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In which my colleagues lose their minds
Apr. 30th, 2009 02:48 pmAngela said to me yesterday, quite seriously, 'Alicia, I want you to watch this. Honestly, I think you'll enjoy it.'
I looked at the DVD she'd put on my desk: Twilight.
I understand what I do that conveys to Angela the impression that I'm a boring accountant, but I've been racking my brains as to what I've done to suggest an interest in sparkly teenage vampires. I haven't been so nonplussed since the time my old newsreading colleague, Liz, lent me a book she thought I'd enjoy and it turned out to be a history of the Catholic Church in Australia told as a three-volume graphic novel.
I said, 'Oh, Angela,' and she backtracked a little, telling me that she bought it to watch with her teenage daughters and found herself engrossed.
'The story's not much,' she said, 'but the photography is marvellous.' That's like that saying about Playboy, isn't it? She's watching Twilight for the photography.
As if that wasn't sad enough, Simon the New Chap chipped in, opining, again quite seriously, that he 'was very impressed with how it developed from a simple love story in the first book to something much darker in the fifth book'.
It's like I don't know these people any more.
Anyway, Angela will haunt me until I watch it, so I may as well get it over with. That's my evening sorted, then.
I looked at the DVD she'd put on my desk: Twilight.
I understand what I do that conveys to Angela the impression that I'm a boring accountant, but I've been racking my brains as to what I've done to suggest an interest in sparkly teenage vampires. I haven't been so nonplussed since the time my old newsreading colleague, Liz, lent me a book she thought I'd enjoy and it turned out to be a history of the Catholic Church in Australia told as a three-volume graphic novel.
I said, 'Oh, Angela,' and she backtracked a little, telling me that she bought it to watch with her teenage daughters and found herself engrossed.
'The story's not much,' she said, 'but the photography is marvellous.' That's like that saying about Playboy, isn't it? She's watching Twilight for the photography.
As if that wasn't sad enough, Simon the New Chap chipped in, opining, again quite seriously, that he 'was very impressed with how it developed from a simple love story in the first book to something much darker in the fifth book'.
It's like I don't know these people any more.
Anyway, Angela will haunt me until I watch it, so I may as well get it over with. That's my evening sorted, then.