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It's the most beautiful day...

Kit-Cat Club

11:11 / 17.04.03

... and I'm stuck in front of a computer writing a paper. I'd rather be...

... sitting by the river, dangling my toes in it, and eating a big tub of greek yogurt with honey, with apples to follow; trying to spot fish and watching the ducks.

What about you?

sleazenation

11:16 / 17.04.03

...i'm thinking about going on a picnic tomorrow and doing just that, although possibly sans greek yogurt.

Olulabelle

11:21 / 17.04.03

I'd rather be sitting by the river Avon at a beautiful private spot I know, spending the time with lovely people and watching my son splash about in the water.

This is a bit like online torture.

Bear

11:22 / 17.04.03

Yeah sitting at work, just back from the pub though so not so stressed. Long weekend though, I love England there are so many holidays down here that I didn't get back in Scotland.

I was going to ask if any London Barbeloids had any plans for tomorrow, bottle of cider in the park kinda things?

that

11:24 / 17.04.03

I'd rather be doing just what I'm doing, writing on the 'puter...but a riverside scene for it would be nice, I have to admit.

illmatic

11:26 / 17.04.03

I would rather be walking around Camden spending money I don't have on CD's. Followed by, umm...perhaps a posh sandwich by the canal. Actually, that's what I am going to do, being off work till next Weds.
Evil cackle ... That topic abstract was just a provacation!

Bill Posters

11:32 / 17.04.03

Well I'm in my office and I really don't think my mood would be improved by my being anywhere else right now. I don't really do summertime ("only happy when it rains" an' all.)

Mourne Kransky

11:37 / 17.04.03

Mmmmm, sun sun sun! Heat heat heat! Excess of English Easter Public Holidays - no work till Tuesday, fab! Shame Big G has to work Fri and Mon. Oh well, I can think of not one single reason to feel a shred of dispiritedness today and feel a burst of choruses from South Pacific coming on as I do a spot of housework and then head out capture sunshine in jars for the rest of this glorious day! The promise of Summer coming soon is a very potent drug.

that

11:43 / 17.04.03

Summer's good...as long as I'm in the shade. I burn, so very easily. And sun creams are a necessary evil. Though last year I went to an outdoor Cure concert where my factor 3 billion sun cream made me look like I'd applied a load of white make-up. Which was quite appropriate... fucking greasy white make-up though. Ugh.

Persephone

11:52 / 17.04.03

My new desk is being delivered today, so if I had the choice I'd like to stay home fussily arranging things. But no... but oh well, I'm happy anyway. It will be here when I get home.

Kit-Cat Club

12:11 / 17.04.03

Illmatic - I wouldn't want to go to the canal anyway, it's a bit grimy and smelly.... anyone else want some of these sour grapes?

The Strobe

12:26 / 17.04.03

Well, I'm about to hit the UL and do some work and go shopping for sarnies for tonight, but basically, I'd like to be sitting on the steps by the river outside my room and reading a book. And to have magic skin that doesn't burn so easily; Cholister, I feel your pain.

Oh, and to be punting. Or sailing. Or just on a lawn in Cambridge with lots of beer and French bread and cheese.

I pretty much am, though, so this is rock. Memo to self: buy grapes.

Olulabelle

12:44 / 17.04.03

Yes, Cambridge. Lovely.

Sitting by the Millpond, drinking lots.

Jub

13:04 / 17.04.03

I want to go drinking in the sun. I'm going to be drinking in the sun in two and a half hours. Lent ends...... haven't had a drink since 4th March. Quite chuffed - bit apprehensive.

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:12 / 17.04.03

Punting, I think. I never did do enough punting, what with being nowhere near the river. Nice lazy day, somebody else plying the pole (vicar), good book....lovely.

Tryphena Absent

13:40 / 17.04.03

*big sigh* cucumber sandwiches and iced tea.

Sax

14:00 / 17.04.03

I'm working Friday AND Saturday. Not good. But shall be spending at least Sunday in the idyllic haven that is my garden with cold lager and a good book, and the stereo speakers up against the window with something nice and summery on, possibly Goldfrapp or the Kinks or Orbital. Monday too, if I can get away with it.

And Kit-Cat Club - as soon as you finish that paper, don't think you're going out into the sunshine. It's roughing out Shifter pages for you, Cinders.

Bear

14:31 / 17.04.03

Excellent finished for the day now about to go home via the good old wine section!

Have a nice Easter everyone and don't forget what Easters all about, crap TV all day tomorrow! Woohoo

Jub

14:53 / 17.04.03

Aw - unlucky Sax. Hopefully the extra working will make the beer, sun and tunes, all the better on Sunday.

rizla mission

14:54 / 17.04.03

Well I've taken the day off from dissertation writing to sit down the bottom of the garden by the river reading. And taking so-called drugs which do absolutely fuck all. And being annoyed by the cat.
What a nice day.

pointless and uncalled for

15:01 / 17.04.03

I also have had the forseight to not turn up to work today. The day has largely spent surreptitiously photographing people in central London and wondering round in a remarkably happy state.
This evening I am promised a guided tor of a hill top which allows amazing views of London and is surrounded by very old graveyards.

My life is looking to be incredibly good at the moment.

Woo Hoo for me, for once.

Persephone

20:25 / 17.04.03

Oh wow, my desk!

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

21:59 / 17.04.03

i am at work, and i must say i would rather be lying nude or semi nude with a particular female i work with, on the roof of her apartment, with a laptop so i can read things here and sound smart in front of her

Sax

07:08 / 18.04.03

Well, I've been at work an hour and a half and I hope you're all very happy as Barbelith dips its collective toes in the running waterways of the world and consumes Greek yoghurt with honey like there's no tomorrow (which, if there is, I'll be working again).

Harrumph.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:22 / 18.04.03

I'm actually supposed to be doing lots of housework and writing today. But I feel outside beckoning, with its promise of beery goodness. (Well, that and the fact that I have two dogs to walk).

Kit-Cat Club

10:34 / 18.04.03

I think Sax wins. I'm still here today (thanks in part to a particularly well-timed computer crash at two this morning) but tomorrow I shall be beside the seaside. Or 'seaside' - I don't think the Solent really counts as sea...

The Return Of Rothkoid

03:16 / 19.04.03

Shitside?

Our Lady of The Two Towers

08:50 / 19.04.03

It's the weekend. And it's gone cold and dull again. But the weatherman assures me it'll be nice again by tuesday. When I'm back at work. But the centre of the bad weather is going to be over Brighton. Where am I going to spend the weekend?

Shitbaps!

Hattie's Kitchen

13:26 / 19.04.03

I'd rather be up strolling on Hampstead Heath with my honey, but she's gone on holiday for a week, and there ain't no sunshine when she's gone, sod's law.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:30 / 19.04.03

This weather sucks again! I've already had to go and take my flatmate a scarf at work and rummage around to find a jumper to lend the bloke who sells the Big Issue- truly, I am the harbinger of warmth.

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