Focus Group

Last night I was watching the latest episode of The Wire. It's up to the penultimate episode of the fourth season. The season finale is tonight and the fifth (and final) season starts on Thursday. It's strange to think that (at the rate of three episodes a week) they've only got about four weeks worth of episodes to go. I'm actually going to miss that show when it's finished.

I went along to a focus group this morning at work, about how well the IT department had been performing. That was quite a heated debate. Also the fire alarm rang right in the middle of my lunch, which was very annoying. I think it was a false alarm.

I left work early again today, because there just wasn't much point in staying in, so that was a fun change! I used to get into work at about ten in the morning and leave around six, but now I get in before half past eight in the morning and leave around half past four or five, so it's easy for me to make the time so I can have these early days now.

Leaving Early

Last night was really quiet. I was watching the latest episode of The Wire and that was about it.

Today was pretty cool because I left work early. We work on a flexitime system in our office and so we can more or less come and go as we please, as long as we make the hours up. I left at a little before three, instead of five, which is my usual time. There was no particular reason for it, I just more or less decided at random to leave early.

At the moment I'm listening to the audio commentary on one of my Doctor Who DVDs.

Dream Country

Last night I watched the final episode of Psychoville which was really good. That's been a really good and pretty unconventional series, mixing bizarre Gothic horror with conventional sitcom elements. It managed to be consistently pretty scary and gruesome as well as being very funny.

Also last night I started writing some of my own things again, for the first time in a couple of months, so that was pretty good.

Today I got into work at eight o'clock again this morning and, because I had built up so much time during the week. I was able to leave at around two. I got a couple of The Sandman graphic novels be Neil Gaiman. The ones that I got were Dream Country and A Game of You. The Sandman was a comic book series that ran from 1989 to 1996. The Sandman is Morpheus, the personification of Dream, and the series takes in history, fantasy universes, literature and mythology. The comics were always hugely imaginative and entertaining.

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."-The Sandman written by Neil Gaiman.

Flexitime

Last night was pretty quiet again. I watched an episode of The Wire, and, when I had got to bed, I listened to the first part of a Lord of the Rings tape. The tape is of a thirteen part radio adaptation of the book from 1981. Each hour long epsiode is on one tape. So I listened to the first half of the first episode.

I got into work very early again, at about eight in the morning, and had another very quiet and pretty dull day. I made about an hour of flexi-time, so I am intending to leave early tomorrow. I left at around five. I was hoping to find a cheap tape recorder. I used to have one, but I've lost it.

I had some microwave Singapore Noodles, so that was nice. It makes a change from the usual microwave meals. I'm anticipating it being another quiet evening tonight.