Horror and Offices

Last night I booked a ticket for a special one-off screening of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on Tuesday. It's a silent movie from 1919 and is being shown with live musical accompaniment so that should be really good. I'm going with the Horror Group. Mostly it was a fairly quiet evening I watched an episode of the US version of The Office, which I think is a really funny show. It's very different to the original Ricky Gervais version, but they are both good in their own ways.

This morning at work I had a meeting with the boss about my on-going training and developemnt and whatnot. It went pretty well. I'd been working hard and they seemed happy enough with my progress. The fire alarm went as well this morning, which meant standing around for about half an hour in the freezing cold. I think the alarm had gone off by mistake. The problem with the fire alarms is that we all have to congregate in the car park and we're only allowed back into the office though the main entrance and the only way to get there from the car park is up a narrow staircase which always becomes completely jammed with people and there's a big crush.

Anyway, I got home at about half past six and had a microwave king prawn, tomato and pasta ready meal. Tonight I'll be getting to bed early so I can get into work for seven in the morning. That means that I can do a six hour day and leave at one, go up to the comic-book store to get my comics for the week and then head back home. In the evening I'm off to the movies to watch Carrie with the Horror Group, so it should hopefully be a good day.I always find it really difficult getting up so early on Fridays, but it is definitely worth it when it means I can leave work at lunchtime.

The Naked Gun

Last night I was watching the 1988 comedy film The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, directed by David Zucker, and based on the short-lived 1982 TV series Police Squad!. In the film the inept Lieutenant Frank Drebin (played by Leslie Nielsen) has to foil an assassination plot against Queen Elizabeth II who is arrivng on a state visit to Los Angeles. The movie is very fast-paced and very funny. The movie constantly spoofs cop and detective movie cliches and it works by pretty much throwing joke after joke at the viewer, in fact there is barely a second in the film where there is not some kind of gag somewhere. Most of the jokes work really well. It also feature OJ Simpson in more innocent times as an accident prone detective.

It was another quiet day at work, with the only excitement being the fact that the fire alarm rang at about quarter past five, and so we were all trooped out, the firemen came to have a look around. They left after about quarter of an hour and then about five minutes later we were allowed back into the building. I don't know what the alarm was about.

Fire Drill

It was another really quiet day at work. More or less the same as usual. There was a fire drill at around lunchtime which provided some excitement and so we were all herded out into the car park and, after a quarter of an hour or so, herded back in again.

I'm off work tomorrow anyway so that should be good. I'm taking it off so I can go and get some tickets for the Film Festival. I'll have to decide what I want to book for. There's certainly plenty on offer, anyway!