satyamev jayate
May. 13th, 2012 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravenHello, flist. Apologies for being quite as crap as I have been being recently. I have a migraine. It's no good at all. I had about fifteen migraines in two weeks, and then on Thursday I started having a migraine that hasn't stopped yet. Three types of pills and a lengthy visit to out-of-hours haven't helped, and although everyone has been very nice (I tweeted about how much I heart NHS Direct - they retweeted me! I thought it was sweet) I am in pain and cranky and very, very worried about work.
(This is because last week I spent several days on my own without a supervisor, which was peaceful but boring as all-get-out, and I started getting very very frustrated; then he came back on Friday and gave me lots to do and it was interesting and started making me feel much less useless. And I already had several late mornings for my migraines - if I have to go off sick this week, I miss two interesting pieces of litigation and the run-up to my own mid-seat review, no. And it's so true that nothing to do makes you feel bad. I had just stopped feeling bad on that account and I'm so not in the mood for that again.)
So that's why I'm a little out of things. To try and keep my mind off things I am watching Satyameve Jayate on YouTube, which I am enjoying thoroughly - I always like it when actors whom I love because they are delectable are also likeable for reasons of being decent human beings, and really, Aamir Khan is - and it's kinda melodramatic and scripted but hey, where's any other show doing what it's doing. So. Y'all should watch it. (I've had no luck finding a version with English subtitles, but will post if I do.) Episode 1 deals with female foeticide, and episode 2, I am told, with child sexual abuse, so this is my trigger warning.
I'm also watching The Golden Girls and thinking about how much I love Bea Arthur. I thought about more Game of Thrones, but somehow I think it would not be so good for the headache.
(This is because last week I spent several days on my own without a supervisor, which was peaceful but boring as all-get-out, and I started getting very very frustrated; then he came back on Friday and gave me lots to do and it was interesting and started making me feel much less useless. And I already had several late mornings for my migraines - if I have to go off sick this week, I miss two interesting pieces of litigation and the run-up to my own mid-seat review, no. And it's so true that nothing to do makes you feel bad. I had just stopped feeling bad on that account and I'm so not in the mood for that again.)
So that's why I'm a little out of things. To try and keep my mind off things I am watching Satyameve Jayate on YouTube, which I am enjoying thoroughly - I always like it when actors whom I love because they are delectable are also likeable for reasons of being decent human beings, and really, Aamir Khan is - and it's kinda melodramatic and scripted but hey, where's any other show doing what it's doing. So. Y'all should watch it. (I've had no luck finding a version with English subtitles, but will post if I do.) Episode 1 deals with female foeticide, and episode 2, I am told, with child sexual abuse, so this is my trigger warning.
I'm also watching The Golden Girls and thinking about how much I love Bea Arthur. I thought about more Game of Thrones, but somehow I think it would not be so good for the headache.
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on 2012-05-14 11:52 pm (UTC)What I love/hate about TGG is that, well, it wouldn't be made today. Isn't that awful? This late-80s-early-90s network show starring and written by women, and their concerns and their sexualities (how much do I love that they tease Blanche about her sex life, but they don't judge her for it) and the HuffPo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/the-golden-girls-and-gay-marriage_n_1506091.html) reposted this bit and it was just so depressing that it was twenty years ago and we've made so little progress in that time.