As much as I might bitch about the cold, winter is always my favourite season.
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As much as I might bitch about the cold, winter is always my favourite season.
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I think most of you out there know how much I love zombies.
Anyway, I was sat around at work, everything is dead (pun was really not intended) because people just aren’t buying houses right now and I was using my empty time to think about zombies (as you do). I was thinking how someone really ought to make a reality show Big Brother/movie type cross over where a housemate is infected by a zombie and then we all slowly watched the rest fight it out to see who could survive. Even cooler, what about if 28 days later had a reality show spin off..where the whole of humanity turn into zombies and the contestants know nothing about it until eviction night. I think it would work really well if it is done along the same lines as Shaun of the Dead and it is about the only way Big Brother would be remotely watchable.
Plus it would really inject some life (again, not intended) into reality shows because people are just so bored with them.
Turns out E4 blatantly stole my idea..about a year before I even had it. There is a show called Dead Set which is basically that premise. I am now on a mission to track down the episodes so I can get my zombie on.
So yes, that is pretty much what I do at work when it is quiet. Sit around and think of zombies. Or Unicorns and on the odd occasion I think about bacon.
Last year the Psychology department threw a Christmas party for all the third years, staff and postgraduates. Lots of free alcohol, food and some random people walking around singing. Only about 20 people showed up so there was a massive alcohol to people ratio which is usual for a Christmas party right?
This year I got my email invite to the party again..but this time there is a cap on the drink..one drink when you present a voucher.
One?
Uno?
What kind of party gives you one drink? That means everyone stays sober and there are no famous after party stories to cause endless embarrassment. Jeez it is not like us postgraduates are unruly or anything, we are usually too busy keeping the staff in check..
I guess the Psychology department are really feeling the credit crunch* this winter.
(*and can I just say how much I HATE that term. It is as bad as the bloody ‘carbon footprint’. Everyone wonders round peppering their conversations with these buzz words in an effort to make it sound like they know what they are talking about when in actual fact they don’t. Quit it.)
At school we had sex education when we were about 11 or so. It was awful and embarrassing..all the parents were called in to review the material beforehand and raise any issues about what they were showing us. Only one parent complained and tried to insist we shouldn’t have sex education. Mine. It was one of those awful videos which shows naked people sat around talking, a quick diagram of the act and then it quickly moved on to the implications of having sex, from disease to pregnancy. It was painful for all of us because we already had a good idea of what sex was all about and this ancient video was just plain amusing.
How times have changed (yeah I sound like I am 60), I was scanning through the TV channels earlier this morning and came across a kids tv show on one of the main channels which was covering sex in this particular episode.
First they were talking about positions, the most popular being doggy style and boy did they go into detail, including the use of various household objects or toys you might just, at the age of 11, have laying around.
Then they went off into the street to discuss with the public the ups and downs of faking orgasms along with asking if it was important to reach orgasm during sex. They covered gay sex. They also (which was mortifying, even for me) went up to a bunch of the kids parents and asked them what their turn-ons and fantasies were. Before asking which position they most favoured, while the child psychologists gleefully rubbed their hands together thinking about the hours of therapy needed after that particular revelation.
I am pretty confident that if this was the material shown to the parents when I was at school then my mum would have dropped dead on the spot.
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Somedays getting sick and being sent home early from work has its plus sides. Normally I get home after dark but as I got up onto my deck I noticed the sunset so sickness or not I thought I should get the camera out.
Now, all I need is someone to cook me dinner so I don’t have to move again. Any takers?
Everytime I turn on the radio I hear something about carbon footprints. How to save energy by switching off appliances when they are not in use (no really you don’t say!) etc etc.
I hear it so much now that it is starting to make me a little insane.
Just now I log into my Uni database and am greeted with this, my impact since 2006:

I then stood up, opened the door out of my office and threw myself under the oncoming bus. That should reduce my carbon footprint no?