quick check-in, just to say I'm alive :)
Jul. 27th, 2006 09:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
floatingleafOkay. Methinks an update is in order.:) I am seriously struggling to keep up with everything this week, what with the new job and getting up at the unholy hour of 6:30 a.m., not to mention ZERO private email access during work hours... which leaves me with over 200 messages too deal with every evening at home. *sigh* In addition to that, I am STILL trying to be a good girl and exercise every day... so I hardly get a moment to do anything else, really (and no, I'm not in bed by 11 p.m., even though I should be).
The job is fine; frankly speaking, a delight for a clinically anal person like me.;P My basic duties consist of signing paperwork, stamping it, sorting through it and filing it away, as well as pulling appropriate documents from files, assembling them according to instructions, verifying in the computer system and stuffing into envelopes to be mailed out. It may seem tedious, but actually requires full attention to get everything right (any slightest mess-up puts the entire department in trouble, LOL). So there's no danger of falling asleep. In fact, I am told that the summer is the slowest season for the company, and that once everything picks up in September we will all be running around like crazy. Which is good in a way, because it makes the days go faster (I've sooo had my share of slow, monotonous, deadly boring days at work lately... LOL). The only thing that bugs me right now is zero computer privacy - practically everyone on the team can see my screen at all times... Not that it seems like there'll be any time to spare for internet browsing anyway...
And now for something completely different - probably of even less interest to anyone on my flist... but hell, it's my journal, so yeah.
It's official. LACRIMOSA has become the absolute NUMBER ONE on my music list. I ordered two more albums (the most recent ones), and just seeing the covers and the gorgeous artwork inside made me float on air... I don't even have to listen to them to know they are perfect, LOL. In fact, I still haven't had the time to play the latest one... and the one before it is only sinking in and transforming my brain as I write.;) But based on what I already know, I can safely say that the band has a very distinctive style that is everything I need in music. It's wild, weird, romantic, powerful, moody, angsty, deep, extremely evocative and downright breathtaking. It's a powerful blend of black metal, progressive rock and classical music, including elements that could well serve as a dramatic movie score. The very range of emotions contained in the rich sound tapestry floors me... and when I look at the lyrics (which are mostly in German, so I need a peek at the English translations), it gets even worse. It's a trip to the outer space, I tell you (not that anyone's reading by now, I suppose...;). And most of the unbelievable gorgeousness was actually born in the head of one man. Tilo Wolff. Who must be an extremely eccentric individual - judging by his looks as much as by his creation. There are quite a few photographs of him included in the artwork... and on some of them it's almost impossible to determine his gender. I say 'his', because the ranting, screaming, wailing and growling voice from the records is definitely male; and he also has wide shoulders, flat chest and a very prominent nose - but the rest of his facial features is so distinctly feminine, I am seriously wondering whether he might be a transsexual. He seems like a perfect reclusive hermaphrodite to me.;) His 'partner in crime', Anne Nurmi (who complements his disturbing, 'angsty' voice with her calm, angelic one, and also wrote some of the songs), has an exotic quality about her as well; but she's just a classic goth lady, with no gender ambiguity whatsoever, and that makes her less intriguing, somehow.;) Anyway... that's it for now. I really have to go to bed... *reduces volume of Tilo's raspy lamentations just a tiny bit and scurries off*
The job is fine; frankly speaking, a delight for a clinically anal person like me.;P My basic duties consist of signing paperwork, stamping it, sorting through it and filing it away, as well as pulling appropriate documents from files, assembling them according to instructions, verifying in the computer system and stuffing into envelopes to be mailed out. It may seem tedious, but actually requires full attention to get everything right (any slightest mess-up puts the entire department in trouble, LOL). So there's no danger of falling asleep. In fact, I am told that the summer is the slowest season for the company, and that once everything picks up in September we will all be running around like crazy. Which is good in a way, because it makes the days go faster (I've sooo had my share of slow, monotonous, deadly boring days at work lately... LOL). The only thing that bugs me right now is zero computer privacy - practically everyone on the team can see my screen at all times... Not that it seems like there'll be any time to spare for internet browsing anyway...
And now for something completely different - probably of even less interest to anyone on my flist... but hell, it's my journal, so yeah.
It's official. LACRIMOSA has become the absolute NUMBER ONE on my music list. I ordered two more albums (the most recent ones), and just seeing the covers and the gorgeous artwork inside made me float on air... I don't even have to listen to them to know they are perfect, LOL. In fact, I still haven't had the time to play the latest one... and the one before it is only sinking in and transforming my brain as I write.;) But based on what I already know, I can safely say that the band has a very distinctive style that is everything I need in music. It's wild, weird, romantic, powerful, moody, angsty, deep, extremely evocative and downright breathtaking. It's a powerful blend of black metal, progressive rock and classical music, including elements that could well serve as a dramatic movie score. The very range of emotions contained in the rich sound tapestry floors me... and when I look at the lyrics (which are mostly in German, so I need a peek at the English translations), it gets even worse. It's a trip to the outer space, I tell you (not that anyone's reading by now, I suppose...;). And most of the unbelievable gorgeousness was actually born in the head of one man. Tilo Wolff. Who must be an extremely eccentric individual - judging by his looks as much as by his creation. There are quite a few photographs of him included in the artwork... and on some of them it's almost impossible to determine his gender. I say 'his', because the ranting, screaming, wailing and growling voice from the records is definitely male; and he also has wide shoulders, flat chest and a very prominent nose - but the rest of his facial features is so distinctly feminine, I am seriously wondering whether he might be a transsexual. He seems like a perfect reclusive hermaphrodite to me.;) His 'partner in crime', Anne Nurmi (who complements his disturbing, 'angsty' voice with her calm, angelic one, and also wrote some of the songs), has an exotic quality about her as well; but she's just a classic goth lady, with no gender ambiguity whatsoever, and that makes her less intriguing, somehow.;) Anyway... that's it for now. I really have to go to bed... *reduces volume of Tilo's raspy lamentations just a tiny bit and scurries off*
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Date: 2006-07-29 11:23 pm (UTC)Told you you'd enjoy the work + you'd soon be very good at it!!
You are a soothsayer - no doubt about that.;)
we're with you in spirit even when u work :P
Comments like this make me all warm inside.:)