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The Late Shift's Ninth Gate

  
  

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inhaler
01:31 / 27.03.03
Are any of you actually working tonight? I'm literally working a late shift at the office. I'm taking a break right now, I've been sorting out the file cabinet for the past three hours, and I'm still not done. I figure I'll be done around 3 am, which really sucks, because I have to work another shift here starting at 7 am. I think I might try to take a nap in a nook underneath a stairwell in the building, because it doesn't seem worth it to go back home. I can't sleep in the office, the last time I was caught doing that, I was penalized by having my salary reduced by 20%. That was rough, I'm still reeling from that one.
 
 
Saint Keggers
02:09 / 27.03.03
Hey folkses. Hows everyone?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
02:14 / 27.03.03
I'm working. Well, I'm at work anyway.
 
 
Saint Keggers
02:44 / 27.03.03
I keep forgetting the time difference. (that or you work the nightshift)
What do you do?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
03:06 / 27.03.03
I do indeed work the night-shift. Press monitoring. It's kind of fun.
 
 
Persephone
23:25 / 27.03.03
Oh geez, I did a bad thing. I usually have a Red Bull when I get home from work, to power myself up for doing work later in the evening... and tonight, we had pizza for dinner & you know how Coke is really good with pizza... so I'm on Red Bull and Coke right now. I may never sleep again. Maybe I should go have a beer, oh dear oh dear...
 
 
Mazarine
23:27 / 27.03.03
Please don't, Perseph, it's a bad plan to mix accelerants and depressants and you'll probably be fine but I'd have to fret.
 
 
Persephone
23:43 / 27.03.03
S'okay Maz, I shan't. I think I'll go out on a walk, though.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
01:06 / 28.03.03
I've only had Red Bull once in my life. I didn't sleep well for two days and it gave me a very upset stomach.


Never again.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
01:07 / 28.03.03
They do taste like carbonated Smarties, though. That was a good thing, I think.

What are you working on tonight, Persephone?
 
 
Persephone
02:04 / 28.03.03
Nothing so far, sadly. Went to the Art Store and freaked myself out over the price of oil paints. Husb not able to understand why I can't get the store brand. "Because Lentil and Todd said that the more expensive paint is worth it. They said not to get student grade." Then we went to the train station to pick up my sister, she's visiting for the weekend. I have to get her to read Hellboy this time!
 
 
Mazarine
02:07 / 28.03.03
Red Bull always tasted like pink children's chewable tylenol to me.
 
 
Saint Keggers
02:13 / 28.03.03
Persephone: Gah! Big differences in quality when it comes to oil paints. Got a damn expensive set once as a gift and 5 years later they're still good as new. Then I bought a set of students oil paints and within a month the oil has separated from the pigment which was cemented at the far end of the tube.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
02:18 / 28.03.03
red Bull's good with vodka, but then I guess that's the whole accelerants/decelerants thing.
 
 
Persephone
02:28 / 28.03.03
There now, that's what I thought. I am bringing Husb right over to read this thread.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
13:07 / 28.03.03
Pah,never got any kind of buzz from Red Bull, though I did drink two cans one after another once and went straight to the 'feeling hungover' stage...
 
 
Bill Posters
13:09 / 28.03.03
Am I the only one here who mixes beer and Red Bull on a fairly regular basis? If so, should I be concerned? Or should you?
 
 
Persephone
20:43 / 28.03.03
What I should be worried about is that I slept fine last night. I slept great, actually.

Alcohol and caffeine can't be all that deadly. There's Irish coffee, for one thing. There's a nice pizza place by me & they also brew beer, so last time I had a Coke and a beer with my pizza & it all was very nice together. I wish Husb liked beer. I like beer, but I can only manage half a glass at a time & that seems wasteful to me.
 
 
_pin
21:06 / 28.03.03
I've being doing my That Thing all day.

My That Thing is a particularly rocking impression of the mobile from the Carphone Warehouse adverts. It's very acurate. Prod my stomach and my face glows bright green and everything.

It's really irritating when I start doing it, because I can't stop doing it, even when I start hearing that horrible, softly-spoken voice-over from that long-haired Irish comedian of Big Velvet Coat Doom in my head, which must surely be a really good sign that I must Just Fucking Not.
 
 
The Strobe
22:06 / 28.03.03
I'm about to head off - was up surprisingly early yesterday. Have spent a day being blah, trying to construct a properly-mixed mix cd in audio editors and falling prey to their inability to deal with 1gb+ of data. Still, got it sorted in the end, and a mighty good mix it is too. Other than that - TV, nice food.

I'm worried I have glandular fever, but just now it appears to be passing... still, not pleasant.

Am praying I'll be productive tomorrow. Time for bed, methinks. Living at home really conditions me to sensible working hours again.
 
 
_pin
17:42 / 30.03.03
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_pin
17:43 / 30.03.03
That turned out a lot bigger then even I had planned for.
 
 
Olulabelle
19:43 / 30.03.03
Blessest bless, we've gotta post now, just for the effort that must have taken.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
20:01 / 30.03.03
Well, that was enticingly difficult to read!
 
 
Olulabelle
20:45 / 30.03.03
Yes, but sadly, it worked on me. I have posted in the Barbecrush thread as hyp-no-tise-d. Wuf.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
22:24 / 30.03.03
I have Sunday Night Insomnia, as ever, but made worse by sodding time changes (curse you, Lada!). And my hands are too tired to type much. But still.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:44 / 30.03.03
But still, the next time I see you, I should have a CD-ROM containing AVIs of Stroyteller and Orpheus, among other things, so the world is not all bad.

I'm thinking of heading off to bed and tidying up tomorrow - the place is covered in weekend newspapers...
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
22:57 / 30.03.03
Fantastic. I am also heading up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire - I'm not hardcore enough to stick around waiting for other insomniacs...
 
 
Ethan Hawke
23:03 / 30.03.03
P, i wouldn't suggest getting the top of the top line - Rembrandt, Van Gogh, or some other expensive brand named after a Dutch fucker. I've never sprung for those, so I can't comment on the quality. Right now I'm using Sennelier oils, which I like much better than the Winsor Newton, but they're comparably priced. Don't even think about the "Winton" student brand, for what you're doing. FWIW, yesterday, at the Met, the Leonardo Da Vinci shwag was all comprised of Sennelier products inflated to an incredible price. But it came in a nice wooden box!
 
 
Tryphena Absent
01:48 / 31.03.03
Damn I missed everyone... by hours!
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
02:38 / 31.03.03
Pah. I'm still around. When Telstra isn't buggering up the pipeline outta this island, that is.

It's raining, and I'm losing all sense of time thanks to the end of daylight savings and this old Philip Glass CD I'm listening to. Had a weekend full of boozing and parties - including one of the best house parties I've ever been to - and am feeling a bit blah, waiting for a phone call.

So. Yeah.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
20:32 / 01.04.03
Gosh, I feel stressed and tired and in need of psychic hugs.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
21:58 / 01.04.03
"sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when i said, i'd like to crush your something in your head"

belated humanistic hugs. they last longer. like duracell.

the stress will pass.

I'm drunk. and listening to Graham Norton making anti-french jokes. ace.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
23:03 / 01.04.03
but, as no one's talking to me, just want to poiht out that Bowie's Hunky Dory solves all woes.

That and lovely free red wine. hmmmmmm
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
00:09 / 02.04.03
Except for "Kooks". Though that's a minor point. The rest of it rocks absolute nuts.
 
  

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