show off

Today I discovered that I will be doing a bunch of displays at work over the next few days. They include the following themes:
1) Sci Fi/Fantasy: I'm thinking of someone with a sword fighting a robot. Or replicate a couple of super-lame covers in construction paper. This is a fairly medium sized display. Should be wicked awesome.
2) Adult summer reading: this will just be a construction paper skyline of Vancouver. Boring. But I will still spend 15 hours on it because I'm like that. I wanted to make the Marine Building in construction paper, so it's a view of Coal Harbour. How many days can I lose to paper displays? I have 4 to spare.
3) Pirates!!!!: I'm wearing a stripey shirt today and mentioned to my co-displayer (she's doing a Greek display) that I was feeling piratey today (arrr) and she FREAKED OUT. Like, she started planning the display in her head. So, we're jointly working on the pirate display, which will be 3D and may involve heads of the stars of "Pirates of the Caribbean" stuck on cartoonish pirate bodies (with satin pants). And a ship sticking out.

I find it hilarious that I get paid to do this sort of stuff. If you have any really good ideas for images to recreate, let me know. Also it's interesting that so many people I know are obsessed with pirates. You know who you are.

Speaking of which, maybe our pirate-appreciation day should be a month instead. I vote June, not only because it's next month, but because John Roberts became Bartholomew Roberts in June of 1719, aka The Great Pirate Roberts. I like to think of him as the Dread Pirate Roberts because there is no real date in the book and most people should know who the Dread Pirate Roberts is.

FYI, I will be almost unresponsive the next few days, probably until Tuesday or Wednesday, as The Move is on. I still have craploads of stuff to pack/clean in the house and things/services to switch over, and want to avoid all of it by summoning my fairy godmother or elves or Mary Poppins. Oh, or I can get myself hospitalised and then other people will be forced to help me. That's a good plan...

Currently reading :
Cut! : Hollywood Murders, Accidents, and Other Tragedies
By Denise Imwold
Release date: 09 November, 2005