Le Work, and Consumerism Denied

[przed]

Today was the end of my second week on the new job. It's going well. The people are still nice, I've got some fun projects to work on, and everyone seems to think I'm pretty okay. (I finally met the last member of our department today, and he told me "Everyone keeps asking me if I've met P, because she's awesome." So that was a nice little ego boost.)

Being the last day of my second week, this was also Pay Day! And I had schemes.

Since my renewed Holmes love continues unabated, I was going to hit our favourite video shop and finally get the complete Jeremy Brett series. (I checked out the store two days ago, and they had it.) And I was going to get a groovy pair of Hunter rubber boots, since I'm sick of wet feet in the spring and fall. Purple ones.

Except they didn't have the boots in my size, and they sold the last Holmes box yesterday. Yesterday! (I should have bought it Wednesday, but I thought I'd be all symbolic and get it on my first pay day. That'll teach me to be cute.)

Ah, well, they're ordering the Holmes box for me, though it may take a few weeks. And I'll be launching a search for the boots. I shoulda got a pair in England.

So apart from not being able to spend the money I'd planned on, things are going pretty well.

Comments

[windrain10.livejournal.com]

It's funny that you mention the Granada series - that has been on my mind recently. I had borrowed some zines (and have been reading online fic) that is obviously this universe, and it's so not the movie-verse that I've really been struggling. It's like two fandoms and I'm not sure I'm that excited about the Granada series yet . . . but it's really the "accepted" SH since the movie is so new and there's just the movie, not the wealth of eps in the series . . . so I'm thinking that I should buy the series as well . . . but I'm really far more drawn to the movie than the series . . .

So, I'm conflicted!

And to stop talking about me, not that I was making any sense, I'm very glad the first two weeks of the new job went well. That's great!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Well, I've loved Holmes stories since I was eight, cut my teeth on the Rathbone movies soon after (Rathbone is fab; Nigel Bruce is...not), and totally fell in love with Brett as Holmes when the Granada first aired, way back when. So my vote would be to totally get it.

But it is a completely different animal from the movie.

I love the movie, and they pulled a heck of a lot for it from the stories, but it's a messier version of Holmes. Brett's Holmes is still a bit of a madman, still addicted to cocaine, still can't be bothered with normal social interactions, but he's far more mannered and, well, neat than RDJ.

But when it comes right down to it, I'm pretty much up for trying any interpretation of Holmes. He's one of those characters that's pretty much written into my DNA.