Ok. I went with the purple outfit. YAY. I love ebay.

We had weird bathroom sensors at the last college I taught at whereby, if you were wearing black, you might walk into the bathroom, but the light would not turn on.

Purple outfit is super adorable, vw.

Monday. Ugh.

If that was my office, I'd sit in the dark working by the light of my computer monitor.

But I like caves.

Awsome, vw! I just bought the khaki skirt! I love the purple, too.

I love it when I can also be a public service announcement! YAY!

I worked at t a school that had those types of sensors. During a test classes would be so still the lights would go off sometimes. The same would happen if a teacher stayed in their room during planning or after school. We adapted a crazy kind of arm wave to get the lights to turn back on. It worked but I'm sure it looked stupid to anyone who didn't know what we were doing.

vw bug, I would go with the purple. All the choices were cute; however, I like this one the best.

There's a Dilbert about hiring an intern to wander around waving his arms to keep the lights on.

Nice outfits, vw!

So I've just watched the recent(ish) TV versions of Jane Eyre and Sense and Sensibility, and liked both quite a lot. And was delighted to realise that Mr Rochester (whom I was quite CERTAIN was being played by Damian Lewis for the first hour of viewing, albeit with hairdye or wig) was in fact played by some bloke called Toby Stephens, who turns out to be Dame Maggie Smith's son! Which is particularly amusing, since I'd been giggling at how very Snape-ish Mr Rochester is. (Or rather, how very Mr Rochesterish Professor Snape is, really. I hadn't been struck by that before - I'd been vaguely thinking of him as Byronic, but I knew that wasn't really right. But Mr Rochester - bossy, curmudgeonly, selfish, no social skills, somewhat unkind, busy swishing around in long coats and laying down the law...yeah.) Anyway, yes - I was initially a tad dubious of this version, because Jane's childhood is so condensed, and smacked of MTV a little, but then they settled down and let the storytelling take a little more time once she'd grown up. Not a bad decision, probably. And both Jane and Rochester were very engaging, I thought, and the relationship between them was nicely rendered.

And then we have Austen! Which one would normally expect to provide less passion and more levity and wryness, but actually there wasn't as much of a change of tone as one might have expected. On the whole, I think I prefer the Ang Lee Sense and Sensibility, which retains more of the comedy, but the Andrew Davies version DOES have quite a lot to recommend it. Particularly its Edward, who is infinitely more engaging than the Hugh Grant version, imho. Not so convinced by the Colonel Brandon, though. I think Alan Rickman is a very hard act to follow.

...oh, sorry. I hadn't meant to go on about these things. I'd just meant to marvel at the fact that I seem to have stumbled across Dame Maggie Smith's MySpace page. I don't do MySpace, so I find myself peering at the page and saying: "But...it's not REALLY her page. Is it? It's just some fan person who's put it together. Right?"

But I hope it really is her own page. Because I just have such a fangirl crush on Dame Maggie, and I'm tickled to death at the thought of her surfing the net and checking in on her friends list.

(edited because I realised I forgot stuff. Um.)