More kennel crimes; Baby New Year nephew; Rickman deliciousness!!

[grrgoyl]

This morning Tery woke me up to tell me we had been broken into last night.

I would have greatly appreciated it if she had differentiated between "we" our own home and "we" the hospital, which is actually what she meant.

Evidently someone had climbed over the fence in the exercise yard (admittedly not hard to do), taken a ladder out of the outside shed (that I didn't even know was in there) and used a special tool to loosen the casement of one of the office windows sufficiently to pull it open and crawl in. All of this while the overnight woman was down in the laundry room.

Investigators are befuddled. The loot gained from this daring B & E was only a computer monitor and keyboard, barely worth $50 in a pawn shop. The perp left behind his crowbar and a pair of sunglasses. Wild theories abound, but I think my sister might have been onto something when she suspected the overnight woman herself, planning to retire by selling her spoils.

I'm a little freaked out. No, I wasn't there, but I could have been. Speculation about people casing the joint for weeks from surrounding buildings or treetops doesn't make me feel much better. The overnight woman is evidently unfazed (another reason to suspect her), but I'll never forget the one night I was convinced I heard someone walking around upstairs and I spent 10 minutes staring up the stairwell, in a cold sweat and utterly unable to breathe the entire time.

Tery is heightening security, though nothing will be done before my shift this weekend. She's having security cameras installed (which will effectively put an end to my stint of working topless). There's also talk of getting a Rottweiler to live in the exercise yard year-round. I said great, but who's going to protect me from the Rottweiler?

I'll be honest. Even though I'm not directly affected by this crime (this time), I'm still using it as an excuse to quit. Tery agrees; she doesn't want to have to worry about me either. But again, nothing can be done before this weekend, and if I don't go in then she'll have to, and I can't have THAT riding on my conscience.

~*~

Unrelated, I'm not one for posting baby pics, but this demanded it. This is Michael J., Tery's (and mine) newest nephew, son of her sis Michelle.

Okay, so his eyes are the wrong color. But the ears are dead on! And I think the mouth too.

~*~

However, I'm totally one for fangirl squeeing, and so I'm including the trailer for Alan Rickman's new movie, Snow Cake.

Alan plays a drifter who befriends Sigourney Weaver, a high functioning autistic. He also meets and has sex with next door neighbor Carrie-Anne Moss. And while it looks like another one of those "people with mental illness make the most profound statements about the world because they see things so much more clearly than us" movies, who cares because he has sex with Carrie-Anne Moss. Alan never gets to have sex with anyone, and I for one would not miss it for the world.

Furthermore, in this interview on a Canadian talk show, he mentioned being in Tim Burton's new movie, Sweeney Todd, singing a duet with Johnny Depp, no less. Oh yeah, baby.

Comments

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

The thieves may have been hoping to find personal information on the computer. Identity theft is more profitable than anything likely to be in the clinic.

Rickman did get some sex in An Awfully Big Adventure, but it was a father/daughter thing. Some people might be put off by that. Not you or I, but some people. ;)

[grrgoyl.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. That theory didn't come up in our discussion. Of course, it might be considerably more challenging to steal identities without the hard drive. And what identity thief worth his salt doesn't already have his own keyboard? ; )

Ah, yes, I forgot about An Awful Adventure. I was put off by that sex because of the seeming underaged status of his partner long before the incest ever came up. That movie was fucked. up.

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched it since the year it came out and I have to admit my memory of the movie is foggy. I just remember thinking that I'd hit it when it came to Alan Rickman, her mom was the time lady and she ended up being his daughter. I know there was more of a movie than incest and phone calls to time.

[grrgoyl.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, much more. Like a full hour sans Alan where nothing much happens at all except me getting more and more pissed off. Here's my review if you're interested. Yep, I didn't think a whole lot of this movie, but since it does feature sex with Alan, I've held onto it.

[velmaneuwirth.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm Carrie-Ann Moss.

And Tim Burton's doing a Sweeney Todd movie?.. That has SO MUCH potential.

[grrgoyl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I said the same thing about the LAST Tim Burton movie, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and...I loved that movie! (psych!)

[life-on-stage.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Alan is suppose to play the judge in Sweeney Todd. The duet would be the song "Pretty Women" where he sings about the prettiness of Sweeney Todd's daughter (yep, slight jailbait fetish he has) and Sweeney (Johnny Depp) sings about his deceased wife, I think.

And pasties solve the problem of working topless, technically you still cover your naughty bits.

[grrgoyl.livejournal.com]

I saw the play in college, some 16 years ago (GAH!) Barely remember it at all. I'm sure Tim (and Alan and Johnny) will not disappoint.

Even pasties take too much effort to apply (I imagine). I'll just be happy with bra-less.

[minikitkatgirl.livejournal.com]

I met Sigourney Weaver when she was doing research for her role in Snow Cake! She came to a meeting for a support group that I used to go to on Long Island. I can't believe there's a trailer already; I'm eagerly anticipating this movie for a multitude of reasons (her performance, and the delicious Alan Rickman making sexytime with Carrie-Anne Moss, among others). Also, I had no idea Alan Rickman was going to be in Sweeney Todd. First Johnny Depp, then Sacha Baron Cohen, now Alan Rickman. Damn, that movie is going to kick so much ass! =D

~*Amy

[grrgoyl.livejournal.com]

I have so much respect for Sigourney, even before seeing this. You're lucky to have met her! And yeah, Alan making "sexytime" is never a bad thing. I might be looking forward to this even more than Harry Potter 5! And "Sweeney Todd" as well. Tim and I are soulmates, you know.

[minikitkatgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh you are, are you? Well isn't that nice. I hope you kids meet up one day and make lots of little butch lesbian goth babies together =D (I meant that in good humour, no offense intended or anything).

Meeting Sigourney was Teh Awesome. I even got her autograph:

[grrgoyl.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I knew the minute I saw he casted Ewan McGregor in "Big Fish." He seems to be attracted to all the same men I am. ; )

I won't take offense at your comment if you forgive me for my flippant attitude towards movies about people with mental illness yadda yadda yadda.

Break In?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe that place you work at should have some dogs - like WATCH dogs, eh?

Re: Break In?

[grrgoyl.livejournal.com]

Yepyep. Hence the Rottweiler idea.