Past and Future

Yesterday
Saw Curse of the Golden Flower, which was gorgeously pretty, well acted, etc. But ultimately pointless. In many ways I felt like I was watching Eastenders with swords - a bunch of unlikable people bicker pointlessly with each other and then it all descends into bloodshed at the end. Did I care about anyone in the movie enough to worry whether they lived or died? Did we get to find out whose fault it all was? Did anyone not come across as a complete scheming bitch/bastard? Thank goodness it was full of teh shiny. Oh, and any film that has retractable ceiling ninjas gets extra points automatically.
Today
Went to the high court. Failed to get through the randomised selection process, which I have mixed feelings about. On the one hand it was fascinating and I'd love to be on an actual jury. On the other hand it was a murder case and looked likely to be unpleasant. Maybe next time I'll get onto the jury.
Badminton with Ed, Ellie and Andrew. Great fun, but next time we're going to book two courts rather than one. And I'm buying a decent racket, as we managed to break the two cheap ones we had by hitting the shuttlecock too hard.
Oh, and the pound finally hit two dollars, after days of not quite making it.
Tomorrow
Helping Hugh move boxes and suchlike at his flat.
Friday night and Saturday morning
SpajLan II: The reckoning. 8 of us do battle via Dawn of War and Quake 2.
Saturday evening and Sunday
Help Erin pack the last of her stuff and then move flat.
Monday
Hayseed Dixie and Heroes. Heroes continues to be one of the few things worth watching on TV. Hayseed Dixie are a band that I've had recommended on numerous occasions, largely by purelyskindeep, who is also going.
Tuesday
Go to Glasgow and meet Ellie's mother's puppy. I'll do pretty much anything for a puppy, and I don't know anyone in Edinburgh who has one. So Glasgow it is!
Wednesday
Amber game, next session. I'm enjoying this, but glad it's only intermittent.
Thursday
andabusers has a barbeque.

And then it all goes quiet for a bit. Which is nice. I'm sure something will have filled things up by then though...

Getting my retaliation in first

I am, I believe, not unusual in being great at giving advice and godawful at taking it.

In fact I don't believe I'm unusual in being able to offer people solutions to problems that I have myself, and simultaneously doing something completely different, because my case is special and unique and I don't need to do the sensible thing.

So if you catch me offering advice either in person or on LJ and you realise that it's advice that I could do with myself, don't think I'm being hypocritical. Think of them as realisations I've had that might help me in the future, or ideals that I aspire to but am not quite achieving yet. Some day I may well achieve the enlightened state in which I can simultaneously grasp the right thing to do and carry it out. For now I'll have to settle for mostly managing option A and occasionally verging on option B.

This post brought to you by all sorts of things I've wanted to say recently, but haven't, because I was worried I'd look like a complete idiot