Fessus Sum.
Oct. 27th, 2019 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brokenmnemonicSo, it's almost the end of October, and I'm very tired.
I've been covering a vacant post in addition to my own, since the beginning of March - although due to people changing jobs, I've actually been covering that post for all bar 9 of the last 24 months, but September was absolutely brutal at work. Not helped by the busiest time of the year being marked by me also having to pick up work for a bunch of people who'd gone on leave. I was hanging on until the start of last week, because someone had been recruited under the last general recruitment campaign to come and fill the empty post, and was supposed to start on Monday. The Thursday before, the system announced that actually, they had a much more important business management post that needed filling, and they wouldn't be coming to the team I'm in after all. Not to worry though, the system reassures me - they might find someone in the next general recruitment campaign. Which runs in January. Which means that if they do find someone, they may start in April/May next year.
So, that's fun. Things are a bit quieter at the moment, thankfully, but I'm having a lot of trouble getting the impetus to catch up with all of the things that I had to put off when it was really busy, and I've also ended up with some new things I really don't like doing that are now apparently an expected part of my job, so I've just reached that point where trying to plan meals and make sure I actually go swimming seem like herculean efforts. That's made it a bit difficult to try and get all the planning I needed to do for NaNo, so I'm still not sure if I'll actually manage to join in or not. Still, I've survived another year, and brunch was crackers with some excellent mature cheddar with brandy and apricots, so it's not all terrible. I do need to stop myself ordering so much take-out food, though...
So, more cheerful things. Something that does the rounds on twitter periodically that you may not have seen if you're not a twitter person is that the comic book author Gail Simone (Birds of Prey, Red Sonja, Secret Six, etc) made some comments about how great it would be to have a crossover story starring Lara Croft and Wonder Woman. The comic book artist/author Sjepan Sejic (Death Vigil, Sunstone, etc) picked up on this and sketched together almost a dozen comic book scenes, as if he was illustrating that particular series, and they're rather excellent. If you haven't seen them, I recommend taking a look.
I recently watched the final episode of Elementary, a show I've been quietly enjoying since it first started airing. I wasn't sure where they were going to go with the final season; I've always enjoyed the way the show has played around with the Holmes mythos, although I didn't find the Reichenbach plotline as engaging as I'd hoped. Despite that, the show stayed true to what's always been the strongest part for me - the friendship between Joan and Sherlock. Their Last Bow remphasised that; each of them continued to be successful in their respective endeavours while apart, despite various challenges, but the two of them started out as strangers, and have ended as friends who'd do anything for each other. It's been fascinating to watch over the years, and I felt that the finale managed to wrap the show up in a good way; their lives may have moved on in various ways, but they remain two people who love each other, with a chosen career that each finds fulfilling. The time skip also left me with a few questions about some of the other characters who've been periodic regulars in the show, but Elementary is one of those shows that I can quietly and happily rewatch in the future, and I need more shows like that.
I've been listening to the original Holmes stories through my local library's audiobook collection, as they have the edition narrated by Stephen Fry, but this does mean listening to them rather out of sequence, depending on the vagaries of what's available at any given time. It did prompt me to think of other reinterpretations of the Sherlock Holmes mythos I've enjoyed over the years. Sherlock seems to crop up in all sorts of things, but one that always springs to mind is the short comic book series Watson and Holmes, written by Karl Bollers. In this iteration, Watson and Holmes are African-American and living in Harlem, New York. Holmes is an eccentric - and, it must be said, very dapper - private investigator, and when Watson meets him, Watson's a war veteran who served in Afghanistan and is now working in a medical clinic. The series was funded as two short runs via Kickstarter, with the first six or so issues making up a single case, A Study in Black, while the second graphic novel is a mix of one short series and some assorted single pieces. I really liked it, and I'd recommend it to anyone who fancies seeing a nicely-done reintepretation set in the modern era.
I don't want to have to go to work tomorrow.
I've been covering a vacant post in addition to my own, since the beginning of March - although due to people changing jobs, I've actually been covering that post for all bar 9 of the last 24 months, but September was absolutely brutal at work. Not helped by the busiest time of the year being marked by me also having to pick up work for a bunch of people who'd gone on leave. I was hanging on until the start of last week, because someone had been recruited under the last general recruitment campaign to come and fill the empty post, and was supposed to start on Monday. The Thursday before, the system announced that actually, they had a much more important business management post that needed filling, and they wouldn't be coming to the team I'm in after all. Not to worry though, the system reassures me - they might find someone in the next general recruitment campaign. Which runs in January. Which means that if they do find someone, they may start in April/May next year.
So, that's fun. Things are a bit quieter at the moment, thankfully, but I'm having a lot of trouble getting the impetus to catch up with all of the things that I had to put off when it was really busy, and I've also ended up with some new things I really don't like doing that are now apparently an expected part of my job, so I've just reached that point where trying to plan meals and make sure I actually go swimming seem like herculean efforts. That's made it a bit difficult to try and get all the planning I needed to do for NaNo, so I'm still not sure if I'll actually manage to join in or not. Still, I've survived another year, and brunch was crackers with some excellent mature cheddar with brandy and apricots, so it's not all terrible. I do need to stop myself ordering so much take-out food, though...
So, more cheerful things. Something that does the rounds on twitter periodically that you may not have seen if you're not a twitter person is that the comic book author Gail Simone (Birds of Prey, Red Sonja, Secret Six, etc) made some comments about how great it would be to have a crossover story starring Lara Croft and Wonder Woman. The comic book artist/author Sjepan Sejic (Death Vigil, Sunstone, etc) picked up on this and sketched together almost a dozen comic book scenes, as if he was illustrating that particular series, and they're rather excellent. If you haven't seen them, I recommend taking a look.
I recently watched the final episode of Elementary, a show I've been quietly enjoying since it first started airing. I wasn't sure where they were going to go with the final season; I've always enjoyed the way the show has played around with the Holmes mythos, although I didn't find the Reichenbach plotline as engaging as I'd hoped. Despite that, the show stayed true to what's always been the strongest part for me - the friendship between Joan and Sherlock. Their Last Bow remphasised that; each of them continued to be successful in their respective endeavours while apart, despite various challenges, but the two of them started out as strangers, and have ended as friends who'd do anything for each other. It's been fascinating to watch over the years, and I felt that the finale managed to wrap the show up in a good way; their lives may have moved on in various ways, but they remain two people who love each other, with a chosen career that each finds fulfilling. The time skip also left me with a few questions about some of the other characters who've been periodic regulars in the show, but Elementary is one of those shows that I can quietly and happily rewatch in the future, and I need more shows like that.
I've been listening to the original Holmes stories through my local library's audiobook collection, as they have the edition narrated by Stephen Fry, but this does mean listening to them rather out of sequence, depending on the vagaries of what's available at any given time. It did prompt me to think of other reinterpretations of the Sherlock Holmes mythos I've enjoyed over the years. Sherlock seems to crop up in all sorts of things, but one that always springs to mind is the short comic book series Watson and Holmes, written by Karl Bollers. In this iteration, Watson and Holmes are African-American and living in Harlem, New York. Holmes is an eccentric - and, it must be said, very dapper - private investigator, and when Watson meets him, Watson's a war veteran who served in Afghanistan and is now working in a medical clinic. The series was funded as two short runs via Kickstarter, with the first six or so issues making up a single case, A Study in Black, while the second graphic novel is a mix of one short series and some assorted single pieces. I really liked it, and I'd recommend it to anyone who fancies seeing a nicely-done reintepretation set in the modern era.
I don't want to have to go to work tomorrow.
