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captain piss

11:52 / 19.05.05

Sitting in my work listening to Hawkwind and looking out the window at rainy Brighton, with its old railway bridges, tree-lined streets and little houses. Feeling quite nostalgic for some imaginary 1970s Britain (that I never really knew anyway, as I was too young).
Where are you right now, and what are ye thinking about?

Benny the Ball

12:13 / 19.05.05

Standing, wrapped in towels fresh from the shower, about to throw on some clothes and go and drink a coffee, do the su duko and eat a sandwich and then watch the new star wars film.

JOY NO WRY

12:34 / 19.05.05

Hey, I'm listening to Hawkwind too. And gazing out over rainy Canterbury. I've pretty much just been idleing online for about three days avoiding revision, but I'm just about to get my shit together and start.

Just one more cup of tea.

Papess

12:59 / 19.05.05

Hey, I'm listening to Hawkwind t...just kidding.

I am actually watching Tractor Tom with my boy, and having tea, reading my email, and trying to explain to my son why it is that one cannot have ice cream for breakfast.

Sax

13:15 / 19.05.05

Trying to spin into about 700 words a very brief telephone interview I just conducted with Kenny Baker, aka R2D2. He was in Nuremburg signing autographs and there were lots of German Star Wars fans baying "Ken-ny! Ken-ny!" in the background.

Also contemplating making a pot of tea for the features department and looking at Barbelith too much, as well as checking my Amazon sales rankings.

Katherine

13:20 / 19.05.05

Reading Barbelith instead of doing work and thinking about doing some drawing instead reading (and that's not work either)

Axolotl

13:24 / 19.05.05

/threadrot - there was an interesting mini-interview with Kenny Baker in the Metro today. /end threadrot
I am at my current temp job and sticking it to the man by surfing the net instead of tracking down missing title deeds like I am supposed to be doing. I have just finished a cup of tea and am contemplating having a biscuit.

doozy floop

13:44 / 19.05.05

I am at work doing no work whatsoever, due to there being not much to do and me having a severe attack of the snuffles. Instead of work, I am contemplating a weekend in Dublin, the Early Music Shop Newsletter and a nice cup of tea. I am feeling slightly middle-aged and staid as a result.

Olulabelle

13:50 / 19.05.05

I'm navigating a minor Stonehenge project crisis which is about right considering it's my first day back at work and I thought it would be calm until next week when it all goes crazy again.

I'm drinking Earl Grey tea and contemplating why there are now 542 pieces of paper on my desk which have not been filed when I was away, even though I set up a comrehensive and beautiful filing system in order to avoid precisely this scenario.

trouser the trouserian

14:06 / 19.05.05

colouring in multipage tables in Quark Xpress, relaxing to the sounds of the building site across the road from my office, and thinking that an early finish today is what I really need...

A0S

14:09 / 19.05.05

I'm at work still trying to sort out everything that accumukated while I was away last week. Very bored and waiting for hometime.

GogMickGog

14:09 / 19.05.05

Steadily realising the utter impendingness of my exams, and that choosing old reviews of "Tombs of the Blind Dead" and "Oasis of the Zombies" over prescribed Medieval texts as reading material will not adequately prepare me.
Bum.

Chiropteran

14:16 / 19.05.05

I'm answering business emails from people who are, apparently, blind (or just very very inobservant). It kills time while I wait for IT to reconnect me to the company server where my main project is stored. Again.

Listening to Beatallica. Again. Still. (Thank you, Barbelith.)

Whisky Priestess

14:30 / 19.05.05

Checking Barbelith, d'oh!
But before that, filling out a yes-I-can-attend-an-interview card for a job at the British Museum. Which pays peanuts and I can't afford to take. But is an encouraging sign in my hunt for a job.

And later I am going to my friend Greg's boook launch.

Mourne Kransky

14:35 / 19.05.05

Off work this week so I am doing absolutely nothing. Got up late and had a bath, after which I couldn't decide whether to go to the gym or not, so I put my shorts on just in case. Now sitting, dressed for exertion but reading and stroking the cat instead. Inertia creeps.

Dances with Gophers

14:42 / 19.05.05

Currently sitting in Amesbury's internet cafe (Stonehenge within walking distance), beer in hand, bar in the next room...which is nice. All this and I have a day off! (Pity I'm working this weekend).

Sax

14:44 / 19.05.05

dressed for exertion but reading and stroking the cat instead

Only 007 can stop him now!

ibis the being

14:45 / 19.05.05

Home for a lunch break, not wanting to go back to the job at all. My energy is flagging since another day has gone by without a check (the downside of self-employment).

Sekhmet

14:49 / 19.05.05

Sitting on my ass at work, idly reading a newsletter from one of my boss's missionary friends, and cringing. Making a mental list of things I need to do this week.

And Barbeling, of course.

Gypsy Lantern

14:59 / 19.05.05

Colouring in multipage tables in Indesign and marvelling at how much easier its tablemaking function makes this part of my job compared to QuarkXpress, with its nasty tabs and fuckery. I like Indesign, despite the fact that I've basically had to learn how to do my entire job from scratch again this month, with 2 supplements and my editor away on holiday...

Observing the fairly impressive set of bruises covering my forearms that I picked up from sparring in Silat class last night.

Looking forward to an evening of champagne and Vodou service.

Triplets

16:41 / 19.05.05

I'm sitting in work, even though I'm not supposed to be in til tomorrow (which is Friday, unlike today which transformed into Thursday just after I clocked in).

Formula: Last week mum says "Triplets, you might have to sit in and wait for the gas man on Friday". Mum wakes me up today and says I'll have to wait in for said gas man while she goes to work.

See.

Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER

17:44 / 19.05.05

"Sitting in my work listening to Hawkwind and looking out the window at rainy Brighton, with its old railway bridges, tree-lined streets and little houses. Feeling quite nostalgic for some imaginary 1970s Britain (that I never really knew anyway, as I was too young)."

This disturbs me, because apart from the "Brighton" bit, that's what I've been up to. Although I was also drawing grant's Everywhere story, and the Libertines have now come on.

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

18:12 / 19.05.05

Going through journals, preparing to do a forest of photocopying, suppressing a mighty wave of panic that I should have read much of these articles before now.

Also thinking about lunch, and keeping a happy glow about the review of the latest Star Wars which gave the plural description of "an embarrassment of Wookies".

astrojax69

21:44 / 19.05.05

just lobbed into work, looking out at a new patch of lawn sewn after temporary worker huts were removed a month or so ago, the new building renovations here now complete, undergoing its first mow; watching a robin pair bob by my door seeking the crumbs i leave for them; thinking about a.d.d. (being newly diagnosed) and thinking i should stop reading in 'lith and get some info on what i can do for myself; listening to the hiss of cars along parkes way carrying canberra commuters to their offices so they too can do no work...

oh, and of course doing no work - though i did just answer an e-mail from malaysia.

Chiropteran

18:39 / 20.05.05

Speaking of emails and embarrassed Wookies, I just had to explain to a Jedi Master named, apparently, "Cock," why Jedi wasn't yet in the dictionary. Apparently, this is an insult to the thousands of self-proclaimed Jedi around the world.

This is my job. This is what I do.

Liger Null

23:49 / 20.05.05

Do you work for Sony SWG, Lep?

Ariadne

14:45 / 21.05.05

Trying to stay awake. I got back from Australia this morning, via Bangkok and London. I slept, but only for maybe four hours. I was bouncy when I got here, so went for a swim, had lunch, did washing, and now .... woooomp ... sleepiness is catching me. But I want to stay up till at least 9. I think a walk outside might be good. If you hear reports of a person found asleep on the street in Edinburgh, it's me.

Olulabelle

15:21 / 21.05.05

I am staring out of the window, feeling utterly wretched.

Ariadne

15:52 / 21.05.05

oh no, hon - why? You okay?

Shrug

18:44 / 21.05.05

I'm in my bedroom full on sheperd's pie listening to fischerspooner's remix of kylie's "come into my world", not going outside because the last time I did some teenage girls slapped my ass and called me gorgeous... they're still out there too. I am beset.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:47 / 22.05.05

I'm eating a cheese and pickle sandwich, having got out of bed briefly (I get a couple of hours of daylight today! yippee!), listening to "Poetry Please" on R4, and playing Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow on the XBox. I'm also rapidly coming to the conclusion that I would make a shit stealth agent.

Triplets

20:12 / 22.05.05

That was you behind the potted rhodedendrums!

Tryphena Absent

20:20 / 22.05.05

I've just finished eating my Sunday roast. Carrots came out surprisingly well considering they were a complete guess. 45 minutes next time I think.

astrojax69

21:36 / 22.05.05

nina, for excellent roast carrots - and roast carrots are indeed most excellent - smear them in oil, sprinkle a little coarse sea salt and bake for about an hour; outside dark and baked the inside smooth and wondrous! put a whole head of garlic - base just sliced off - also drizzled w/ oil at the same time... mmmm

at work again now, but thinking about food, dammit!

electric monk

18:39 / 23.05.05

Correcting catalog pages (in Quark Xpress, no less) that were built and worked on during my 3 weeks of family leave and thinking ill of my co-workers (It's called a baseline shift, people!). Being glad I don't have to use PageMake fer this shit.

Watching the last of the rain pitter-pat on the windows.

Drinking my fourth (fifth?) cup of coffee.

Enjoying the mild hallucinations my sleep deprivation provides.

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