Had one of those days at work.

I work as support staff for a cremation society. Our office numbers as follows: myself, the other support staff person, three counselors, and the manager. One of the counselors had heart surgery on Thursday and is thus out of the office for a while. And right now is the busy time of year, but we're all managing okay-ish with the other two counselors (who've been there much longer) splitting his work between them and the rest of us helping out as best we can. This all breaks down, however, when the manager also takes a day off. It was bad enough yesterday to make me thankful that I was feeling well enough not to call in sick. Today was just... ugh.

So when I got home, I put Mary Poppins in the DVD player to listen to while preparing dinner because Julie Andrews has that magical knack of making things better. And that was followed by Aladdin after dinner while I was working on costume mock-ups. I'm still waiting for Disney to release The Little Mermaid onto a nifty two-DVD set. It's not their best animated work, but it still holds my record for most-times-I've-seen-a-movie-in-the-theatre. Just something about me and mermaids, I guess.

I also read through Kaimu Tachibana's newest manga, Bibou no Matou - Futari Seimei (roughly, "Good Lookers of the Demon Capitol: The Two Seimei," wherein "capitol" expressly means Kyoto). It is only three volumes long, and I can see why she was the artist (twins, demons, magic, Heian era...) for it, but I can also definitely see that it's not her writing. It's not as tightly written as her usual, doesn't contain the arcs she tends to give even background characters, and the ending is /so/ not her. I ended up disappointed. OTOH, it's very pretty.