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Whew, another week of work down, and I have the actual weekend weekend off! (I work 4 days on, 2 days off shifts, so sometimes my "weekend" is actually the middle of the week.) I finally started giving tours this week as well, which was a little nervewracking at first, but I think it's gone really well so far! It seems that as long as you have a uniform, and speak with some authority, people will believe just about anything you tell them! ;D We've also had to work around a film crew for the last few days who have been doing location shots in our museum. Quite interesting, however inconvenient: for a while today they blocked the ONLY BATHROOMS and the escalator, but c'est la vie, le art will out, etc. etc. And if down the line you ever find yourself watching an obscure German film called Two Sisters about a woman who works in an anthropology museum in Boston--THAT'S US! (And yes. A German film, set in Boston, being filmed in Halifax. I don't even know.)

Now I feel there's a lot I should catch up with, O Beloved Flist Of Mine! Don't forget that sword_of_lies's Second Kinkathon is still going strong! I've already written one thing over there andomgitsrpfspecialhellhereicomechoochoo and hopefully I'll get to add some more this weekend!

Great things in BBC land! The Supersizers Eat... has finally come back after a year, and Sue and Giles are as side-splittingly hilarious as ever. Especially last ep with Sue's impression of an Eighties Sloane Girl. Flipping priceless. :DDD Casualty 1909 has also graced us with its presence. I love it, the show's like ER, but British and set in the past! Win-win-win combination, I say.

Also keeping me occupied are my Little Dorrit DVDs that finally arrived, yaaaaaaaaaaaay! ( Remember last December when I promised I would stop obsessing after the last episode aired? LIES. )

I also managed to find The Detective Murdoch Mysteries on DVD which makes me very happy, as it is both a) the first thing I ever saw Keeley Hawes in, cue ginormous girlcrush, and b) A decently done costume drama set in Toronto (Hyper-Cheesy CBC series, take note)! That never happens! And it's so exciting to have a city you know be recreated in the past like that, recognizing street names, and going "ooh, I've been there!" I mean, I have been to London, where 99% of costume dramas seem to take place, but there is a big difference between the familiarity of three days versus seventeen years. ;)

Aaaaand that's about it for now in the life and times of my working world and television consumption. Onward, weekend!

Little Dorrit's back! ( Episode 13 )

ONLY ONE MORE EPISODE LEFT! THEN WHAT WILL I DO WITH MY LIFE??? GAH.

Somehow I think doing my Christmas shopping/knitting and spending time with my family is supposed to be the correct response.

Flight to Toronto tomorrow morning. I should probably start packing.

Yeah, so I'm back to talking about Little Dorrit again.

( Episode 11 )

One thing I'm confused about: the show usually airs on Wednesdays and Thursdays, but this week the Beeb website says the episode is airing tonight. But it says Scotland only. Does that mean we, the general public downloaders and hackers of iPlayer excellence, won't get episode 12 this week? And if so, when is it airing?? I WANT IT NOW.

Wow, this week has made me whiny. *g*

And Pushing Daisies was excellent! (obligatory why-oh-why moment) Olive just... Kristin Chenoweth is my hero. Going head to head with Muffin Buffalo (who seems to have had success outside the trailer park) and singing and detecting and... Emerson! And Lily! And Chuck--oh, it's all so fantastic and cliff-hangy and I want more.
Though you know really my favourite part was the plastic-wrapped spooning. ;)

The Office was so-so for this episode, but I did get a kick out of Dwight's wedding plans. Yeah. Like that was going to go over well.

TELEVISION IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN UNIVERSITY.

ETA: BWA. Now I feel vindicated: BBC Receives Thousands of Complaints After Dropping Little Dorrit for Shannon Matthews documentary (as in, not cancelled, just pre-empted) AND TOO RIGHT TOO. I kind of love how the rest of the article is one big complaint about the Beeb's scheduling shenanigans. *firm nod*

Now... where's my Episode 12??!!

Television is absolutely my antidote to stress these days. Thus my continuous spamming of Little Dorrit because everyone ever should be watching it it's so fantastic and pretty and Matthew MacFadyen and Eve Myles and everyone and YAY!

( Episode 9 )

In other news, I think the subtext from tonight's episode of Bones was that Brennan and Booth should be having babies. No, really. Watch the episode -- it's totally what they're getting at.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand now I'm going to try and find Pushing Daisies. It's a busy life. :DDD

I'm throwing myself into the BBC's Little Dorrit right now, and stubbornly ignoring anything else that may be happening in TV land. Because the latest episode just made me want to wrap Mr. Clenham in cotton fluff and kiss him, and that feeling is a lot better than that other thing I could be feeling about that thing that may or may not have happened, but has probably happened, else where.

Yeah. British television is definitely the place to be tonight.