Sad how many of my blog posts have ended up titled as such, and are likely to continue being logged as such. Ah well, I don’t care enough to theme the titles with anything.

Incidents in my personal life seem to be lining up for a monster train wreck in the next few months, hopefully I can manage to make myself focus on it mitigating the disaster into something manageable. In the meantime though, I continue to stick my fingers in my ears and la-la-la my cares away as much as I possibly can.

Work just got interesting, and not in a good way. Temp position and all, one of the other good temps left last week, and on Friday we got two new hires that are worse than my mom(no offense, mom!) with computers. In a tech support role. I’ve worked with these sort of people in the past, and they can be taught to do the job with the right prompting, but they really should have known better than to attempt it. Especially not with the 3/4 day training of watching us and playing around on an open system. Today was their first day on the phones. The other still-there temp was a few hours late. I was their only resource for 4 hours. I was also trying to take calls of my own. I didn’t have any caffeine in my system/at hand. And it was Monday. Here I thought it was Friday the 13th itself that was supposed to be unlucky, not just heralding it for a future date.

I came home and treated myself to 3 hours of the freshly released Paper Mario on the Wii VC, and it was good. Tomorrow morning is going to bring the pain right back though. Sigh.

I guess I’ve gotten myself sidetracked on the other show writeups, and they’ve gone and advanced their storylines enough that I need to do some revising, but hopefully I can get to them before too long. We’re also into the summer season right now and a couple shows are looking interesting. First there’s Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei – Goodbye Mr. Despair, an offbeat comedy about a teacher that can do naught but see the negative and a female student who sees nothing but the positive as they go through the school year. Full of nonsense words and puns and random dialogue on chalkboards, it looks to be a fantastically surreal/absurd show. Second is CODE-E, done by Studio DEEN(of Read or Die TV), about a girl who causes electronics to malfunction just by getting too close, taking them out altogether when she gets really nervous, which she does whenever she starts getting too close to electronics, a vicious cycle that’s forced her and her family to be constantly moving. And the male lead is a huge computer/science geek, naturally. Lastly for the moment is Baccano which isn’t quite out yet, but looks to be a fantastic show based off a series of novels about some 20s/30s NYC gangsters and some mysterious spooky stuff.

Summer’s American TV isn’t too bad either, with Eureka coming back for more on Sci-Fi and Burn Notice on USA. Burn Notice is really interesting, about a spy who gets Burned, cut off from above with no reason why, and stuck in Miami with no way out. With his limited resources- namely his Ex-IRA Ex-Girlfriend Fiona, his washout skirt-chasing spook buddy (Bruce Campbell), and his hyper-manipulative mother- he’s trying to figure out why he was Burned and get back into the agency. In the meantime, he’s taking on small investigations that come his way to pay the bills, giving us some satisfying spook action from week to week. Best part of it all though is that its the creation of an actual ex-spook who went through similar, and he happens to hang around one of my online haunts, talking extensively about his experiences and stuff with the show, a fairly unique opportunity as it isn’t staged like the post-Heroes chats or anything.

Bleh, late, time to sleep.