bluecastle | You know it's a good Friday when...

Your boss comes by with your yearly evaluation and gives you the top mark possible. Last year the cash strapped University whose Library system I work for nixed all raises. There's talk of a small raise this year. So that would be good. But part of me wonders how I can be among the best of the employees. I could be so much better if more was demanded of me. But as long as my boss thinks I'm doing a bang up job, who am I to disagree??

Also, he wants to reward my "success" with more work. I got the usual speech about looking for some additional training in copyright law ... but also, we've got an employee leaving who's been in charge of updating our website. He wants me to think about taking that over. There'd be a bit of a learning curve as we're implementing some kind of management system/software that I've heretofore ignored as it didn't have anything to do with me. But now I guess I've gotta pay attention!

I always say I'm punished for my competence. But the website stuff could be interesting, so I'm kinda into it.

Acting class was rather abbreviated last night as Director Cee was out sick, and my scene partner and I were both tired and not inclined to push ourselves. I spent a lot of it answering her questions about new new Who as she taped Tennant's finale episode(s) and was hoping to jump into watching Who with the new guy. I had to sort of stop and think about how it would be for 11 to be your first Doctor.

I got hooked originally during high school mumblety-years ago when they were airing it on the local Public Television station. I probably saw most of Four and Five, and must have seen some previous as I remember black and white episodes. I had a scarf in college, and the floppy brown hat ... and a shirt with questions marks drawn on the collar.

So she was all "so WHO is the Doctor" which made me smile, and I gave her a very abbreviated rundown ...

She reciprocated by telling me that the guy who played Jamie McCrimmon for all those episodes is slated to be at Dragon*Con this year! That's sort of cool, isn't it? She had no idea who he was ... LOL ... But we'll hook her on the new guy (she'll adore Amy, I'm sure of that), and then we'll get her caught up on the previous Doctors!

Maybe she can get me caught up on Buffy ... anyone who can win a Buffy costume competition at D*C (with a killer Halloween Buffy, pink gown) has got to know her stuff!

Auditions for summer community theater tonight. Gotta tweak my vitae into something more condensed to staple to the audition form, and figure out what to wear. It's got to be something distinct enough to catch the director's eyes, but not so distinctive that it distracts. I have some ideas, but it will no doubt be one of those nights where I try on 17 outfits and fling them all over my bedroom when I decide I hate them. :D

So that's me today. Having lots of good ideas for my Big Ass Bang story ... I know what the plot arc is, even if I don't know how I'm going to get Jack from point A to point B (nor, indeed how he got TO point A) ... but there's lots of good thematic stuff swirling around in my head.

Also, I'll be glad when Tuesday rolls around and I can post my dark_fest fic. I sort of hate it right now, and I will be glad to release it to the world and stop fretting over it.