wow, this post is boring

[kindkit]

1) Updating my stupid profile on stupid LinkedIn counts as job searching, right?

2) It is rumored that at my current job, there will be extra hours next week so that we can catch up from how behind we got due to so many hours being cut this week. *headdesk* (It has to do with the end of the fiscal year, apparently.)

3) I'm trying to generally unfuck my life. This includes a new approach to cleaning. I hate having a dirty apartment, but I also hate cleaning. So I'm trying a daily 10-minute clean. My place is small enough that if I do this most days, it should stay in reasonable shape. And somehow it's easier to cope with "I just have to clean something, anything, for 10 minutes, and today I'll spend that time working on the bathroom" rather than, "Oh, god, I have to clean the bathroom, there's my day ruined."

4) Have accomplished filing my taxes (the first time in years that I'm not doing them a week or less before the deadline) and switching to a cheaper auto insurance company.

5) I have to work tomorrow. Only a very short shift, and I need the hours, and I didn't work Tuesday or Wednesday. I am nevertheless annoyed, mostly because the store will be ridiculously busy and there will only be two of us there. And the other person will be the store manager, who is bloody useless most of the time and will undoubtedly get on my case about something that isn't my fault.

Oh, here's one thing that's not boring!!!

6) The BBC has started releasing old episodes of Round the Horne on the iPlayer, so anybody anywhere can listen to them for free. Once an episode is released you have a month to listen to it before it goes away again; right now it's still on the early episodes of S1.

Round the Horne gave the world Julian and Sandy, awesome fictional gay men played by awesome real gay men, and so it's worth listening just for them, but I love (almost) the whole show. However, there are sometimes the -isms you would expect from something made in the 1960s, so be prepared.

ETA: Now with paragraphing fixed, because apparently I have to do that by hand now. Still waiting to hear back from Support about WTF is up with that.

Comments

[sovay]

6) The BBC has started releasing old episodes of Round the Horne on the iPlayer, so anybody anywhere can listen to them for free.

That is excellent news! Thanks for the heads-up.

As to the rest, strength to your arm.

[st_aurafina]

*hugs hugs hugs*

And somehow it's easier to cope with "I just have to clean something, anything, for 10 minutes, and today I'll spend that time working on the bathroom"

Yes this. I'm trying this thing where I do something social, something clean-y, something active and something creative every day. It's kinda easier than the punitive cleaning bender system I used to use...

[lilacsigil]

I hope you get the extra hours and from now on they just level out the bloody schedule, what crap.

[grondfic]

I grew up with Round the Horne (and even tried learning some of Rambling Sid Rumpo's songs). Great to hear it's available again for a while.

Ooo, bona!

[tree_and_leaf]

Round the Horne is amazing! It's on pretty heavy rotation on Radio 4 Extra, it's not on all the time, but I would say you're more likely than not to find some of it available at any given time. Interesting to hear the very early episodes, though, I don't think I'd ever heard them.

I'm still not entirely sure how it got transmitted, but I'm glad it did.

[magnetic_pole]

I'd never heard of Julian and Sandy--will check that out. Thanks!

Sorry to hear about the schedule shenanigans. Hope work wasn't too bad today. M.

[halotolerant]

Hooray for Julian and Sandy! *g*