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Kit-Cat Club

12:07 / 19.12.03

I have an hour and a half to go until I can leave the office and when I do I won't be returning for two whole weeks. I gloat! Hear me!

I have acquired two boxes of chocolates, some ghastly bath stuff and a particularly vile photo frame. Also a white Chocolate Orange on which I will report later. I have eaten an inordinate quantity of sugary goods and am climbing up the walls with a combination of high spirits and exhaustion. Later I am going to go into town and spend too much money on a selection of festive items and then try and think of people on whom to bestow the wretched things. Is anyone here in the market for pheasant?

I'm not sure what the purpose of this thread is but I haven't been this keyed up for ages and I am sure I am going to break something.

Ariadne

12:14 / 19.12.03

Maybe I need some sugary goodness. Like you, KCC, I finish tonight for two weeks but at the moment my festive liver poisoning has me feeling lethargic and downright unexcited about the whole thing. I think some chocolate-coated coffee beans are in order.

Dances with Gophers

12:17 / 19.12.03

H-2hrs 19mins and counting

Kit-Cat Club

12:26 / 19.12.03

Dunno about sugary goodness, I feel as if my head is about to come off...

Tryphena Absent

12:40 / 19.12.03

I don't finish until Tuesday. I can't wait for the end of the day though.

illmatic

12:41 / 19.12.03

I haven't had any sugary badness, but I have had two pints. I'm only back in the office to abuse the broadband and wait out the few hours till returning to the pub. Then I'm off for two and a half weeks! Ha! Get back on the fifth!

KCC - don't let the sugar rush cause bad present buying.

Kit-Cat Club

12:54 / 19.12.03

You mean you don't think pheasant is a good idea?

I feel murderous.

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:56 / 19.12.03

Well, I'm working for a few days over the next fortnight, but I have an office party tonight and have just eaten a small box of chocolates brought to my desk by (no lie) the Damien-like child of one of management. Sadly I cannot drink too much tonight as I have now agreed to work overtime tomorrow morning - but! This will earn me about £90 in 5 hours, which in turn will pay for most of an ATP04 ticket...

Tryphena Absent

13:02 / 19.12.03

Obsession for men comes in the form of an ATP line up. It actually makes them work at the weekend.

I knew I was born female for good reason and the good clarifies more everyday and especially at the weekends.

Ariadne

13:06 / 19.12.03

I've just spent 30 seconds utterly bewildered by your post, Tryphena, before it clicked. I thought you were talking about Obsession the perfume.

Kit-Cat Club

13:28 / 19.12.03

Right - I'm off to find something to decapitate.

Bear

13:37 / 19.12.03

Dudes it's Christmas!

You really need to click on this if you have sound

Merry Christmas?

Sax

13:56 / 19.12.03

Christmas Day and Boxing Day off.

And that's it.

Bear

14:01 / 19.12.03

Same with me...I'm being made to download Christmas music to play here in the office, don't mind though - Christmas rocks!

illmatic

14:07 / 19.12.03

Unlucky Sax - I leave in an hour and am not back till the 5th.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA !!!

Sorry.

captain piss

14:54 / 19.12.03

Off, but then I've been pretty much off for the past year, so it's not a great change.
Have totally decided to shoulder-charge my way through this Xmas and new year, as I can't get into the mood of it at all

sleazenation

15:45 / 19.12.03

off til the 5th too -yay!

Mourne Kransky

16:28 / 19.12.03

Working till Christmas Eve though not, admittedly, very hard.

Then I will be off till the 27th January.

*Mutley noises*

pachinko droog

16:35 / 19.12.03

Working Xmas Eve 'til 7pm, then not again 'til late aftn, day after the holiday. My favourite client gave me a big fat gift certificate, redeemable at literally any store in town (via those nice folks at the local chamber of commerce)...

Gourmet loveliness? Massage? Movies? Sushi? Microbrew heaven? More occult tomes? Oh the possibilities.

Sax

17:23 / 19.12.03

it's no fun being uneducated Northern scum what has to work every hour the Lord God sends just to keep you toffs in beluga, you know.

Mourne Kransky

17:24 / 19.12.03

Microbrew heaven?

Where the tiny beers are?

Ethan Hawke

18:08 / 19.12.03

Being Amerikkkan, I've got no substantial holiday time off this year. Just Xmas day itself, and I had to dip into my vacation time to take the day after off. We're open every day the "markets" are open, yes we are. However, among several other welcome surprises given to me at work today was a bottle of Veuve Clicquot and a not inconsequential amount of cold, hard cash. Wooooo!

pachinko droog

18:24 / 19.12.03

No Xoc. Its a secret island awash in small-batch high quality beers.

Only the locals know of its existence.

(In Homer Simpson voice): "Mmmmm. Beeeeerrrrrr."

hanabius yamamura

19:02 / 19.12.03

Working till Christmas Eve though not, admittedly, very hard.

Then I will be off till the 27th January.

*Mutley noises*

... oh, how i hate your south-east-asian-bound butt

... i'll be poisoning the punch come boxing day - WHA HA HA HA HA HA HA

... oh, by the way, working till xmas eve then off till the 5th ... have managed to not a one of my three xmas nights out as my darling little cherub has had a week-long stay in hospital ... best xmas present ? him discharged home grinning with his mum and me ( cue theme to 'it's a wonderful life' )

x

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:21 / 20.12.03

Working till Monday morning... then off for a week... then back for a week ver New Year's... then off to FUCKING ICELAND AND THEN THE STATES! YAY!

Fist Fun

10:22 / 20.12.03

I am off till the 5th. Huzzah! Tomorrow I fly back to civilisation where I shall spend two weeks making polite conversation with elderly relatives, drinking too much with school friends and beating children at board games.

My chrimbo office prezzie was some "Nicolas Feuillatte" champagne. I suspect this is french for bargain bin.

gingerbop

18:51 / 20.12.03

Hurrah, I get, erm, Christmas day off! Woohoo!
But last night I had lots of seasonal cheer and pot and have been sleeping for about the last 14 hours. Hurrah!

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:16 / 21.12.03

I'm in a bit of a weird place - I have just returned from a sort of faux Christmas at my mother's place - gifts and big meals and the like, as you'd expect - so now have the odd sensation of having "done" Christmas, as my family will not be around for a proper Christmas Christmas. Also learned some fascinating stuff about St. Lucy's...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:11 / 21.12.03

NOW I'm feeling Christmassy... it's the last night of the shift, there's fuck all in the papers, everyone's brought in choccy biccies and cigars and stuff, and we're off to the pub in the morning!

God rest ye merry motherfuckers!

Cherry Bomb

08:25 / 22.12.03

I have no money, I seem to have a mild case of food poisoning, I'm freezing to death AND I'm at work. But! I'm happy!! Why?

BECAUSE I HAVE THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT, THAT'S WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yAY FOR CHRISTMAS!

(And yes, caps lock was needed for that...)

Baz Auckland

12:28 / 22.12.03

Meerry Christmas all!

I'm off to work for eight hours, but after that I'm heading home and Christmas begins! I even managed to wake up at 630 this morning with a huge grin on my face! Woo!

■

18:23 / 22.12.03

It always makes me laugh when I recall that economic theory underpinning employment theory that people choose to give up their free time only at a monetary rate which compensates them for the loss of it.

No, not laugh.

Weep, that's the word.

Lilly Nowhere Late

20:23 / 22.12.03

merry christmas to all and to all a good slight.

Still working, working to make the world more beautiful. I think I get relieved
from duty by Santa Claus himself. But my clients are compensating nicely and
the tree is getting more and more crowded with lots of pretty boxes.

Hope you all enjoy the season.

Thanks for much entertainment this past year.

Goodness Gracious Meme

23:40 / 22.12.03

not actually doing much work in general, but doing even less for the next six weeks. xmas in london then five weeks of sun, sea, rellies and endless feeding....

back in the country 1st week Feb

Bear

08:45 / 23.12.03

Nearly Christmas! Apart from my gifts not going to get home until January everythings going great...
And I think this should be the last day of this cold I've had for the past few days...
And Scrooged was on last night - put a little love in your heart Barbelith....

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