ever so slightly brain dead...
Dec. 9th, 2005 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llywelaMaybe the brain-deadness is a Friday night thing. Maybe it is a post-Christmas-Lunch (two in two days!) thing.
Maybe it is just me.
Staff meeting this morning seemed to mostly involve discussing performance indicators, aims and objectives that mostly seemed to circle back around to more work being dumped on me. And I'm already working to capacity. Wasn't terribly happy. But lunch was great. Didn't bother going back to the office after - went straight to my mum's for tea. Not that I intended eating anything after that huge lunch, but it is a standing arrangement on Friday nights. Wished I hadn't bothered when their power cut out. Played lots of word games with Small by candlelight and then came home again.
Small isn't sleeping over this weekend, since they are putting their Christmas decorations up this weekend and she wants to help. I actually get a Saturday to myself!
Watched Rome when I got home, taped from Wednesday night. Despite the distortion of historical reality for the sake of television drama, it is a pretty good series. Was equal parts amused and grossed out by the shipwrecked Vorenus and Pullo making a raft out of dead bodies! Those two really are fun, and I don't usually enjoy the characters I'm meant to root for. Their struggle to find their way through the murk that was Roman politics is complex and enjoyable to follow.
The battle of Pharsalus was disappointing - cutting from the two sides preparing for war straight to Caesar returning to camp victorious, with just a few vague images of soldiers fighting in between. I can see that the battle would have been a logistical nightmare to re-create, but the way they did it just felt flat. "Oh dear, we are grossly outnumbered. Never mind - the other army has more options and therefore more to worry about...Hey, whaddya know. We won."
The lesbian stuff with Servilia and Octavia was telegraphed way in advance, probably has very little basis in historical record, and served little purpose other than to tittilate any men watching. And then Pompey and his family went to Egypt. The wife and children stayed in the boat, while Pompey waded ashore. And I sat there going, "Oh! I remember this - genuine historical detail. This is where his supposed friends turn around and murder him in front of his family and stick his head on a pole!" And then my video cut out and I missed the, presumably, gruesome end. Gutted (but, you know, not as much as Pompey). I'll have to try and catch the repeat on Sunday.
Best line of the episode was Atia to her daughter, Octavia. "It's nice to see you looking so pretty for once. You usually prefer to dress like a frump."
Maybe it is just me.
Staff meeting this morning seemed to mostly involve discussing performance indicators, aims and objectives that mostly seemed to circle back around to more work being dumped on me. And I'm already working to capacity. Wasn't terribly happy. But lunch was great. Didn't bother going back to the office after - went straight to my mum's for tea. Not that I intended eating anything after that huge lunch, but it is a standing arrangement on Friday nights. Wished I hadn't bothered when their power cut out. Played lots of word games with Small by candlelight and then came home again.
Small isn't sleeping over this weekend, since they are putting their Christmas decorations up this weekend and she wants to help. I actually get a Saturday to myself!
Watched Rome when I got home, taped from Wednesday night. Despite the distortion of historical reality for the sake of television drama, it is a pretty good series. Was equal parts amused and grossed out by the shipwrecked Vorenus and Pullo making a raft out of dead bodies! Those two really are fun, and I don't usually enjoy the characters I'm meant to root for. Their struggle to find their way through the murk that was Roman politics is complex and enjoyable to follow.
The battle of Pharsalus was disappointing - cutting from the two sides preparing for war straight to Caesar returning to camp victorious, with just a few vague images of soldiers fighting in between. I can see that the battle would have been a logistical nightmare to re-create, but the way they did it just felt flat. "Oh dear, we are grossly outnumbered. Never mind - the other army has more options and therefore more to worry about...Hey, whaddya know. We won."
The lesbian stuff with Servilia and Octavia was telegraphed way in advance, probably has very little basis in historical record, and served little purpose other than to tittilate any men watching. And then Pompey and his family went to Egypt. The wife and children stayed in the boat, while Pompey waded ashore. And I sat there going, "Oh! I remember this - genuine historical detail. This is where his supposed friends turn around and murder him in front of his family and stick his head on a pole!" And then my video cut out and I missed the, presumably, gruesome end. Gutted (but, you know, not as much as Pompey). I'll have to try and catch the repeat on Sunday.
Best line of the episode was Atia to her daughter, Octavia. "It's nice to see you looking so pretty for once. You usually prefer to dress like a frump."
