pmsumner

Jane and I went to see Passion of the Christ tonight. Neither of us knew a terrible lot about the movie other than the dialogue was in Aramaic and the story was supposed to be something to do with "the dude" being crucified.

I was stunned. Shocked, sickened, surprised too. The soundtrack is the first thing to comment on - it's wonderful. The music was moving, matched perfectly with the mood and moved with the film nicely. The scenes everyone talks about... you know. The lashes and the crucifixion... icky icky icky. I cringed, I looked away after the first one, actually.

I can't vouch for story accuracy, or "historical facts", or anything like that because my knowledge of biblical stuff is woefully poor. It was slightly confusing for me, in fact. There were bits that I would really have liked to be able to go back a few minutes, watch again and listen to some audio commentary explaining what's going on. Looks like I'll be buying the DVD then ;)

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I think it was a fantastic film. Stunning scenery and camera work, very well written (well, as much as the subtitling went). The acting was good and there was nothing in the film which made me go "I know that must have been wrong" apart from the long standing argument over whether "he" was nailed to the crucifix through his hands or wrists (c.f. Stigmata or this page).

I want to see it again but I want to do it when I can go back and watch again to make sure I understand.

Working 9-5 Thurs-Sat. s'not a bad stretch. Then back on lates Mon-Fri I think. Have to check my diary to be sure.

Looking forward to the changes in TDMS now because I will be able to find out about shift changes. I'm hoping and hoping that we'll get put on 10.5hr shifts. This is because you work a max of 3 days on, then get 2 days off. The pattern I'm hoping is:

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun

It's a good pattern because it's regular, you get the same days off every 2 weeks, you only work 50% weekends, you never do more than 3 days on in a row and get 3 weekends every 2 weeks :) You do work every Friday but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

The other options are to work splits (roughly 7am-11am/6pm-10pm Mon-Fri), which are horrible long term, permanent lates/earlies (Mon-Fri only, but I don't want to do either as I struggle with the earlies and perm lates rules out seeing Jane weekday evenings), 9hr shifts (5 days a week with a fixed weekday off every week, 50% weekends).

I think the 10.5hr shifts rock. They're perfect for me, delivering a good mix of weekends off and weekdays off.

I hadn't ever bothered to work out why QSF marked every email with the same spam score - 83/100. I spent some time looking at it last night about 1am and eventually figured out that QSF database was only readable by root :) Oops.

I'm in staying up late mode again. I like staying up late. I don't like mornings.

Uhm.
Work is being sucky again. They don't seem to be able to tell me what shift pattern the new TDMS teams will be on, yet they're asking the non-TDMS folks to make their shift choices now. I can't help feel this disadvantages us (the TDMS folk) if we decide that the new teams aren't "for us" for whatever reason as we'll have a more limited shift choice remaining.

I'm going to talk to a few people tomorrow and raise my concerns in a formal manner. It needs sorted.