Human Resources

Last night I was listening to the first of a two part Doctor Who radio story called "Human Resources", In which Lucie (Sheridan Smith), the Doctor's companion who was kidnapped at the end of the last episode, wakes up to discover that she is in an office at her first day of work. However the office is very strange, in that no-one seems to know in which town they are, and no-one is actually able to leave. When the Doctor (Paul McGann) comes to investigate he discovers that the office is hiding a shocking secret and he encounters some of his oldest enemies. It was a good story. I also listened to the second part of a radio adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel called The Murder at the Vicarage, in which Ms Marple has to investigate, surprisingly enough, a murder at the local village vicarage.

I was reading some of the stories from the Just After Sunset collection by Stephen King. They kind of range from the more famous Stephen King supernatural horror stories to crime thrillers. One thing I like about short story collections is that you know that even if you don't like one story then there's another one coming along soon after.

Later on I watched the 1985 movie Brazil, directed by Terry Gilliam, on TV. The movie tells the story of a timid clerk (played by Jonathan Pryce) who lives in a nightmarish future world, but escapes into his own elaborate fantasy world where he imagines himself as a winged superhero. It's a very good movie, at times very funny and at times being genuinely horrific.

I was back at work today and it was another really dull day. Not much has changed there. One of the strange things about coming back to work after even just a very short time away, is that it very quickly feels as if you've never actually been away.