I don't post in this thing often enough, so here are a few atypical things that have happened to me in the past week.


-Came into work Wednesday afternoon, and when I went up to the floor where only us building employees can go to change into my uniform I found two of the building engineers pulling on Nomex firesuits. Balaclavas, gloves, face shields, the whole works. "Well, that's not ominous in the slightest," I deadpanned.

-Later that night a woman who works in the building called in saying that she had lost her wallet. She was extremely distraught. So distraught that I actually weighed the possibility that she was lying because I didn't think anybody could be quite that hysterical. I calmed her down and got the relevant info, and then I went looking. Found the wallet under her desk. When I called her back to tell her, she called me "an angel."

-The new guard at my site very suddenly no longer works there. None of us really wants to ask whether or not it was related at all to the inappropriate relationship she was having with the supervisor, because that means admitting that we knew about it, which would make said supervisor wonder if we reported them. (As near as I can tell, none of us did, but some were considering it. Nobody particularly cared that they came in together... except that they kept coming in together late. There's no quicker way into the ire of a guard who's just worked a graveyard shift and desperately wants to go home to sleep than by relieving them late.) Or it could have been unrelated... she was pretty sloppy about her work.

-My parents came through town on the weekend for a conference. Took my mom to see some of the tourist sights. It was a new experience for me. You don't really go to the tourist attractions in your own town. Eight years in Seattle and I've never been to the Space Needle. Still haven't. Just isn't that interesting to me. Work sends me to the roof of a 29 story building that gives you a better view than you get at the top of the Space Needle. But my mom and I checked out the Experience Music Project and the Science Fiction Museum, which were both really interesting. There's a hell of a lot more to Seattle's musical history than just grunge. You know the song Louie, Louie? All us, baby.

-Had three friends over to watch the Avatar: The Last Airbender finale. Icy margaritas were supposed to be served, but the ancient blender crapped out. It was a lot of fun. Since they were guys I'd gotten hooked on the show by showing them my DVDs and downloaded episodes, it was the first time that any of them had actually watched the show as it aired.

I've already talked up a storm about the finale on the forums, so I'm just going to summarize: It was extremely awesome but not as good as it could have been if the script had been a little tighter. Some pacing problems (we've had a lot of those in the third season), some out of character moments (those really bug me) and too much deus ex machina. But most won't care, because everything that does work is incredible. I nitpick because I love.

-I think I may have unintentionally inspired a small letter-writing campaign to get three of the most-awesome-yet-under-used main characters on Avatar their own spin-off. Seriously, it wasn't planned or anything. It just sort of happened.



...and how was your week?