ended up being more about work than I'd hoped but I really shoulda seen that coming

[guingel]

The pop cultural theme of my life lately has been "Things to come out of Britain in the 60's (OK maybe just barely)" by which I mean I've been listening to a lot of Beatles and soaking up Monty Python however I can get it. All my family's Monty Python is on VHS (I HEAR YOU LAUGHING SUSAN) except for the 30th anniversary DVD, which I watched. And I've been rereading Graham Chapman's A Liar's Autobiography on the subway, which has gotten me TWO comments from total strangers. Anyone familiar with the NYC subways will know how fucked up this is. It's a really good book, though. I finished it yesterday and this morning I was trying to find something to read on the subway and I was really sad because none of my other books were by Graham Chapman. :(

Aw man, I still didn't respond to stuff in the posture entry. XD In my defense, I'm fucking exhausted. Oh my god. I'm physically capable of working the hours I have been (15 hours of overtime last week, both days of the weekend), but I'm not physically capable of doing that and also doing anything remotely productive when I'm not at work. It's only temporary so it's not like I'll never be able to do laundry again, but I really want to be able to get home tonight with enough time and energy to make some pasta and frozen peas and buy myself milk and vegetables and cook those vegetables as well. This is all I'm asking out of life today! But I just heard that there might be a bit of an urgent situation to be dealt with, so I'm not sure how much time that will take or what the repercussions will be.

I did mention to my boss that I was hoping, if possible to leave as early as I could today and she said that barring an unexpected crisis I should be able to do that. Like, if I stay late tomorrow and the whole rest of the week that's fine, as long as I've got healthy food waiting for me at home. And I am just. . . partly it's probably my less-than-stellar level of physical fitness, partly my poor sleeping habits, and partly just the fact that I really am working a lot, but I am very low on the energy these days. Also it's been hot like a butt. So hard to get myself to get out of my house and go to the grocery store. If I get home by 6 tonight, though, I am ABSOLUTELY going, and I will make my most sincere effort if I get home by 7. Later than that and I'll try to make the pasta and the peas without whatever else I would have added. . . I haven't wanted to eat meat at all lately. Little sleep = small appetite. Can't tell if I'm losing weight or not, though.

I don't have an exhausted icon, so I'm using frustrated Gaudium instead. I'm not angry or anything, though!

I mentioned this before but I am really pleased with my latest playlist. XD It's 110 songs long, it's not daintily crafted or anything, but all the songs go together well and with pretty much every song I'm like "yeah! this is a great song!" Except one, which is a poor quality live recording that I forgot about. I need to clear it off.

What else. . . so yeah, Monty Python and the Beatles - especially early Beatles - have been bringing me great joy lately. As has Torchwood fanfic. And the fact that freerice.com added all sorts of new categories so now my unhealthy love of taking quizzes on the internet will actually help someone.

Right now it's prepare for notification and prepare for responses time, though.

Also eat lunch time.

Comments

[elyndys.livejournal.com]

The Beatles are awesome, and no-one has ever been awesomer. I don't really have anything else to add!

[guingel.livejournal.com]

It is just facts! Although I find I generally prefer everything up to, but not including Sgt Pepper, which seems to fly in the face of music-lover convention? Oh well! That is part of their brilliance.

[elyndys.livejournal.com]

My dad was the same - I grew up listening to the Red album, until I got curious when I was older and asked for the Blue album as well, haha. I just can't choose, there are songs from every era that I love, but I thiiink my favourite albums are probably the White album and Revolver. But it's just too hard!

[guingel.livejournal.com]

Gyaaah, I'm so jealous of your Hard Day's Night icons!! ::uses Band icon because, well, George Harrison was a big fan? XD::

Mmm, Revolver was probably my favorite album for a while - but yeah, right now I couldn't choose!

[ex-wannaber.livejournal.com]

Do you ever do that thing where you aren't that proud of your playlist because you just add entire folders of music. You know, where you go back to it time and time again because it either hits a song you are 'meh' about or it hits the dread instrumental/karaoke versions? I get those a lot putting my JE folder on. Johnny's Ent seem obsessed with having karaoke versions of everything - including b-sides!

[guingel.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, the reason I'm so pleased with this playlist is that usually I'm not at all proud of them. I've got a few by genre - glam, motown, doo-wop - and those are okay, but the rest are just selections by an artist (useful, but nothing special) or, like. . . a musical. They didn't make it onto my iPod but my iTunes has three playlists that are just labeled by date and those are awesome, cos I was in a specific mood that day and I found songs that fit the mood - usually I can't do that, I don't have a feel for what I want to listen to and I can't remember what songs I have that are good. XD

My JE playlist is like a dozen mini-playlists all lined up - peppy V6, laid back TOKIO, peppy TOKIO, Arashi, Kanjani8, Kanjani8 live. . . and now I have my iTunes set to always be on shuffle so I can never listen to the JE playlist, cos it doesn't work at all unless it plays it order.

Oh my god, the karaoke versions. I have never once even listened to one of those. XD

[ex-wannaber.livejournal.com]

Gosh you sound way more organized than me, lol. I just get my entire folder and shove it in there. One minute it'll be something like early Shonentai and the next minute it'll be some saccharine pop song covered by the tiniest members of Johnny's current Junior lineup. If I have TOKIO playing you can be sure that their commentary tracks will pop up at some point!

I do love those playlists you make when you are in a particular mood, though. They are really awesome. The best I probably have is full of sentimental romantic songs for when I'm trying to relax and feeling lovey-dovey.

[guingel.livejournal.com]

Our music programs must work differently? I never need to do anything with folders. . . on both iTunes and the iPod it's pretty easy to just listen to everything by an artist, so if I actively make a playlist it's so I can at least filter out the songs I don't like (or the files that aren't songs).

When I shared a computer - and an iTunes - with my family, there was just "Laura's Playlist" and I used to add to it whatever songs I felt like listening to at the time and it was fantastic and worked really well. Eventually it would play through like, 10 different playlists representing different times of my life if you just started at the top and worked down. But something happened to it and it got lost. :( It also stopped working as well when I started really discovering and consuming vast portions of new artists, which I didn't do so much at the time, it was more bits and pieces.