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jentacular dreams

21:25 / 21.11.07

Happy foxes to you!
Happy foxes to you!
Happy foxes dear llama!

Happy foxes to you!

Not all journals per se, but they've all got references to shiny life-sized publications and books. Also, family tree here. Do the google search above without "abstract" for more results.

p.s. thanks for the hug, ES. Was it prepared fresh or diluted from a 10x hugs stock solution?

Essential Dazzler

01:10 / 22.11.07

Thanks for the kind words, everyone, it really does mean a lot. If I had the free cash I'd post you all Double Dips.

10:04 / 22.11.07

Ubermice, you're one foxy person. These should help a great deal!

13:08 / 22.11.07

I'm miserable because i've got a workman in fitting a kitchen which he should have finished LAST BLOODY FRIDAY! and this afternoon when he said (after promising it would be finished today) he has to leave early (again!) and will have to come back tommorow and i said it really needs to be finished today and has his boss got anyone else that can come and finish the last couple of hours it needs he has a huge fit and throws down his tools and gets all aggressive with me in my own fucking house and now he's down there slamming his tools around as he packs them up and i'm up here and it's like some weird relationship breakup thing. And i've got half a fucking kitchen!! Wanker!

13:16 / 22.11.07

God, what a prick. Is there anyone you could report him to?

Like the cops?

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:21 / 22.11.07

I think calling the police might be unwarranted.

All Acting Regiment

13:28 / 22.11.07

Depends - how violent is he, and how much bigger or smaller than than you, Ghadis?

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:29 / 22.11.07

Good point, I always make it a point to tip off the Po if I see anyone larger than me.

13:40 / 22.11.07

Yea, calling the fuzz might be a wee bit Roger Cook. Just talked to his boss and apparently he's a wee bit sensitive so thats ok then. He's going to try and smooth it over and get him to come back and finish tommorow. Don't really want the same guy back but thats what you get by saving money and getting cash in hand local guys.

He's a diabetic in his 60s so his aggression was more of the red faced stary eyed type.

13:42 / 22.11.07

And just for curiosity sake, how often does that happen? (finding someone bigger than you, I mean, not calling the Po necessarily)

As for the workman, I don't know how the tipping policy for such services around your turf, but I'd hold back the customary 20% on the guy (but don't tell him that until the job is finished)

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:50 / 22.11.07

It seems like a range of options are available if the motherfucker tries to stiff you again, ghadis. Sugar in his tea. An anonymous call to the DSS.

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:50 / 22.11.07

I KID; NOT TO HAVE A DEPRESSING DEBATE ABOUT IT, BARBELITH.

00:24 / 28.11.07

we have betta fishes at my new job. they are little and cute and i have enjoyed learning how to help care for them. this evening, one of them wasn't looking well. in a flurry of concern, i began water change and in attempting to coax its funnny-acting little self into a cup dropped it down the drain.

17:47 / 28.11.07

I have done that with a fish before, it was a black sailfin molly. It is one of the most awful feelings, you have my sympathy.

Tonight, my pity parade is in honour of the fact that I'm moving to the other side of the world and can't find any physical theatre courses. I can't seem to find any good drama course at all, really. Performing Arts at universities are normally rubbish, and all the specialist art colleges have websites that look like they where made by 12 year old a day after they learnt HTML.

I'm sure NZ has a thriving art scene, but I can't find what I want, and I'm starting to worry that I'm about to lose several years of my life just so my family can go do what they where all ready doing.

And then, when I come back, I'll be to old to start dance training at a proffessional level. I'll have forgotten everything I ever learnt about kinesiology. I'l be haggard and seized up and all hopes of me achieving anything will be dead. dead and gone.

Struggling hard not to hate New Zealand.

18:04 / 28.11.07

I'l be haggard and seized up and all hopes of me achieving anything will be dead. dead and gone.

That never happens to Not-Ugly people, ever. I promise.

My misery is that my rather pleasant little organisation is undergoing life-saving reorganisation which will allow it, hopefully, to continue existing. Sadly, this means I will actually have to work a bit in order to enjoy my comforts of old age, and may even have to go into the office once a week.

Seriously, though, all the nice things like group decision making, outcome based assessment and plain decency to one another are stretched to breaking. I sent a snidey email to a colleague this evening, and I hate myself for it. We're all friends but we've suddenly started bitching and sniping at each other. Boo.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:13 / 28.11.07

I'm sad because I spend so much of my time in these parts getting caught up in silly arguments over the same topics again and again. Look at all that bollocks in the Temple. When did it become about repeating the same criticsms in slightly different ways for the 50th time, instead of offering something refreshing that would draw people away from sigil+wank in a natural, positive way?

When did I start to, to put it in the parlance of our times, suck?

18:45 / 28.11.07

Mordant, you do not suck. At all.

New Zealand, however, does. Because it is so predominantly "moral". Because the drama school that looked really good is an extension of a Christian Ministry.

Because of the sheer amount of Catholic schools in my (soon to be area). Because I've been warned that I can't dress how I want to anymore.

It feels like I'm moving to the Polynesian Island of The 1950s, and whilst I'm sure my views of the place are wrong, I can't help but feel that I'm going to hate it and my life is being wasted.

And not-ugly people do get haggard. "Not-ugly" is always shorthand for "not-ugly yet."

(I think I'm being melodramatic and moody. Maybe there would be a more productive way of dealing with my New Zealand dilemna)

18:55 / 28.11.07

So why are you even going there?

19:16 / 28.11.07

My parents are going and won't go with out me. I said I'd go once I'd finished uni. I dropped out of uni, so now I'm just moving over with them straight away. Unfortunately, now I have no plan to go over with.

It's too late to back out, because people have spent several thousand pounds and spent a year of their life towards the emigration, but I can't find anything I want to do over there.

19:24 / 28.11.07

Emotional blackmail much?

19:28 / 28.11.07

Not really. Well, maybe a little bit.
But, to be honest, it would be selfish of me not to go now. So much effort has gone into the move, I'd be a real arse to fuck it up for people now.

It's not there fault that I fucked up my education. And if I fuck this up now then they wont be able to go at all, as it is approaching retirement time for both of them. I'm just hoping to get in, get them settled and then get out again as quick as possible.

The Natural Way

20:16 / 28.11.07

But maybe you'll fall in love with the place and Peter Jackson.

In love. With Jackson.

The Natural Way

20:17 / 28.11.07

Maybe you can dance for Peter Jackson.

20:20 / 28.11.07

Well, it is selfish if they're willing to emotionally blackmail you and divert the course of your life for the next few years. For all the right reasons from their POV, obviously. But not yours.

To be honest, Not-Ugly, you need to call their bluff. Say you're not going. Make a stand. If they've put as much money and effort into it as you imply they're not going to back down or let it stop them going.

Say thee nay!

And if they do stay, well, that's their mistake to make, mate. You're all adults here, innit.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

21:02 / 01.12.07

The fiance and I are doing our best not to be sad about him leaving for home tomorrow. Won't see him again until March.

Of next year.

It hurts.

Essential Dazzler

21:24 / 01.12.07

Christ, that is a long-ass time.

13 days is the longest I've gone without seeing my fiance since the day we met, so I can't really speak from a position of experience on a wait that long, but I know, and I'm sure you know, that it is going to be worth it.

You know how I know it'll be worth it? Because it's hard! Every second that you're apart and you hate it is another affirmation that being together is the only thing you want.

It'll be hard, but you'll enjoy the hell out of March.

Mysterious Transfer Student

22:09 / 01.12.07

Listen to your friend Pacific State, a man who's clever and knows things.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:03 / 03.12.07

I've got really sick just in time for my week off. I feel terrible, and have spent most of the day asleep, which means I'm wide awake now and feeling miserable as fuck. Not only do I have to get better by Friday for ATP, but a friend of mine has told me I have to meet him in the West End tomorrow evening for a belated birthday present- I think he's got me a ticket for something I'll probably get thrown out of for coughing, sneezing and vomiting. And in about 12 hours I have to walk to Highbury feeling like this to walk someone's dog.

22:22 / 03.12.07

IW Marry AA - Maybe look at this as a chance to experience new things that most of us will never get to do, with the bonus of, if you don't like it you can save and come home? My youngre cousin visited the land of Oz and NZ and she loved it, made friends with lots of new and intresting people and I was most jealous indeed. I think, give it a try, keep in touch with us all, and, if you don't like it after checking it all out, come home?

Kali, I don't know why, but if they're gone till November... etc... you have to ask if you can go too? or why not? And is making a material living more important?...

Stoatie - Get well soon, Gods bless I'm sure youe friend will understand.

Rite - my turn, I so miserable that erm hang on it's not so bad, I just thought of something worser I love you all (drunk or otherwise)

00:25 / 04.12.07

oh yeh I hate people who've had a drink and feed you all kinds of drunken chat which you fall for and in the mornin they're just scum like the rest of the us and the world at large (present company and friends probably execpted)

04:31 / 04.12.07

Finally! Four days after receiving my new iPod, I got through all my music, hand-picking everything I wanted, fixing all the tags, labeling everything, making all my playlists. Song by song, I painstakingly added 40G of music.

Ten minutes later it all grew tiny legs and walked away, according to [a well-beloved person] who insists he did not do anything while he was fiddling with iTunes.

Do you know what 'exsanguinate' means? Say goodbye to all that blood.

08:51 / 04.12.07

I seem to be spending far too much time in hospitals lately, despite being (worry and loss of sleep aside) the picture of health, which is just balls really. Mainly for other people but just.. ugh. Tired of this now.

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

12:21 / 04.12.07

my trip to work this morning was punctuated by watching some douche abusing his wife in broad daylight. When he started choking the shit out of her I yelled at him and started walking over, so he stopped and took her inside. Perhaps even more frustrating were the four other losers who walked by within about five feet of him, staring, and did nothing.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:39 / 04.12.07

The guy who decided it would be cute to start playing with himself (through his clothes) whilst standing opposite (and staring directly at) me on the Metro made me oddly miserable. Now I'm miserable about my over-sensitivity.

18:40 / 04.12.07

Dude, the guy was fiddling himself at you. Not cool.

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