I did a silly thing. Agreed to run 5k. Anway, I took the plunge so perhaps you'd like to do the same, only into your wallets! Please sponsor me online to raise money for Cancer Research or I'll flood your email with sob stories about sick children. ha ha ha ha.....
http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/puttingdownmybook
24 May 2005
21 May 2005
Leaving do was fun. Mini me was down one end of the table entertaining the troops with full scale inter-planetary war complete with horrific bloodshed, staggering casualties and personal tragedies enacted with only his hands and an impressive repetoire of sound effects.
One place round was my best friend (ex colleague) doing her best to encourage him in aforementioned military endeavour whilst getting him to try anchovies and bruschetta.
Three of us are leaving within a month of each other so we had a joint knees up eating far too much, drinking far too much and attempting to scale trees on the way home. Two of our number ended up in the gutter, one had to leave early they were so hammered and for once neither of them were in my immediate family!!
It was great. I should leave work more often.
One place round was my best friend (ex colleague) doing her best to encourage him in aforementioned military endeavour whilst getting him to try anchovies and bruschetta.
Three of us are leaving within a month of each other so we had a joint knees up eating far too much, drinking far too much and attempting to scale trees on the way home. Two of our number ended up in the gutter, one had to leave early they were so hammered and for once neither of them were in my immediate family!!
It was great. I should leave work more often.
fool of a touk!
slight oversight on my part re: impending vienna trip. seems i'm a night short at the hotel. and just as i was thinking i was omnipotent.
18 May 2005
leaving
looking forward to my joint leaving do at work tomorrow evening. still can't properly compute that i'm moving to another branch and leaving everyone behind. i'm sure they'll negotiate the change effortlessly!!
paris
On the champs elysees, this guy was offering to cut out your silhouette for 2 euros in one minute. We watched for a while, very impressed that all he had was a piece of black paper and a pair of scissors. Then of course we parted with our cash and enjoyed being tourists.
In the Sacre Coeur we sat watching the constant stream of visitors pouring in to stress out the attendant at the door. He made more noise telling everyone to shush and move along than the visitors themselves. Just as we were beginning to be irritated, eight nuns appeared at the front and sang the most amazing, haunting piece. It was a special moment.
At the bar, a German couple couldn't get the waiter to understand that they wanted him to make a recommendation from the menu. Eventually I couldn't stand it any longer and offered to help. They were all smiles and thank yous. It was most gratifying until the waiter, whose linguistic problem clearly wasn't limited to foreign languages, proceeded to translate the menu instead of recommend.
In the Sacre Coeur we sat watching the constant stream of visitors pouring in to stress out the attendant at the door. He made more noise telling everyone to shush and move along than the visitors themselves. Just as we were beginning to be irritated, eight nuns appeared at the front and sang the most amazing, haunting piece. It was a special moment.
At the bar, a German couple couldn't get the waiter to understand that they wanted him to make a recommendation from the menu. Eventually I couldn't stand it any longer and offered to help. They were all smiles and thank yous. It was most gratifying until the waiter, whose linguistic problem clearly wasn't limited to foreign languages, proceeded to translate the menu instead of recommend.
16 May 2005
15 May 2005
12 May 2005
paree
demain je serais a paris, forcement, je ne serais pas ici. essayez-vous de ne pas vous inquieter trop. je suis bientot de retour. si vous voulez une carte-postale, envoyez moi votre address, si vous preferez un cadeau, envoyez moi cinq euros, si vous voulez une vrai surprise donnez moi votre numero de carte et je vous promet de ne jamais t'inquieter plus.
11 May 2005
palimp bdo
Well that was a rather splendid day. A couple of token gestures towards art and literature then the rest of the day drinking ourselves garrulous in London pubs. When else can you go out with people called Wav, Col, Gil, Bak & Digger?
Eleven of us from the www.palimpsest.org.uk site met up today. Everyone seemed younger than their avatars suggested and we even enjoyed the disembodied presence of Mr Self via photo messaging.
All agreed after the first three drinks that we were all smashing and special. 'Special' came to mean different things by the end of the day! Some people were 'awww', some 'heeeee' and still others a combination of 'whaa?' and 'yes but i mean why er what .....?'
Roll on the next Big Day Out.
Eleven of us from the www.palimpsest.org.uk site met up today. Everyone seemed younger than their avatars suggested and we even enjoyed the disembodied presence of Mr Self via photo messaging.
All agreed after the first three drinks that we were all smashing and special. 'Special' came to mean different things by the end of the day! Some people were 'awww', some 'heeeee' and still others a combination of 'whaa?' and 'yes but i mean why er what .....?'
Roll on the next Big Day Out.
eyeball
Gone are the days of 1-2, 1-2 do you copy, are you up for an eyeball.
Today I'm off to meet up with a bunch of random individuals I only know through a highbrow internet site. If they turn out to be serial killers and I never appear again, let me say now that if I am to perish at the cruel hands of strangers then take comfort from the thought that they were at least well spoken and my last moments were probably taken up discussing literature and art. It's not a bad way to go.
Today I'm off to meet up with a bunch of random individuals I only know through a highbrow internet site. If they turn out to be serial killers and I never appear again, let me say now that if I am to perish at the cruel hands of strangers then take comfort from the thought that they were at least well spoken and my last moments were probably taken up discussing literature and art. It's not a bad way to go.
8 May 2005
culinary trimuphhhsplat
made the famous african peanut soup this evening followed by the promisingly delicious lemon tart by gordon ramsay. but the lemon didn't set so we ended up having savoury soup then sweet soup. the pastry was good and the lemon sauce ... unconventional but tasty.
this is not a criticism of gordon ramsay. don't sue me. i just can't get his lemon tart to firm up. this also is not a veiled insult to the man.
i ate two pieces as consolation and now i feel rather bloated.
a lemon yellow day.
this is not a criticism of gordon ramsay. don't sue me. i just can't get his lemon tart to firm up. this also is not a veiled insult to the man.
i ate two pieces as consolation and now i feel rather bloated.
a lemon yellow day.
7 May 2005
it takes a girl
Thank goodness I arrived at the boys bonfire and BBQ to take charge. They had the cooking under control but gee whizz, they didn't know how to keep a bonfire going ;)
After a day working without any natural light it's great to sit by a lake in the evening with mates, eating BBQ, gathering sticks from the woods, drinking beer and waiting for the rod tip to move.
After a day working without any natural light it's great to sit by a lake in the evening with mates, eating BBQ, gathering sticks from the woods, drinking beer and waiting for the rod tip to move.
6 May 2005
4 May 2005
special mention
special mention to boyf of borrower who bought us a rather splendid indian nosh last night. fanks mate. welcome to the piratha elite.
"which was nice"
seems i have a new job. didn't see that coming a week ago. nothing exciting for the outside blog reader - internal transfer blah blah blah - but a pretty big change for me and rather exciting too.
2 May 2005
culkin roadshow
watched 'igby goes down' this evening. granted, i had to suffer it with a settee full of girls talking the whole way through but even so it was a disappointment. got back to read one rave review on amazon. hmm. well, the main character could have had so much more depth. he was an interesting idea but not half as raw as he should of been if they were trying to portray a really rebellious young man. my 13 year old has more attitude than him and we were meant to be convinced he was a drop out from a string of schools and dealt drugs. no he was too preppy by far. the estranged, mentally ill father figure could have been so interesting as well but guess what, they kicked him out after the first scene and shove him in an institute. there's a slight twist at the end when you discover the 'murder' was assisted euthanasia. not really enough to turn it round!
rent something else.
rent something else.
1 May 2005
Marsh Arabs
Call me a lightweight but I've never really tried travel writing before and I always feel slightly unnerved when I read non-fiction. For some reason I think I'm going to tire of real life in a way that fiction continues to grip me. Anyway, no need to worry with Wilfred Thesiger. Really good. I haven't finished yet but I am really glad I picked this one up. After seeing his photos at the Natural History Museum in Oxford last week I knew I had to read this book. I suppose he's the last of the explorers. I'm entranced by the way these people build homes from reeds. Not only protection against the elements, as you often see in the 'mut hut' approach to foreign travel, but beautiful structures that look Arabian even though they are essentially a bunch of weeds a la three little pigs. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~mariposa/images/11-Mudhif.jpg These Arabs live in Iraq and, from what I've read so far, seem to be entirely uninfluenced by the outside world. Does anyone know what has happened to these people since Thesiger wrote about them in the 50's?
Kitchen
have just finished 'kitchen' by banana yoshimoto which has a short story, 'moonlight shadow', at the end. They both gave me a similar feeling to Murakami even though the themes were quite different. They are quietly impacting. Not a lot seems to happen but after you've closed the last page you think how that was actually a very touching and enduring read. I would recommend them both but don't expect action.
27 April 2005
Small Island
Finished reading the prize-winning Levy novel this evening. By half way I really could not put it down. It's essentially about two couples, one pair black, the other white, whose lives are shaped by the second world war and racial issues. This is not a simplistic colonial read though as each of them have their own barriers to overcome. Their lives draw you into the story and you wish you were able to follow their story beyond the final page. A really well crafted and utterly human story.
26 April 2005
I'm away two days and you're bickering already! heh heh
Just had an ace weekend with the people whose wedding we went to in the states a year past christmas. I had met the bride online in a literary discussion group about the writings of Iris Murdoch. We are firm life long friends now I'm sure :) She is not only about to graduate from med school, specialising in neurology but she also retains the most amazing knowledge about everything. We went to Pitts River museum as recommended by borrower, thank you (!), and she had comments on so many exhibits. Oh these are the....did you hear the story about.... I read about this once.... etc. I really have to read more non fiction and get myself an(other) education. Oh and she runs marathons as if being a junior doctor wasn't enough pressure!
In the evening we had a pudding soiree which pretty much was what it says on the can. I made ye famous kumquat special - pear and almond tarte. Also cream teas, trifle, peanut butter cookies courtesy of mini me and drinks-a-plenty. How rare to sit in a room full of eloquent people discussing politics and making social comments in a reasoned manner. Of course I only listened!!
Monday, we went to Oxford as an Iris Murdoch pilgrimage. I bet we are the only ones to yell out on the top of a bus when we saw St. Anne's College! The pub clientelle over there is another breed - bow ties, tank tops and immaculate shirts tucked into chinos. The afternoon was the museum trip which included a "bunch" of natural history. Of course I was thrilled by the heaps of bones and unidentifiable mishmash of curiosities whose labels shed no light but there was a stuffed cheetah in the entrance which i rather took to and he didn't object to being tickled under the chin and rubbed on his belly. Whole lives may be passed over by a careless reader (im) but whole millenia can be passed over in a museum. We saw the photographs of William Thesiger which were stunning. They were about the Marsh Arabs which is also the title of one of his better known travel books. I bought the book today and can't wait to get into it.
One life isn't enough. 5 years of lit study is one thing but now i need some other lives to dedicate one to science, one to art....
Just had an ace weekend with the people whose wedding we went to in the states a year past christmas. I had met the bride online in a literary discussion group about the writings of Iris Murdoch. We are firm life long friends now I'm sure :) She is not only about to graduate from med school, specialising in neurology but she also retains the most amazing knowledge about everything. We went to Pitts River museum as recommended by borrower, thank you (!), and she had comments on so many exhibits. Oh these are the....did you hear the story about.... I read about this once.... etc. I really have to read more non fiction and get myself an(other) education. Oh and she runs marathons as if being a junior doctor wasn't enough pressure!
In the evening we had a pudding soiree which pretty much was what it says on the can. I made ye famous kumquat special - pear and almond tarte. Also cream teas, trifle, peanut butter cookies courtesy of mini me and drinks-a-plenty. How rare to sit in a room full of eloquent people discussing politics and making social comments in a reasoned manner. Of course I only listened!!
Monday, we went to Oxford as an Iris Murdoch pilgrimage. I bet we are the only ones to yell out on the top of a bus when we saw St. Anne's College! The pub clientelle over there is another breed - bow ties, tank tops and immaculate shirts tucked into chinos. The afternoon was the museum trip which included a "bunch" of natural history. Of course I was thrilled by the heaps of bones and unidentifiable mishmash of curiosities whose labels shed no light but there was a stuffed cheetah in the entrance which i rather took to and he didn't object to being tickled under the chin and rubbed on his belly. Whole lives may be passed over by a careless reader (im) but whole millenia can be passed over in a museum. We saw the photographs of William Thesiger which were stunning. They were about the Marsh Arabs which is also the title of one of his better known travel books. I bought the book today and can't wait to get into it.
One life isn't enough. 5 years of lit study is one thing but now i need some other lives to dedicate one to science, one to art....
23 April 2005
News for y'aaall
Having a couple of South Carolinian friends staying for the weekend so here I am at quarter to ten waiting for the sauce to finish cooking to go with the meatballs I prepared earlier before I start on the desserts, the cleaning and the nervous break down.
22 April 2005
Last night I went to see my mate's band, Black Ramps, play The Marquee in Leicester Square. They were great, of course.
I met Big Dog again and marvelled at his big girly dancing, the touching moment when I led him to make a link between drunkeness and drink (it was like a light going on) and the routine late night leaping o'er phone box banter. Splendid stuff. How odd to jump over nettles when they don't grow this far south.
Who should be in the audience but Ronny from Eastenders! I had to have him pointed out, as I haven't yet watched an entire episode.
Anonymous, who frequents this site and can occassionally be dubbed 'borrower', was also in attendance and much merriment did we have listening to her stories of previous drunken revellry.
If my memory serves me correctly, the evening concluded with Big Dog promising to buy all the drinks next time we're out.
>winks and points<
I met Big Dog again and marvelled at his big girly dancing, the touching moment when I led him to make a link between drunkeness and drink (it was like a light going on) and the routine late night leaping o'er phone box banter. Splendid stuff. How odd to jump over nettles when they don't grow this far south.
Who should be in the audience but Ronny from Eastenders! I had to have him pointed out, as I haven't yet watched an entire episode.
Anonymous, who frequents this site and can occassionally be dubbed 'borrower', was also in attendance and much merriment did we have listening to her stories of previous drunken revellry.
If my memory serves me correctly, the evening concluded with Big Dog promising to buy all the drinks next time we're out.
>winks and points<
20 April 2005
classic work days
Customer comes in asking for a book by "Grievous Phinn".
Customer comes in and asks where they can buy first edition Harry Potter.
Customer comes in and asks 'how much is the 3 for 2?'
Customer comes in and stands in the humour section reading jokes out loud to himself and laughing raucously.
Customer comes in and asks about a book for which they do not have the title or author but it's something about a dog.
Customer comes in and asks if we have a list of all the new books.
Customer comes in and asks where the Da Vinci code is. (This is funny on so many levels)
Customer comes in and asks if I'm looking on the shelves for the book he wrote. It's a fictional work yet I'm in the crime section. Oh the irony. You'd think he would know it was a work of fiction. And incidentally no I'm not looking for your book. Why should I when the front cover looks like it's been photocopied and the writing makes me look back with respectful nostalgia to Peter and Jane books.
Customer faffing at chip and pin machine forces me to comment that if they struggle reading highlighted words in bold writing on a lit screen in front of them, how do they imagine they will complete a whole book.
Customer incapable of inserting card into chip and pin machine has me wondering if I should recommend they go to the Early Learning Centre and buy a shape sorter to take home for practice.
Customer comes in and asks where they can buy first edition Harry Potter.
Customer comes in and asks 'how much is the 3 for 2?'
Customer comes in and stands in the humour section reading jokes out loud to himself and laughing raucously.
Customer comes in and asks about a book for which they do not have the title or author but it's something about a dog.
Customer comes in and asks if we have a list of all the new books.
Customer comes in and asks where the Da Vinci code is. (This is funny on so many levels)
Customer comes in and asks if I'm looking on the shelves for the book he wrote. It's a fictional work yet I'm in the crime section. Oh the irony. You'd think he would know it was a work of fiction. And incidentally no I'm not looking for your book. Why should I when the front cover looks like it's been photocopied and the writing makes me look back with respectful nostalgia to Peter and Jane books.
Customer faffing at chip and pin machine forces me to comment that if they struggle reading highlighted words in bold writing on a lit screen in front of them, how do they imagine they will complete a whole book.
Customer incapable of inserting card into chip and pin machine has me wondering if I should recommend they go to the Early Learning Centre and buy a shape sorter to take home for practice.
19 April 2005
Do it yourself AKA Lou, can you do it?
I am living in a reinforced house with impenetrable walls. I suspect something in the order of superveillance and subterfuge. Possibly I just have really hard walls I can't get a drill through. Two of us were pushing against the drill to try and get a hole in the wall, for Stan's sake. All is not lost though. I have three solid hooks, two firm candlesticks and a bit of sturdy work top. Just don't TOUCH them!!!
18 April 2005
Wonderful Web
Today nothing of any consequence happened therefore I have been trawling through some blogs to bring you the best and the cheesiest of blog entries. Enjoy the ride.
http://dvr4u.blogspot.com/
"Keller Graduate School of Management Adult students have multiple real-world demands"
Thunderbird School? So they're named after a low budget puppet show and their claim to academic excellence is that their students can do more than one thing at a time? Genius. Where do I sign?
http://dvr4u.blogspot.com/
"Keller Graduate School of Management Adult students have multiple real-world demands"
Thunderbird School? So they're named after a low budget puppet show and their claim to academic excellence is that their students can do more than one thing at a time? Genius. Where do I sign?
oOo
" 'I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.' Isaac Asimov. What this quote is saying is not to be affraid of computers and be affraid of what it could do. "
So how about you start with spell check, honey?
oOo
lately
Ive been obsessed with images,
Ive been obsessed with images,
so many things youll forget in life,
people, places, feelings,
Im terrified of forgetting,
so now I photograph,
my life and thoughts,
so Ill never forget.
With poetry like this, who wants a good memory?
oOo
"All about me!
Things About Me. I am perfectionistI am broke… not really though. I just want money to shop!I easily fall in love with something (not someone because it’s a different thing)."
Things About Me. I am perfectionistI am broke… not really though. I just want money to shop!I easily fall in love with something (not someone because it’s a different thing)."
What were you perfecting the day you skipped grammar class, lady?
17 April 2005
A Prayer for Owen Money
High Lord Stanley, to whom I have already offered up an initial £17.98, instructest me thou that I should continue to sacrifice monetary offerings at the holy shrines of Do it All? I have today vowed allegiance to all things copper and steel by purchasing some screwdrivers, something zinc with hookey bits and a bradawl. Forgive me for the cheap plastic tool box, it's only a standby 'til I can pilfer the offering bag of loose change by the phone and invest in something more fitting to your cause. I will take the time to read thoroughly the most sacrasanct of treatise, the UpStanishads, in order to open my mind to all the wonders you have in the store for me. For now I drink deeply from the new red and white spotty tea cup of reverence and ponder the many tea breaks you will deign to afford me as I, in my own meagre way, try to afford you.
Amen.
Amen.
16 April 2005
Going Ape
Today I went here: http://www.goape.cc/Pages.asp?M=1&Page=27
It was a really good laugh. Took four kids for the birthday treat. The best bit was on a 'black' challenge - the hardest. Unlike the other very high and very long zip lines, this one began with a few seconds of freefall from a great height before you felt your safety harness doing what it was meant to. Exhilirating. Highly recommended but learn from me and take gloves!
It was a really good laugh. Took four kids for the birthday treat. The best bit was on a 'black' challenge - the hardest. Unlike the other very high and very long zip lines, this one began with a few seconds of freefall from a great height before you felt your safety harness doing what it was meant to. Exhilirating. Highly recommended but learn from me and take gloves!
15 April 2005
"so unfair"
Today I became the mother of a teenager. The change is startling.
I have duly bought myself a twin set and pearls so that he has good reason to be thoroughly ashamed of me in public. I have invested in some sensible scholl shoes so that when his friends come round I can leave them in the hallway for him to trip over unceremoniously. I will of course be banning everything fun for the next 7 years. I will cease to make any effort to understand him. I will develop an intolerance to anything louder than the sound of the kettle boiling and try my utmost to ask him to speak properly even when he's making perfect sense. I have decided to set up a series of meetings under the guise of being reasonable but with a hidden agenda of me trying to make him squirm with guilt over things he hasn't done or over which he has no control. I will make a point of telling his friends how early he goes to bed and insist on a kiss goodbye whenever he's in public. I will deliberately choose tasks for him when his favourite programmes are on television. I'm working on a look of disdain that I can use whenever he buys clothes for himself. I have started hiding his favourite clothes so that he is obliged to wear awful clothes when he goes where there might be girls. I have put a one hour time limit on the bathroom so that he has no way of making himself presentable before going out. This is only the first day, think what miseries I can dream up in another 6 years and 364 days.
It's inexplicable. I woke up today and I was completely different. Trying times indeed.
I have duly bought myself a twin set and pearls so that he has good reason to be thoroughly ashamed of me in public. I have invested in some sensible scholl shoes so that when his friends come round I can leave them in the hallway for him to trip over unceremoniously. I will of course be banning everything fun for the next 7 years. I will cease to make any effort to understand him. I will develop an intolerance to anything louder than the sound of the kettle boiling and try my utmost to ask him to speak properly even when he's making perfect sense. I have decided to set up a series of meetings under the guise of being reasonable but with a hidden agenda of me trying to make him squirm with guilt over things he hasn't done or over which he has no control. I will make a point of telling his friends how early he goes to bed and insist on a kiss goodbye whenever he's in public. I will deliberately choose tasks for him when his favourite programmes are on television. I'm working on a look of disdain that I can use whenever he buys clothes for himself. I have started hiding his favourite clothes so that he is obliged to wear awful clothes when he goes where there might be girls. I have put a one hour time limit on the bathroom so that he has no way of making himself presentable before going out. This is only the first day, think what miseries I can dream up in another 6 years and 364 days.
It's inexplicable. I woke up today and I was completely different. Trying times indeed.
14 April 2005
Hedda Gabler
Last night I went to see a production of Hedda Gabler at the Almeida theatre in Islington.
http://www.almeida.co.uk/index.cfm?id=hedda
Richard Eyre directed and it was really very good. The set was great, some of the actors were particularly impressive and the text itself has some very insightful lines. Not at all the heavy, static type of performance you may associate with Ibsen. (I saw a ghastly 'Doll's House' and thought I'd never get on with him for a long time.) We had restricted viewing because the seats sold so quickly but it was still a very enjoyable evening. And who was sat a few rows in front of us but Alexei Sayle!
Later, over copious wine, we toasted Ibsen with the wish that Scandanavian drama may ever outstrip its furniture trade.
http://www.almeida.co.uk/index.cfm?id=hedda
Richard Eyre directed and it was really very good. The set was great, some of the actors were particularly impressive and the text itself has some very insightful lines. Not at all the heavy, static type of performance you may associate with Ibsen. (I saw a ghastly 'Doll's House' and thought I'd never get on with him for a long time.) We had restricted viewing because the seats sold so quickly but it was still a very enjoyable evening. And who was sat a few rows in front of us but Alexei Sayle!
Later, over copious wine, we toasted Ibsen with the wish that Scandanavian drama may ever outstrip its furniture trade.
13 April 2005
cat buckaroo
http://www.ashearer.f2s.com/blog/?p=2
This is not to be missed. Having a rather flighty cat I think I will have to start with small items. Crisps maybe.
This is not to be missed. Having a rather flighty cat I think I will have to start with small items. Crisps maybe.
12 April 2005
achievement
today i ran.
due in no part to public transport, officers of the law or life-defending escapades involving the elderly on zebra crossings.
no, i just ran.
don't watch this space. i think the fascination with exercise will fizzle out when i clock the fact that i'm not losing several pounds simply by virtue of wearing trainers.
due in no part to public transport, officers of the law or life-defending escapades involving the elderly on zebra crossings.
no, i just ran.
don't watch this space. i think the fascination with exercise will fizzle out when i clock the fact that i'm not losing several pounds simply by virtue of wearing trainers.
zoo
Took the lad to his favourite place on earth yesterday. Turning the car engine off is like firing a starting gun at the beginning of the race for him. The uber cool long haired drumming skate dude with an attitude to match anyone's, turns puppy at the sight of furry critters.
Ring-tailed lemurs, bears,birds, zebras, baby giraffes, lions and tigers and camels (brown ale and sandwiches too?)
But the piece de resistance was, of course, the penguin pool. We got there for feeding time and I had to take photo after photo for him to print off and stick on his wall when we get home.
A pricey day out but it was the last day of Easter hols and I still maintain that a lemur would make a great pet!
Ring-tailed lemurs, bears,birds, zebras, baby giraffes, lions and tigers and camels (brown ale and sandwiches too?)
But the piece de resistance was, of course, the penguin pool. We got there for feeding time and I had to take photo after photo for him to print off and stick on his wall when we get home.
A pricey day out but it was the last day of Easter hols and I still maintain that a lemur would make a great pet!
9 April 2005
mind twister
http://flash.qbol.net/pl;p/youxi/images/04042203.swf
See if you can do this and not tear your hair out. Apparantly there are 13 items and only a handful of very intelligent people can find them all.
See if you can do this and not tear your hair out. Apparantly there are 13 items and only a handful of very intelligent people can find them all.
Punctured but not deflated.
Had another piercing today. My first experience with a needle rather than a gun and I can't believe how little it hurt. I have a hoop and ball at the top of my right ear. And then there were six!
4 April 2005
to bed, perchance to sleep
Last night I woke up at 3 and lay awake for two hours, woke at 6 lay awake for an hour. The night before I woke at 5 and didn't sleep properly again. This has been going on for a week or two now. You judge how pleasant it is to have my company at the moment.
3 April 2005
Don't mention...
I struck up a deal with a colleague. I will bake her bread and she will fill in the gaps of my film knowledge by lending me videos and dvd's. I have a breadmaker, she has the movies. I got pretty hammered on Friday night after work and I have no idea where the bag with the films has gone.
belle-textes
If you thought texting had killed off the art of letter writing read this one I picked up this morning;
"I see you're now a published literary critic! I, on the other hand, am a dilettante academic-cum-playwright manque. I must start writing DRAMA soon; the warm ink of my imagination is beginning to flow. Two unwritten essays are all that stand in my way. Oh! the frailty (and loneliness) of megalomania."
"I see you're now a published literary critic! I, on the other hand, am a dilettante academic-cum-playwright manque. I must start writing DRAMA soon; the warm ink of my imagination is beginning to flow. Two unwritten essays are all that stand in my way. Oh! the frailty (and loneliness) of megalomania."
2 April 2005
making a kil'n
What a fab night last night. Went to 'The Kiln' which is a very groovy place I shall be frequenting again. Told someone earlier in the day I was going out and they laughed at me when they realised it was about pottery and not a club. Ya boo. You choose from a stash of blank pottery pieces, they give you all the paints and brushes and sponges, you paint it, they glaze it, you collect it a week later. I chose a fairly simple plate over the triangular tea pots, noodle bowls and chickens (yeah, quite) 'cos it could get really pricey. It was such fun. So was getting drunk afterwards and collapsing at a friends house and sliding around her living room floor on my back.
31 March 2005
livin' it up
Today's high point was a cheese scone from Mark's and Sparks. Whether you pronounce 'scone' correctly, like me, or incorrectly, an M&S cheese scone takes some beating. Although competition was conspicuously absent today. Take the St Michael's challenge soon. Satisfaction guaranteed!
30 March 2005
annual review
It's always nice when you ask your boss what he thinks your weaknesses are and he furrows his brow, scans the ceiling and begins; 'Umm...'
27 March 2005
partay
Went to a splendid party this afternoon. Was sorry I couldn't stay longer but had some family stuff that needed doing. (yawn yawn)
Think I'll sit and watch a film this evening as I have no stomach for 'Crime and Punishment' right now.
Think I'll sit and watch a film this evening as I have no stomach for 'Crime and Punishment' right now.
lost count
had an inordinate amount of jd&coke tonight that i presume must have been watered down as i feel stone cold sober still. heard three live bands at esquires. got home at half one only to discover it's half two. happy easter and happy british summer time.
25 March 2005
29. All Families are Psychotic.
I am blind to the faults of Dougie and frankly the man makes me feel great about my personal life. (see title) Yup, Coupland pulls it off again. A corker about a bunch of nuts that you end up feeling at one with in a quirky kind of way. Unusual ending, typical of his style that definitely calls for suspension of disbelief for the greater good of making a worthwhile point but without sounding preachy. Top notch.
a good friday
Had an hours recreational skiing at the snow dome, ate a mixed grill, watched a film then went and chilled out with friends who live on a boat. Pretty cool day.
22 March 2005
My action-packed life.
Have had the dullest two days on record. Made numerous blu-tac snakes (one complete with forked elastic band tongue) so it hasn't been entirely unproductive.
21 March 2005
28. Milk Treading.
Milk Treading by Nick Smith.
A rather unusual book to say the least! This is about class struggle, gang warfare, hack writers, journalists and lovers. Only, all the characters are cats or dogs. It works pretty well with a stack of witty kitty puns. My main concern was that the book was shot with typographical errors which was very offputting. A quick, easy, fun read but not something I'll be telling everyone to run out and buy.
A rather unusual book to say the least! This is about class struggle, gang warfare, hack writers, journalists and lovers. Only, all the characters are cats or dogs. It works pretty well with a stack of witty kitty puns. My main concern was that the book was shot with typographical errors which was very offputting. A quick, easy, fun read but not something I'll be telling everyone to run out and buy.
Reading list.
Here are the books I have read so far in 2005. I included audio for the hell of it. Thought I might as well share it here and will try and keep something posted on books I read from now on.
28: Milk Treading. Nick Smith.
27: Tobias and the Angel. James Bridie.
26: Love on the Dole (dramatic adaptation) Ronald Gow & Walter Greenwood.
25: The Orange Girl. Jostein Gaarder.
24: Down Under. (audio) Bill Bryson.
23: Maus. Art Spiegelman
22: Crime and Punishment. Dost. (current)
21: Dream Play. August Strindberg.
20: Notes from a Small Island (audio) Bill Bryson.
19: Portugese Irregular Verbs (audio) Alexander McCall Smith (see review)
18: Saturday Ian McEwan
17: A Short History of Nearly Everything.(audio) Bill Bryson.
16: A Tale of Two Cities. audio. Charles Dickens.
15: Not the End of the World. Geraldine McCaughrean
14: Master and Commander (audio) Patrick O'Brian
13: Persuasion (audio) Jane Austen.
12: Boy Soldier (proof) Andy McNab & Robert Rigby
11: Bras & Broomsticks. (proof) Sarah Mlynowski
10: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Part II(audio). Bert Coules
9: Lord Loss (proof) Darren Shan.
8: David Copperfield.(audio) Charles Dickens.
7: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (audio) Alexander McCall Smith
6: Miss Julia. August Strindberg
5: The Philosopher's Pupil. Iris Murdoch
4: Hawksmoor. Peter Ackroyd (abandoned)
3: The Road to Damascus.Part I August Strindberg
2: The Timewaster Letters. Robin Cooper.
1: Shadow of the Wind. Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
28: Milk Treading. Nick Smith.
27: Tobias and the Angel. James Bridie.
26: Love on the Dole (dramatic adaptation) Ronald Gow & Walter Greenwood.
25: The Orange Girl. Jostein Gaarder.
24: Down Under. (audio) Bill Bryson.
23: Maus. Art Spiegelman
22: Crime and Punishment. Dost. (current)
21: Dream Play. August Strindberg.
20: Notes from a Small Island (audio) Bill Bryson.
19: Portugese Irregular Verbs (audio) Alexander McCall Smith (see review)
18: Saturday Ian McEwan
17: A Short History of Nearly Everything.(audio) Bill Bryson.
16: A Tale of Two Cities. audio. Charles Dickens.
15: Not the End of the World. Geraldine McCaughrean
14: Master and Commander (audio) Patrick O'Brian
13: Persuasion (audio) Jane Austen.
12: Boy Soldier (proof) Andy McNab & Robert Rigby
11: Bras & Broomsticks. (proof) Sarah Mlynowski
10: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Part II(audio). Bert Coules
9: Lord Loss (proof) Darren Shan.
8: David Copperfield.(audio) Charles Dickens.
7: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (audio) Alexander McCall Smith
6: Miss Julia. August Strindberg
5: The Philosopher's Pupil. Iris Murdoch
4: Hawksmoor. Peter Ackroyd (abandoned)
3: The Road to Damascus.Part I August Strindberg
2: The Timewaster Letters. Robin Cooper.
1: Shadow of the Wind. Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
20 March 2005
london town
Saw Ruby Wax in The Witches this afternoon. Very west end, very panto. Pretty good fun nonetheless. Ben & Jerry's ice cream and a wander round Covent Garden afterwards. Not a bad Sunday afternoon out with the lad.
18 March 2005
the palimp.
Lotus, is it just me or is Palimpsest knackered? Have been trying to get onto it today and yesterday and am getting nowhere.
14 March 2005
ebaying at the moon
I win a bid on ebay. It says:
Seller's payment instructions
Klik op de link in de omschrijving.
Seller's payment instructions
Klik op de link in de omschrijving.
12 March 2005
chomp
half my head just caved in.
or at least, i have lost a big chunk of tooth this evening. what was i doing to merit this misfortune i hear you ask. i was brushing my teeth. so much for the dental hygiene theory, eh?
or at least, i have lost a big chunk of tooth this evening. what was i doing to merit this misfortune i hear you ask. i was brushing my teeth. so much for the dental hygiene theory, eh?
9 March 2005
Maus
I finished a great book this evening. I thought it was good enough to share. Sorry to those of you for whom this is duplicate reading.
This evening I finished Maus. It only took me a couple of evenings after I settled down to give it some real time. As you may have seen on the Palimplists, I have given it a five star rating. So first off, thanks Bak for recommending. I never would have picked it up otherwise and I'm so glad i did.
For those of you who don't know what it's about let me briefly explain. Maus is a graphic novel. The author/ illustrator is recording his father's memories from his time before WWII, through his experiences as a Jew in concentration camps and into his days after the war as a holocaust survivor. The Jews are represented as mice, the Germans as cats, the Poles as pigs and the Americans as Dogs. These creaturely faces sometimes become masks when a Jew pretends to be a Pole to avoid detection and also, rather poignantly, when the illustrator depicts himself with a mouse mask over his own face as he tries to record his father's experiences as a 'second generation Jew.' The book is rich with imagery.
I think the book works so well because it is not simply a chronicle of the war. Spiegelman looks at the effects of the holocaust on his father after the end of the war - the difficulty he has in adjusting to normal life, the problems in his second marriage, the expectations he has of his son.
He doesn't shy away from depicting what was obviously a tense relationship with his father whilst still sensitively portraying the pain of an Aushwitz survivor. There is a mix of responsibility to the truth of his father's pain and experiences coupled with the reality of a relationship fraught with disagreements and ill-founded expectations.
He also conveys some sense of the awkwardness of trying to find the truth about something at once very immediate and entirely removed from ones own experience. Within the text he wonders if his father feels guilty about surviving and he questions his own feelings of not being good enough for his father. He depicts his own struggle to find out about what is essentially a personal history that he hasn't experienced for himself.
There is so much I could say about this book. It is a book with convincing psychological depth.It's not an easy read nor is it relentlessly harsh. The narrative dips between the war and later life so that the storyline is about Art recording what happened to his father rather than as a documentary of suffering. I would strongly recommend it for anyone to read.
This evening I finished Maus. It only took me a couple of evenings after I settled down to give it some real time. As you may have seen on the Palimplists, I have given it a five star rating. So first off, thanks Bak for recommending. I never would have picked it up otherwise and I'm so glad i did.
For those of you who don't know what it's about let me briefly explain. Maus is a graphic novel. The author/ illustrator is recording his father's memories from his time before WWII, through his experiences as a Jew in concentration camps and into his days after the war as a holocaust survivor. The Jews are represented as mice, the Germans as cats, the Poles as pigs and the Americans as Dogs. These creaturely faces sometimes become masks when a Jew pretends to be a Pole to avoid detection and also, rather poignantly, when the illustrator depicts himself with a mouse mask over his own face as he tries to record his father's experiences as a 'second generation Jew.' The book is rich with imagery.
I think the book works so well because it is not simply a chronicle of the war. Spiegelman looks at the effects of the holocaust on his father after the end of the war - the difficulty he has in adjusting to normal life, the problems in his second marriage, the expectations he has of his son.
He doesn't shy away from depicting what was obviously a tense relationship with his father whilst still sensitively portraying the pain of an Aushwitz survivor. There is a mix of responsibility to the truth of his father's pain and experiences coupled with the reality of a relationship fraught with disagreements and ill-founded expectations.
He also conveys some sense of the awkwardness of trying to find the truth about something at once very immediate and entirely removed from ones own experience. Within the text he wonders if his father feels guilty about surviving and he questions his own feelings of not being good enough for his father. He depicts his own struggle to find out about what is essentially a personal history that he hasn't experienced for himself.
There is so much I could say about this book. It is a book with convincing psychological depth.It's not an easy read nor is it relentlessly harsh. The narrative dips between the war and later life so that the storyline is about Art recording what happened to his father rather than as a documentary of suffering. I would strongly recommend it for anyone to read.
6 March 2005
Resistance is useless.
Well 'useless' might be a bit harsh. I went to see a production at our local theatre tonight based on a true story of the blind and visually impaired working for the French Resistance during WWII.
Resistance was performed by an all blind/vis. imp. cast. It was an interesting evening. If I were to be picky to the point of pedantry, and let's face it, I am, I'd say the text was a little bit too dense. It was played with passion but I thought sometimes relied a little too heavily on exaggerated gestures and tones of voice. The choreography however was impressive. There was a lot of climbing around on frames and short bursts of dance that worked well for the most part but occassionally didn't hold together.
It was a good evening. Not your typical mother's day present but I think it went down well with the M.I.L.
Resistance was performed by an all blind/vis. imp. cast. It was an interesting evening. If I were to be picky to the point of pedantry, and let's face it, I am, I'd say the text was a little bit too dense. It was played with passion but I thought sometimes relied a little too heavily on exaggerated gestures and tones of voice. The choreography however was impressive. There was a lot of climbing around on frames and short bursts of dance that worked well for the most part but occassionally didn't hold together.
It was a good evening. Not your typical mother's day present but I think it went down well with the M.I.L.
5 March 2005
4 March 2005
not quat what we expected
Tonight I attended a lecture on Van Gogh. It was really well done. Masses of pictures and photos of the landscapes he painted. A very vibrant (Slade School trained) guy enthusing about his hero. He even reenacted a moment from Van Gogh's life by letting off a gunshot and falling to the floor in the darkness of a slide show. Unexpected!
3 March 2005
diddly sQUAT
Today I bought 5 books for 3 quid. Then I left them at work so I can't pore over them this evening and introduce them to their nice, new, alphabetic homes.
From memory:
* Three plays by Strindberg. An nice old 1950's copy.
* Plays of the 1930's. Bought because there it has an adaptation of 'Love on the Dole'.
* Moll Flanders. Should have read this a long time ago.
* Something Russian I'd never heard of before but couldn't be left at 50p.
* Shirley by Charlotte Bronte. You can keep Austen and all her clubs for my money.
Best-smellers all of them. Magic.
From memory:
* Three plays by Strindberg. An nice old 1950's copy.
* Plays of the 1930's. Bought because there it has an adaptation of 'Love on the Dole'.
* Moll Flanders. Should have read this a long time ago.
* Something Russian I'd never heard of before but couldn't be left at 50p.
* Shirley by Charlotte Bronte. You can keep Austen and all her clubs for my money.
Best-smellers all of them. Magic.
2 March 2005
quatastrophe
Cooked a fantastic pork roast tonight. Scranchied up the rind and had a host of little side dishes to go with it. Cheesy leek, thyme butter roasted red onions, roast parsnips etc. Rich gravy. It was magnificent.
Half way through the dinner I remembered something. My guest is a vegetarian.
Half way through the dinner I remembered something. My guest is a vegetarian.
Stolen idea
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
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I'm not sure about point 5 but it's still an interesting diversion. Here's what I came up with: "If all physical systems are computers, and if computers can perfectly mimic all physical systems, the what distinguishes the real world from a simulation?"
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
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I'm not sure about point 5 but it's still an interesting diversion. Here's what I came up with: "If all physical systems are computers, and if computers can perfectly mimic all physical systems, the what distinguishes the real world from a simulation?"
28 February 2005
280205 damning with faint praise
Tonight I drove over to Milton Keynes and saw 'Rebecca' starring Nigel Havers.
I enjoy the whole theatre experience so it wasn't a wasted evening.
I enjoy the whole theatre experience so it wasn't a wasted evening.
27 February 2005
270205
Last night I went to see 'A Dream Play' by Strindberg at the National. It was really very good. I say Strindberg, it was actually an adaptation by Caryl Churchill. Afterwards I met up with my brilliant Strindberg expert friend who spouted forth righteous indignation at her shoddy treatment of his hero. I felt like I ought to be taking notes. We somehow managed to drown our sorrows later at The Ivy and then on through a stroll/stagger round Soho. Finally collapsed home in bed at 3.
Cybarites are us.
Cybarites are us.
24 February 2005
240205
Strindberg wrote more than 70 plays as well as novels, short-stories and studies of Swedish history.
how lazy am i?
how lazy am i?
23 February 2005
230205
i'm going to write a book. it's going to be called "25 in a 40". it's going to be all about the mindset of the people who think that 40 mph means 40 mph is punishable by death and therefore stick at a safe 25. it will have one character. i will punish them. they will crash and burn over and over again until they are a charred little matchstick person in a car resembling a crushed milk bottle top.
yup. i'm onto a winner.
yup. i'm onto a winner.
230205
i stay up til half past midnight doing brain quizzes and personality tests and are you male or female tests on the bbc science web page and what do i learn?
well firstly that i'm a lot like who i thought i was (newsflash) and seconly that i am incredibly cold yet have an indefatigable interest in wasting my time.
well firstly that i'm a lot like who i thought i was (newsflash) and seconly that i am incredibly cold yet have an indefatigable interest in wasting my time.
21 February 2005
210205
Why buy diet books when you could better spend the money on cake?
>>sigh<<
the diet started today. i did brilliantly. muesli for breakfast. a tin of very skinny soup, fun-free crisps and a similarly cheerless mousse for lunch. then i got home and was close to shaking with hunger. mmm, three big slabs of cheese on homemade bread and a packet of crisps.
>>sigh<<
the diet started today. i did brilliantly. muesli for breakfast. a tin of very skinny soup, fun-free crisps and a similarly cheerless mousse for lunch. then i got home and was close to shaking with hunger. mmm, three big slabs of cheese on homemade bread and a packet of crisps.
20 February 2005
19 February 2005
190205
Right at the bottom of my blog I have put in a chat room. As far as I can tell you just click on it, make up a name and start talking. Who knows, it might even work.
16 February 2005
160205
hurrah for competitions, especially the ones i win and get immodest
amounts of book vouchers. mmm.
2 x jamie oliver
2 x douglas coupland
1 x strindberg
1 x levy
1 x dickens
so far.
amounts of book vouchers. mmm.
2 x jamie oliver
2 x douglas coupland
1 x strindberg
1 x levy
1 x dickens
so far.
15 February 2005
150205
unbelieveably true:
yesterday a girl came in and bought a valentine's card. the design
on the front was a lipstick kiss. she grinned all the way through
the transaction and i thought she was hitting on my colleague...
until she said; 'it's for next door's parrot.' i thought i was going to
wet myself. she added; 'i'm going to cross out the lips and draw
a beak.'
not a word of a lie. fact stranger than fiction etc etc
yesterday a girl came in and bought a valentine's card. the design
on the front was a lipstick kiss. she grinned all the way through
the transaction and i thought she was hitting on my colleague...
until she said; 'it's for next door's parrot.' i thought i was going to
wet myself. she added; 'i'm going to cross out the lips and draw
a beak.'
not a word of a lie. fact stranger than fiction etc etc
10 February 2005
100205
8 books in 2 weeks? why did i agree? why did i say, and mind you give me the teenage novels and not those piddly little kiddy ones that i could devour in an afternoon?
because i am a fool.
i am a fool.
i am a fool.
because i am a fool.
i am a fool.
i am a fool.
6 February 2005
1 February 2005
010205
i give you all fair warning. it's my birthday next monday. should
you wish to shower me with gifts, i'm giving you fair warning so you can
start making your purchases.
diamonds are always a good fall back.
you wish to shower me with gifts, i'm giving you fair warning so you can
start making your purchases.
diamonds are always a good fall back.
31 January 2005
29 January 2005
290105
Recommendations required:
Am currently doing about 2 hours driving a day for the next 5-6 weeks. So far I've listenened to 'David Copperfield' and 'Pete & Dud' on audio cassette. Here's my dilemma. If there's a book I really want to listen to, I don't want to hear an abridgement, ie Dickens. If there's something I don't mind hearing an abridgement of, then generally I don't want to bother listening to it at all. I have plenty of music but being a book fiend I am irked by the fact that I'm sitting down for two hours and not picking up a book. I have once had a book on the passenger seat that I grabbed up at welcome red lights but I suspect this may be a little obsessive.
So, dear readers...I ask merely the impossible of you. Give me something that's available on cassette for my car that is sufficiently high brow enough for a shocking snob like myself to want to listen to but not essential enough for me to fret about only hearing the abridged version. I wait with bated breath, much like the proverbial cheese eating cat.
Am currently doing about 2 hours driving a day for the next 5-6 weeks. So far I've listenened to 'David Copperfield' and 'Pete & Dud' on audio cassette. Here's my dilemma. If there's a book I really want to listen to, I don't want to hear an abridgement, ie Dickens. If there's something I don't mind hearing an abridgement of, then generally I don't want to bother listening to it at all. I have plenty of music but being a book fiend I am irked by the fact that I'm sitting down for two hours and not picking up a book. I have once had a book on the passenger seat that I grabbed up at welcome red lights but I suspect this may be a little obsessive.
So, dear readers...I ask merely the impossible of you. Give me something that's available on cassette for my car that is sufficiently high brow enough for a shocking snob like myself to want to listen to but not essential enough for me to fret about only hearing the abridged version. I wait with bated breath, much like the proverbial cheese eating cat.
24 January 2005
240105
Today I bought myself an entirely low-tech gift because I asked for it for Christmas and didn't get it.
A recorder. Five quid. Early Learning Centre. Bargain. It even comes with a little jute bag with drawstrings so I can carry it to school..?
A recorder. Five quid. Early Learning Centre. Bargain. It even comes with a little jute bag with drawstrings so I can carry it to school..?
23 January 2005
230105
Back from skiing the French Alps!!
Only six stitches and even then they were in someone else.
Only six stitches and even then they were in someone else.
11 January 2005
10 January 2005
100105
discovered today that a certain company, totally unrelated to me in every possible sense, has been sacking members of staff after seeing them post derogatory comments about said company in their blogs.
nothing to do with me. at all. never heard of them.
but my job is happy, fulfilling and really as close to paradise on earth as anywhere. the customers are smashing and i want to take all my colleagues home at the weekends.
nothing to do with me. at all. never heard of them.
but my job is happy, fulfilling and really as close to paradise on earth as anywhere. the customers are smashing and i want to take all my colleagues home at the weekends.
9 January 2005
080105
due to a sudden influx of interest in my blog (one person) i am back to tell you of all the excitement that makes up my glamorous life.
am getting drunk with a friend and picking random european cities we could conquer next.
am getting drunk with a friend and picking random european cities we could conquer next.
29 December 2004
291204
having a house guest for a few days so will be cutting myself off from my daemon that is the room housing all my books and computer, in the name of friendship.
light a candle and pray for nerves of steel for me.
light a candle and pray for nerves of steel for me.
28 December 2004
281204
for half price sale, read license to treat books like empties down at the bottle bank.
pun not intended.
pun not intended.
24 December 2004
21 December 2004
211204
I had a customer today who, in order to better help me recognise the book after which she was enquiring, said; 'It's got a binding down the side.'
20 December 2004
201204
it's incredible how the minutiae of life can take on epic proportions by missing an hours sleep.
how difficult is it to just say goodmorning back to me when i say goodmorning to you. leave the comments about your runny nose til later. OBviously i'm gripped by your rhinitis but just say goodmorning. it's a vital part of the fabric of society.
how difficult is it to just say goodmorning back to me when i say goodmorning to you. leave the comments about your runny nose til later. OBviously i'm gripped by your rhinitis but just say goodmorning. it's a vital part of the fabric of society.
19 December 2004
191204
Having been requested to show body parts on my blog, I went googling for suitably ludicrous tattoo images i could comically pretend to be me.
all i'm saying is google 'tattoo monkey' and the the 4th one in. not me, not anyone i know, not anyone i hope to meet. ye gods!!!! a novel use for a belly button.
personal tattoo revelation will have to wait for now.....hee hee hee.
all i'm saying is google 'tattoo monkey' and the the 4th one in. not me, not anyone i know, not anyone i hope to meet. ye gods!!!! a novel use for a belly button.
personal tattoo revelation will have to wait for now.....hee hee hee.
17 December 2004
171204
today my t-shirt said 'trigger happy' just so no-one could say they weren't warned.
tomorrow will be the busiest day of the year. someone has already handed in their notice and refuses to work out their week.
if only i had a t-shirt that said 'it's the season of good will so mess with me at your fkn peril'
tomorrow will be the busiest day of the year. someone has already handed in their notice and refuses to work out their week.
if only i had a t-shirt that said 'it's the season of good will so mess with me at your fkn peril'
15 December 2004
13 December 2004
131204
Is there any greater happiness than recovering your lost purse with all the christmas money in it?
(ahem, down the hall in a bag i'd forgotten i was using)
(ahem, down the hall in a bag i'd forgotten i was using)
12 December 2004
121204
today i got my christmas present early! have spent the afternoon adjusting the screws for a better stance and admiring the steel edges.
11 December 2004
111204
is it normal to be off sick and then to coincidentally have prospective employers ring you up out of the blue offering you work?
just a question.
just a question.
10 December 2004
101204
there's something about buying clothes that brings on the existential angst in me.
how many hours did it take to earn the new top from oasis? was it worth it? does it matter if it's worth it? is anything worth anything? what is enjoyment after all? it's only "fun". who needs fun. we're all going to DIE anyway. new top or no new top.
>>sigh<<
it matches the new eyeshadow though so all is not lost.
how many hours did it take to earn the new top from oasis? was it worth it? does it matter if it's worth it? is anything worth anything? what is enjoyment after all? it's only "fun". who needs fun. we're all going to DIE anyway. new top or no new top.
>>sigh<<
it matches the new eyeshadow though so all is not lost.
9 December 2004
091204
back by popular apathy!!
today i did not kill anyone. i only laughed in the face of one customer (they asked for the Eenead by Omer). I only had to leave my section once due to the overpowering stench of a recently filled nappy. I didn't slam books down saying 'why the fk can't you put the book back where you found it' in front of minors.
Now here's the irony. Who would have imagined having an argument about religion with someone called Kristian? (sorry pal, you're wrong, deal with it)
You're glad you called by my blog again now aren't ya? :)
today i did not kill anyone. i only laughed in the face of one customer (they asked for the Eenead by Omer). I only had to leave my section once due to the overpowering stench of a recently filled nappy. I didn't slam books down saying 'why the fk can't you put the book back where you found it' in front of minors.
Now here's the irony. Who would have imagined having an argument about religion with someone called Kristian? (sorry pal, you're wrong, deal with it)
You're glad you called by my blog again now aren't ya? :)
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