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Shrug

00:48 / 04.01.04

Same will suffice....yay!
Is the turn away from booze and fags a new years resolution or a long life one? and is it through strength of will that you achieve same...or nicorette badges and a warning from you doctor?

Bed Head

00:53 / 04.01.04

I’m just leaving, sweets, but it’s nothing personal. I must get some more sleep, I’m not very well and even though I slept on and off all bloody day, I’ve been led to believe that sleep is the best medicine. Which is just as well because my ‘medicine cabinet’ only has a packet of aspirin and some plasters in it, no actual medicine to speak of.

G’night Polythene Rabbit, G’night Haus.

ONLY NICE THINGS

00:59 / 04.01.04

N'night Bedhead.

It's a New Year's resolution, but I'm hoping to stick with it - the plan is basically to drink less beer and smoke far less if at all. It's purely vanity rather than any noble striving for self-improvement; I am no longer young enough to be confident of burning off the sugars and lard in beer, or to smoke my way happily through 20 Sobranie black a day (thank God they stopped importing them - it has been a great help).

Also vaguely planning to use the gym at work, but that's not likely to happen if I'm realistic.

Any new year's resolutions for you?

Shrug

01:07 / 04.01.04

No real New Year's resolutions , just the same things I tell myself every year. Those being give up smoking (particularly this year though after seeing an antismoking add where something suspiciously like feta cheese is squeezed out of an artery) and of course develop a less abrasive personality (but same is broken almost immediately)..

ONLY NICE THINGS

01:17 / 04.01.04

Oh, yeah, the mozarella in the arteries ads. They are pretty grim, but I reckon that at this point we all *know* that smoking is apallingly bad for us; we need actual help with the mechanics. No cigarette selling in newsagents, supermarkets and off licences would be a good start. Distribute fags through the NHS, I say.

Prtoblem is, since I smoke between no and three cigarettes on the average day, with intermittent binges in the company of chainsmoking friends, there isn't really a patch for me; they all seem to presuppose 20 or more a day. Which is a shame, because the idea of something dribbling drugs into my body is a really cool and Gibsonian one.

Shrug

01:25 / 04.01.04

I also feel the need to be similarily big brothered in regards to smoking. Alas I am softcore both in my new year resolutions and my staying up lateness. So good night..good night.

Nighty night.

I wonder if I asked her nicely (read grovelled for nicely) she'd let me read it.

Tryphena Absent

02:07 / 04.01.04

My knees ache. The dogs are nodding on TV... run for the HILLS.

Tryphena Absent

02:10 / 04.01.04

And finally... that bit in Love Actually when Hughie baby's dancin', am I the only person who really thought that should have become a major dance sequence. I was so disappointed. A total waste of the best opportunity ever. Dance Downing Street Dance!

Mazarine

02:31 / 04.01.04

Don't watch nodding dogs. That's the sort of thing that can completely unhinge a person over time.

Cat Chant

09:58 / 04.01.04

Give it a few generations and the world would be full of grotesque superpowered mutants, all with doe eyes and ginormous cheekbones.

And this would be bad why??

gingerbop

22:08 / 04.01.04

Im wallowing in a nice mix of pus-y tonsils and mums spaghetti soup. Sad thing is, I want to go to work tomorrow, but know I'll be shot if I leave the house, except if Im going to the surgery. Think it's just tonsilitis, and hopefully not fucking glandular fever, though dont know who I'd have got it from.

Evening all.

Bed Head

22:14 / 04.01.04

You have my sympathies. Or empathies. Whatever. At any rate, I’m gargling pus too. There's a lot of it going around, apparently.

Baz Auckland

22:15 / 04.01.04

...there's a flu going around here, which I am refusing to catch. Do you hear that flu?! NEVER! How are you all?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:17 / 04.01.04

Argh! Mono seems to be coming down with the flu as well, which is a bit of a bugger as we're off to Iceland on Tuesday!

And Yeovil lost. And I had twenty quid on them, too.

Arse.

Bed Head

22:20 / 04.01.04

Wow, a close enough thing though, Stoatie, at - what, 1000-1? I bet that was an exciting 70 minutes.

Baz Auckland

22:21 / 04.01.04

Iceland!! Damn, that's cool!

I am so looking forward to NYC! It's been 8 years! Any Lovecraftian plans for Rhode Island?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:29 / 04.01.04

If we have time I wanna go to Lovecraft's grave... might sound a bit weird asking her parents to take us there, though...

gingerbop

22:33 / 04.01.04

Hmm... didnt know we could spread disease thru barbelith, but its seeming that way.
*cough-cough*
There you go- now you smug un-diseased few are as pus-gargling as the rest of us.

So am I coming with you to NY, baz?

Baz Auckland

22:41 / 04.01.04

Of course!

My bus gets in Friday morning at 5am, so just meet me outside the bus station... wear a white carnation and be reading a copy of Catcher in the Rye...

Bed Head

22:56 / 04.01.04

Yeah but ‘bop, can you pass your mum’s spaghetti soup through Barbelith? It’s rotten having to cook when you just want to sit and feel sorry for yourself.

I’ve been self-medicating with lots of chilli and lots of garlic, I figure I won’t be seeing anybody or talking to anybody until I’m better anyway. And germs really really hate garlic, it’s, like, scientific fact.

Mazarine

23:00 / 04.01.04

Somehow I managed to dodge the flu even though my fiance had it, in spite of smooching, and without a flu shot. So I feel pretty all powerful.

gingerbop

23:04 / 04.01.04

Fabulous- this soup, i think, has some garlic in it. Even with no garlic, my miging infectioned throat smells, so doesnt make much difference.
I cant actually get the worms in the worm soup down the phone-line though. Fry half an onion or so in a bit of butter for a minute, chuck in veggie stock, a wee finger-to-thumb bunch of spaghetti, broken up, a handful of rice,parsley, and maybe some garlic, for 20 mins. Or call someone and get them to do it for you.

I'll see you then, Baz. Though Im more a fan of white or pale-pink roses than carnations. I'll also be wearing a Bombay Dreams costume, a tiara and a black wig, pretending to be Rani. And when we're in NY, we're going to see it on Broadway, after we have brunch.

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:06 / 04.01.04

Gosh - I hadn't noticed that. I haven't been at all ill so far this winter either. However, it is only now becoming bastard cold in London - I knew the gig was up when I nearly slipped on ice on the way back from seeing Lurid and Mordant - so perhaps my luck is about to run out.

Just popped in to sync my PPC, and say hello. First day back at work tomorrow - which is a shame as my bodyclock is screwed; insomnia and some really rotten dreams. Wish me luck getting to sleep... night all.

Bed Head

23:09 / 04.01.04

Oh Maz, I normally dodge the flu: I claim that it’s down to my hardline ‘I absolutely refuse to be ill’ mentality, and it normally works. I got this from my niece, she’s so gosh-darned cute, the germs obviously sneaked across while I was pretending to be rubbish at pick-up-sticks. Which I’m not. I let her win.

Bed Head

23:25 / 04.01.04

Er hey, by the way, has anybody seen cusm recently? It seems as though the last time he posted he was just off to neck a heroic dose on new years eve. Just wondering if he made it back to earth okay. Or is it not the done Barbe-thing, to be enquiring about the RL health and wellbeing of someone you don’t actually know?

And bop I’d gladly share my germ-killing chilli recipe with you, but I think it might scare you.

gingerbop

23:25 / 04.01.04

My neice is a strange creature. She has a constant cold. Like.. has lasted nearly 2 years. And she's not even 2 til next month. I have now graduated from being called Nonnon, to Lollin. She's so cuute. And I'll see my nephew this month too- havent seen him since the October, cause he lives in Greece. It's always nice, though quite stressful. He's ill, which means he's grumpy, which means he doesnt sleep, and so forth. But lovely to see him all the same. Especially as this time, he wont be coming with his other grandparents, who are... interesting.

gingerbop

00:17 / 05.01.04

Night all. Particuarly if I drown in my own pus in my sleep. Probably speak soon, but if not, you know whats happened to me.

Although I wondered this once- if I died... probably none of you would ever know, unless sttab or specofdust let you know, but again, how would they know?

Anyway, goodnight. xx

Tryphena Absent

02:02 / 05.01.04

I can't believe I'm on fucking barbelith. I have work in the morning and I can't sleep because my Jenny Everywhere story keeps writing itself in my head. I'm going to get 3 hours at the most and it's not even insomnia because I've only been awake for 13 bloody hours. I am officially a complete $%&*!.

Mazarine

00:30 / 07.01.04

Well, I don't really have anything to say in the love/attraction threads that seem to be prevelant at the top, so behold the late shift, for while it is the love train this time apparently, other topics appear welcome.

Anyone up?

Bed Head

01:34 / 07.01.04

Up, and happy to be fighting fit once more. Hurrah! for the miracle that is the immune system.

Ethan Hawke

02:42 / 07.01.04

I'm up, though I don't know why. I've been in an AWESOME mood for 3 days straight, and I'm keyed up and ready to rock. But, you know, there's work tomorrow and stuff. So, no rocking.

I bought a parka with a fur-lined hood tonight. And I payed $35 for it. Huzzah! Should my bargain threads go in the bargain thread?

Bear

09:08 / 07.01.04

Where is everyone today, it sure is quiet around here.

Jack Vincennes

09:51 / 07.01.04

I'm here, but currently engaged in being quietly alarmed at how difficult my work is.

Or rather, the extent to which it should all, technically, be possible...

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