choo choo

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!