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todayiamadaisy) wrote2016-09-30 10:19 pm
todayiamadaisy) wrote2016-09-30 10:19 pm
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The Gates of Paradise
Hello, f-list. I am currently watching Anaconda. Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube are being terrorised in the Amazon by a giant rubber snake and Jon Voigt. It's a very silly film.
(The giant rubber snake just spat a dead monkey at someone.)
Anyway, I am home again. It's been a tiring week. As soon as I got home on Wednesday morning, I went into an afternoon of interviews for one of my replacements. Thursday was a day of meetings, followed by an evening at Jenny/NA's house.
(There was just an awesome, and by awesome I mean fake, underwater shot of the giant rubber snake (actually it was a giant bad CGI snake this time) digesting an Owen Wilson-shaped lump, including the impression of Owen Wilson's agonised face on the snake's side. Like Han Solo when he was in carbonite, but in a snake instead.)
Jenny loves a gathering, and she has been threatening to organise something for everyone in the office for ages. The stars aligned this week: my imminent departure, Jenny going on leave next week, a public holiday on Friday. I am not much of one for parties, but this was nice. Jenny bought a trivia game called Linkee specially for the occasion. It was fun, if you are looking for a group board game, and I am not just saying that because I joined with colleague Tim and receptionist Luke to wipe the floor with the other teams. Luke is 19 and does not know who Rod Stewart is, which made the rest of us feel very old.
(Words cannot do justice to what has just taken place. Jon Voigt trapped Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube and the giant rubber snake in a big net, and then the snake broke free and coiled around Jon Voigt, then we got a view from inside the snake's gullet as it swallowed Jon Voigt, then it chased Jennifer Lopez and spat out half-digested Jon Voigt at her, and half-digested Jon Voigt winked at her as he fell down dead. Then Ice Cube managed to set fire to the snake, and the burning snake chased Jennifer Lopez around the river for bit until Ice Cube killed it with an axe. That's what I call entertainment.)
(The giant rubber snake just spat a dead monkey at someone.)
Anyway, I am home again. It's been a tiring week. As soon as I got home on Wednesday morning, I went into an afternoon of interviews for one of my replacements. Thursday was a day of meetings, followed by an evening at Jenny/NA's house.
(There was just an awesome, and by awesome I mean fake, underwater shot of the giant rubber snake (actually it was a giant bad CGI snake this time) digesting an Owen Wilson-shaped lump, including the impression of Owen Wilson's agonised face on the snake's side. Like Han Solo when he was in carbonite, but in a snake instead.)
Jenny loves a gathering, and she has been threatening to organise something for everyone in the office for ages. The stars aligned this week: my imminent departure, Jenny going on leave next week, a public holiday on Friday. I am not much of one for parties, but this was nice. Jenny bought a trivia game called Linkee specially for the occasion. It was fun, if you are looking for a group board game, and I am not just saying that because I joined with colleague Tim and receptionist Luke to wipe the floor with the other teams. Luke is 19 and does not know who Rod Stewart is, which made the rest of us feel very old.
(Words cannot do justice to what has just taken place. Jon Voigt trapped Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube and the giant rubber snake in a big net, and then the snake broke free and coiled around Jon Voigt, then we got a view from inside the snake's gullet as it swallowed Jon Voigt, then it chased Jennifer Lopez and spat out half-digested Jon Voigt at her, and half-digested Jon Voigt winked at her as he fell down dead. Then Ice Cube managed to set fire to the snake, and the burning snake chased Jennifer Lopez around the river for bit until Ice Cube killed it with an axe. That's what I call entertainment.)