Sundry... what day is it? Thursday? Sundry Thursday Guff
This is how much I hate my temp job: Yesterday I woke up feeling really shite with a runny nose and sore throat and dizziness. And I was so happy because it meant that I didn't have to go to work. I didn't even care that I would lose a day's pay. I have never felt so happy to feel so shite.
As it turned out, my supervisor took me aside today and told me to fill in my timesheet as normal for the day I was off sick and he would sign it, thus I would not lose a day's pay after all. Very kind of him. Unfortunately, this altruistic gesture is an indication of how happy my superiors are with the job I am doing for them. They want to keep me on as a permanent member of staff. Damn it... I need to make a huge fuck up soon so as to get such silly ideas out of their heads.
Why am I still surprised when friends tell me they read my blog in order to see what I am up to? I feel slightly guilty that I don't lead a more interesting life for them to read about.
Could it be...? No, surely not. It appears that Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman's fantastic film Mirrormask is finally getting a theatrical release in the UK - 27 February - or so it says on the Empire website. 'Bout bloody time. All we need now is for some UK distributor to put Terry Gilliam's Tideland into cinemas.
Other films I am interested in seeing: A Cock And Bull Story, The New World, Hidden, Lady Vengeance, Capote, Seven Swords. Of course, how many of these films make it to Oxford remains to be seen. I was a bit annoyed my favourite little cinema, the Phoenix Picturehouse, showed Atom Egoyan's Where The Truth Lies for one week only and I missed it. Hmph. I may go and see Woody Allen's Match Point at the weekend.
As it turned out, my supervisor took me aside today and told me to fill in my timesheet as normal for the day I was off sick and he would sign it, thus I would not lose a day's pay after all. Very kind of him. Unfortunately, this altruistic gesture is an indication of how happy my superiors are with the job I am doing for them. They want to keep me on as a permanent member of staff. Damn it... I need to make a huge fuck up soon so as to get such silly ideas out of their heads.
Why am I still surprised when friends tell me they read my blog in order to see what I am up to? I feel slightly guilty that I don't lead a more interesting life for them to read about.
Could it be...? No, surely not. It appears that Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman's fantastic film Mirrormask is finally getting a theatrical release in the UK - 27 February - or so it says on the Empire website. 'Bout bloody time. All we need now is for some UK distributor to put Terry Gilliam's Tideland into cinemas.
Other films I am interested in seeing: A Cock And Bull Story, The New World, Hidden, Lady Vengeance, Capote, Seven Swords. Of course, how many of these films make it to Oxford remains to be seen. I was a bit annoyed my favourite little cinema, the Phoenix Picturehouse, showed Atom Egoyan's Where The Truth Lies for one week only and I missed it. Hmph. I may go and see Woody Allen's Match Point at the weekend.
posted by Steve Kane at 8:38 PM
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