Virtual Office Tuesday 4th August

[byslantedlight]

...and here I am sitting at my desk at nine o'clock again... another day, another dollar... *sighs* So. Okay. Inspiration for today. There's quite a bit of fic with Doyle undercover with straight hair and all - Harlequin Airs for one, though he has a beard and is decidedly non-yuppie in that one! Oh, is Spring-Heeled Jack another one..? Not read that for ages, but I seem to remember it's an undercover-Doyle fic... *g*
The AU Doyle pic is, I think, the one that came to my mind when I saw the pic ali15on put up last night, though there's a bit of me that still thinks I know that pic - it's the way he's holding his mouth... Actually buggritbuggrem, here it is (hope A doesn't mind the signal boost), just in case anyone knows it (pic on the left). It looks Cassidy (pic on the right)/Intrigue sort of time to me - and there's something about the colour of this pic that makes me think tan (though of course it could be stage make-up or studio lighting), which would match with filming in Australia... But um! *g*

Oooh, wait - I have another game with which to avoid starting work. Difficult... The first two pics look most similar to me, but the differences with the third one could be due to so much, even just the pose... What d'you reckon? (Mystery Pic - The Big Knife - Cassidy) *g*

Okay, a bit of a puzzle to think on cheered me up, and fortify me for getting the hell on with work... Realistically everyone faffs when they first get into work, whether it's sanctioned faffing or not, right? Though even more realistically, Job 1 really doesn't have space for the faffing, cos it's really more like piecework in a factory, but with words and paragraphs, so... get on with it!

Today
09.00-10.00 - At desk. Faffing with this post. But I do feel more cheerful than when I sat down! Trouble is, it's 9.45 now...

10.00-11.00 - That's better. Job 1.1 13/26. Meanwhile, the smithy's on the yard, there's a strong smell of what I presume is burnt hoof, and I can hear the clanging... Wonder if they still call themselves smithy - probably not... *googles*... Oh, a farrier, of course! Still wish I'd known he was coming so I could've closed my windows!

11.00-12.00 - Fiddle practice - checked newspaper - Job 1.1 14-23/26

12.00-13.00 - Job 1.1 29/29 (normally half a day's work, but today I have extra to do... *sighs*) - Job 1.2 1-4/29.

13.00-14.00 - Lunch!

14.00-15.00 - erk, late lunch again, cos I looked for that MS picture again and then fiddle-practiced, and then... - Job 1.2-5-11/29.

15.00-16.00 - Job 1.2 12-22/31.

16.00-17.00 - Job 1.2 23-31/31. Yeay - one more to go... Job 1.3...-

17.00-18.00 - Job 1.3 1-12/23. Gaaargh - so close to finishing, and it's an awkward one (in an unpleasant font!)

18.00 - 19.00 - And done. And downloaded two more assignments. And blargh for awkward assignments that stop me finishing "on time"... *sighs* Still - done now, at 18.50. Time to cook dinner... and write. *g*

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ack, I thought I'd replied but hadn't - sorry!

Fab uncropped version of the pic - thank you for that! It's a fuzzier version, interestingly - I wonder if it's the same pic and one or the other has been touched up (or maybe the original version that was sharper has been enlarged in this version, and tightly cropped in the other). I guess we'll have to wait to find out more, until one day, there in front of us... *g* Thanks for looking!

[paris7am.livejournal.com]

This picture hunt has me thinking about what it must be like to be in the public eye all the time...
It's not like you could even ask MS, "Oh, hey, when was this picture taken?"! How would he even know? That must be crazy. I hope he likes the way he looks in pictures... because if not, what a pain... (I personally hate the way I look in pictures!)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yes! I wonder what he thinks of these old pictures too... I did see an interview with him on telly a few years ago (for JJD I think, or maybe even Apparitions) and they put up the pic of him with one hand on his slightly canted hips, the other holding a massive gun, and basically talked about how camp it looked to us know, and he was saying well yes, but that wasn't what they thought back when it was taken, it was just a picture... and that made me wonder just the kind of questions you're thinking about here! Or is he like my mum, and thinks things like "Oh well, that was a long time ago, when things were different.."?!

And I guess that was one of the things MS is often smacked for, isn't it - that he always said he didn't like the "celebrity" public eye part of being an actor, because what he wanted to do was act... which I think is actually a pretty good thing to think and way to be, but he really got slammed for it over the years - which is good evidence that he was right about it too... and look at that horrible Daily Mail article about LC, which must have been some time when he'd just become sick... pure nastiness, that was for, and I hate that side of the British media... MS was definitely right, I'd say!