Invasion of the body snatchers!

[zoo_music_girl]

I have a sneaking suspicion that Simon is the victim of body snatching aliens. A strange race that exists only to clean and tidy. But I'm not complaining.

I put away the Christmas decorations and tidied and hoovered the lounge. Meanwhile "Simon" has completely reorganised and cleaned his kitchen and is now working his way through the flat cleaning walls and radiators and even skirting boards.

I do hope the real Simon is being cared for properly.

I took down the tinsel and fairy lights from the fireplace and tidied it up a bit before putting up the non-Christmas fairy lights that Simon bought in Habitat ages ago now. We had them on the tree briefly but they did this weird flickering thing on the black background so that didn't last long. They still split from purple into red/blue if I look at them at the wrong angle through my glasses, but they're much better against white.






We went to see the latest Harry Potter film last night, which was very good. I thought Cedric was more prominent in the film than I'd felt he was in the book so the ending had more impact.

At home afterwards we finally watched Constantine, which I picked up on DVD in Sainsbury's the other day for £6. It was ok as long as I kept telling myself it wasn't really Hellblazer, but I wasn't overly impressed.

We were going to see King Kong tonight but I've discovered Iain Banks is on Celebrity Mastermind on BBC1 at 7pm (thanks /mel/) and Ken Stott is Inspector Rebus at 9pm on ITV1, so it'll have to wait. I still have last week's Lost to watch too. Anyway, "Simon" is still on a roll so it would be a shame to stop him cleaning now...

Comments

[tvor.livejournal.com]

Did you find that the first bit of the movie right up to where they're on the train to Hogwarts was so condensed from the book that it was jarring? If you hadn't read it, you would probably not have much clue as to what was going on. I think because the books are now so long that i have a feeling subsequent movies are going to jump over quite a bit though i'm not sorry they dropped the house elf sub-plot.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Yes, I saw the comments on your post yesterday and agree with you, it was all a bit sudden! Agreed on the house elf thing too, that was just stupid, I'm glad it wasn't in the film.

[aeia.livejournal.com]

I will be pointing my Simon at this post to see if it can influence him. He did do some cleaning today eventually!

[inulro.livejournal.com]

So did Jason, but probably only because I had a meltdown on the subject last week and I'm feeling very lousy indeed today.

[denalyia.livejournal.com]

Ooh, what pretty lights! And *heh* I'd be keeping quiet, at least for a little while, and enjoying "Simon" and the cleaning while I could. ;)

Hope you guys had a good New Year! (haven't read that far back yet)

[ex-john-hat807.livejournal.com]

Very pretty lights Woo!....

Do you know if "Simon" has been programmed for decorating as well? Could you ask?

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

I hope so, my bathroom ceiling needs to be repainted above the bath and he should be able to do it without leaning precariously off a step ladder. I'm hoping to get that done this weekend.

[fracture242.livejournal.com]

I've never had the pleasure of any boyfriend being snatched but hopefully the aliens will kindly look my way at some point...

I think perhaps I might have an explanation though. I met Simon's old professor last night at a party and he did say he missed the old thing and that he very much wanted to see him again. Perhaps a robot was built to take Simon's place whilst he was kidnapped for tea?

[childeric.livejournal.com]

Oo, really? Who? It wasn't Edward James, was it?

[fracture242.livejournal.com]

It was indeed. A very nice man, I must say. He's the partner of my favourite lecturer and dissertation leader, Farah Mendelsohn (it was their party.) Strange night actually - I ran into Tony too. It's shocking how many strange connections there are...

[childeric.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that's so weird. Farah is your lecturer?! I've known her for 10 years! More, in fact. Spooky!

[fracture242.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I got her for my very first module at uni and now at the end she's my primary lecturer, leading me bravely through dissertation. She frequently hauls me out to sci-fi thingies and the like so I see her outside of uni too. Yes, it's all very spooky - I almost had a heart attack when I saw Tony there last night, and almost had another when Edward told me you were his PhD student. Small, small world.

[latexiron.livejournal.com]

All your Simon are belong to us, Muharharharharhar...