Did anyone else watch Mansfield Park tonight? Am I alone in thinking it really boring and weird with total charisma vacuums instead of actors?

I haven't watched yet but that's too bad. I thought last week's Northanger Abbey was pretty fun. The actor who played Henry Tilney reminded me of Lee Pace kind of. With the crinkley eye smile. Nice!

I don't think my brain is awake enough to fully appreciate the horror that is Monday....

Oh, my god, Monday. No. No, no, no.

My Monday (so far; all of this occurred before 9:30):

*spilled coffee on my white shirt before I ever got out of the car;

*got to work to find that the server is frelled again;

*got to work to find -- through backchannel, NOT through a memo from higher-ups -- that our health insurance is changing at the end of the week (no, we don't know to what company; no, we don't know if our doctors are covered; no, we don't know if our prescriptions are covered).

Apparently the dude who is our contractor for health insurance called *some* of the employees at home this weekend to ask them what meds they were on, what doctors they saw, etc. -- presumably to have a list to work against when picking new insurance -- and, when the employees asked WHY Dude was asking (because, yo, HIPAA), Dude mentioned that our insurance will be changing. At the end of the WEEK.

But Dude didn't bother to call everyone at home, so now we're all buzzing with hearsay and fearmongering.

I expect the snakes to come through the ceiling any moment.

Damn. That sound like a case study in How Not to Manage a Change of Health Insurance Companies.

ION, I have new socks. I was running out of socks that didn't have holes in them. So I bought 18 pairs.

Damn. That sound like a case study in How Not to Manage a Change of Health Insurance Companies.

My company's "HR Department" is Big!Boss's wife and daughter. So, yeah. We can't really complain about how things are done, because then we get in trouble.

t edit Of course, this is better than the year that Big!Boss's wife didn't pay our premium at the beginning of the year, and people tried to go to the doctor and/or get medication for EPILEPSY and were told that their insurance was cancelled.

Hand to god.

(Which makes me think that perhaps I'll get all my meds refilled before the end of the week....)

The printer is frelled.

I am like the walking dead.

Someone called me at 8:30 (and he's a very nice guy) to walk me through a set of changes to one of my documents. It would have been nice to hear about these changes before I spent last week creating a new draft.

I have been earwormed, this morning, by both "Bootylicious" and "Best of Both Worlds" (the Hannah Montana) theme song.

Did people watch the SAG awards? I seriously love award shows, but so sad this had no red carpet coverage (except horrible TV Guide channel) and then the awards - iugh - I think on the whole people looked bad - no ties, weird dresses, messy hair. Then there were old actors seeming confused and frail. And the Daniel Day Lewis paying homage to Heath Leadger in his acceptance speech which seemed odd. The whole thing was a mess.

I don't get the channel that broadcast it, so I missed out. Which I was regretting considering it might be our only awards show this year, but from what you are saying, maybe I am glad I missed it.

Steph, I've been meaning to ask, how did Big!Boss do with his bout of flesh-eating bacteria?

So far, of the new Austen things - Northanger Abbey is the best. Mansfield Park was full of wrongness: they didn't do anything to make Billie Piper seem of the period, the music seemed all wrong and yeah - it was BORING.

Mansfield Park is one of the where the screenplay was NOT by Andrew Davies who wrote the screenplays for the Firth/Ehle P&P and the Kate Beckinsale Emma. (The other is Persuasion.) So I have high hopes for Sense and Sensibility.

I decided to treat myself to dunkin latte this mornig. I paid for a large flavored latte, when back at my desk and I discovered it is a regular coffee. bleagh. Monday.