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Cat Chant
22:16 / 10.09.03
see, it used to be thursday when I worked in an office (on the grounds that you could get through friday hungover, because it didn't really count).. this wednesday thing has sneaked up on me.
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:17 / 10.09.03
Tell us about the Tattoo Deva!
 
 
Cat Chant
22:18 / 10.09.03
And I love my (one month old) tattoo (thanks to rakehell who recommended a good place to get it done), but I have now shown it to most of the people on Gauda Prime and no-one seems to care about the umpteen levels of symbolism... it's an angel, which means all sorts of stuff about telecommunications (messengers) and history. It's like a message to me from myself. And, um, it's just very cool.
 
 
Cat Chant
22:23 / 10.09.03
It's the design off the poster for the England premiere of Angels in America, which was my first fandom. And the whole experience of getting it was very... well, very much how I wanted it, marking the change from one state to another. I've also felt it working in the ways I wanted to, since I had it, to remind me of certain things at certain times.

Bonus cute anecdote: I was really, really scared about getting it - didn't sleep the night before, was in weird state of terror all morning - and was looked after very well by my gf. As soon as it was done, I was all bouncy and endorphinned up, so that our plan for the afternoon (me lying on sofa, being brought soup & congratulated by gf) was entirely scuppered, since she was so exhausted by looking after me that she took to her bed and needed to be tended to for the rest of the day.
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:25 / 10.09.03
Im thinking of getting one, but I want to find a place where they use needles instead of a gun.
 
 
Cat Chant
22:35 / 10.09.03
Gun???? Oh, hang on, you mean one of those automated needles? I had that, it was great, and meant my tattoo only took an hour (at 28 pricks per second or something: I'd really rather it didn't take 14 hours, myself.)

Though I hate piercing guns, so may possibly understand where you're coming from a bit.
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:43 / 10.09.03
I have no qualms with piercing guns, although I've never gotten anything pierced, I'm just looking for something of a more traditional experience. Ofcourse by the time I get my design to point I want Im probly going to be too damn old for a tattoo...you know, when my skin is soo old and wrickled its looking like the Necronomicon.
 
 
Cat Chant
22:47 / 10.09.03
You're never too old for a tattoo. Just think, once your skin has aged up you'll never have to worry about what the tatt'll look like after your skin has aged up...

And now I'm going to bed. Night night!
 
 
bjacques
22:50 / 10.09.03
I never got a tattoo. I couldn't come up with any representative images or totems (does a sloth count?) in my 20s and now I just feel too old.

Hey, it's midnight:30 over in the Smoke and no al-Qaeda gas attack yet? Bush and Ashcroft are celebrating 11 Sept in proper fashion, by stripping away our remaining rights. Coincidentally (again) I'd bought Anarchy For the Masses and yesterday I've gotten as far as "How I Became Invisible."

I really hope nothing happens today. Besides the obvious, it would deflate the scaremongers.

More coffee...mumblemumble
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:05 / 10.09.03
Night, Deva.
I only got round to geting my first tattoo last year (at the age of 30), always having been more a piercings kinmd of guy before, but I like it.
Nah, no sign of terrorists yet... having said that, I'm sitting in an office and it's dark outside. I doubt anything'll happen, too... it'd be too hard to orchestrate on the day when security's gonna be at it's tightest.
Reading lots of two-years-on newspaper articles about couples who "each lost a spouse... but found each other". Eeech.
 
 
Papess
23:25 / 10.09.03
Good evening y'all...good morning to others


hmm...tats? I have none...want one...not sure where or what. Oh, and a piercing.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:28 / 10.09.03
I have to admit, I also have a sneaking admiration for Steve-O's back tattoo (off Jackass).
 
 
gingerbop
23:37 / 10.09.03
Hey peeps. Havent lateshifted for 5 weeks... how strange.

In greece, i didnt get a job til the last week, but it was funky- on a beach, reading most of the day, waterskiing half the rest, shifting boats, and lifejackets, and pushing people who are skiing....which was funkyfunky.

But now im in a phase im not sure if i like or not. I am at a loose-end. No job, no commitments. Every1 is telling me something different.
Mum: get a job near here ASAP.
Dad: doesnt talk to me, and thats the way i like to keep it.
Roj (biggest bro): Is trying to make me a millionaire, by selling my glasses and mirrors i paint. He bought me my 1st glasspaints, and wants to see it take off more than selling to the wee craft-shop, so he's taking me to the harrods outlet here, and another big shop, and highlands and islands enterprise.
Jen (biggest sis):wants me to work abroad.
Rose (big sis):Wants me to move to edinburgh and get drunk lots.
Giles (big bro): Wants me to go travelling with him.

And i want to do all of them. And visit Pedro, of course. And volunteer in the olympics next summer. What dya reakon? The only thing is, i need money to travel. Any ideas, cause i sure as fuck dont. Which is quite fun
 
 
bitchiekittie
23:44 / 10.09.03
my advice, if you want it, is to just give yourself a bit of time to decide, and in the meantime, enjoy like mad!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:45 / 10.09.03
Yup. Can't really think of anything to add to that.

My, we're a busy lateshift tonight, aren't we?
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:50 / 10.09.03
Yeah, well we have to put in a certain amount of lateshift time or we get booted out and loose all our seniority...and im trying to get tenure!!!
 
 
gingerbop
00:09 / 11.09.03
Oh my god.

I've just found out that hands i've held, hands i've fallen in love with, hands i'd missed for months and months, hands that not so long ago were so close, are now murderers hands.

I need to vomit.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:11 / 11.09.03
HUH? That doesn't sound good.
 
 
gingerbop
00:12 / 11.09.03
It's not.
He was in Iraq.
And they're not going near me again.
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:12 / 11.09.03
Are you Jessica Fletcher?

Seriously though, everything ok?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:18 / 11.09.03
Ah, shit, gb. Huggles 'n' stuff.
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:20 / 11.09.03
Yeah, major bigtime huggles.
 
 
bitchiekittie
00:22 / 11.09.03
from me, too, ginger - I hope you're ok...
 
 
gingerbop
00:22 / 11.09.03
emm no. I dont know if i was quite over him, but now i know i need to be. Cause i just cannot go near murdering hands, that protest that they murdered for a cause i never believed in to start with. I dont know what to think about it... But i'll just have to stay away from him forever, cause i cant bring myself to be with a murderer.

They always told me that boy was bad news.
 
 
Mazarine
00:29 / 11.09.03
Huggles, ginger. It's good to see you, I'm sorry you got that particular piece of news.
 
 
gingerbop
00:35 / 11.09.03
Its ok. I'll go to lisbon, and forget about him/it/thing, and get married, and have a puppy.

On a positive note, i just applied to be a wingwalker. How much would that rock?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:41 / 11.09.03
That would actually rock quite a fucking lot.
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:43 / 11.09.03
Especially if you had a pogo stick... that would soo sureally rock!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:46 / 11.09.03
And a parrot on your shoulder! Like, flying, but only cos it was standing still on someone's shoulder who was standing on a plane which was flying! Yay! And it could wear goggles. And stuff.
 
 
Mazarine
00:47 / 11.09.03
What's a wing walker, if I might inquire?
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:48 / 11.09.03
A person in airshows who stands on the wings of the aircraft while its flying.
 
 
Mazarine
00:55 / 11.09.03
Can you dress up like that thing that terrified Shatner on the Twilight Zone?
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:58 / 11.09.03
I was just thinking of that!!!
 
 
Papess
00:59 / 11.09.03
Wow...f**king awesome gingerbop!

I am so jealous.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:59 / 11.09.03
Oh yeah! That gremlin thing!

Only with a parrot.
 
  

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