Diary of an up and coming sociopath

As much as I’ve appreciated spending a week working in an office with broken air conditioning, I think we can all agree that it’s nice to have the weather back to normal British settings. Total cloud cover and sporadic drizzle. Assuming you’re not in one of the places having storms inflicted upon them, and unfortunately, I’m not, so I’m just learning to appreciate mild bad weather as well as the extreme kind.

It’s not necessarily been a bad week at work, heating issues aside, becase in order to keep the troops happy, they have, on various days this week, hired an ice cream van which was paid to give us whatever we wanted, dropped off a freezerful of mars ice creams, orange lollies and choc ices, and bought a load of incredibly strong fans for the office. This, in stark contrast to the end of last week/beginning of this week where the facilities team soent the first few days telling us the air conditioning was working (a quick visit to the floor would confirm that it was, in fact, not remotely working)and then they chanced upon a new theory and spent their time running around telling us to close windows because we were “letting in hot air” which would’ve maybe been correct, had it not been vastly cooler outside than in. Make sure to consider that sentence again, remembering how hot it’s been this week. The facilities people were working under the assumption that the a/c wasn’t going because opening the window was heating it up past the point where it’d work. Apparantly no air conditioning systems in the UK work if the temperature goes above 29 degrees. As I sit here typing this out, I’m feeling increasinly doubtful that anything they told us was remotely correct, but it was certainly a huge relief when they admitted the air conditioning was broken and allowed us to open windows again.

Of course, now the heatwave is over, I don’t have to buy my air conditioning unit. Fortunately, the Family Guy DVDs for £9 have gone off sale, and I can’t find them cheaper than £9.60 now, so I managed to stave off that one for a while. Unfortunately, in the process of making sure the £10 per volume family guy DVDs were sufficiently abundant for when I wanted some in the future, I spotted Angel Series 4 for £25. When Angel S4 came out I was approaching abject poverty, and despite my earlier claim that I’d be holding off the DVD purchases, this really was too good to pass up. But now that’s it until Genshiken comes out later this month. I’ll maybe buy one more Sin City graphic novel this month, but in general July is going to be all about not buying presents for myself, and partly because I’m pretty sure the MOT for the car is about to drop in my lap.

Today Ian, Greg and I went up to the London Film and Comic Convention at Earls Cout. Well, it was technically at Earls Cout 2: Court Harder. I didn’t buy anything (except for some Ginger Beer for Nikki from the cafe) but it was an enjoyable few hours nonetheless. The scavenger in me enjoys rooting through boxes of comics just as much as actually buying things. It reminded me far more of Memorabilia than Expo did. Still a little smaller, but filled with merch stalls. KITT from Knightrider was also there. I can feel that you are jealous.