i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

in honor of labor day, today i ... went to work, even though the rest of systems¹ had the day off. but only sort of went to work. i sat in my office and ran ghost images on new computers and surfed the internet while the images ran, mostly so i wouldn't have to do it tomorrow.

the other thing is that my big academic passion, since high school, has been w.s. gilbert, as in gilbert and sullivan. if i ever went and got a phd in english, i'd write my thesis about the satire in gilbert's works as influenced by the victorian culture he was writing in. i've been carting around a box of index cards literally since high school, each card with a different quote on it, something relating to this thesis i thought i was going to write someday. i probably won't ever write it, but i can't stop doing the research, and so today after i finished ghosting the machines at work, i went over to davis from the undergrad library and checked out about fourteen books on gilbert's life and works that i'd never read before.

... i am unquestionably the biggest dork ever. so now that y'all know i am basically a loser, let's talk about tv, okay? good.

( watching monk season one )

( watching due south season one )

but when it comes right down to it, season three is distinctly lacking in horse-related shenanigans, and also fraser in jeans. two things of which i am very fond.

this morning the icat barfed on my copy of "what is a marc record, and why is it important?" i suppose i now know his views on the anglo american cataloging rules (2nd edition), and to be honest, i have to admit that i share them.

in conclusion, ray kowalski.

1: i am working for systems in the davis library, the main library on campus, in the desktop group, which basically means i spend twenty hours a week installing preset images onto new lab computers and pulling harddrives out of old lab computers and writing webpages. i have my own office. my boss TOLD me to install aim on my computer. no one checks my history or my internet use stats. pretty much it rocks.

so unemployment? totally conducive to watching lots of tv.

dr. who: ( vague spoilers all the way through the end of parting of the ways )

so. you guys who wanted to know what i thought of dr. who? i thought it was perfect. i wouldn't have changed a thing.

slings & arrows: paul gross is so pretty and so crazy and i was a theater major and this show is the best thing ever in the whole world. um. i mean. HI.

monk: i started watching this in july when i was home, because momcat loves it and there was a marathon on usa on the fourth of july, but the more i see - the tivo gets every new episode for me, plus a handful of reruns every week - the more i'm charmed by it. it's not a very good cop show, per se, and i prefer sharona in the early episodes to natalie in the new season, but tony shaloub is so fucking charming, even when monk is a frustrating, hard-to-like character, and the mysteries are always interesting even when the cop-ness of the show isn't very good. and this past week's episode, when monk got drunk, was one of the hands down funniest things i've ever seen. hilarious. usa, you get big points for this show.