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The Late Shift V- Winter's Edge

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Mazarine

23:44 / 21.12.02

Okay, this is gonna sound really dumb, but have you ever actually watched grass grow? Cause it's actually kinda cool. I have a little container of wheat and barley grass that I just started growing on Tuesday for the cats I probably won't have till March, and they've gone from being little yellow shoots this morning to doubling in height, and some actual blades are starting to break out of the shoots. We've turned it like four times since they keep growing towards my sun lamp. It's really pretty spiffy.

So. I'm watching grass grow. What's up with y'all?

Mazarine

23:44 / 21.12.02

Hell, that should probably be winter/summer's edge. I didn't mean to be hemispherially biased.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:50 / 21.12.02

I've always wanted to HEAR grass grow- some kind of time-lapse recording, maybe?

Mazarine

23:56 / 21.12.02

Mine's been pretty quiet, but I imagine it could be done, probably has. I'm sure something happening as fast as this growth emits some sort of sound.

The Return Of Rothkoid

13:04 / 22.12.02

Well. I'm here. Mmm, scotch.

Mourne Kransky

15:07 / 22.12.02

I'm here too, timewasting and drinking a festive glass of tawny port. Feeling guilty 'cause Ganesh is working overtime and I'm doing fuck all. And because I have only bought one present and sent only six cards. Bah, humbug. Grump etc.

Tryphena Absent

15:35 / 22.12.02

I'm here and I'm starving but instead of getting some food I appear to be sitting here, staring at my screen, safe in the knowledge that the internet was invented purely to tempt me away from doing work.

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:03 / 22.12.02

Xoc: I thought that was you. But the name change; y'know... was hard to tell for a while. Or maybe I'm just vague.

I'm still discovering treasures in this $10 CD store around the corner. (About three quid.) Stevie Wonder's Talking Book is one of the most delightfully squelchy pornomusic albums I've ever heard. My god it rocks.

How is everyone tonight? I'm up, and feeling quite crap as per usual - and I've bored everyone with before - but I'm feeling maybe a little more disposed towards counselling or something at the moment. That's presumably a good thing. Either that, or I'll make more of an effort to move out - surely my own space would see a little more psychic asskicking than's been going on recently.

In other notes: drunken dancing. Can be good. Though I, quite patently, don't dance at fucking all.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:12 / 23.12.02

I'm up. I'm at work. And I've just been to see New Model Army, so what was rather a wonderful evening has turned somewhat poo. And the booze from the gig is starting to wear off and give me a bizarre combination of hangover and falling asleep at my desk. And apparently I have to go and buy expensive fruit from Harrods tomorrow morning (no I don't understand either). I'm just hoping they don't let me in. Which seems fairly likely.

Tryphena Absent

00:48 / 23.12.02

Depends what mood they're in, you might be in luck, Harrod's pet department is nice though and the music bit too so if you do go inside be sure to pay them a visit.

The Return Of Rothkoid

01:50 / 23.12.02

Stoatie: al-Fayed wants your cash as much as anyone else's. You've got buckleys of being kept out. Particularly given that you could point at the Dodi/Di shrine and claim that as proof that they let awful shite into the store, and then go "Mmmmmm!" in a knowing, yet supercilious tone.

Well, y'could.

What the fuck sort of fruit are you buying that necessitates purchases from Harrods, though?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

03:42 / 23.12.02

Christ knows. I don't usually do fruit, exotic or otherwise.

Mourne Kransky

23:21 / 24.12.02

Never buy anything there but Harrods' Egyptian Hall etc. with its big, stumpy, decorated pillars always makes me think of Dino de Laurentiis' vision of Dune, more specifically the Atreides' palace on Caladan and the Presence Chamber of the Padishah Emperor. But that might just be me.

The Diana reliquary, containing the precious wine glass from the last supper, is a marvel though and worth the trip on its own.

They seem to have abandoned the dead-fish-scultpures and bread-dioramas in favour of sushi bars though. Seems a shame.

mixmage

23:27 / 24.12.02

Just grabbing a moment on a mate's machine to say Merry X.
might be back on later. be warned.

mixmage

00:37 / 25.12.02

indeed I am, 'Koid.

[egotistical if that wasn't aimed at me]

mixmage

00:40 / 25.12.02

shit it wasn't.

I'm just drunk and alone at the lith. Merry X all!

Perfect Tommy

00:48 / 25.12.02

Merry Humbug, m-m!

mixmage

00:53 / 25.12.02

hello Tommy! whee! never taled here before... almost BarbeLive. heh anyone know owt about IRC? heh

mixmage

00:53 / 25.12.02

shows, I'm still imbibing?

Perfect Tommy

00:59 / 25.12.02

Imbibing? Never woulda guessed! I'm enjoying a chaste hot apple cider from the neverending crockpot in the kitchen. I've IRC'd before, but I don't really know anything about it beyond "it's a chat program."

Tryphena Absent

01:00 / 25.12.02

Hi baby-dolls, it's 3am and I'm very tired and listening to the last Evening Session and they started with Therapy?, I loooovvveedddd them at the age of... erm... 14. Maybe younger.

telyn

01:00 / 25.12.02

evening. it's not yet christmas here, what time is it with you?

Goodness Gracious Meme

01:18 / 25.12.02

GMT, I'm afraid. Bleedin insomnia. Have that 'thousand thoughts refusing to leave head' thing going on. Grr. (Which is a bit shit, given that I rarely sleep well in my old bedroom anyway. Think it's a single bed/regreesion to 13' thing. Which is borne out by the fact that my dad is likely to wake up any min and tell me off for being up so late.)

But at least i get to wish you a happy 'other side of the dateline' Christmas, harmony.

And, janina, enjoy your Polish feast... we're doing biryani, proper Mughlai style this year, i mean, today. Mm-mmmm.

Persephone

01:22 / 25.12.02

Tch, I'd give you my sleep remedy... but exp told me that it sounded like a recipe for insanity!

telyn

01:29 / 25.12.02

It's 3:28am where I am, but I never count it as the next day until I've been to sleep! (hence it's not yet christmas)

Do you find that if you don't go to sleep, your brain suddenly makes inserts a marker, distinguishing between today and yesterday some point during your second 24 hrs awake?

Tryphena Absent

01:30 / 25.12.02

No, it used to be dawn but now I don't react to the world getting light again, something to do with it happening alot during the summer of 2001. Oh, what a summer.

Perfect Tommy

01:30 / 25.12.02

Nope. It becomes a single "day" with two sunrises. Enjoyable, but disorienting.

telyn

01:32 / 25.12.02

I find that regardless of light, there is suddenly a point where I realise that 'yesterday' has been packaged up and filed in my memory. Quite an odd feeling, but generally a good thing. I have only so much 'day memory' space.

Tryphena Absent

01:34 / 25.12.02

I often forget to distinguish between earlier in the day and earlier in the week. Earlier just becomes some time in the past... weird I know, fuck knows what's going on in my head. My brain's given up!

mixmage

01:35 / 25.12.02

whoo-hoo! you're here!
For me, when the birds start singing... that's ya new day.
I feel warmer... could it be Barb?
heh.

Long walk home - may shodowtime it - might log back in.

Tryphena Absent

01:37 / 25.12.02

When I lived in Halls the birds sang at 3am everyday before I went to bed and so it just hasn't worked for me since, that whole the birdsong brings the day thing.

Perfect Tommy

01:37 / 25.12.02

Hey, bengali: Something I've had modest success with, when struck with a thousand thoughts when trying to sleep, is to allow those thoughts to churn along, but change my internal voice to a slow, dull, soft monotone. The thoughts are still there, but they're suddenly boring, and sleep comes a bit easier.

Goodness Gracious Meme

01:38 / 25.12.02

"Nope. It becomes a single "day" with two sunrises. Enjoyable, but disorienting"

Yep. this is pretty much what I get. Makes working out what day it is, a little odd for a couple of days afterwards. Thing my conception of a day is, after years of bizarre over and under-sleeping, pretty elastic.

Harmony: see yr point re Xmas: i probably won't count it as starting 'till my sis and bro-in-law get here this afternoon...

But realising that this current bout of insomnia (bout a week, with one day off) is my first in about a year, i think. Which for me is pretty good going.

What's in that cure, P?

mixmage

01:40 / 25.12.02

Know what ya mean, Janine [sorry!]... birdsong="dawn invocation and bed"... they're getting earlier, no?

Goodness Gracious Meme

01:41 / 25.12.02

Tommy - that sounds cool, thanks. Unfortunately, as often happens when I can't sleep, alot of the thoughts are heavy emotional stuff, which I think connects to christmas/new year: doing that 'review the year', 'what's changed since last year' thing.

It's not all bad, I hasten to add, but quite intense, so hard to make boring. But I'll try and concentrate on the dull stuff!

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