So, I’ve been not blogging this week, mainly due to work (one tedious essay completed, another one due, also a dissertation presentation - I am really regretting taking the Management of Technology course I did last week), another essay returned with a not-so-good mark, random fits of depression, fubarred sleep patterns, people happily fucking about with my schedule as they please, and other such unwholesome delights. Sorry.

Anyway, I’m not one to get too down, and if Arsenal win the cup final against “them” tomorrow I could be a good deal happier (as will Wil Wheaton, possibly). We’re wearing red for the match (Man U fans protesting against Glazer’s takeover will be wearing black as a protest, forgetting that as that’s the colour of United’s away strip, so will everybody else), which apparently makes you more likely to win (as Brazil and Real Madrid will testify). CSKA Moscow hopefully started a trend for teams in red this week.

It’s not been all doom and gloom of late. Last night, after failing spectacularly to arrange a trip to see Star Wars III (though after seeing this I probably wouldn’t be able to take it seriously), I instead watched the highly delightful In The Thick Of It on the BBC, the sort-of “Yes, Minister” for the 21st century (”Yes, Spin Doctor”?). Although the tyrannical foul-mouthed “PM’s enforcer” in the programme is just a little too familiar and one-dimensional, the programme itself is still quite nicely worked. While it relies on the wobbly, faux fly-on-the-wall camera technique of “The Office”, it isn’t anywhere near as cringe-inducing (for example, the made-up-on-the-spot abomination of the press conference Chris Langham’s character fields, the centrepiece of the first episode’s plot, is not even screened, merely talked about). Instead the action concentrates on the characters struggling with each other’s ineptitude (the bit where they come up with a policy of compulsory plastic bag ownership while brainstorming for ideas is particularly hilarious), rather than making fools of themselves. All in all it’s quite pleasing. Just a pity it’s only on BBC4 and not available to everyone on BBC2. Maybe it’ll repeat at some godforsaken time of the day.

This entry was posted on Friday, May 20th, 2005 at 20:33:53 and is filed under General.