Sundays, Mondays, brainfreeze

I think I might have an actual job. I mean, I've been offered a job and I've accepted but I'm too cautious to do the happy-dance before all the paperwork has been signed. I know luck, it is seriously unpredictable. Anywho, yay for now and keep all fingers crossed 'cause it would be great, and so much fun! : )

For the last three weeks I've had Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem 'Ozymandias' playing over and over in my head. I really don't know why. Sure, it's one of my favourite poems but it's still odd. Probably my brains way of telling me to take a deep breath and catch up to speed with myself.
The poem goes:

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
’Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Happy, don't you think? ; )

Today's soundtrack is provided by Norwegian band 'Susanna and the Magical Orchestra' as featured on last weeks episode of Grey's Anatomy. Their cover of Joy Division's 'Love will tear us apart' is really good. It seems I'm very much into covers right now. another favourite is Ryan Adams cover of Oasis' 'Wonderwall'. Very good.

Fun, fun, fun and then some.

Last night's TV-dilemma was not as big to work out as I'd thought. One look at Robin Hood resulted in a 'naah' and I switched back to a highly yawn-inspiring episode of Doctor Who.

Another Friday, another weekend. My plans are simple: recover from the cold and get some more rhubarb from the park. On my way home from work yesterday I stopped by the park where there used to be an area where people could rent land and grow what they wanted to grow. The area is free for use right now, no one's using it anymore, and there are still flowers and berries around. Since no one owns it you can just go there and pick what you want. Brilliant! Yesterday I risked my life for some rhubarb and beautiful flowers but I didn't have a bag for it so I have to go back this weekend. It's free and it's good for you. Could it get any better?

So the final interviews are today and I try to be all calm about it but of course you can't help but wonder. There is so much going on around here now though so things could change a hundred times before next Thursday (when they're planning to make the final decision).

My Friday fix in music is the soundtrack for the movie 'Last Kiss' with Zach Braff. My favourites are 'chocolate' and 'ride'. Then I'll probably be listening to some Bassboosa before the day is done. : ) Their version of Chris Isaac's 'Wicked Game' is really good.

Robin Hood or Doctor Who, that's the question...

K and J got back from China the other day and hearing about a trip like that really helps you define the anal world of what we call 'first world problems'. I.e. problems that seem big to us but when you compare it to famine and war, they're nothing but a slap in someone else's face and a total non-problem.

My FWP for today is: Should I keep the tradition of watching Doctor Who on Thursday's at 8, even though it really sucks. Or, should I dare to change my pattern and try the premiere of Robin Hood - the tv-series? Could life be more boring than that? What I should do is take out the vacuum cleaner and clean up my flat before the weekend, instead of doing it at the weekend when all you want to do is enjoy a clean house. ; )

It's a good thing I still have a few hours to think about that...

A day in the life of a porridge-brain

I had an interview today. Would have been great, really, had it not been for the fact that I woke up yesterday morning with a sore throat only to find out that someone had stolen my brain and replaced it with porridge. Horrible!! Ah well, if it's not meant to be, it's not meant to be. And let me just say one thing, I've had a bad feeling about this for a while so keep fingers crossed and take cover cause the future's about to happen...

Apart from the sore throat it's been a good weekend. Saturday was spent shopping, going to see the new Pirates of the Carribean - At World's End, dining out and relaxing in front of the TV. Pirates was very good. Weird thing was it felt like this was movie #4 and I had missed #3. Still, it feels as though a #4 is not all that far away since the movie had a rather open ending. Keith Richards, however short his cameo, was marvelous! Even Orlando Bloom brought something to the table. I can't wait for it to come out on DVD. The extra stuff should be good. : )

Since Sunday was the last day with the car I decided to pull my behind out of bed and go to the fleemarket. Since the weather was neither here nor there many people thought like me and it got kind of crowded. I managed to find some really nice things though. It's starting to seem as though I cannot get out of there without at least some sort of glass (bought 4 for myself and 1 for my mother), something made out of glass (I found a perfectly sized bowl, a cream jug and a candle holder), something made of linnen (a cover for my bed, a tablecloth and a couple of pillowcases), a framed painting (small one with a black frame) and either a bowl or a cup for the kitchen (bought a new breakfast bowl and a teacup in my favourite china). All in all very nice day.

On my way home from the fleemarket I wanted to go to the gasstation to fill up some petrol but lo and behold, the gasstation next to my house has some weird-assed system where you can't fill up gas and go into the store to pay, the way we normally do it. Instead you have to use your credit card or put cash into the machine. What kind of dorkish system is that? Since there is only one machine for every set of pumps you have to wait for the other person to finish before you can start. Then you have to somehow assess how much petrol you need, if you pay in cash since you pay first and then fill up. Stupid! So, I'm bying K and J a bottle of wine instead. It really has been great to be able to use the car. Only trouble is that when you're borrowing a car you're not likely to use it the way you would your own. I really didn't like the idea of having the car breakdown somewhere in the middle of nowhere on one of my fleemarket galores. ; )

A musical favourite even though the video is almost a complete, and really bad in comparison, ripoff from Lamb's Gabriel:

Play Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek”

Oh, and one of my favourite covers: Placebo's makeover of Kate Bush's 'Running up that Hill'. Very good indeed:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2029442826

(more placebo on http://www.myspace.com/placebo )

The long and winding road...

Life is pretty darn interesting. The only thing you can be certain of is that it will never cease to surprise you. I find that pretty comforting. I could choose to look at my current situation as rather energyconsuming, and it is, but as tired as I may be right now, that's not a particularly healthy attitude. So, I'm going for suck it up, suck it in and the view that everything happens for a reason. Dude, I'll need the entire weekend to work up the energy for that. It's a good thing we've got four days off now. Well, I'm thinking of throwing in a couple of hours work on Friday but at least that will be of my own free will.

I know Wednesdays are proper TV-nights but still I couldn't stop myself from ordering two movies for the weekend. Totally girly movies but ergo girl, ergo girly, right? Makes sense. Anywho, I ordered 'Little Women' cause I love it and 'Finding Neverland' cause I haven't seen it and Johnny Depp is amazing. I could have ordered Pirates of the Carribean 1, 2 but I'm waiting for the trilogy to hit the stores in box-shape with loads of extra material. And no, I don't know if they will but it worked for Peter Jackson. Can't imagine they will let an opportunity like that go to waste... ; ) I'm soooo looking forward to movie #3 next week. After having seen Orlando Bloom on Extras last week I have total respect for him. That was funny!! Extras is my new weekend tv-must see.

Gilmore Girls Galore

I know it's girly and totally childish but I'm actually sad that CW-TV in the US is showing the series finale of Gilmore Girls tonight. Not season finale. Series finale! The End! Finito! Hasta la Vista Dude! It's just that from the first episode it's been the one show my mother and I have always watched, either together or in our separate locations followed by phonecalls about it. I guess Lorelai and Rory's relationship really reminds me of growing up. My mum has always been a bit different, in a crazy good way. (Totally random but I took the pop culture trivia quiz game on the gilmore site and this is my result: "Congratulations! You're a pop culture genius. If anyone can hold their own with Lorelai and Roty it's you." Whoopie! ; )

Anywhoo. Work's the same as it has been for a couple of weeks now. Weirdly vacuum-ish. The WTH-moments are becoming more and more normal and that can never be good. Still got the sense of humour though. Not sure how long it will last but a couple of more days I'd guess. We have Thursday and Friday off this week so it's looking good. Oh, and I got to borrow K and J's car while they're in China. I asked them to get me a happy Buddha, or any Buddha that didn't weigh like a ton. There's probably some sort of rule that says you shouldn't get others to buy your Buddhas for you cause it's major bad luck but as long as I don't know that I should be ok, right? There has got to be a rule of the universe regarding 'doing things thinking they were right'. Right?

Oh, and Patty Griffin really lights up my days on the music front. Or not so light-y perhaps but still very good. Not alone is beautiful!

Rainy day, chasing the clouds awaaaaay...

I haven't blogged in aaaaages so to sum up the last couple of weeks in a ziplock bag, here it is.

- mucho weirdo stuff happening around work. I've been having quite too many wtf-moments and that's generally not good. Well, I think they're funny but the rest of the world, I don't know. The result is that I've turned into Irony girl whose secret power is the ability to become a human balancing act, trying to even out the bumps in the road of human kind. And that is so not meant in a selfloving, airhead bimbo, I'm perfection kind of way. Far from it. ; )

- Eurovishion Song Contest coming up this weekend. I've been listening to the entries and what can I say, East European pop/Balkan ballads still get me going. Favourites at the moments are Russia. My conservative being does not like it but I can't help it, the former Soviet Union fascinates me. Go figure.

- I've applied for two jobs and been to one interview so far. I just hope at least one of them will land on my table. I'm pretty sure one of them won't but the other... *keeping fingers crossed* First interview was interesting in an odd sort of way. Interesting in the sense of being highly different. Anywho.

As boring as it sounds, that's what my life has been about as of late. Note to self: get a life...