Here we go again

[j4]

Yes, it's another questions thingy, because I'm bored (and quite probably boring). Stolen from kennedybak this time.


[A] First, recommend to me:
1. a movie:
2. a book:
3. a musical artist, song, or album:

[B] I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want.
1.
2.
3.

[C] Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything & say that you stole it from me.

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

A1 Riding In Cars With Boys
A2 The Queen's Fool, Philippa Gregory
A3 Electric Warrior, T.Rex
B1 Have you made any nice cakes lately?
B2 What's the worst thing about your job? (Not the coffee, one of your 'job description' tasks.)
B3 Are you allergic to anything?

[j4.livejournal.com]

Don't know the film recommendation, but then I'm film-illiterate. :-) I think I've got another Philippa Gregory around somewhere, but can't remember which one... it may even be that one. It's something I keep meaning to read, anyway, or at least it keeps popping up to the top of the physical to-read piles (which don't always line up with the mental to-read piles, actually). Oh, and I like T.Rex but don't know that one specifically.

B1. I made a good ginger-enhanced version of the standard fruitcaaaaaake allbran cake thing for our not-really-hallowe'en-party. With ginger beer as the liquid, and lots of proper crystallised ginger in with the fruit. I only realised today that there's actually some left! sion_a hid it in a tin. :-)

B2. Dealing with STUPID PEOPLE! No, actually, I quite enjoy the challenge, for all I whinge about it. ... I like it all, really, even the bits I complain about. :-) The Reporter is probably the most pointless bit, and the bit that reminds me the most of the stuff I got stuck doing at ProQuest, but it's only once a week or so, & it is something that people actually use so it doesn't feel like a complete waste of time. The worst bit for me really is that I know I could make more of the job as a whole, I could develop it & do more stuff & revolutionise the website ... but I'm too lazy.

OTOH they're running the Perl course again next year so I think I will brush up my geeking & try to do some more stuff in that direction. Not really quite what I want to do but I think in this job it could be fun.

B3. I used to be allergic to dairy, but I'm not any more, otherwise I'd be ill ALL THE TIME. I do seem to be allergic to nickel or whatever it is that's in cheap nasty earrings, because they make my skin come up in horrible rashes; does that count as an allergy? It's a real pain, whatever it is, because I have fancy goth collars that I can't wear any more because the metal makes my neck all swollen and itchy.

[k425.livejournal.com]

B3 - if you get a rash it's either an allergy or a sensitivity. Apparently painting clear nail varnish on the metal helps, but I don't know if you fancy doing that with your collars.

Ta, nurse! :-)

[j4.livejournal.com]

I've done the clear nailvarnish thing with one of them & it helped for a while but I think the nailvarnish has worn off now. I also glued a patch of soft leather over the studs on the other one (it's a leather collar, and the backs of the studs were bringing my neck up in very specific spots of rash, which was one of the things that convinced me it was the metal that was giving me the rash). I only started getting this allergy/sensitivity after wearing a chain-type-thing for ages which was made of really cheap metal ... I wonder if there's any way I can un-sensitize it again?

[k425.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that you can desensitize, but IANADermatologist! I've never managed it for sticking plaster, put it that way!