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It’s a wonderful life.

Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

10:19 / 02.03.03

I was driving through Richmond Park today, Coldplay on the stereo, the sun poking out from behind the clouds. When I looked out over the field there were loads of little baby deer, grazing on the grass. Tears started welling up in my eyes. For me, this was one of those moments when you realise how beautiful life is.
Anyone got any more examples?

pointless and uncalled for

11:30 / 02.03.03

There was a pheasant wedged in the front of a GNER Intercity 125 as I was returning from the fair city of Leeds.

11:32 / 02.03.03

Hang on - that is a joke, right? If not, if offends my vegetarian sensibilities. If it is, it may still offend my vegetarian sensibilities, I haven't decided yet.

pointless and uncalled for

11:41 / 02.03.03

It did genuinely happen and it's an subtle way of saying that it's the odd things in life that remind me that life is beautiful.

I can't see how it is that this offends your vegetarian sensibilities here. Nobody was trying to eat the pheasant and it's not like it comes standard on all trains.

11:56 / 02.03.03

Being GNER, I bet it was the wrong kind of pheasant.

On the Gives Me A Happy Volume II front: the sun is shining, there are lots of kids cavorting in the little swing park out there, Ganesh and I are both well slept and in a silly mood simultaneously, it's Sunday, Ganesh isn't working it for once, and we're going out for a late brunch and to see Solaris.

Also went to Gay's The Word and, it being payday last week, bought lots and lots of lovely books. Still couldn't find Shortfatdyke's though. A treat I have still in store then.

And I think to myself, what a wonnnnnderfuuuuul life...

13:32 / 02.03.03

My weekend had been particularly hedonistic, and after surveying my apartment from under the covers I decided to head home to my parents to avoid cleaning, or more specifically to avoid not cleaning and it depressing me because I was so lazy, still trying to comprehend why people had two eyes I had to race to a main road to flag down a taxi to bring me to the bus station, I arrived just in time to see my bus depart and crumpled to the ground in self pity and general knackerdness, after collecting my thoughts which had begun, in a not so metaphorical sense, to turn into birds and fly away, I would have to wait two hours for the next bus,I went to the bus station cafe. I had only enough money for a cup of coffee not even for an over-priced juice drink and having enquired about the price of a croissant had to gingerly push it aside, it was pushed back with a warm smile and I said "Thank you", and well my faith in humanity was restored, it may sound silly, but it did.

13:49 / 02.03.03

It depresses me that a dead pheasant can be seen as a reminder of how beautiful life is, is all.

Someone wrote me a lovely note the other day, and that reminded me there are good people out there and that life can be beautiful. The puppy, lying on his back and biting my fingers with his little pearly teeth makes me happy, too.

14:50 / 02.03.03

For me, this was one of those moments when you realise how beautiful life is.
Anyone got any more examples?

Happens to me all the time.

Seriously, Wordsworth-style.

All the stuff all around you that you take for granted and ignore and occasionally you just notice something, but obviously you don't analyse it cos that would spoil it, you just turn brain off and look at something for a few minutes. Lovely.

Tryphena Absent

14:50 / 02.03.03

I woke up this afternoon and the sun was shining and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. Mmmmm, spring's here and then it's going to be summer.

18:03 / 02.03.03

Hey, death is part of life - and, without getting too Poppy Z Brite about it all, death can be beautiful. Besides, it's probably a typo and Potus meant to say "peasant".

Foust is SO authentic

19:49 / 02.03.03

I'm sitting in my university's library. A while back, I was on the fifth floor, sitting in a comfortable chair in front of a huge window, reading Catcher In The Rye for the first time, and I looked up. It was snowing. Gently, but heavy. Big flakes floating down from the sky. It was a perfect moment.

Last summer, I spent the weekend at a small mom & pop campground. I work up at 6:00 and took the canoe out for a spin on the gentle, shallow lake. When I reached the centre of the lake, I stopped rowing and looked into the water. There was a turtle, shuffling along the bottom of the lake. The current carried me along side him for several minutes.

I was with a friend in a wide open field not so long ago, to watch a meteor shower. I was two meteors - it was too cloudy. But those two streaks of light across the sky inspired such awe in me.

Soon, I will be heading home to print off an essay that I've been working on steadily for the last week. A moment of accomplishment.

23:38 / 02.03.03

I could see the stars very, very clearly as I walked home from studio tonight. I walked down the steps with the lights behind me and through the archway to the football pitch. There isn't any lighting there so it is like stepping into a big black hole. Once though the view opens out and there is little un-natural light to interfere with your view.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:47 / 02.03.03

Finding out I didn't have cancer the other day put me in a surprisingly good mood, considering I didn't think I was actually that worried about it before. Everything just seemed nicer.

Brigade du jour

23:58 / 02.03.03

It's not a particularly wonderful life for me at the moment because I'm at work, but it's my birthday so I'm hoping that the pub and then Namco will make it more wonderful later on.

Damn, if I could only eat these cakes ...

@ Bod (The Second)

08:00 / 03.03.03

Watching the movie, "It's A Wonderful Life" is a 'it's a wonderful life moment' for me.

You know psychiatrists prescribe that film to depressed suicidal people. And for good reason.

08:26 / 03.03.03

I've got one of those groovy weed hangovers were you feel all heavy and relaxed and I've just downloaded all the music from Buffy Season 5,6 and 7 and even though most of the songs are probably crap listening to Tales of Brave Ulysses by Cream was furkin cool...

Not quite the same as the ones above but it's making me feel very very happy

11:33 / 03.03.03

Campus looks absolutely gorgeous at 6.15am in a pinky-sunrise glow with sparkly ground-frost. I could hear the birds sing as I walked in. And best of all... no people! So it was all calm and quiet.

Goodness Gracious Meme

16:27 / 03.03.03

seeing a friend off last week who's gone travelling(Japan--New Zealand--California. Wow). This and the lead-up to his going have really made me appreciate how *great* he is, and how glad I am to be a part of his life.

He's a fabby thing and this has really made me see how wonderful people are.

09:22 / 04.03.03

The weekend turned into chaos from friday thru to yesterday. Met lots of really good friends I haven't seen in far too long. Slept fuck all and started going crazy by sunday. Told my girlfriend I loved her and think I fucked up there. Lost half a stone over the weekend. I have a gig sorted for april. Today I don't feel the best but hopefully it'll all turn out cool in the end.
Really can't handle speed any more.

pointless and uncalled for

14:11 / 04.03.03

Sorry Chol, both posts were jokes, the shiny nickle is in the mail.

15:39 / 04.03.03

I have been to Kent today, which is uninspiring, but I can report from the countryside that all day long I have been marvelling at buds and blossom suddenly on every tree. Spring has sprung (the grass has riz etc.) at last, yippee!

Also hana_bi and cantankor's brand new shiny, happy baby (which bears my name - Baby Xoc!) is eleven days old today and, apparently, almost as bonny as me. Mega yippee!