Late Shift 11- and then it got cold again

22:29 / 18.04.03

My brother informed me that if he went to Hogwarts he'd be a Slytherin.

I am eating a magnum and noting down those things necessary to hire for my mum's 50th birthday... giant tent, speakers, lights...

_pin

22:34 / 18.04.03

Where the fuck did my brain go?

There was time when I didn't do two pages of additions to coursework, save it to disk, leave for a week before I even THINK about trying to back it up to my laptop, and then find out that I've lsot the fucking disk and will ahve to do it all again.

I also didn't used to drop my phone out of my locker so the little shit only work if I don't move it.

The levels on which I do't want to go to Wales tomorrow for far too long and then London for far too short and many and nasty.

_pin

22:37 / 18.04.03

If someone, anyone, wants to meet in the afternoon in London to do stuff on Tuesday 22nd, I'll be away from the net, but bother people who have my number (Flyboy, reflect, Jack The Bodiless, BiP I know... ) and leave a message and I'll try and pick it up.

I know this isn't going to happen, and it's not going in the Gathering simply because things like this NEVER happen, but I thought I'd try. For a second time. Becuase everyone ignored it on my blog.

22:37 / 18.04.03

i have discovered that by avoiding temptation of alcohol i have become a boring person who does not go out with friends when invited.

im at work and its sunny out...

22:38 / 18.04.03

Why does your brother think that? Does he fancy himself as Malfoy? If I went to Hogwarts I imagine I'd be in Hufflepuff, (where they're all, well, a bit dim.) Although I'd like to imagine I'd be in Gryffindor I think it highly unlikely.

What colour Magnum?- It says a lot about you I'm told.

22:42 / 18.04.03

I'm desperately trying to write a script I've been telling people I've been working on for three weeks. I'm a filthy liar.
I drank a Red Eye earlier on in lieu of normal coffee because, yes, they mentioned it in Buffy last night. I'm a marketing director's wet dream.
The topic abstract reminded me of The Sting.
"You know me. I'm the same as you. It's two in the morning and I don't know nobody..."

22:43 / 18.04.03

This is not a conversation, this is everyone talking to themselves...

22:43 / 18.04.03

I was eating a classic magnum though I really love the white magnum's with almonds.

Apparently Slytherin are way cooler than the other houses. I always say I'd be in Gryffindor... I'm too lazy to be a Slytherin and I'm trying to avoid sad old Hufflepuff and I'm definitely not a Ravenclaw.

_pin, I'd love to see you on Tuesday.

22:45 / 18.04.03

olulabelle i think im in love with you...

22:46 / 18.04.03

Wrong thread, love confessions belong in Barbecrush!

22:46 / 18.04.03

Hi olulabelle. Sorry, while I was laboriously composing my post others beat me to it.
Magnum is launching a new 'seven deadly sins' range. Lust and Sloth are already out. Gluttony and Greed next, I think.
Walkers is now working on a line of Ten Commandments Crisps. Smoky Adultery, Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbour's Oxtail, False Idol and Vinegar...

The Strobe

22:47 / 18.04.03

I'm awake, and yet oh-so-sleepy, and yet it all hurts a little. Went to see Phone Booth. It was ok.

22:48 / 18.04.03

Yes, I concur that Slytherin is the coolest in a dark sort of way. I like Classic magnum's if they're the normal ones, but I can't *bear* white chocolate. Milky buttons are nothing to me.

I have a job putting CD's in envelopes on Tuesday. (The things I have lowered myself to doing for money. But more to the point, it means working for my little sister - why does that make me feel like a failure?)

22:49 / 18.04.03

I'd gladly meet up with you, Pin, if I had any money. Which I don't. Just prop a scuba-gear Action Man in the corner, same effect, really.

22:55 / 18.04.03

Bless.

Arturo, why would a scuba-gear action man be a good substitute for you? Do your arms not bend to quite 45 degrees?

22:57 / 18.04.03

Paleface, only OK? It's supposed to be excellent. How very disappointing.

22:59 / 18.04.03

It's small, rigid, face fixed in squinty expression, hair immutable, garish, too tight clothing, no discernable genitalia, small number of phrases repeated again and again until you're fed up and throw it against the wall.

_pin

22:59 / 18.04.03

Get someone with a success rate to start a thread in the Gathering, pick a time and place post-2PM and tell me.

Failing that, Anna de seems to be in charge. Except obviously she is striging me along like some cheap temptress.

Nite all!

Persephone

22:59 / 18.04.03

We are divided up as follows: the small cat is Hufflepuff, as he is sweet but not very bright; Husb gets to be Ravenclaw, because he's the wisest. Then it was between me and the old cat to be in Slytherin, but she's so Slytherin and I am only sort of. So that left me in Gryffindor, and I'm hardly adventurous; but I suppose compared to my husband and two cats, I'm Marco Polo.

23:00 / 18.04.03

no olu, it doesnt make you a failure working for a younger sibling, unless its at a fast food joint...

so what is a magnum? i keep thinking of tom seleck and well, thats just silly, because he only had 1 flavour...hairy

Rev. Orr

23:01 / 18.04.03

Personally I'd want to join Ravenclaw so that nothing interesting/fatal would ever happen to me. It would also mean that I could be the miserable git sitting at the back of the great hall muttering "what do you mean 'all exams are cancelled"? How the hell are we supposed to learn anything around here?' next time that smug speccy moron fails to get us all killed. Ravenclaw - it's the chess club of Hogwarts.

23:06 / 18.04.03

A Magnum is basically vanilla ice cream wrapped in lush belgian chocolate that makes a cracking noise when you bite it.

23:06 / 18.04.03

Orr, that's very funny, it so *is* the chess club...

Persephone, I can't believe you've got the whole of Hogwarts in your house!

Elijah, no it's not a fast food joint, she works in the 'meediyah darlink,' and a magnum is a really, really, really nice, really, really, really posh kind of ice cream on a stick type thing.

23:07 / 18.04.03

Footnote: Anna's description is FAR better. That's exactly what they are.

23:10 / 18.04.03

Magnums are basically rebranded choc-ices. I'm a little alarmed by this new deadly sins range. Has John Doe taken over their marketing department?

23:12 / 18.04.03

cool deal, stupid american upbringing not knowing the names of things...

anyway, as far as the hogwarts argument goes, i would never get in, for i am the most mundane of all normal folk, so i would not be in any group

23:14 / 18.04.03

You could form your own. Elijahdee. I'd join.

23:15 / 18.04.03

yes, we would be...The Magnums, eating candy covered ice cream and shooting our way through the competition.

we see quiddich as a skeet shoot...

23:17 / 18.04.03

WTF is a skeet shoot? (Stupid English, not knowing the names of things...)

23:20 / 18.04.03

skeet shooting is when you have a shotgun loaded with bird shot and you shoot at clay disks as they fly overhead. practice for bird hunting i would guess, as the disks are often called "clay pigeons". its fun, the targets shatted spectacularly when you hit them.

Persephone

23:26 / 18.04.03

Like the first two pages of Flyboy and Nelson's new Jenny Everywhere comic.

23:34 / 18.04.03

Oh, like the new Jenny Everywhere. I get it.

Skeet shooting. Cool.

23:36 / 18.04.03

heh, yeah, i suppose i could have used a contemporary example, but im at work and it puts me in a not so creative thinking pattern, so i went all dictionary.

anyhoo

from noon tomorrow till 11 i get to be in charge at work, kind of, and im not sure why they let me get away with it

01:43 / 19.04.03

whew, shot this one dead, and it was so much more fun than the one about elitism