The Importance of Being Idle

Return Of The Jedi

Today was the day I assembled my appeal against my dismissal. It's been on my mind a lot over the past couple of days, and I hardly slept at all last night as (bizarrely) quite a lot of it came to me in a semi-dream state that seemed to sort everything into a useful order. It was good though, really good. Once I'd typed it all up, and proof read it, it stood at two pages of A4 which didn't just whine that I thought things were a bit unfair, it used their own rules to utterly demolish their argument, taking it to bit piece by piece until there was nothing left. I was thorough, quoting the employee handbook and their own correspondence with me, and as you've probably gathered by now, I was really impressed with my work!
Sadly I doubt it will make a difference. Although the appeals process exists for a reason (probably 'cos it looks good), I don't honestly think they're going to overturn the decision, no matter how brilliant my counter arguments are; I can't see them allowing me back in knowing that they tried to fire me, and failed because I'm smarter than they are. Still, it'd be nice to get the job back, if only for the short term, 'cos it would solve the whole "paying the bills" crisis.
The rest of the day just seems to have evaporated into a lot of little things I've had to do, mainly laundry. I was supposed to clean the bathroom and have still yet to get round to it.
Oddly I've had 80s one hit wonders in my head all day since I woke up (currently it's The Look and their infectious/irritating hit "I Am The Beat"), which is slightly worrying (although the fact that even though I was thinking about it this morning, and I can't remember what the earlier tunes were, is even MORE disturbing. Then you have to worry about how much not just of what is occurring now is hallucination, but how much of your memory is too, and once you go there then your whole life, experience and personality are just in the wind...). How is it that my brain is playing back themed hallucinations? I had another disturbing thought last night, about the function of my brain and the overall nature of reality, something which in a true Lovecraftian tradition was simply too horrifying to contemplate, although I had meant to come back to it in the light of day and give it a good ponder (cos these things are always safer with the lights on). Sadly I can't remember what it was, only the feeling of opening an abyss in my soul when it first occured to me. Must've been really good, mustn't it?
With Comic Con going on (as it is. Once upon a not too long ago it was my greatest desire in life to attend this event) many future genre films are attempting to garner a little favourable publicity for themselves. I cannot, however, be the only one who could care less about JJ Abrams attempts to relaunch the Star Trek franchise, surely? I mean, he took the most predictable and frankly boring approach he could've (yeah, he's doing young Kirk and Spock adventures) and... well I don't really have an "and", and to be honest I don't think I need one. I just know that as of right this moment, I don't care about this movie, and I'll take some serious persuading (which I seem to recall saying about King Kong and Transformers, and we all know how they turned out. Be prepared to see me rave uncontrollably about how great the new 'Trek movie is in about a years time...). So it really bugs me that all the movie sites seem to be covering this press conference in ridiculous detail, and also getting stupidly excited about the Cloverfield project. WHY?? The man is at best a mediocre writer, and although his set-ups can be damn good (maybe even too good) his follow through just isn't there (witness Alias, Lost, Mission Impossible III) and I can almost guarantee you right now, that no matter what the movie is, what the set-up, the third act is going to be a pile of shite and you'll be left thinking it wasn't a patch on The Host (assuming you've had the good sense to see that). There's one movie I want to know more about right now, just one, and it's Iron Man! I KNOW they screened early footage yesterday, I read the description and it sounds amazing, but somehow the internet is letting me down I can't find it anywhere! Help me! I just want to see some footage from the Iron Man movie dammit! Is that so much to ask?
Incidentally, I'm reading some of Marvel's recent Civil War now, and Iron Man is being a dick. It's a very cool story indeed and I'm excited to see how it turns out...

posted by BadMonkey @ 4:22 PM