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in_omnia
12 October 2010 @ 08:49 pm
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This has been the quintessential Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. I haven't had a day this awful in a long, long time. Everything at work was rushed. I found out about a change in our staff and meeting schedules that bodes very ill for the next year. I expressed annoyance about something and got disdainful looks from my coworkers. And a lady I hung up on---after trying to help her for ten minutes while she disparaged my efforts and my intelligence---came in and related her dreadful experience with one of the staff. I'm grateful she didn't confront me about it, as I probably would've snapped and burst into tears, but I definitely wish said staff member had kept the visit to herself. Ignorance, in this case, is definitely bliss.

Please. Please. Please. Let tomorrow be a better day.

Day 17: Favorite Christmas carol or holiday song
"O Holy Night" is my all-time favorite Christmas carol. But I've a soft spot for "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" and can sing "Good King Wenceslas" almost word-for-word. (For that, you can blame Jonathan Brandis, who starred as the good king himself in a cheesy, made-for-TV movie.) And the Christmas season isn't complete without the entire soundtrack to The Muppet Christmas Carol, "Christmas is Coming," and "It's In Everyone of Us."
 
 
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[identity profile] ludzu-alus.livejournal.com on October 13th, 2010 03:47 am (UTC)
First, I'm sorry it's been a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Hopefully, tomorrow will be much better!

Second, JONATHAN BRANDIS WAS IN A MOVIE I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT???! (Also, yay for someone else apparently having as big a crush on him as I did!) I must find this movie.... Name??
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[identity profile] in-omnia.livejournal.com on October 13th, 2010 03:59 am (UTC)
BWAHAHAHAHA!! You have single-handedly vanquished my Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day just by sharing my Jonathan Brandis obsession. :D (I am grinning so hard right now!) As for this movie, it's just called Good King Wenceslas. And while it's not the ideal venue, you can find it on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFG1zN5yzrA). Gah. He is unbelievable adorable. And if he'd only waited a few more years, I feel certain he could have revived his career with a stint in some superhero film. Alas, Jonathan Brandis. Alas.
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[identity profile] ludzu-alus.livejournal.com on October 13th, 2010 04:49 am (UTC)
My powers reign supreme. :P Glad I could help!!

Echo that: alas, Jonathan Brandis, alas. Silly boy: it woulda gotten better.
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[identity profile] janeite723.livejournal.com on October 14th, 2010 02:21 pm (UTC)
I like all the carols you mentioned, especially "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" -- and I love that you put the comma in the right spot! :) So few people know that it goes after the "merry"!
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[identity profile] in-omnia.livejournal.com on October 15th, 2010 02:14 am (UTC)
I think it's a quirk of my mental make-up: ever since I first noticed that the comma goes after "merry," whenever I write it out, I imagine a jolly sort of gentleman lifting a cup of wassail and toasting, "God rest y'merry, gentlemen!" to all his wassail-holding fellows. Makes it impossible to put the comma anywhere else. (Which is probably what my mind is going for, come to think of it.)

I love, too, that "merry" means "mighty." I wish I had more opportunities to say, "God rest you merry," to people.
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