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I am knackered, and feel completely pathetic that going back to work after a break has knocked me for six. Particularly since my boss forgot to renew my computer login at work, meaning I couldn't even do very much and got sent home early. /me\ But: I spent my newly freed hours watching The Good Wife, which...

( really, really rocks: I finished up to season 1 ep 13 )

Basically omg, it is probably the smartest and most grownup show on TV right now, especially while waiting for the new season of Mad Men, and it is REALLY GOOD. And this from a show where I heard the name and went "oh, blech". (I still think it's a bad title, but it does make sense in context.)

I also chucked out two biggish bags worth of crap, today. This is, if I can manage it, the Year Of Chucking Shit Out And Getting Shit Sorted. *determined face* But now, sleep.

Am no longer snowed off work, however basically everyone else is. This makes my office Very Fun. (Number of voicemails I had to go through this morning: seventy three. I WISH I WAS KIDDING.) So, because I am tired: telly!

( Being Human is BACK )

QI has made me sad. It's generally such a fun show, but it is supposed to about stuff that is random and interesting and that? Was not interesting. It also was not true, which annoys me more. Who the hell though the boys-v-girls theme was a good idea in the bloody first place? I just. I may try to Write A Letter on the subject when I have had sleep, but at the moment I don't have much to say but that going on about gender like it's the seventies makes me :(. We can do better, people. We can.

Okay, to end on an upnote - one random thing that I thought would make me sad but didn't? Push, the book that Precious is the movie of. It's sometimes difficult to read, and it's veryveryvery definitely not for anyone who might get triggered by descriptions of abuse of pretty much all sorts. But it's not depressing at all: it ends up being all active and making you want to do stuff. I loved it and I suspect the booklog entry on it is going to be Very Long.

I am a happy Katie today! This is because, despite having a loooong week, it is now FRIDAY. And - AND! - I get to have next Wednesday off! This is especially brilliant as otherwise there would be no way I'd get even half a day off until September. Lookit, I get a WHOLE DAY in which I can have some necessary medical appointments and actually go to knitting group and maybe do some shopping or ANYTHING! *boogies*

Seriously, I nearly hugged my boss when she said I could take a day. I was close to being teary with joy. This may be a sign of how goddamn long it's been just me and my colleague holding down the fort at work, or it might be a sign of me being a huge wuss. Or maybe both.

The reason for why I am allowed a day off - my minion showed up yesterday, and seems fine. Although born in 1945, which, okay, shouldn't really be a problem, since she doesn't seem to be suffering particularly from any of the age-related issues which might make doing the job a problem, and also looks about fifty if that so she shouldn't get flack from any of the young people we deal with... but I was utterly petrified she was going to take one look at me and decide there was no way in hell she was taking any orders from a young-looking-24-year-old whippersnapper like me. Especially since she's Asian, and young white chick being the boss of a much older and more experienced Asian woman = POTENTIAL WORLD OF BADNESS.

However, it seems okay. She seems pretty skilled and serious about the job, and I am going with a policy of "just be as un-micromanagey as you can be while still making sure whatever it is that needs doing has actually been done" and desperately trying to remember which systems she already knows better than I do, and that seems to work? Hopefully. I'll have to get back to you, but, well, I am slightly concerned that I wouldn't know if she was going around secretly hating me forever - hence the, y'know, 'secret' part. I can only do my best, I guess, but I will be glad when it's over! At least it's not just me for another week yet...

[lots of work-babble cut here because wow, okay, maybe I am being a bit work-focussed at the moment but there is a limit to how much other, non-work people give a crap about that and that limit is now PASSED]

Tomorrow I am going to go and spend lots of my money on a Blackberry, because I WANTS one and also I have now earned enough that I can just about justify it. OMG. *has never been quite so frivolous with money in her LIFE omg*

(This is especially ironic as today I managed to get lost GOING TO WORK. No, seriously: one of my commute-to-work sorta-buddies and I tried to find a better shortcut from the bus stop to work... and ended up going around a load of tiny little passageways in the housing estate we were in for like fifteen, twenty minutes. The whole of that time, we were five minutes away from work. This is my level of operation, people.)