I finally went to the cinema to watch Memoirs of a Geisha, I've wanted to go since they released the film but for one reason or another never got around doing it.

The movie it's not that bad, though there are a couple of details that annoyed me to no end, one of them was the accent of all the characters that made it difficult to understand on occasion what they were saying. I would have love the movie in Japanese with subtitles, but well, whatever.

I think that one of the reasons I didn't enjoy the movie as much as I should have was that I was angry the whole time. Why? Well, first when it started, after the 20 minutes of advertisement and coming attractions, the lights went off and the movie started. Only it wasn't Memoirs of a Geisha but Narnia. Everyone was looking at each other thinking, did we go to the wrong screen? No, we were in the right one. So, someone alerted the people at the cinema and they changed the movie.

This sound easy, but it took them some 15 minutes to get it right, and after that we had to endure another 25 minutes of advertisement and move coming attractions. And then, when the movie started, the lights didn't go off. At least not all. I waited for five minutes, but nothing happened. So I went outside to find one of the guys working there and told him. Back to the movie, and 20 minutes afterwards the lights were still on. My patience was at its end by then, so I left again and told another guy. I went back in, and the lights were still on. And they remained on for the whole fucking movie.

When it ended I went to speak with the manager or someone there, and they had the cheek to tell me that the lights should be on as a health and safety measure. I almost hit the poor bastard, I know an emergency light when I see it, and a whole row of lights over the screen are not emergency lights. I told him but he said that he could just apologize and there was nothing to be done. Fucking idiots.

Enough ranting for one day… I'm going to see if I can find some Good Omens slash to cheer me up now.

So this is a Help Desk. Right? There are some reasons you are calling us, right?

Then why do I have to listen to this:

User: I want to raise a call.
Me: Right give me your details.
U: *gives details* take note of this error message * gives error message*
M: Can you give me your IP address so I can remote to your computer and see what's wrong?
U: I don't want you to do anything.
M: You don't want me to do anything?
U: No, do you still want the IP address?
M: Well, no. If you don't want me to do anything I don't need to remote to your computer. What do you want me to do with the call.
U: I don't want anything done, just raise a call so there is a note that I have an error message.
M: *huh?* We can't raise a call we are not going to resolve.
U: Then can you print the error somewhere so you know I'm having an error message.
M: Well...
U: forget a bout it. *hangs up*

Maybe it's just me, but do you call the help desk if you don't want any help?

So, this is what I hate the most about my job, if something is not working... Let's call the Help Desk! Hey, my digital camera is not working... let's call the helpdesk. There is something wrong with my mobile phone... let's call the helpdesk. I broke a nail... well, you get my meaning. Why not, that's what we are here for, to help you.

It doesn't matter that the problem is with your mp3 player or with your Itunes, which you should not be using at work. Or that you have problems browsing the net and buying your holiday... or even downloading bit torrent, if it gives you any kind of problem, just call the help desk. And when we tell you that it's not a work problem, that you should not be doing it, and that torrents are forbidden, please yell at us, because we are here to help and we are not doing it.

And God forbid that you try to do something yourself, that you get a pop up window and click in ok, even after you have received emails from the IT department saying that you'll receive a patchlink and that you have to click ok and restart... just in case, call the help desk.

Ok, my phone is ringing again, what will it be this time?

They are giving free books at my work place today. Five huge boxes filled with books for everyone to pick one or ten if so they choose. It's one of the things I like the most about my work, the sales and free things they have from time to time. So I went to check, even if I already knew there would be no fiction books.

How many diet books are out there? It's no wonder people have eating disorders and anorexia and other illness, my god, they are obsessed with weight and dieting and all that. I was surprised to see that more than half the books were diets of one or another kind. The Atkins diet, Slim for Life, how to lose weight in 48 hours, how to lose 4 pounds in one week, how to lose... whatever. I might not be the prettiest, slimmest of girls, but I can't believe how obsessed they are. We are four women in my department, out of the four I am the biggest, and the only one who is not on a diet of some kind or killing myself in the gym. Funny, being the fat one I'm the only one not worried about my body.

The rest of the books were self help books, and I was having a laugh at those. How to say no... easy N-O. There was another called Death and how to get over it... well, once you're dead, you don't have to worry about it. I can't help it, I've always found self help books kind of funny and they don't help me at all.