Late Shift- Only 21 shopping days left...

23:36 / 03.12.03

...till Christmas. Or as my fiance calls it, "National Jews Go to the Movies Day," which he himself celebrates.

Have just finished prepping a presentation for tomorrow about Quentin Crisp, am now woefully back to being tormented by dead Germans. Anyone up?

23:52 / 03.12.03

Yeah, I'm up. Hello Mazarine, we meet again!

Quentin Crisp, eh? One of my favorite people ever.

And - I take pride in this - I have successfully persuded my entire family to postpone Christmas this year, until a more convenient time for us all can be arranged. I'm as cheap as a germ and as cunning as a fox.

00:13 / 04.12.03

Nicely done! Yes, Quentin Crisp is the grooviest, I had a hard time picking things to focus on to present about him. So, lots of images, lots of quotes, biography, obits, and fondness.

00:28 / 04.12.03

He’ll always be my hero, since in the most incredible coincidence of all time, someone once gave my a copy of The Naked Civil Servant on the exact same day as my life fell apart. Literally: the lease on my flat runs out, my bank tells me I’ve spent my last pound, my university send me a letter telling me not to bother coming back and my girl leaves me. All on the same day, apart from the flat thing, my landlord’s quite nice about that bit. And it’s summer, so I go to the park and read the wise words of Saint Quentin, and then I feel less like topping myself and more coping and living. Sounds like bullshit, but that's a true story.

Tryphena Absent

00:29 / 04.12.03

I'm going to sleep but just thought I'd say hi! My Xmas spirit has been ignited by purchasing The Red Shoes... quintessential movie for this time of year. I've done at least half of my present shopping already and I'm feeling fine. Yay presents!

Postpone Christmas?!! You traitors!

00:34 / 04.12.03

Before you sleep, I’ll say Hi straight backatcha Tryphenia Sparks. Since I got here I been looking all over past threads and your name crops up a heck of a lot.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:50 / 04.12.03

Hi Tryphena, bye Tryphena.

I like red shoes. I don't know if I've ever seen Red Shoes though.

Anyway.

01:01 / 04.12.03

I'm up, but I'm in humbug mode cos of my team (which usually consists of myself and 3 others), 2 are on holiday and one's phoned in sick, so I have to do SHITLOADS more work than usual. Will try to pop in occasionally in a Late Shift stylee, though.

02:01 / 04.12.03

Hey folks. I just got in from game night. I remember when game night used to mean poker with the guys..now its board games with the guys and girlfriends. How man has fallen.

02:08 / 04.12.03

Keggers! I'm procrastinating. What kinda board games? Didja play monopoly? Didja get Broadway? Didja get to be the shoe?

02:09 / 04.12.03

Boardwalk. I meant Boardwalk.

02:10 / 04.12.03

No such luck, we started with Simpsons Edition Clue and finished with Trivial Pursuit.

02:12 / 04.12.03

I love trivial pursuit, but I've never understood clue. Too many pieces.

02:15 / 04.12.03

Well it was my first time playing Clue so I spent most of the time wondering what the heck was going on. And as for Triv. I was the only one to have all my pie pieces before we decided it was going on too damn long and we were kicked out.

02:20 / 04.12.03

I get very resentful when not allowed to finish a trivial pursuit game. The other board game I never understood no matter how many times I read the rules was Life. I kept thinking about the cereal, and wondering if they were affiliated.

02:25 / 04.12.03

LOL! I used to wonder the same thing. When I was a kid they showed the comercial for the cerial and the played the one for the game. Very cruel thing to do to a child. I kept looking for the plastic car in my cereal box.

02:29 / 04.12.03

I kept using the little children-pegs as toothpicks, but I was an odd child.

02:37 / 04.12.03

We were playing with a few friends and one of them told hi smuch yourger brother that the game was like a ouija board and what ever happens would happen to him. THe poor kid started to cry when he accidentally knowcked over his car. Good times..good times.

02:43 / 04.12.03

That is awful. And hilarious.

03:32 / 04.12.03

Well, I'm off to sleep. Gnight all.

gingerbop

19:57 / 04.12.03

Im having a lovely time.

I like my work, I have a boyfriend, its nearly christmas, Im doing well in gymnastics, im getting on fairly well with my family, and just everythings looking very rosy.

I am just waiting for something to go horribly wrong now. But Im very much liking life at the moment. I saw this documentary the other week about online suicide, and suicide chatrooms and stuff. I was watching these people talk about it, and I was thinking 'christ, I cant believe I've ever felt like that, cause I just feel so far away from it right now.'

Leaving school has probably been the best thing I've ever done. I feel so, SO much better for it. Hell, I think I love life.

20:04 / 04.12.03

Congrats GB! Glad to hear all is going so well.
Now just spread some of your happiness around the board.

gingerbop

20:29 / 04.12.03

*wafts*

God, I must be one of those really annoying chirpy people, but fuck me, its great.

Im in the paper tomorrow because I won a competition last weekend. It may be awful. I'll post it if it goes on the couriers webshite.
And tomorrow I have a whole day at work= whole day's breaks (3 half-hours) with my man. And Im going out for gym-coaches-night-out at night, which should be grooving. OooH. Spead the joy, spread it!

Ariadne

20:50 / 04.12.03

Hurray for gingerbop!

Glad it's all going so well. And please post photos of gymnastics. I can't promise they won't be leered over, mind you.

What do gym coaches do on a night out? The thought is a a bit scary. I'm going out for a work Christmas lunch tomorrow which promises to be a bit messy.

The Strobe

21:25 / 04.12.03

Just checking in; haven't done this thing for a while, mainly because I'm at work and very tired. Sadly, this week I'm working until Saturday lunchtime, to make up for missing Monday, so it's going to be a long haul. Still, the evenings are going well - ploughing onwards through Knights of the Old Republic, reading a bit, writing a bit, and working projects secret and not-so. At the moment, I'm crossing fingers and trying to buy a bike on eBay. A very beautiful bike. And then my return to exercise shall commence...

21:27 / 04.12.03

I can't promise they won't be leered over, mind you.

But they will be. And blown up to larger than life size and placed on my "Damn the ocean between us...I cant stalk them!!!" wall.

Just kidding. Ofcourse.

21:31 / 04.12.03

Kegboy, dude, you reaaalllly need that cold shower. Like now

21:33 / 04.12.03

Actually Im typing from the shower stall.

Papess

21:37 / 04.12.03

I lost my toothbrush...actually, it was stolen. Weird.

Damn, can someone help me? How does one go about brushing their teeth without a toothbrush? Is using one's finger effective with toothpaste or does somebody have a better method?

21:41 / 04.12.03

Baking soda and water if you have it

21:44 / 04.12.03

When I was at school, my biology teacher swore blind that a stick of celery was just as effective at cleaning teeth as toothpaste, toothbrush, and all that. She was a bit mad, though. We called her 'Bonzo'.

Watched Laurence of Arabia today, which I've never seen before because I'm a total idiot who won't take good advice, and I'm totally charged from seeing, like, the greatest film ever, man! I've never actually seen the point of Peter O'Toole before, I now realise he is The Most Beautiful Man In History, and I'm ready to fight anyone who disagrees with me

21:46 / 04.12.03

What a coincidence... Thats what Im gettting my father for christmas.
Lawrence of Arabia..not celery.

Papess

21:48 / 04.12.03

oooh, yes, I have apples...and baking soda...brush and rinse. YAY!

thank you!

hiya G-Bop!

21:50 / 04.12.03

Yeah, I think I'll just un-cancel Christmas for 5 mins and get myself a copy. Or maybe I just wont give back this dvd I've borrowed, that'd be easier.