Wednesday, May 13, 2009

You can't take the sky from me...

Heya folks. its not going to be a very long or interesting post today, but im just gonna churn a few things out. keep y'all updated.


in all actuality, nothing has happened since last i posted. life goes on as normal. go fig.

im pretty much all ready to go for my trip this year. i cant believe i leave in 2 weeks! less than that, in fact. its madness i tells ya. i still need to get insurance, but im gonna try and pick that up today.

i actually finish work this week (yay!) on saturday, and then next week my older brother and I are going camping in north devon. i hope the weather is nice. its been kinda windy and damp this week, but it was pretty nice last week, and im hoping it'll be nice next week.

our new assistant manager started work this week. apparently she used to work for one of the other stores in our area, and some of our staff who used to work for that store also before coimng to work for us have told us that she's a real bitch. lots of stories about how horrible she is. i havent seen any evidence yet (she's only worked one day so far) but it doesnt particularly bother me, since im leaving on saturday. :p

yesterday was actually a weird day at work. for starters, i turned up at work at 9am because when i wrote my shifts down, that is what i was due to work yesterday. EXCEPT, when i got to work, i found out it hd been changed and nobody had told me. i was actually meant to work the 11am shift. there was no point in me leaving and coming back for 11am as i live too far away from the store, and all the shops in the local area are closed at 9am in the morning. so i worked yesterday from 9am till 8pm. my boss said he was gonna pay me for the two extra hours...he'd better! i dont even know why we have a rota, it keeps changing all the time.

anyway, the day got a bit weirder later. my boss had another one of his "great ideas" and wanted us to pitch up a tent on display. which is fine, we have a couple of tents out on display anyway. except he wanted us to take the tent upstairs to the main floor and pitch it UPSIDE DOWN on the CEILING.

well, who are we to argue. so we took the tent he selected (Which ended up being quite a big tent) and attached it to the ceiling. i have a nasty feeling that it wont stay up there very long (and will probably take someone out when it comes down) and also, to be honest, it looks...rediculous. but hey, we had fun putting it up. sorta. XD


so yeah. weird day yesterday.

i bought a whole bunch of stuff the other day. i managed to find some choice items in Forbidden Planet. i got a couple of novels, Wolfs Rain OST, Yozakura Quartet manga vol 4 and i also picked up the "Firefly" boxset.

i had seen the movie "Serenity" first, and quite enjoyed it, and recently, whilst re-watching the movie, i decided to try and find the original series on DVD. "Firefly" was cancelled after only one season, but i dont know why...its really well done. its written well, the actors are good, the special effects are pretty good, its very funny, the music is good. i guess FOX had a reason, but it cant have been a very good one. im glad they made the movie, despite the series being cancelled. its been very interesting watching the original series, all of a sudden some of the nuances of the movie all make sense. ha ha!
i've got a couple more episodes to watch, but its definitely become one of my top five favourite sci-fi series...

its the little things that make "Firefly" a winner for me... like when the crew are in space and the camera does a fly past of the ship, or something explodes, theres no sound...because there wouldnt be in the vacuum of space. its probably worked out like that to reduce the budget on sound effects, but it kinda ends up adding to the realism.

the other part is the off-beat humour and clever writing. Joss Whedon sure knows how to write a good series. parts of this show have had me rolling with laughter. ^^

so yeah: Firefly = Good. i know my good friend Ooukumae likes this show...i can see why. ^^

well, thats it from me.. i guess it turned out to be a decent length post from me. ^^;

hopefully next time i'll have some comics or something to show y'all.

till next time!

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me

Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me

There's no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me...

- The Ballad of Serenity
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