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Oh dear. : A thread about things that tick you off quite a bit, and might even elicit a frown.

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jentacular dreams

19:13 / 04.11.07

My supervisors' proteomics-grade vacuum filter flask has just imploded. I am not happy because tomorrow my supervisor will be not happy.

Also it's poured a week-long day experiment all over the floor.

Shit.

19:18 / 04.11.07

Now come zombies.

21:30 / 07.11.07

Can someone please explain to my dog about Daylight Savings Time? I talked with him about it this morning but he is still begging for dinner an hour early, and I don't want to be woken up before 7 am again.

23:36 / 07.11.07

My phone returned from the dead! I didn't even need to immerse it in purifying waters, just let it dry for a bit and let the soupified battery adjust. No special powers as of yet, but fingers crossed eh?

My phone is strong.

23:52 / 07.11.07

Surely it will only kill every Halloween?

11:29 / 08.11.07

Can someone please explain to my dog about Daylight Savings Time? I talked with him about it this morning but he is still begging for dinner an hour early, and I don't want to be woken up before 7 am again.

And can someone make that explanation work for cats too.....please! 5am this morning!

20:15 / 08.11.07

"Lyrical terrorist". Right. So it's not possible to convict people who have rocket launchers in their basement in preparation of a racial war, but it is possible to send someone to jail for posting stupid poems on the internet.

20:26 / 08.11.07

Shot down again.

I am in the Friend Zone. I own the zone. I am the mayor of Zoneville.

08:54 / 01.12.07

My boss can't come in, so I have to work the weekend I was meant to be off, which is a bit annoying I guess. But it isn't exactly their fault. It would almost be too churlish to mention, except that adding to the sense of "I shouldn't be here" was that some fabulous individual decide that 180 degree projectile vomiting over the shop doorway was the best way to show appreciation for our work. Thank you, random art saviour, for the interesting swirls you made on our windows, with those intrigingly placed bits of red onion. Thank you also for leaving for us those dried chunks of something-in-batter in our entrance.

Some people will have spent the morning wrapped in the arms of a lover, some will wake slowly pondering what they will work on today in their studies or maybe their novel, others will think back to the lovely people they met at the Barbe-meet last night, how interesting everyone seemed, about how good it would be to catch up again.

Not me. I spent my morning cleaning vomit off a door.

22:49 / 05.12.07

I'm a bit ticked off at myself.

Today was my last counseling session and my counselor gave me a "graduation" gift. She told me that I didn't have to open it there, so I didn't. Now I wish I had.

Inside was a little troll statue and a card filled with such words of encouragement that brought tears to my eyes. If I had opened it at the session, I would have been able to tell her how much those words meant to me. But now I can't, and I deeply regret that.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

04:42 / 06.12.07

Can't you phone where she works and get them to leave a message?

10:05 / 06.12.07

I'm considering doing just that, though I would have rather done it in person.

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:45 / 06.12.07

Can't you go back and hang around in the waiting room? That's what Tony Soprano would do.

15:52 / 06.12.07

No, I won't do that. Precisely because that's what Tony Soprano would do.

I talked the situation over with a friend and he said that what I was actually feeling was a sense of loss due to my sessions being over, and that it would fade with time. And it already has.

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

10:05 / 07.12.07

Glaaargh. I've got to attend union based meetings four days next week. Which ordinarily I wouldn't mind, except I have a lot of non union work that needs doing, and I've got organise our office Christmas Party, which happens Friday next week the one day I'm not in meetings, and so I have to do a whole weeks worth of day to day work this afternoon and during the isolated hour or two's in the mornings next week before I go to wherever that days meeting is. And as a consequence of having a million and one things I have to do NOW I'm having difficulty even making a start on any of them. My head's about to go splodey.

10:30 / 07.12.07

Owing to an ill-advised, gin-soaked iceskating incident the other week, my knee is buggered.

Again.

Think it's finally time for one of these.

It's not so much the nagging pain or the thought of the surgery I've been putting off for ten years that bugs me, though; it's more that having no knee kinda writes off my summer. Without being able to tear about in the sunshine (I try to do quite a lot of sporty things), I can wave goodbye to health, fitness and peace of mind and say hello to lethargy and bloat.

I'm sure I'm just being melodramatic and I'll easily find many positive and constructive activities to fill my summer days but still... I was really looking forward to next year. Bah. Grumpy.

18:15 / 12.12.07

Some people celebrate New Year's Eve already. A couple of hours ago I got startled by fireworks, and for at least the next three weeks, they will be going at it every day. I hope this year no one will throw bangers, firecrackers or whatever these horrible things are called into my subway car.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

20:09 / 12.12.07

Is this the only time of year that these things are available or something? I mean, New Year's isn't for three weeks yet.

21:17 / 12.12.07

They sell them starting 27.12., but somehow many people get them weeks before that. And some hoard them, because sometimes there are also rockets going off, when there are important football goals.

17:32 / 17.12.07

Dear Lady in Big Car,

I don't really mind much when you decide to pull over (onto a cycle lane) without indicating. I'm sure it just slipped your mind. To be honest I'm used to that sort of thing from drivers here; I can just veer around you without much worry and carry on my way.

I mind a little bit more when you then decide you want to pull a U-turn, again without indicating, in the exact direction I have had to veer to avoid your initial maneuver. I mind even more when this decision causes me to fall of my bike within inches of your moving wheel. That was a shock.

It was nice of you to look shocked and wind down your window to ask 'are you okay', but I find it rather galling that, when I look back once I have hobbled to the pavement, I find that you have turned around and driven off.

I don't really blame you. I'm sure you've never (noticed that you have) knocked somebody off their bike before, so you weren't to know how to act. For future reference, people who have been in an accident are often in shock and, though they may look okay because they can get up and murmer something when you ask them if they are okay, it's generally considered the polite thing to at least get out of your car and check whether or not they are, in fact, Okay.

18:06 / 17.12.07

Oh golly. Are you okay? (It wasn't me by the way. I don't have a big car and I'm not sure how I feel about the word lady, but I am concerned.)

18:50 / 17.12.07

I think I am, yeah.

It's the first time I've come off a bike, so I'm more shocked and shaken than anything - my knee hurts and I have a couple of grazes. I'm a little concerned about the bike. Can't tell if something is bent or broken on it...

The shock is fading after a good cry and now I'm stuck with a bunch of anger at the fucker for not bothering to get out of her car. And a sore knee.

Ow.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

19:06 / 17.12.07

For fuck's sake, what a wanker! Used to cycle everywhere so I know how rubbish and horrible this sort of thing is. Take care of yourself eh?

19:48 / 17.12.07

Yeah. Gonna be a cosy evening of sofa with duvet, cups of tea, bath for the aches and a loved one saying 'there there'...

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

12:42 / 24.12.07

Wrapping christmas presents. I enjoy giving gifts, and this year, as I've been a bit better off I've enjoyed buying them quite a lot, but wrapping them, even to the sounds of the Nightmare before Christmas soundtrack, is just so very annoying, and due to my ultra crappy wrapping skills, they are all coming out looking like horrific franken-gifts, with mismatched bits of paper covering the holes where bits of the gifts have started to burst loose.

12:57 / 24.12.07

What about using those gift bags? Just wrap the gifts up in tissue and stuff them in.

They're also more environmentally responsible, as both tissue and bags can be re-used next year. And if you pick a holiday-neutral pattern (like solid red or gold or something) they can be re-used even sooner than that.

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

13:14 / 24.12.07

I did think about that, but I kind of think one should wrap presents for someone one cares about, the effort sort of shows one gives a shit. This is probably an odd pyschological quirk of mine, that quite possibly has very little connection to reality, but I find I have to follow it.

13:33 / 24.12.07

I dunno, I would think that the people you care about would much rather see you relaxed and non-stressed than a perfectly-wrapped gift. And free stuff is free stuff, no matter how it's wrapped. But to each hir own, I suppose.

13:40 / 24.12.07

Turn up the Nightmare Before Xmas soundtrack. This is probably good advice for any circumstances.

Alternatively, and it's probably a bit late for this year, you could buy boxes, and then you'd still be wrapping but wouldn't be wrapping horrible shapes.

13:59 / 24.12.07

Shiny, if it's any consolation, my gifts look like they've been wrapped by the scissorhands of Tim Burton too.

14:34 / 24.12.07

Shiny, I too am the anti-wrap. Try not to care - it's working well for me.

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

14:48 / 24.12.07

Yeah, it's all done now, and I find any frown that might have mainfested during the work has very quickly faded. Now I can sink into mince pie ans sherry induced oblivion for a couple of days and everythings fine. Or I could if I liked sherry anyway.

17:49 / 24.12.07

I'm sticking with beer personally

Mysterious Transfer Student

21:07 / 24.12.07

Zomg! It's nearly midnight and I forgot to have anything to drink so far!
Damn you, Facebook apps....
*fetches vodka*

18:14 / 28.12.07

My cool flatmate is leaving tomorrow for Chicago, and that is sad.

This evening new people came to view the room and flat and they were freaky and bad, therefore I realise I have to go through the whole getting to know you thing again with not much (if any) control over who the new person is.

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