Pump Up the Late Shift Jam

23:26 / 17.08.04

Hm. Whiskey. I'm ambivelant, as I too associate it with being nearly done in by dry heaves. Curse you Jim Beam.

w1rebaby

23:37 / 17.08.04

The last time I drank whiskey (not bourbon) was after six or eight pints of 80 in Edinburgh, when I was about to leave the pub, someone convinced me to have one for the road and I thought "I can't handle more ale but maybe a whiskey would do". No. It didn't.

Odd sort of night. My alcy speedfreak philosophy professor was making moves on my ex.

23:38 / 17.08.04

Sounds like a dangerous combo.

23:39 / 17.08.04

Whatever else I've drunk, whiskey (if I can stand the smell of it) invariably makes it curdle in my stomach, and turn to sick. Haggis makes me retch too. I'm a crap Scotsman.

Oooh! Window open, lightning (it can't hit me through the window, can it?) and thunder. Drrrama!

w1rebaby

23:42 / 17.08.04

Now, I like a good haggis supper. Salt n sauce.

23:43 / 17.08.04

Not as dramatic as last night, though. Went to 'Russssky Night' at the Proms: Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff and Stravinsky. Lots of chinless posh people, with the occasional sexy Russian bear. And the music was okay.

gingerbop

00:05 / 18.08.04

Living with the family I au pair for, but I've just popped home for a week.

I too am a pathetic Scot, although I think I nearly make up the lost whisky/haggis ground with my love of porridge and flapjacks.

Currently skimming the earth for somewhere else to live. It's all very stressful, particuarly when it involves contacting people you havent met and may hate, and asking them if they want to share a flat with you.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

00:19 / 18.08.04

Still up. Detumescing fast, though.

02:08 / 18.08.04

Ginger, you can always stay here in Minnesota. I'm never home but the cat might eat you.

I'm still at work...dealt with a near fight, a resident goign through massive home sickness and another one who was on run for about a week and was brought back by his social worker, and is looking for a way to run away again.

And for supper it was leftover tater tots and a veggie burger while reading staffing notes. Ah, the thrilling, mystical life I lead.

03:51 / 18.08.04

Sooo . . .

Anyone else about or is it just me and my imaginary scripture spouting dog again?

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

04:00 / 18.08.04

Oh, Boggieee. If you keep crackin wise like that I'll tell the CIA demons in your head to make you nail your feet to the floor.

Shut up, Goliath.

04:20 / 18.08.04

I'm still here, listening to my son play a Half Life variant on his computer.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

04:32 / 18.08.04

Isn't it a shame about kids these days; what with their new-fangled computer games, Dan Fogelberg, Brite-lites and so forth.

Seriously though, what do you say when other parents do the "Oooh, don't you think those games are awful violent?" thing?

04:47 / 18.08.04

Ignore them, for the most part. I'm a gamer as well, and we often play games where we are trying to frag each other.

The first time he beat me, I stood up and said, "Today, you are a man!"

04:58 / 18.08.04

Well, that's certainly groovy of you. My father and I do kind of a similar thing only with music finds.

I dunno, it's just a constant point of curiosity for me; whatever happens to all those counter-culturalist when they grow out of their twenties and accrue a modicum of domesticity? It's great because the answer's always different.

the cat's iao

23:41 / 19.08.04

Yes it's time!
I said it's time, time, time!
You said, "It's time for what?"

Well, it's time to buy a futton.

Good evening Barbelith, what strange and wonderous oddities do you hold in your bossom tonight?

Alex's Grandma

23:47 / 19.08.04

A new deck of cards with girls on the back, and some gum, and a lighter, and a knife.
Since yer asking.

23:58 / 19.08.04

That's a funny coincidence, Alex, seeing as how only today I lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride. The tattoo joint was warm and so I hustled there inside and the buzz-saw grindin' man asked, "Whatchoo want that one to say?" I said, "Uh, don't mispell her name, buddy; she's the one that got away."

Funny how synchronicity works, really.

Nobody's girl

23:59 / 19.08.04

Just been out to the canal to feed the ducks and swans with my SO.

00:14 / 20.08.04

Just been out to the canal to feed the ducks and swans with my SO.

You'll have had to chop him/her up small first? And maybe mix in some breadcrumbs?

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00:17 / 20.08.04

Hi there!

Ducks rock! I saw one today in the gardens in town (like a park but called Queens Gardens) for the first time since i was on my course i think. I love them. Also, when i was sat down on the grass having a roll and a lager i saw a Seagull fly onto the path near the water with a Fish in it's mouth out of one of the ponds!

I scared it off and put the Fish back in, the poor slimey little thing. It was funny because the only thing that saved it was the fact that the Seagull was pecking at it but it would jump away scared when it started wriggling.

That was my good deed for the day. I saved a slimy Fish from being Bird food.

Nobody's girl

00:21 / 20.08.04

Nah, I just put him in the food processor, worked a treat.

01:20 / 20.08.04

But Eion, now the poor birdie's going to be all hungeree...

01:24 / 20.08.04

It probably had little baby chicks with big, sad eyes, sitting in a nest somewhere, all starvy-sad...

01:28 / 20.08.04

Just been out to the canal to feed the ducks and swans with my SO.

I went out to feed the turtles today, myself. I really have to start bringing something for the ducks and geese, they seem so depressed every time they swing by.

01:30 / 20.08.04

all starvy-sad...

Dreaming that someday maybe they'll be the star of a slim Richard Bach novella...

01:31 / 20.08.04

I fed a pair of stray cats who have adopted me recently. It's nice to see their little bony frames starting to fill out a little...

01:34 / 20.08.04

Aww. Named 'em?

01:39 / 20.08.04

Yeah... Simon and Inca...

And they've been around for a couple of weeks now, showing no signs of moving on. Which probably means I'll soon become responsible for their health. More vet bills. Bother.

01:41 / 20.08.04

Ah, but it can be such a nice bother. You could always get pet insurance.

01:50 / 20.08.04

I actually considered naming them Ignorance and Greed, but...

Pet insurance? That sounds like it would also cost money.

I don't mind, actually. My own indoor kitties are quite healthy and I'd like for them to stay that way, so I figure a pop in at the vet's for the foundlings to get some shots, deworming and neutering would probably not be too much to handle. Even if they don't hang around, they will be healthier and happier and slightly less likely to die...

01:58 / 20.08.04

It does cost money, and like all insurance, it's one of those things that you don't need unless they get sick, and once they're sick, it's too late to get the insurance. (I feel this way about my own insurance most of time time).