVD. I understand why this programme got such plaudits: beautifully filmed and acted, sometimes bordering on sentimental but also quite brutal in its portrayal of the risks of living in such a time. I spent a fair part of the episode with a lump in my throat...
So a reasonably good but busy week. More of the same in the next week I suspect...
The work reorganisation has now taken place and I have a new line manager. He is someone I have worked with a lot over the last few years and I will be interested in seeing how he performs as a line manager. Watch this space. I also had my annual appraisal, which went about as well as could be expected (good at the things I'm good at, need to work at the things that don't come so naturally to me - all fairly obvious really).
For those who were puzzled by my slightly enigmatic Facebook status updates this week, I was supposed to get my new company car on Tuesday, but alas it arrived at the dealers with scratched paint work which they had to get repaired. This is fair enough: the annoying part was that it took two hours of telephone calls and waiting to find out that this is why it hadn't turned up. Communication is a lovely thing...
Other than that: we've had some updates from Matt and
ddothill in Tokyo and they seem to have been enjoying themselves a lot (yes, I am rather envious!). ddothill starts on his way home during the next day and Matt goes on to Australia.Doctor Who last night was an enjoyable romp, perfectly entertaining without being anything terribly special. Overall I thought Donna was fine, but then I never got why everyone hated her in the Christmas special so much anyway (and, just to make my biases clear, I really dislike Catherine Tate's comedy show stuff). Torchwood was generally a much-improved show over last year (but I wish the show runners could get this messianic streak out of their systems).
But yesterday's real highlight was the final episode of Cranford on DVD. I understand why this programme got such plaudits: beautifully filmed and acted, sometimes bordering on sentimental but also quite brutal in its portrayal of the risks of living in such a time. I spent a fair part of the episode with a lump in my throat...
So a reasonably good but busy week. More of the same in the next week I suspect...
