SPN

( SPN 7.02 )

Merlin

MERLIN IS BACK AND AS AWESOME AS EVER

( Merlin 4.01 )

In which I was awesome and also drunk

So yesterday afternoon Dan sent me a text and said a bunch of the guys from work were going out for drinks and did I want to come. I nearly said no, but then it occurred to me that I haven't socialised with work AT ALL since I started my job last November. And, really, I had no excuse as I had nothing else planned. So I decided to pop along for a bit, figuring if it was just people talking shop I could leave after a couple of drinks.

I got home at 7:30am this morning. LOL.

I had a brilliant time! We went to a few pubs and then went back to Rachel's house and played Guitar Hero and watched Rocky Horror. So much fun! I sang. Several times. Badly I'm sure but I was too drunk to care.

There was one guy who only seemed to want to talk work but he left fairly soon and the rest of the time was spent drinking and chatting and playing on quiz machines.

Rachel is one of our second line support people which means her job position is one higher than mine. She has the respect of pretty much everyone on the service desk as she's bloody good at her job and really nice to boot. She pulled me aside at one point and said she was glad I came out because she doesn't get the chance to talk to me at work much. She basically told me that I am doing really well at work and that if she had her way I would be second in line for promotion after one other guy who is more experienced than me. It really kind of blew me away as I actually thought I wasn't doing that well at work and I'm still relatively inexperienced compared to the rest of the team.

She basically told me that now I'm settled and know what I'm doing I need to start putting myself out there more and making suggestions for how things can be improved etc. Basically instead of sitting quietly and getting on with my work I need to start drawing attention to myself, try and get little extra projects to do and learn as much as I can so that I'm ready for promotion when a vacancy comes up.

I get the feeling she wants to act as kind of a mentor to me, which suits me fine as, as I've said, I have a lot of respect for her and I trust her to steer me in the right direction.

So, yay me! LOL

I need to start going out with them more often.

Movies

I decided to nurse my hangover and have a movie night tonight. I rented Pirates of the Caribbean 4 and Thor.

PotC 4 was so much worse than I expected. It was overly complicated, there were too many character and I really didn't care about any of them. I missed Norrington and having Groves around wasn't the same without Gillette. Yes, I probably look into this too deeply because PotC was a BIG fandom of mine for quite a long time. I spent most of the film feeling bored and tweeting. If I hadn't paid money to rent it I'd have probably switched it off.

Thor was MUCH better. Nicely acted, I cared about what was happening for the most part and it fit in nicely with the established Marvel movieverse. I AM EXCITED FOR THE AVENGERS MOVIE OMG!

I thought of this randomly today. Whatever happened to the Ant Man movie that was supposed to be being made? It just sort of disappeared. Is it because everyone hates Hank Pym?

So, anyway, that was my night. Now I'm going to read fic in bed like a productive member of society ;)

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I forgot to say thanks on account of getting the notification while I was drunk in the pub but the amazing akadougal renewed my LJ paid account for a year.

I don't deserve you, darling, really