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Welcome To The Caribbean, Love: A Late Shift Extravaganza

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alas

01:18 / 23.07.06

I like the freckles across her nose, btw, suedey. Is she a pirate, too?

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

01:18 / 23.07.06

They're all pirates, alas.

alas

01:25 / 23.07.06

I just had another look at your Cap'n Jack. I didn't notice the first time that he doesn't really look like Johnny Depp in the face. I think he looks a bit like George Clooney, in fact. But you're not telling me George Clooney is a pirate, are ye, mate?

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

01:27 / 23.07.06

Are you secretly Keggers?

iamus

01:31 / 23.07.06

No, that would be me.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

01:31 / 23.07.06

Oh, wait, he said Robert Downey Jr... all Hollywood actors look the same?

I dunno.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

01:32 / 23.07.06

Nyaaaaah meliamus!

iamus

01:34 / 23.07.06

Johnny Suede!

And alas! Been a while!

You woudn't be putting off grading by any chance?

alas

01:38 / 23.07.06

Heh! No, I am not teaching right now. Avoiding many other things, but not, at the moment, avoiding grading.

iamus

01:46 / 23.07.06

Ah, good to hear. It heartens me that you're procrastinating something. Suedey and I are master procrastinators don't you know?

This is a pirate, but he's very old and more than a bit shite.
Still, when in Rome and all that....

alas

01:49 / 23.07.06

But I had a bad run in with a couple of mean martinis last night, which is why I'm home tonight, drinking water and herb tea. Why, after an evening of drinking my faithful red wine, and not much to eat all day, did I think it was a good idea to have two (+?) big martinis? Why?

iamus

01:54 / 23.07.06

Never question the impulse decision. Who knows when the next Martini will come around?

I've been at a pals, drinking Oolong tea and watching a documentary on the British and American folk revival. Skiffle and whatnot. Is it possible not to love the word skiffle?

alas

01:54 / 23.07.06

In other words, I looked vaguely like your red-faced pirate there, iamus. Although at times I was probably more green-faced.

iamus

01:55 / 23.07.06

At least you steered clear of the grog.

alas

01:57 / 23.07.06

"Skiffle" is a great word! Wikipedia tells me that: "skiffle" was a slang term for "rent party.". Cool.

alas

02:02 / 23.07.06

steered clear of the grog but not the grogginess. (bleh, bad semi-pun.) Not a lot of grog on the patio at the martini bar. Just a whole lot of very silly strangers. We all were drinking too many martinis and giving a round of applause anyone who came back there after midnight.

Good fun, actually. For some reason, everyone was talking to everyone else in the place, rather than just their own group.

iamus

02:03 / 23.07.06

It's just about as satisfying to type as it is to enunciate.

According to one of the skiffle pioneers in said program, skiffle became verbed, in that it was possible for things to be skiffled. In fact, pretty much anything they got their hands on was skifflified.

I can see myself skiffling many things over the next week or two.

iamus

02:04 / 23.07.06

Well that sounds like the Martini was totally justified then. If it made you sick as a dog and nothing else then I could understand.

alas

02:08 / 23.07.06

That's just skifflifying! I think it would be great if kids had to memorize skifflification tables, rather than those multiplication tables we had to memorize. Like "washboard times tea chest, divided by kazoo, equals ?"

I have no idea where that came from.

alas

02:10 / 23.07.06

It did make me sick as a dog, however--I have not been sick like that in a very long time and had forgotten how deeply unpleasant it is. Still, yer right. It was quite fun. Maybe not as fun as skiffling, but...

iamus

02:17 / 23.07.06

"washboard times tea chest, divided by kazoo, equals ?"

*tentatively raises hand*

Um........ Is it skiffle, miss?

And you know, I'm not sure there's many things quite as good as skiffling.

I should probably skiffle orf now though. Should have skiffled my way to bed when I got in, but the pull of Lateshift was too skifflific to resist.

Anyhow. Keep up with the rehydration and skiffilisation. Enjoy not having to grade!
Cheery-ho!

alas

02:19 / 23.07.06

night night iamus--I'm going to bed, meself. But first more herb tea!

Jake, Colossus of Clout

05:30 / 24.07.06

Fuck's up, fuckers?

paranoidwriter waves hello

05:39 / 24.07.06

I'm up. My mate's asleep on my bed, I'm a little pished, and I don't want to disturb hir as ze has work in a few hours or so.

Unfortunately, being pished and rading online is a balancing act I'm shit at.

How's you?

paranoidwriter waves hello

06:02 / 24.07.06

So now I'm off to sleep on my floor. Good luck all!

Jake, Colossus of Clout

04:35 / 26.07.06

The baseball game is over and I'm bored now. Anyone kicing around the 'lith?

Triplets

22:39 / 30.07.06

Can I get any of you bastards... a lateshift?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:52 / 30.07.06

Yeah, why the fuck not?

Triplets

22:58 / 30.07.06

I can't think of one gott damn reason. What's cookin, Stoat? Workin'?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:09 / 30.07.06

Yeah, last night of the shift. In the morning I shall be free for a WEEK!

Triplets

23:15 / 30.07.06

Cool! Hope you enjoy it.

Watched the Truman Show on telly earlier. One of those films that impressed me in my early teens (would've been, what? 14?) but's got so much better now that I'm not as thick. Lots of chewy demiurge stuff to think about.

Anyway, what I'd like to know is... Truman must've gotten some mad over-time once he got out. He was on set for, like, 30 years!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:27 / 30.07.06

I never actually saw all of that film... noticed it was on this evening, though.

alas

03:33 / 31.07.06

Is anyone still up?

Jake, Colossus of Clout

04:46 / 31.07.06

Sort of.

Saint Keggers

00:44 / 01.08.06

G.A. Keggers signing in.

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