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sirona_ficsI've been watching the reports and reading the news all day, fairly speechless with disbelief. Some friends were meant to fly out to London this morning on holiday; they've postponed it, and this morning was hellish trying to sort out flight re-bookings and stuff with them. I just hope all my friends in the UK are safe! You guys, you're constantly in my thoughts. It's just a nightmare -- but it's been brewing for some time, I feel. It's a society-wide breakdown that hasn't just happened, out of nowhere -- there have been indications of something like this coming along. Still, doesn't mean it's not a complete and utter shock. Live news updates here: BBC News Live: UK Riots. ETA: I am also finding this hugely educational: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tyrell has compiled quotes from the UK airways and sites from the past three days. Makes for one hell of an interesting read.
In other news, my plans to get a life have yet again been thwarted. You know how I was hoping to move to Sofia and get a new job and stuff? Yeah, not happening any time soon. That colleague I was filling in for when I should have been going away -- yeah. Turns out she has terminal lung cancer. They give her 5 months at most. It's... kind of a shock. So I'm basically taking over her job, and my other colleague has just all of a sudden started acting really odd, like the boss is now obligated to tell her everything about any and all developments he's planning, like it's her right to know -- which, okay, boss, you know? It's your job, you're supposed to adjust to it when it's not an unreasonable request -- and it isn't, it's logical and it'll help develop the hospital beautifully. So it's looking like she's going to quit, too, so I'm going to have to train up two new people, and another sometime later. Which means is going to be a long and hard few months. I'm kind of in a bit of a daze right now, with all this stuff going on everywhere.
On a positive note -- we have booked our family holiday! \0/ We're going to a small family hotel near Kavala, Greece: me, my parents, my sister, and baby Nicky. Six whole days away, with nothing but sun, sea, sand -- OH GOD, YES PLEASE. I am taking my laptop, natch, and I'm kind of hoping to get a new phone by then, too, that's internet-enabled (delicatale, I'm looking at you and grinning ;D). At least I hope I will, maybe for my birthday? I'm going to be spending my 30th birthday with my closest family. Kind of everything I was hoping for, at this stage. I just hope it won't all get fucked by said colleague. We've booked the hotel, which is a three-hour drive from where I live, so YOU KNOW, NICE AND ACCESSIBLE. I really, REALLY hope I get to go. And so I'm hoping to be able to post by H50 Big Bang on 20th Aug instead of 27th, since we leave on 26th. Just waiting on my artist now.
Okay, enough moaning. I now direct you to these amazing X-Men illustrations byloobeeinthesky, which, okay, I was staring at Erik all morning. <3
In that vein, I can now announce that I have started writing a sequel for First Impressions. When I emailed her to freak out at her,zolac_no_miko laughed and laughed and laughed at me. :DDD I CAN'T HELP IT WHEN MY NEED FOR REGENCY MARRIAGE/DOMESTIC FLUFF TAKES OVER. >.>;;
In conclusion: happy birthday,somehowunbroken!! I hope you had a lovely day! <3
tyrell has compiled quotes from the UK airways and sites from the past three days. Makes for one hell of an interesting read.In other news, my plans to get a life have yet again been thwarted. You know how I was hoping to move to Sofia and get a new job and stuff? Yeah, not happening any time soon. That colleague I was filling in for when I should have been going away -- yeah. Turns out she has terminal lung cancer. They give her 5 months at most. It's... kind of a shock. So I'm basically taking over her job, and my other colleague has just all of a sudden started acting really odd, like the boss is now obligated to tell her everything about any and all developments he's planning, like it's her right to know -- which, okay, boss, you know? It's your job, you're supposed to adjust to it when it's not an unreasonable request -- and it isn't, it's logical and it'll help develop the hospital beautifully. So it's looking like she's going to quit, too, so I'm going to have to train up two new people, and another sometime later. Which means is going to be a long and hard few months. I'm kind of in a bit of a daze right now, with all this stuff going on everywhere.
On a positive note -- we have booked our family holiday! \0/ We're going to a small family hotel near Kavala, Greece: me, my parents, my sister, and baby Nicky. Six whole days away, with nothing but sun, sea, sand -- OH GOD, YES PLEASE. I am taking my laptop, natch, and I'm kind of hoping to get a new phone by then, too, that's internet-enabled (
delicatale, I'm looking at you and grinning ;D). At least I hope I will, maybe for my birthday? I'm going to be spending my 30th birthday with my closest family. Kind of everything I was hoping for, at this stage. I just hope it won't all get fucked by said colleague. We've booked the hotel, which is a three-hour drive from where I live, so YOU KNOW, NICE AND ACCESSIBLE. I really, REALLY hope I get to go. And so I'm hoping to be able to post by H50 Big Bang on 20th Aug instead of 27th, since we leave on 26th. Just waiting on my artist now.Okay, enough moaning. I now direct you to these amazing X-Men illustrations by
loobeeinthesky, which, okay, I was staring at Erik all morning. <3In that vein, I can now announce that I have started writing a sequel for First Impressions. When I emailed her to freak out at her,
zolac_no_miko laughed and laughed and laughed at me. :DDD I CAN'T HELP IT WHEN MY NEED FOR REGENCY MARRIAGE/DOMESTIC FLUFF TAKES OVER. >.>;;In conclusion: happy birthday,
somehowunbroken!! I hope you had a lovely day! <3
