Someone's Got A Case of the Monday's
Can you guess the flick? The ever classic Office Space. Damn I love that movie. I even watched it for a class once, and it wasn't even a film class. One summer I was take a semester's worth of credits, mostly upper level stuff so I could graduate already (the five year plan), and I was taking two sociology courses at the same time. It was kind of funny, because one was the about the sociology of the family and the other was about technology, so that day, in the morning class on family we watched American Beauty and in the afternoon it was Office Space. Good day of class, I must admit.
If you liked Office Space, I highly recommend this series from the BBC called The Office. It's hilarious. Its a mockumentary of everyday office life of a paper company in Britain somewhere and the main character is hilarious, for all the wrong reasons. He's such an egomaniac that his only goal at work is to be well liked. He forego's doing any actual work in the name of being popular with his employees. If anything breaks his fragile little ego he goes so far out of his way to correct it and massage his ego, that the things he does are just hilarious. Its painful to watch and you're thanking your lucky stars that you don't have to work for someone like that. Check it out. I highly recommend it, along with Coupling, another BBC series that NBC tried to Americanize this year and failed miserably with. But the UK version is hilarious. Sadly, I think they're trying to Americanize The Office as well, and I just don't think it will work.
So anyway, its Monday and I wish it wasn't. I'm tired from the weekend, really tired, but it was all worth it, since I had a blast with Elena being home. Dinner was really fun on Saturday and Sunday morning we just hung out at my house, being lazy and catching up on all the TV I've been taping for her. I took her home around 1 PM since she had to work, then went back to her house after The Sopranos were over so we could watch last nights episode together. Really good episode by the way. I'm really interested in where everything is going this season and how they're going to end it up, since there's only 4 weeks left.
Back to work and back to the real world, which is never fun sometimes. Did have a good weekend so I can't complain. Besides, even if I didn't work today, Elena is, so its not like we could've hung out anyway. Won't see her until Wednesday night, which is OK. Like I said, I'm thankful for whatever time I get to spend with her, especially when it doesn't involve me having to fly across the ocean.
And thats about it. Been playing around at work with this new wireless keyboard and mouse combo we got free for ordering a few new machines from Dell. No way we, as the all powerful and mighty IT department would ever let our end users have something as geeky cool as this. It would just be a nightmare to support and then they'd all want them. I'm digging it so far, a new keyboard takes a little getting used to, but its all good.
So, to sum up. Its Monday, which sucks. Had a good weekend, which is always good. Hoping to have a good week, which would be nice since I want the hours at work to fly by. And with that, I'm out!
Comments
Apparently there are some things the British just do better! Office Space is just a movie that everyone must watch, people make so many references to it that you feel left out if you don't.
That and Michael Moore films... who would have thought he and Office Space would be must sees?
Posted by: Jenniy | May 3, 2004 3:51 PM