rumors of our corporate demise are, so far, still overstated

[rivendellrose]

Survived meeting. Did not so much see Obama as was stuck in a stopped charter bus in the middle of a bridge for about 20 minutes experiencing the fact that authorities had shut temporarily closed off the freeway in order to allow his motorcade to pass (an understandable inconvenience), and heard after the fact that someone in a seaplane accidentally violated the no-fly zone over his visit and was forced into an emergency landing by fighter jets that appeared with a sonic boom. At the very sea-plane harbor that I frequent (ish) for my occasional jaunts to the San Juan Islands, no less. Kind of sorry I missed that, I'm sure it caused no end of confusion for the very nice folks at the little airline there.

Anyway. We're bought (or is that owned, now?), we have a lot of paperwork and other HR stuff headed our way, and they gave each of us little welcome goodie bags with a nice new coffee cup and an anti-grav pen (the kind that can write upside-down, I mean) and a notebook and stuff, all branded with their logo. Which is... kind of odd, now. Equally odd that our company colors have changed. And that (apparently unrelated, but a change that also went through today) I have a different manager than I did yesterday. It's all a little confusing, but... so far, so good?

Anyway, I'm just working on some editing, and since my brain seems to be trying to melt out my ears I thought I'd throw out a meme, from several people but most recently alto2:

Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! Fandoms, books I might get around to writing one day, women in my fandoms, ideal holiday destinations, goals for the future, celebrity crushes, books I wish would be made into movies, love songs. And I will answer them all in a new post (or in comments).

I can't promise I'll have clever answers, but I'll try to at least have answers.

Comments

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Top five movies you watch after a bad day.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Ooo, good one. In no particular order:

1. Love Actually
2. Sense and Sensibility (the Emma Thompson production)
3. Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog (it totally counts)
4. Hellboy 2
5. Dogma

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Three Alan Rickmans, two Emma Thompsons. Not bad. I consider Sense and Sensibility to be a Perfect Film; there's not a wrong note in any department the whole thing.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I kind of love both of them stupidly. ♥

Sense and Sensibility really is a fantastic film, isn't it? It's fantastically understated - nothing loud or in-your-face, just plain lovely.

[vjs2259.livejournal.com]

5 favorite characters (tv, movie, book, or otherwise) that you wish you'd invented.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Oh, gosh. That's... that's definitely a tough one.

1. Festina Ramos, heroine extraordinaire of the "Expendable" books by James Alan Gardner.

2. Granny Weatherwax, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. (hmm, I seem to be heavy on the "bad-ass" in this list...)

3. Hellboy, of Mike Mignola's eponymous series. Of course, then it wouldn't be him drawing the series, which would have ruined a lot of the awesome about the series. Alas.

4. Delenn (because why on earth not??)

5. Buffy, of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Because I do love her very dearly, and because there's no way that wouldn't be a character you could make a big break with.