So Goddamn Tired...

[skull_bearer]

So, to recap. I got up this morning at 7am (on absolutely zilch hours sleep because Life Hates Me and my insomnia is playing up again), in order to take first the train and then the tube to Kingston, beause I had an interview for a job there. What job? I still don't know. It's one of those weird multinational companies who just want generic staff. The problem was, they wanted my CV, and I had no more copies. So yesterday I traipsed around for ages trying to find a Internet caf with a printer. Now, problem number two, I needed to dress neatly. Not just neatly, but neatly, as in a suit.

Do I need to mention that Skull Bearer has never worn a suit in her life? Thought not. So cobbled together a shirt (which I had to iron, and guess who has never ironed a shirt before? No prizes), a pair of neat trousers, and, since I didn't have any neat shoes, my doc martins (useful note, if you wear docs and pull your trouser legs over them, they look kinda like neat shoes). Problem number three, I haven't worn my docs since last year. My heels are one big blister.

Anyway, I got to the interview, and you know what? I think I made a good impression. I was neat, I was polite, I answered most of the questions well, and though the whole bloody procedure took three hours, I was patient.

I then went back to London, and bought the best anti-blister plasters I could find. I kiss the boots of whoever invented them.

And then, since I was feeling restless, and was in Waterloo. I put my hat one, tucked my trousers intop my boots in true army style, and decided to pay the Imperial War Museum another visit- without the psychic problem this time. So, more walking, although it didn't hurt so much. The Imperial War Museum has a very scary bit about nuclear weapons and the whole Cuban missile crisis (in other words, how the world only just avoided being blown up), between the booklets and the various 'procedures' explained for surviving a nuclear attack... brrr, even Lovecraft isn't that scary (because mad things with tentacles have one redeeming feature: they don't exist). They also apparently sell the book 'When the Wind Blows' by Raymond Briggs, the problem is, they sell it in the kid's section, so when I got there, the shop was closed (not just that, but... 'When the Wind Blows'? A kid's book? I sure as hell wouldn't let any of my kids near it).

Then I went home, only I got off the tube a bit early, because guess who wanted to do a bit more walking?

My feet hurt.

Comments

[lycoris.livejournal.com]

I actually found you on my friendsfrinds list (don't know if you've come across that ... you can read any unlocked posts that anyone on your friend's friends pages has made. It can be quite fun although it annoys me deeply sometimes because mostly, it's community posts and communities are only fun if you know/care what the community is about!) But when I looked at your profile, the only person we have in common is delfeus so it's her fault. :)

I have avoided the works of HP Lovecraft, not totally intentionally. However, what I have heard in general suggests that me with my wussy nature would be better far away from these books!

Maybe reading all of "When the Wind Blows" will make it less traumatising? Sort of confronting fear, perhaps. It can work. :)

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

Maybe reading all of "When the Wind Blows" will make it less traumatising? Sort of confronting fear, perhaps. It can work. :)

Maybe, although I've a feeling I'm not going to be able to turn off the lights at night for a looong time.

HP Lovecraft is brilliant. Seriously, read him. Some sweet darling uploaded all this works to the internet here for free: http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html

I would recc 'The Colour Out of Space' for sheer amazing coolness and bloody scaryness, although it might be a bit much. 'The Cats of Ulthar' is not too scary, rather creepy, and quite short, so it's a good one to start off on. 'The Silver Key' was sacry simply because Lovecraft seemed to have taken me for inspiration for that one ;)
'The Call of Cthulhu' is pretty good, if a bit long and the ending a bit anti-climatic.

Oh, and of course, to link both the topics together, we have 'A Colder War', which wasn't written by Lovecraft (bless the man, he encouraged people write fanfics for his world), but is a nasty, scary and freaky idea of what the cold war might have been like if the governments had had access to Lovecraftian technology. It was one of the first things I read, and I was hooked.
'A Colder War' is here: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

Sleep well.