My God, work is ridiculous. I can't wait until I go on holiday.

Everyone is having hysterics, in every department, for different reasons. Those of you who work in retail, it's not just your jobs that go insane! Accounts Payable is so not fun that I feel terribly guilty for leaving The Raccoon to do deal with all this shitski by herself for more than two weeks.

Basically, we're not allowed to cut checks before the end of the year, except for emergencies and rents and phone bills and things like that. I think the idea is to have as little money as possible going out and as much as possible coming in, but unfortunately every other company is doing the same thing, so our phones are ringing off the hook. People are wanting us to pay things that aren't even due.

Ho ho ho.

After work I met Nik and we went to the SAG screening of The Theory of Flight.

Capsule review: bleh.

It had me for awhile, the first act was formulaic, but swell, and I did like Helena Bonham Carter very much (though why must every single handicapped person in the movies these days be so endearingly quirky and wacky?) but they lost me in the second act and I was sneering for the rest of the movie, though Nik liked it.

The thing with formulas is that the reason they are formulas is that they tend to work, but if you leave the formula everything falls apart. You see, Ken Branagh is this emotionally crippled man who becomes a minder to Helena, a physically crippled woman (haven't seen that plot before. This week.) and she has a goal and he has a goal. They each have a thing to do that will make them free.

And in Act II of the movie, he changes his. And he changes his to something really stupid. And it just pulled me out of the movie.

Also, if your symbolism is going to be that blatant, you had better have something else for me to concentrate on. The symbolism was pretty strong in Little Voice, but I didn't mind because the movie just charmed me so. That didn't happen this time.

And I sent out the rest of my Christmas cards!

Well, actually I sent out a bunch before the movie and then when I got home I folded the rest of the cards and put on the labels and all I have to do is put on the postage!

Stay tuned, I might actually do this!

Today's horoscope:
You are quieter than usual, less inclined to reveal your thoughts and feelings. Solitary thinking brings some insights.

One year ago today:
Running out of sausage at 10.40 indeed...

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