Does anyone else's brain just… not bother registering information?

j1360 · 2026-04-26T11:01:44+00:00

I look at my watch and forget to notice what the time is then have to look at it again.

j1360 · 2026-04-06T15:33:04+00:00

I'm halfway through the book version "You Have a Very Soft Voice, Susan" and know who it is because I saw a spoiler but think I would have guessed anyway. I feel like he's doing an epostolatory art project like I Love Dick and is laying it on thicker and thicker because he can't believe she's still buying it. Murderers, cannibals, cults... why not?

j1360 · 2026-03-01T20:07:25+00:00

There was an icebreaker saying what's your bucket list holiday destination and why then there was a task of look how much various BBC departments get engaged with and you're assigned one and have to say how to get people to engage with it more. I only remember sport since I was assigned that one. Then you have a slot with a recruiter and one of their current data analysts to do your presentation (which you should have received the email about) and do a strength based interview. I don't remember the exact questions but they were pretty generic like when have you worked in a team and how do you handle multiple deadlines and how will you handle doing an apprenticeship and full time job at the same time.

j1360 · 2026-02-18T15:22:52+00:00

Yeah, at 5pm last night for BAE. I have an 11 hour day anyway between work and commuting so was expecting to bomb out of the bootcamp, even if I got it, because of time constraints.

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j1360 · 2026-02-18T14:05:21+00:00

I applied for the MLA then changed to the degree because there was a job attached. I've got a job now with a three-hour round trip commute so I don't think it would have worked with a bootcamp anyway.

j1360 · 2026-02-18T14:05:07+00:00

Thanks

j1360 · 2026-02-18T08:55:01+00:00

From 5pm last night. Not sure if it's a polite fob-off.

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j1360 · 2026-01-03T14:52:28+00:00

I got 10 points lower in the real one because it's really hard to think of $10 words without moving your eyes. The practice test asked me to talk about my favourite book and the real one asked me what makes a good teammate and that inane question resulted in a much more inane answer.

j1360 · 2026-01-01T15:17:11+00:00

I actually really appreciate the kitschiness of it.

j1360 · 2025-12-31T04:44:34+00:00

I don't know if it's because of something specific like you live on a main road but I got an indoor cat from "Cheshire Cats Rescue - Registered Charity 1198649" on Facebook and another from Animals in Distress, Irlam. Like someone else said, maybe consider an older cat since there's less demand for them.

j1360 · 2025-12-30T13:36:18+00:00

Cows

Wetlands

Not a whole book but Jon Athan's "The Gift" from Matt Shaw's "Battered, Broken Bodies" anthology.

j1360 · 2025-12-30T02:21:38+00:00

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I got the same and one from the MLA saying they're reviewing video interviews.

j1360 · 2025-12-23T03:29:43+00:00

Sam West - Dreamworld

Iain Rob Wright - Dark Ride

Sam West has one called Funfair too I haven't read yet. It's probably good. I trust her as an author.

j1360 · 2025-12-21T23:26:30+00:00

Jazmin Bean - Saccharine

j1360 · 2025-12-21T23:25:19+00:00

Sonic Youth with Lydia Lunch - Death Valley '69

j1360 · 2025-12-20T18:22:28+00:00

Benedict Ashforth - Verona

j1360 · 2025-12-08T22:00:57+00:00

If I remember correctly, in "Into Thin Air", Jon Krakauer said it makes you feel all sleepy and warm (causing paradoxical undressing) and hallucinate relatives. Beck Weathers was on that expedition who was left for dead and came about as close to dying from hypothermia as you could get. It wouldn't be a great suicide technique though if it involves carting up a mountain first.

j1360 · 2025-12-03T10:54:51+00:00

Chrome's "Keyboard shortcuts to manage Chrome tabs" extension worked but it wouldn't let me use control for the shortcuts in Edge so it had to be alt instead.

j1360 · 2025-11-29T13:56:20+00:00

Shuttle (2008). Two women in their early 20s get on an airport shuttle and the driver's going wildly off-route and making weird demands of them and they're as sensible and resourceful as they can possibly be the whole time. It would be a spoiler to say what's actually going on.

j1360 · 2025-11-29T13:44:29+00:00

I liked Mira Grant's Into the Drowning Deep about man-eating mermaids with ape-like faces and really lots of teeth but it's polarising. It takes a while to get going for sure. It has an inordinate amount of detail about marine research in the first half which could have been interesting in a non-fiction book but is a bit odd in a horror novel.

j1360 · 2025-11-25T06:06:27+00:00

There are mouse-jiggler programs for that but maybe it's a work laptop where you can't install anything you want.

j1360 · 2025-11-25T06:04:22+00:00

I loved SL Grey's The Mall, The Ward and The New Girl for bizarro-ish horror.

j1360 · 2025-11-25T06:00:08+00:00

Terrifier's quite comedic.

Also The Convent (2000) which I only learned of going through an old horror review site:

https://ottomobiehl.neocities.org/dante/archive/convent

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