the corner office

Ronwen is watching Below, which seems to be a horror ghost movie on a submarine. I'm not even watching this and I'm nipping straws. I'm sitting at my desk at the far end of the room with headphones on, at right angles to the telly. Problem is, my peripheral vision still catches sudden movements, and there seem to be far too many of these.

I'm a wuss. I can't watch horror movies. Not even when my girlfriend holds my hand.

More to my taste, we watched Master and Commander last night. Ronwen got bored and stopped watching half way through, despite her having chosen it. Go figure :-) I'm not big on amputated limbs and gore and guts 19th-century style, but it wasn't gratuitous, and after a few gory bits to set the scene, the movie got on with the story, which is a good naval adventure yarn. Reading the reviews at IMDB, I saw more mention of the author whose characters inspired the movie: Patrick O'Brien. It's been a while since I read any naval fiction, I'll have to keep an eye out for some of his books.