BARBELITH underground
 

Subcultural engagement for the 21st Century...
Barbelith is a new kind of community (find out more)...
You can login or register.


LATE SHIFT!

 
  

Page: 1(2)34567... 9

 
 
petunia
04:09 / 17.09.06
ENOUGH!!

Goodnight, all.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
04:13 / 17.09.06
I'm off. Not to sleep, mind you, but off to sate that insatiable muse they call "fiction."

I.e., I'm behind on deadlines, so no surprise....

Ladies, I trust we had a nice time together and I provided some amusement?

See you tomorrow, dears.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
07:29 / 17.09.06
I wrote like 50 pages in longhand of "hospital journal" but now I don't know if I have the energy to type them up.

Anyway I was in theatre 3-4 hours and apparently confounded docs by

~ being a much harder challenge to reconstruct than they had thought (hence my face now being cut and stitched in three places)

~ never going blind. they kept sending me to eye docs who gloomily told me about best case scenarios that didn't sound very best at all, and kept waking me up every half hour to test my sight, but bafflingly I can see as well as I ever did.

Anyway I feel utterly bloodied, battered, half-helpless, but I expect it will get better.
 
 
petunia
08:25 / 17.09.06
Jeez, that's heavy, Wonder.

I hope you heal quickly from this.

Congratulations on the not-going-blind, though - seems like it's one of the better things in a list of pretty crappy things to have happened to you.

x
 
 
Princess
13:14 / 17.09.06
Yay for sight!
 
 
Saint Keggers
13:17 / 17.09.06
Wow... lateshift, now at anytime.

Its only 10 in the morning here.
 
 
petunia
13:42 / 17.09.06
That's the added 'spunk' for ya...
 
 
Feverfew
19:46 / 17.09.06
No-one seems to be here... No-one at all...

So. Hand me that microphone.

#Hello...

Can you hear me? Am I getting through to you?

Hello... Is it late there? Is there laughter on the line?

Are you sure you're there alone?

Hello... Do you miss me?

Is it stormy where you are? You sound so close but you feel like you're so far...#
 
 
iamus
20:15 / 17.09.06
'Lo shifters!
 
 
iamus
20:23 / 17.09.06
Hi shifters!
 
 
iamus
20:28 / 17.09.06
Med shifters!
 
 
Tim Tempest
20:31 / 17.09.06
Hey Lateshiftin homies.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
20:47 / 17.09.06
The British are coming! The British are coming!

Us American late shifters have a while to go yet.
 
 
Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey
20:55 / 17.09.06
May I spearhead the British insurgence into this thread?

Or may I just go to bed? I've had too many beers and I'm up at 4:15am, the only thing spurring me on being the prospect of a meeting at 11am that I can't avoid, no matter what the excuse...

Even though I just arrived I wish you all a merry night and many more to come.

Oh, and by the way - I'm slapping a nicotine patch on in the morning - my goal being that I'd sorta love to see my sons grow up.

That'd be nice.

Wish me luck - I've tried it several times before and failed after a few months due to slack-minded complacency.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:07 / 17.09.06
I'm here... or will be in an hour or so, anyway. I've been to Lilly and TangoMango's daughter's birthday party (which was lots of fun) and for some reason have decided Miracle Mile would be the movie to watch. (It was either that or Visitor Q, and I figured I couldn't be arsed with subtitles).

Ten minutes in, and I'm already remembering how much this film always upsets me (haven't seen it in about ten years). BUT I CAN'T NOT WATCH IT NOW.

If anyone has any really cheap jokes, I may need 'em in an hour or so.
 
 
petunia
21:19 / 17.09.06
Cheap joke: Mission Impossible 3.

I've found that it has become near-impossible to feel any emotional connection with Tom Cruise.

Oh Maverick, what have you become?
 
 
Jack Vincennes
21:23 / 17.09.06
Stoatie, I suggest starting here and working your way forwards (or maybe don't watch the upsetting film)
 
 
Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey
21:29 / 17.09.06
As the grand finale to my smoking career I've just opened my last packet of 20 Marlboro Blend 28, pulled a farewell
ciggy from its murky depths and unleashed the kitchen tap upon its remaining denizens.

Feel the wrath of my tap water, agents of lung-borne doom!

Tomorrow I will scoff at your subliminal threat. I will stride forth into the world, my vigour renewed as I shake off the shackles of post-coffee coughing, safe in the knowledge that your binds no longer tie me!

The moment your tarry friends beckon me with their false promise of temporary absolution I will exclaim, "No thanks, for I am henceforth only tempted by booze, video games and superior literature (including certain texts from sci-fi and the like)! And the odd, occasional foray into total fucked-dom with me mates !11one!

Like.
 
 
Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey
21:30 / 17.09.06
Night all - me needs sleep...
 
 
petunia
21:37 / 17.09.06
nite
 
 
petunia
21:46 / 17.09.06
For my CV; what would be a good word to sum up 'i have previous experience selling stuff to people - mainly pints of beer and happy meals, but i would like to give the impression i am also capable of selling people things over a phone'?

'Previous experience in customer sales?'

'Previous experience in the service sector?'

Hmmm... Help!
 
 
Jack Vincennes
21:51 / 17.09.06
Extensive experience in the retail sector in which you gained the valuable and transferrable sales experience you look forward to using in your future career?

Don't trust me, though, I've been drinking bourbon.
 
 
petunia
21:52 / 17.09.06
Retail sector! Yes!

It's just for a few bulletpoints at the start of the cv, so i don't need the rest, Impressive though it is.
 
 
Jack Vincennes
21:53 / 17.09.06
Fair, the rest is probably the kind of overwrought nonsense you want to save for a cover letter...
 
 
petunia
21:59 / 17.09.06
Yeah, i'm yet to reach a job where i need a cover letter. It's the little things we have to look forward to that make life worthwhile, isn't it?
 
 
Jack Vincennes
22:03 / 17.09.06
Heh heh. Indeed. It's got to be better than application forms, though. I did CV surgery for a couple people at my old work, when I left everyone seemed very curious about how I described the job we do. What you looking for, anything specific? Or just updating on the offchance?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:07 / 17.09.06
Well, yay for Wonderstarr's ongoing sight, if not her poor, messed-about face. I hope recovery goes well, MW.
 
 
petunia
22:15 / 17.09.06
I had a phone interview with a ticket sales agency and i've been asked in for a bit of a show around and a proper interview. Along with various things (passport included - is that normal?), they want me to bring in a CV, but it just needs a little updating.
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:16 / 17.09.06
I've found that it has become near-impossible to feel any emotional connection with Tom Cruise.

Im finding it hard to believe that anyone could have ever felt and emotional connection with Tom. Cruise! Tom Cruise. Im sure Mr. Coates is fine and dandy and not at all about to go jumping up and down on Oprah's chesterfield.

Hi Shifters,
 
 
petunia
22:17 / 17.09.06
And do people put spaces in their mobile number when putting it in 'official' stuff, or is that just a bit silly?


.. or is it silly, but they do it anyway?
 
 
petunia
22:19 / 17.09.06
Mr. coates?

Um.. Maybe it is pretty difficult. Tho i did cry for Goose with him when i was a child. I just think he'd become increasingly more smarmy/sleazy and inhuman as the days go by...
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:24 / 17.09.06
Well everyone cried for Goose, but that was due to the awesome acting prowess of Anthony Edwards.

What started in "Big Zapper.. aka The Sex Life of a Female Private Eye" had been much improved in Top Gun and would reach its apex in Northern Exposure and mellow like a fine wine in E.R.

Everyone Loves Goose.
 
 
petunia
22:28 / 17.09.06
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:32 / 17.09.06
I hear you can buy a cream for that.
 
 
petunia
22:34 / 17.09.06
Can't buy a cream for what goose got...

*sobs*
 
  

Page: 1(2)34567... 9

 
  
Add Your Reply