Random jottings

[bookzombie]

Despite only being a three-day working week, it still managed to be rather busy, and of course, stressful. You know, work would be so much better if just once in a while we had a day that wasn't completely frantic. I work in the IT department of a Yellow Pages company (in the UK of course, theYellow Pages company), for goodness sake; it's not like we are fighting fires or running the country or anything! Sigh.

On Thursday we had the first complete run through of My Fair Lady which went pretty well. Still a few rocky bits but nothing we can't sort in the next couple of weeks. I am cautiously optimistic.

The evening was slightly soured by passing a young lad in a hoodie who was standing in the middle of the road on the way back into Whitchurch. As we passed we noticed that he had blood running down his arm, so a quick telephone call to the police followed. We haven't heard anything since so I must assume he is okay. In retrospect we should have stopped, but my brain was really not engaged by that time.

Yesterday morning ended up being interesting. Just before I got to the A34/M4 roundabout I ran over a piece of metal debris in the road. A few seconds later my front left tyre was making interesting clunking noises. Luckily there is a service station right next to the roundabout so I was able to stick the spare tyre on and drive back home (the spare is one of those 'do not drive more than 80kph jobs). Tyre is now sorted!

And last night realised that Doctor Who has become truly mainstream when Mitch Benn sings a song on The Now Show about hoping Manchester United will win quickly tonight so that DW is not postponed until next week!

Comments

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure he's made references before though I'm not sure whether this has made it as far as a song (brisingamen may remember). Think of him as a less hairy Bill Bailey. He's probably reading Iain M Banks between songs.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

He and Neil Gaiman did stunned mutual admiration which Neil wrote about on his blog.

Also, next week's Radiotimes shows Rooney (Wayne, not Micky I believe) as a Dr Who monster. On the grounds that his footballing skills or lack thereof could cause problems!

[kicking-k.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think Doctor Who is mainstream. My husband'll watch it, and he usually distances himself from those of my enthusiasms he considers geeky (most of them, alas).