odycee: (BSG - What would Gaius Baltar do?)
It's just nine o' clock and it's only just dark and it's warm! It's really spring at last! I walked to work and back today and it was lovely being out in the fresh air (if I ignore the car fumes) before work.

I had a great bank holiday - met up with a friend who's going to Taiwan next week for a year and got covered in green goo cleaning the horses trough out. I did have to get the vet out on Sunday morning to see Kaz as her cough seems to have got worse to the point where she's having breathing difficulties. She had a temperature as well so the vet gave her some antibiotics in case of an infection and some ventopulmin to ease the breathing. I'm not sure of how much effect it's having though so I think my mum might have to get the vet out again on Thursday. Fingers crossed, she'll be a bit better.

On Friday I got to work to find out that someone had stolen my laptop out of my drawer overnight. Someone else in the department also had their laptop stolen and other people got money and personal phones stolen from desks and drawers. Fuckers. I might have daydreamed about someone stealing my laptop so I didn't have to do any work, but the reality wasn't quite as good! I did hope to go in this morning and find my laptop back on my desk with all my work done, but unfortunately I don't live in the world of the Elves and the Shoemaker...

I should hopefully have a new laptop tomorrow and I'm hoping that they can recover my data because I think if I've lost all my emails from the last few years I may actually cry.

They've no idea who did it or how they got in. There was no sign of a break-in and the building is access controlled by passes. What about the CCTV cameras, we said? Not much good, as apparently they're dummy ones.

But apart from all that, I still had a good weekend!
odycee: (Random - dinosaurs - rah!)
I know everyone and their dog has already posted - but OMG! I don't think I've ever been so freaked out. I woke up to a massive roaring, rattling noise and being half asleep, the only explanation I could think of was that someone was shaking the door to my bedroom. At first I thought it must be N, who stays over one night a week but I realised that was stupid. Then I thought that someone else must have got in. I shouted 'hello' (bearing in mind here that I was still half asleep) and then leapt out of bed to look in the hall. By this time it had stopped so I just got back in bed and lay there. I thought my heart was going to come out of my mouth and I could hardly breathe - I had no idea what was going on. I guess if I ever experience another earthquake I'll know what it is!

I was so glad when I woke up and heard on the radio that is was an earthquake. I thought I was going mad! I almost convinced myself I'd dreamt it.

Hull was about 45 miles north of the epicentre where it was 5.2 and so I guess it was pretty strong here. When I spoke to people at work this morning, they'd had books cascading off shelves and doors flying open. If that had happened to me I think I would have completely freaked. N thought it was a poltergeist or that I'd been murdered by an intruder!

I'm sure this is pretty old hat for you guys that get earthquakes all the time but I've never felt one before and when you don't know what's going on and you're half asleep, it's pretty damn frightening.

ETA: Best bit about the earthquake is the comments on the BBC News website:

"I was lying in bed playing poker online. I felt the window start to vibrate for a few seconds and then it carried on and I was thinking "come on, stop now". I was a bit nervous, my blinds were making a racket. It probably lasted 10 seconds but felt much longer.

I walked around to check damage and noticed a crack in the kitchen. We do a lot of decorating so I know it was as a result of the tremor."


Someone also had an agitated cockatoo!! British people are such wusses. At least we haven't had everything grind to a halt because of five inches of snow this winter. Yet.
odycee: (HP - Neville - I killed Harry Potter!)
So it appears that fandom is really going to implode this weekend. Excellent. o_0

I would link to the [livejournal.com profile] lj_biz post in question but apparently there are now HP spoilers in the comments. It took a lot longer than I thought it would for them to appear actually!
odycee: (Doctor Who - Ten with specs b&w)
From an article in the Sunday Telegraph today:

The floods that have devastated swathes of the country are God's judgment on the immorality and greed of modern society, according to senior Church of England bishops.

One diocesan bishop has even claimed that laws that have undermined marriage, including the introduction of pro-gay legislation, have provoked God to act by sending the storms that have left thousands of people homeless.

While those who have been affected by the storms are innocent victims, the bishops argue controversially that the flooding is a result of Western civilisation's decision to ignore biblical teaching.


Seriously. WTF? Clearly god decided that he'd punish those filthy gay rights supporters by flooding random peoples houses in Hull and Sheffield. I'm sure all my colleagues who can't live in their houses at the moment because they're full of mud are glad to hear that.

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