Crimewatch is not a Bedtime Tele show

[dotinthesky]

Does anybody else get freaked out by watching Crimewatch? Thank god I'm in the apartment with the Sissys, otherwise I'd have to go check all the windows with a hammer then sit in my room, all by myself, waiting for someone to break in. There is the slight worrying fact that Kevin left the apartment at 10:30 p.m. to go to Joel's house in the Eastend. Everybody knows all the horrid crimes happen there. I hope he arrives safe and doesn't decide to take a late bus home.

What scares me about real life crime is how mundane the people and the locales look. It's the next door gym stormed by two men who then machine gun one of the members; it's the woman who leaves her room to go get something in her car and is murdered (body never found, though we do get to see the back of her murderer's head when the car is photographed by a speeding camera *shivers*); it's the mom who decides to take a short cut through the woods with her baby so she can show him the horses, and ends up stabbed in the neck. The reconstructions make me wish I had useful information, that I could lift the phone and tell them "the Lithuanian bank robber is my upstairs neighbour!"

My week of lounging around the apartment is over: I have a temp job for tomorrow and Friday at the Institute of Education (back to my old ground.) On Monday, I begin a short contract at the National Theatre, which should be interesting. Even the woman at my agency was going on & on about how great the people were, etc. Crossing my fingers that I don't fuck up. Would love to find a place to settle down and never have to worry again about work (for at least the next few years.) I'm tired of jumping around, of always feeling unhappy at these various offices. Everything in my life is good apart from the work situation. I've even returned to the swimming pool after a two-week break and was rewarded by beautiful dolphins and free lanes. Let the sun arrive soon and let there be a little cubicle I can spend the hours without worrying my soul has been mangled by the photocopy machine.

Comments

[4q.livejournal.com]

hi, hi hi hi.

I love real life crime shows. They make me scared and happy all at the same time!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

hello!!

I couldn't watch them all the time. I love my crime books, and shows too, but the real stuff gets under my skin.

[tonight-we-fly.livejournal.com]

The spoof of Police Five that Rob Newman used to do on The Mary Whitehouse Experience was always chillingly poignant. The unfortunate young man was walking down Kilburn High Road...

Good luck at the IoE and the NT. I bet that both of them would be a lovely place to work...

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm sure those places are great to work at... but it always depends too on the people. Sometimes you get stuck in the unlucky department... though I am thinking positively as I write this! :)

in the Eastend....

[beeorkendurkey.livejournal.com]

when i was living there, i lived behind the royal london hos. it was a few blocks of nurses' accommodations and i lived in one of them. on the high street in whitechapel there's the urban bar (aka the tiger bar) that i used to frequent due to its remarkably close proximity to my front door. (the urban bar is located outside of the whitechapel tube station, cross the street and hang a left. you can not possibily miss it.) one night as i was walking home after close, i (and two other young girls) encountered a man sitting in a car with the alarm going off who leaned out and asked me if i had a light. i said no and we quickly kept walking. only what did we see then? four men carrying a four foot long coffin down the street. once we all passed one another in awed 2am silence, the girls and i all looked at one another to make sure that nobody was hallucinating and that we all did see such a bizarre thing happening... yep. hooray for whitechapel!

Re: in the Eastend....

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Freaky stuff like that happens everywhere in London, but it's the old spirit of Jack the Ripper that still slinks around the Eastend...

[arual.livejournal.com]

I have never been able to watch Crimewatch, it scares the shit outta me. Its all to real. You can watch a scary movie, and get over it... Real Crime stays with you after the lights go out.

Not nice. I'm scared of the dark to so maybe that makes me a big wuss :o)

[hunterjr.livejournal.com]

LOVELY icon <3

[arual.livejournal.com]

Thanks you, i'm friending you :o)

[hunterjr.livejournal.com]

ok, thanks ^^
I'm adding you back

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

It was funny how at the end they had to cuddle us by saying that those crimes were rare and that we shouldn't have nightmares about them! I guess they must have had lots of complaints in the past from pensioners and people like me who get freaked out and have nightmares.

[vilhem.livejournal.com]

Good luck with those jobs, jumping from office to office can be stressful and frustrating. What are the Sissys, darling? I have read about them but I am not quite sure, one of my cats is called Sissy.

How good are you at swimming?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Hehe... the Sissys are my affectionate term for Kevin's sisters (Allison and Jennifer) who live with us. So now you know. ;-)

I only learned how to properly swim in 2000. I started training in a school in Brasil and slowly fell in love with it. I can do all the strokes, but I still can't do the turnover (need a few classes for that!) When I go swimming by myself, I usually do 1000 metres. When I have a trainer giving me exercises, I'll do 1400. I try to go about 2 to 3 times a week... though I do take breaks if I get a cold.

Do you swim?

[hunterjr.livejournal.com]

pode parecer esquisito mas, eu tava com saudades de comentar no seu journal ;__;
*abraço*

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

abraco! Espero que tudo esteja bem com voce. ;-)

[hunterjr.livejournal.com]

tô bem sim, valeu :D

[dilvalicious.livejournal.com]

there have been quite a few murders here lately, 5 more than this time last year...
just yesterday, a body of a black woman was found in a park in Scaroborough.
The poor woman's name was Champagne.

(I swear, not kidding)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Kids over here are being called Chardonnay because of a trashy character in this tv show called "Footballer's Wives", so yeah, I do believe you!

[dilvalicious.livejournal.com]

that is just sad.
People name their kids stupidest things...
there is even some r&b singer named Nivea!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

In Brasil, you wouldn't believe the number of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussains! My aunt even had a girl in her class called Leidi Diane... hehehe!

[dilvalicious.livejournal.com]

oh my god

[gorecky22.livejournal.com]

A contract at the National Theatre!! That sounds quite good… but… what will you do there? Hope it lasts and you could not worry about the job!! I WISH YOU THE BEST! :D

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's a short-term contract, only two weeks, but I'm hoping that they find more stuff for me to do, and that I like the place too!