Eye know it's Monday

It's that Day of the Week again. When I astonish, bewilder, confound, confuse, dumbfound, flabbergast, overwhelm, startle, stun, stupefy, surprise, and discombobulate with the Monday Film quiz.
Quotes from films, some old, some not. I don't think there is a George one this week.

Updates: solved so far
1. They march you in naked as the day you were born, skin burning and half blind from that delousing shit they throw on you, and when they put you in that cell... and those bars slam home... that's when you know it's for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it. E got - The Shawshank Redemption

2. If you look at the whole life of the planet, we... you know, man, has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality. E got -28 Days Later

3. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. E got -American Psycho

4. Things have certainly changed around here. I remember when this was all farmland as far the eye could see. Old man Peabody owned all of this. He had this crazy idea about breeding pine trees. E got - Back to the Future

5. I've had my eye socket punched in, a kidney taken out and I got a bone-chip in my ankle that's never gonna heal. I've seen some pretty shitty situations in my life, but nothing has ever sucked more ass than this! E got- Bad Santa

6. Is it true she's got a glass eye? I heard she got it from the gypsies...
scooterdeb got- Big Fish

7. Ahh... Do I detect a look of disapproval in your eye? [spays perfume in Paul's direction] Tough beans buddy, 'cause that's the way it's gonna be.

8. Well, tens of thousands killed before sundown. Nobody's killed people that fast since Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Did you bat an eye, Max? E got - Collateral

9. If only I could meet someone new. I guess my chances of that happening are somewhat diminished, seeing that I'm incapable of making eye contact with a woman I don't know.
ninquelosse got- Eternal Sunshine
10. Bravo! Vive la France! You scalded me! Bravo! Ten out of ten! Ten out of ten! Bull's eye!
Taffy got one of my favourite films too - Amelie

11. That's my Foe-Glass. Lets me keep an eye on my enemies. When I see the whites of their eyes, it means they're right behind me. Sandra got- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

12. I was wondering, just between us girls, what did you say to Pai Mei for him to snatch out your eye? E got - Kill Bill Vol 2

You know of what I speak, Gandalf: a great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame.

Yesterday my left eye started getting very bloodshot. Today I woke up to one totally red eye.

Ok, so I've got conjunctivitis. Off to the pharmacist.
When your eye is producing 10 times the normal amount of moisture why are eye drops seen as the best treatment?

Not that I can get the drops in my eye.
I can't see. So most of the eye drops are going in my eyebrow or all over my nose.




It's sensitive to the light so I thought- "I know I'll get an eye patch."

I must have a freakishly big head.
The elastic/stretch in the eye patch would barely fit an eight-year-old. After some adjustment it now fits.
And I have my Halloween costume all ready.

Found

Hmmm, now it just looks a bit grainy. But, take my word for it, this picture is now a mosaic made up of lots of other pictures.

Go to this site to get any picture you like made into a mosaic.

It takes a minute or two and will keep you entertained for hours, well minutes.

and in other news...

other stuff that happened while I was away...

Defiant movie star Wesley Snipes is refusing to return to America and face tax fraud charges, insisting he'll continue shooting new film Gallowwalker in Namibia.Snipes has been indicted on eight counts of tax fraud, accused of trying to cheat the government out of nearly $12 million.
He owes me 7 quid too, for this.



George Bush is frightened of 14 year-old girls.
A 14-year-old in Sacramento, California was interviewed by the Secret Service over threatening postings made about President Bush on her MySpace account. The young girl was taken out of class Wednesday and questioned for about 15 minutes by two Secret Service agents. The incident has upset her parents, who said the agents should have included them when they questioned their daughter.




I've been busy reading this article. I did read the article honest, after I'd looked at the pictures for a long time....

and lots of other stuff happened too, really best not relying on me for news, newspapers, TV and internet are a better bet.

Oh, so that's what an invisible barrier looks like.

I know,some more invisibles.


No connection this time(that I can figure out anyway, maybe you know better).


Just stills from films with the actors removed. Easy-peasy.
Update: Not so easy after all, only one so far
more updates
1. E got - About A Boy










2.










3. ninquelosse got- Syriana. George of course.










4. E got - Singin' in the Rain










5. E guessed - The Invisible Man










6. Steve got -Jumanji

here's Johnny

I know, I know.
I had the plan and everything.
Long absence from blogland and all I can do is apologise.
General lack of motivation and a minor injury are to blame, mostly.
After the candy floss incident, I decided to trim my hair myself, just to get the fringe that I asked for.
So I got a fresh razor from the hubby's washbag and proceeded to razor-cut a few pieces in the front.
Do I really need to tell you that I sliced into my finger?
And that there was blood EVERYWHERE?
No, didn't think so.
As my typing is of the 2 finger variety it's normally pretty slow, well that speed was (scuse the pun) cut in half.
Even though it's wednesday I'll go look for a topic for a movie quiz.
Wait there.

monday

How about some monday movie quotes to guess?
solved so far by:
1. I'm gonna hold on to this file. I'm gonna keep it in a very safe place. But I'm not going to Texas. I'm gonna come back into work on Monday. I'm gonna start doing that pro bono work that you recommended that I do. But I'm gonna do it from our office. The first thing we're gonna do is help a man buy a house. E got- Changing Lanes

2. It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises. flyingrodent got - Dr Strangelove or...

3. Monday we watch-a Firefly's house, but he no come he wasn't home. Tuesday we go to the ball game, but he fool us: he no show up. Wednesday HE go to the ball game, but we fool HIM, WE no show up. Thursday it was a double-header nobody show up. Friday it rained all day, there was no ball game, so we stayed home, we listen to it over the radio. taffy got- Duck Soup

4. See you Monday. We'll be talking about Freud and why he did enough cocaine to kill a small horse. nope, not Animal House. yes, taffy- Good Will Hunting

5. Here's the thing. I made that tape special for today. My special Monday morning for *you*... special.
Well, it's fuckin' Monday afternoon! You should get out of bed earlier!
steve got it first- High Fidelity

6. He will. I see things. We were on the roof on Monday, young Lisiek and I and we saw the Herr Kommandant come out of the house on the patio right there below us and he drew his gun and shot a woman who was passing by. E got Schindlers List

7. Right, here's the plan. First, we go in there and get wrecked, then we eat a pork pie, then we drop some Surmontil-50's each. That way we'll miss out on Monday and come up smiling Tuesday morning. E got Whitnail and I

8. You punch in at 8:30 every morning, except you punch in at 7:30 following a business holiday, unless it's a Monday, then you punch in at 8 o'clock. Punch in late and they dock you. Incoming articles get a voucher, outgoing articles provide a voucher. Move any article without a voucher and they dock you. taffy got- Hudsucker Proxy

9. You want to go to the review board on Monday and tell them we have developed a brand new method for exploding frogs? and poursomesugaronme got- Hulk

hair trigger

Remember ages ago I posted about getting my hair cut ?
Somehow I forgot the trauma and made the same mistake again.
Actually, to be fair the cut may not be too bad as I wasn't worried until he was blow drying it.
He did put some crap, sorry 'product', on it before cutting it though.

Then the drier came out.
He put some crap, sorry, 'product' on it and dried it some more.

Even then I thought, well he's probably going to straighten it after he's finished drying it.

No.

He dried it into a wavy, frizzy lump.
Then he put more crap, really, MORE, crap in it.
I kept thinking 'its not finished is it?'

No, it wasn't over.

He then started telling me how I could "bring out my natural curl myself at home"
Oh, for the love of all things holy. I don't have a natural curl. It's called messy. A bit wavy.
I tried telling him that it wasn't a natural curl it just looks like it wasn't been brushed. For weeks. I was too stunned.

I had planned to do a few things on my way back from the hairdressers, but when I got outside and tried to run my fingers through my 'hair' I thought, well, use your imagination.

My hair felt, looked AND smelt like candy floss.
Have you ever had a toffee stuck in your hair? (don't ask), well this was like an explosion in a sugar factory.



I went straight home, first attempting to scrape the fuzz into a pony tail.

Not even stopping long enough to take my jacket off I stuck my head under the shower and washed the four different types of crap out.
Then I tied it back up in a pony tail and that's the way it's going to stay.

I AM NEVER GETTING MY HAIR CUT AGAIN.

Ever.

I'll be like this guy .

Um... my name's Craig Schwartz. I have an interview with Dr. Lester

Have I mentioned the plan ?

Wednesday is Work Report day. This week I have mostly concentrating on the interview process.

I re-read the information I got at the workshop and today I had a practice interview session.

Which was videotaped.

I've never seen myself on video before, apart from the time I was on TV that it.

Yeah, I just casually said that I was on TV.

It was a Channel 4 documentary about Coronary Heart Disease and my fellow techs and I were involved in a huge research project. On the off chance you are interested, read part of it here.

I was the one selected to have a camera looking over my shoulder filming one of our tests. It was exciting for the first half hour or so, then when they wanted me to do the same thing another 10 times it got real old, real quick. Especially as I still had all my regular work to do.

And I didn't get a trailer or stand-in or anything.

Back to the practice interview. I did ok. A couple of my standard answers need a little work. I noticed I say 'um' a lot under stress.

The main thing that surprised me was when she told me I shook hands too firmly.

Now, the hubby thinks it's a contest to see who can break the most bones when he shakes hands, but I was shocked to find that was contagious.

It was very odd watching myself on the tape and a relief to find that I don't jig about in the chair or have any tics that I wasn't aware of.

stick to the plan

Sticking with the plan Tuesday is Things You Might Not Know day.

What possesed me to come up with that one? jesus.

New Year's Eve 1999.

I chose to do something different.

I was here for a 3 day retreat. I had been going to weekly meditation sessions and teachings for a few months and when the New Years event was announced I spent a long time deciding if I should go.

The first night there was not so good. I was sharing a room with 3 others. There were two 'good' matresses and 2 horsehair matresses. I was the third of the 4 in that room to arrive, so you know I got one of the horsehair ones.

It was like trying to sleep on a bag of rocks.

I tried to arrange myself in between the lumps, but because this bag of rocks was also perched on a frame which was too small for it and was too high I couldn't really do too much manouvering.

I did not sleep at all.

I wanted to go home.

When the morning finally came round I leapt out of 'bed.' Never happened before or since.

At breakfast I was talking to a lovely woman called Marilyn who was sleeping in the dorm and she said the magic words - 'there is a spare mattress in the dorm.'

She helped me shift it into my room.

Cheered by the idea of getting some sleep that night I had a great day.

Discussions and meditations, excellent food and conversation. An interesting group of people.

I went to a class on Buddhist art and the precise proportions involved.

The required measurements are laid down in a standard pattern, which corresponds to ideal physical proportions. The span is the basic measure, i.e. the distance from the tip of the middle finger to the tip of the thumb of the outspread hand. This distance corresponds to the space between the dimple in the chin and the hair-line. Each span has twelve finger-breadths. The whole figure measures 108 finger-breadths.

At the end of the 3 days I didn't want to leave.

Monday Movie Quiz

According to the new plan Monday is Movie quiz day, ready?
Today I thought I'd go with character names.
I'm not sure if I should list the actors too so you just have to match them up, hmm...
maybe too easy. Especially as everyone should be able to get one without even looking at the name what with me being sooo predictable and all.

Which of my favourite leading men played the following characters?
solved so far clue
1. Maj. Archie Gates George, Three Kings
2. Ned Plimpton Owen Wilson
3. Mort Rainey arh lad
4. Jackson Rippner he's Irish and he knows Batman
5. XXXX Daniel Craig, Layer Cake

Not to ignore the women:
6. Sister Helen Prejean Susan Sarandon, Dead Man Walking
7. Santanico Pandemonium Salma Hayek, Dusk till Dawn
8. Regina 'Reggie' Lampert she stars with Cary Grant
9. Doris Crane she was there, the man wasn't
10. Sara 'Sway' Wayland Angelina Jolie, Gone in 60 Seconds

Actually I do think this is pretty difficult, especially the women.
Let me know and I'll give some clues.

update:
here in no particular order are the actors playing the above characters:
a. Owen Wilson
b. Susan Sarandon
c. Angelina Jolie
d. George Clooney (d'uh)
e. Frances McDormand
f. Johnny Depp
g. Daniel Craig
h.Audrey Hepburn
i. Cillian Murphy
j. Salma Hayek.

Driving me....

Himself is currently interested in cars, see? and I try to be interested too but I'm not really all that good with cars. I did love the Beetle too

but most other cars all look the same to me.
On the day of my driving test, back in Leeds, before we started I was asked to read the licence plate of 'that Ford Cortina'*. I looked at the man who was about to test me and said, 'do you mean the red car?'
Sometimes I can be such a girl.
The rest of the test was just ok. Then at the end, we pull up and stop the car.
He looks at his test sheet and says 'well, Ms. Foley, I'm pleased to tell you, you've passed'. I looked at him and said 'Really?' in the tone of "what are you, an idiot?".
In my defence it was a stressful week, what with getting married two days later, and having 5 houseguests and stuff.


* obviously I don't know if it was a Ford Cortina, but it was red.

A game of bridge

My foreign correspondent, Dave in Hungary, left a comment on a previous post which reminded me that I had not updated on the Stephen Colbert bridge naming situation.

I found the video on YouTube and attempted to post it. However there is some blockage in the internet pipes and it hasn't appeared so you'll have to go here to see it Colbert Hid.

On the show the Hungarian Ambassador Simonyi declared that under Hungarian law, Colbert would have to be fluent in Hungarian, and would have to be dead in order to have the bridge named for him.

These problems were probably going to be over-looked.

Then, a terrible blow.

On 28th September, it was announced that the bridge will be named "Megyeri Bridge", even though that name did not make it to the second round. The Name Committee justified the final name by explaining that the bridge connects Káposztásmegyer and Békásmegyer.

Colbert was, according to a spokesperson, "Crushed."

You've seen the rest............. now see more

I'd say that I've seen a sign but I'm not very good with signs. A combination of not great eyesight and dyslexia means I sometimes have to read things twice, even then I'm not seeing the same thing as everyone else.

Example, on our recent trip to New York State, quite a few of the roads were toll roads. Then, when we drove through some roadworks, a large sign at the side of the road declared: ' your tolls at work.'

What I read?

'Your trolls at work.'

I almost looked around for these industrious trolls, I've never seen a real troll.

Similar thing happens when I see other signs and notices. The supermarket had one on the emergency exit door. 'This door is alarmed.' Everyone else thinks, ok there is an alarm. I think, why is it upset, what happened to it?

The sign just before an escalator says 'dogs must be carried.' I think, but I don't have a dog, can I still use the escalator?

The label on the washing-up liquid bottle says 'approx 90 uses'. As hard as I try I can only come up with 2 or 3.

What was I talking about?

Yeah signs. The blog has had a few patches lately and that's because some days I really can't think what to post about. I'm not a 'writer' by nature. These blank days seem to be more common lately so I've decided that it's a sign (you knew I'd get to the point eventually) that maybe the old blog needs a bit more structure.

The blogs that I like to read are well written, funny and /or informative (see blogs by SkookumJoe, Sandra, Swearing Lady, himself, taffy and those others over there under my links).

In the absence of those elements I've thought of having a daily theme.

I'm still working it out but so far I've set on Wednesday being work day. The day of the week when I summarise what I have done in the previous 7 days to get a job. This will probably be quite boring so avoid Wednesdays if you like, I do think it will be good for me though.

Monday's from now on will be some sort of movie quiz. The last few of these have gone down like lead ballons, I don't care, I like them.

Tuesday is going to be Things You Might Not Know day. Either random general stuff or more personal.

Friday seems like a good day for Found on the Internets. All the stuff that distracts me from the things I should be doing.

Maybe Saturday and Sunday could be kept for my general ramblings and rantings.

Which just leaves Thursday.

Any suggestions?

"Hey, if you switched two letters in your name it'd spell, um... brain!"

Got phone call today, from someone wanting to speak to Amanua.
I was all set to explain that they had the wrong number when it occured to me that they may have read a 'D' as 'U' and maybe it was me they were looking for, when she said: 'No, I'm sure I have the right number.'
So, I tried to expain what may have happened and suggested that if the last name was mine then it was some sort of typo. She very grudgingly accepted that this might be the case but then made the fatal error of calling me Amanua again.

I have a golden rule: Never argue with an idiot. They will just drag you down to their level and they have more experience down there.

"This class will be a waste of your - and what is infinitely worse - my time"

If this is all that is needed for DNA analysis then I really have been out of the lab too long.

However, I've still decided that I'm not going to go back to college here.
Even with a 'fast track' course it's going to take a few months. Now maybe it will take that long to get a job anyway but I'm not going to waste my time having someone show me basic lab skills.
Also these courses cost $5000 at one place and between $9ooo and $15,000 at another.
But most importantly, by doing one of these courses I'm declaring my current qualifications AND 15 years experience worthless.

And, if I get the full set of games then I can add lots of new skills to my resume.