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paranoidwriter waves hello

03:12 / 03.09.06

That's what Ed and Nick said. Bless their scorched little souls. Don't remember anything about wasps and bees though. Said something about doing a job they had to do for the Queen and God himself, something about Jim Bowen owning an island, and then they were off...

Back on topic: this place gives me a happy. Sometimes when we all play nice, your wits dazzle me. Sincerely.

Princess

10:03 / 03.09.06

A man walked into work and looked EXACTLY LIKE IAMUS!!!
Only less scottish.

pony

11:30 / 03.09.06

i just saw the bit under the mainpage logo about the 'lith having over 5000 members, and i realized that we could form a fully functional (and possibly self-sufficient) town... this thought give me a happy for some reason. also, a little bit of a shudder, but mostly a happy.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

11:50 / 03.09.06

Whoa! 'Nesh, are you not worried that someone work-related is going to see that? I mean, you're pretty heavily disguised, but...

whistler

12:02 / 03.09.06

I spent a good 20 minutes this morning completely engrossed with the tendrils of my passionflower plant. They're beautifully regular, strong and springy. When they manage to grab onto something, they suddenly become much more solid, without loosing their gorgeous spiral shape. Now I'm in a really good mood. Horticultural auto-eroticism! Hurrah!

whistler

12:15 / 03.09.06

Just so I'm not photographically plagiarising, the above isn't my pic...it's from here.

(Wikipedia gives me a happy too.)

Ganesh

12:59 / 03.09.06

Whoa! 'Nesh, are you not worried that someone work-related is going to see that?

Nah, it's being used in South California - and the few versions that are online are, as you say, fairly heavily disguised. And even if I were recognised, it's me in a silly costume. I haven't got my cock out or anything...

Ganesh

15:41 / 05.09.06

I've been involved in an exchange of PMs with a Barbeloid with whom I've been having problems - several of them, it transpires, the result of my own incorrect assumptions. We're still likely to clash on occasion, but I think we now understand each other's position much better; in future interactions, I'm certainly going to be more aware of what's going on than has previously been the case. Maybe not so much a happy per se, but quite a feeling of relief. I feel like a boil has been lanced.

miss wonderstarr

16:05 / 05.09.06

I'm not dead! at least.

Saint Keggers

16:05 / 05.09.06

1. My uncle said he had a bottle of chokecherry wine for me. The bottle turned out to be a 3 gallon carbuoy.

2. I just sold my first photograph.

miss wonderstarr

16:05 / 05.09.06

And Barbelith is very fast.

Lama glama

18:10 / 05.09.06

The Phantom of the Opera Highlights album is currently keeping me a happy and well adjusted individual. Another thing keeping me extremely happy is the possibility of a David Tennant autograph winging its way to me from London right now.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

18:13 / 05.09.06

But not David Tennant hisself?

Pah.

miss wonderstarr

13:24 / 06.09.06

Though I had my cards stolen, my account was shut down 3 hours later and I don't think any of my money (bar... £10 perhaps in cash) has been touched. This is a bit of a Scrooge McDuck kind of happy, but you know, keeping money I've earned in my own pocket does make me contented, and if you've been violated in some way, a feeling of things being secure is a happy one.

Also had a semi-fun exchange in the bank when I tried to withdraw £50 using my passport.

young fellow: Well... why do you need to do that? Why don't you have your card?

me [flatly...removing sunglasses to look at him with dreadfully bloodshot and bruised left eye... in a voice that would be represented through a white-on-black speech balloon, like Gaiman's Dream or Morrison's Batman] IT WAS ROBBED.

Slate

17:33 / 06.09.06

I'm in a place called Vadodara, in the state of Gujarat in India. It's the last day of the annual Ganesha festival which involves a load of huge Ganesh statue parades, singing and dancing in the streets with drummers banging a steady beat for the throngs of people to jump up and down too. Pink powder being hurled at all peoples with huge smiles and raucous laughter. Just being close to a couple of parades on the way home from work filled me with energy and peace at the same time. Hands reaching through the car window to touch and share the energy, eye contact to pass on the vibe, smiles to encourage the same. I'm falling in love with this place in spite of the differences. Eternal Peace and wisdom.

Ganesh

17:38 / 06.09.06

C'est moi.

Essential Dazzler

19:05 / 06.09.06

Excited over Here!

Lovely Girlfriend has just disappeared into the shower to dye her 2+ft of hair red!

We've been looking forward to this for ages, but we're a teensy bit nervous.

Results in 35 minutes!

ibis the being

19:38 / 06.09.06

I was walking my dog this morning on a route I don't usually take, when I saw a combo T pass (subway/bus) just laying on the sidewalk - $70 value, good for a month. It so happens I have to take the subway & bus to work every day and was completely out of fare this morning. I was so in disbelief of my luck that I just kept walking but then did u-turn and snatched it up. Yay happy!

Essential Dazzler

22:15 / 06.09.06

Dissapointed now.

Her hair's too healthy, thick, and dark to soak up cheapo DIY dye.

pointless & uncalled for

06:17 / 07.09.06

New record for cycling to work - 12 miles, 41 minutes and 42 seconds. Yay.

Now suffering from massive adrenaline come-down and can barely walk so also happy that I work in an air-con office.

Now eagerly awaiting the return of my racing bike, should be able to shave a minute or so off of that.

Must go and lie down for a moment until I stop shaking.

Olulabelle

07:08 / 07.09.06

I have a cycling happy too, cycled to school and back this morning for the first time in six weeks. Cannot believe how difficult it was though, compared to the end of term before summer. So my happy is for how good I was at cycling, and also for how good I'm going to get again cycling 14 miles a day again.

pointless & uncalled for

07:23 / 07.09.06

Yay, congratulations on getting back in the saddle after summer atrophy. Hope there is no reluctance from TLB.

Had to take the bus to work whilst the bike was being serviced a couple of weeks ago and hated it. It's so slow and confining and despite being public transport, bizarrely impersonal. I just can't fathom why anyone would do it. Well, I know the reasons but they just contradict common sense in so many ways.

Anyway, enough ranting in the happy thread an on for more cycling joy.

Evil Scientist

08:13 / 07.09.06

I spent yesterday evening with someone I'm rapidly coming to care a great deal for. We watched a Chinese comedy film without subtitles and, whilst I didn't understand a lot of what was being said it didn't matter one jot because she'd explain bits and pieces to me and it was actually pretty easy to follow.

Then we played chess until the wee hours. I love playing her at chess, she plays with an intensity I find very appealing.

Plus I'm off to Ireland this weekend to meet my shiny new nephew and generally relax with my family.

I'm irritatingly content at the moment and, frankly, I don't care who knows it.

paranoidwriter waves hello

15:49 / 07.09.06

Sounds great, ES. Hope the relationship gets better and better. And please give the Irish turf a kiss from me? Please? (I can almost smell the peat fires burning... Hmm... Nice...)

I'm currently happy because (and I'm also a little ashamed to say) I was given some money today from someone who loves me more than words can express.

Yay! (I am sooo cheep)

This means I'm now well fed, I have a proper "white tube of pleasure"* in my right hand**, and I've been able to buy one great video and one potentially great book from a charity shop for under a fiver.

Multiple-yay!

Plus, I have money little left over to help do important, necessary stuff.

All I need now is a video player... Oh... shit...

* I think that's what Dennis Potter called them in his final interview with Melvyn Bragg.

** But I REALLY should quit though, for my sake and that of society's (i.e. nasty multinational ciggie pimps)

Mistoffelees

17:04 / 07.09.06

Today I saw a man on a bike and on the handle sat five parrots. A big red one on the right handle, a big green one on the left and in the middle three small grey parrots!

■

18:54 / 07.09.06

I have finished my fucking dissertation! YAAAAAAAYYYY!!
[Sits waiting for the 158 pages to print, annoys everyone else in the quiet computer room]

miss wonderstarr

21:59 / 07.09.06

I saw Evita tonight and it gave me a complicated but mostly positive... slowly-radiating burst of emotions, as though it planted a grenade in me that fragged in slomo throughout the performance ~ it made me feel very alone in the dark, and it made me feel that the girl in the spotlight was voicing things I felt secretly... and it made me feel what it might like to be dead, and it nudged such vivid sadness and euphoria from me at different places that it made me feel I was properly alive for the first time in a week or so.

The above post.

Dude;

I'd rather admit to responsibility for a series of unsolved child murders goimg back two decades than I would to being a
fan of Evita. On the other hand, Ben Elton's tribute to the majesty of Queen was very moving - Every time I see an advert for that on the underground I think; wouldn't it be cool to rip out Ben's throat with a flensing knife.

If I owned a pig, and really hated it, I still wouldn't make it go to one of the West End shows. Even if it could be persuaded to shit on the stage during The Royal Command Performance.

Each to their own and so on, of course, I don't make the rules, but if there is a hell you, as musical fans, are definitely going. 'Starlight Express' is less defensible the Manson Killimgs, because at least the latter is over and done with. 'Starlight Express,' on the other hand goes on night after night. And Willy Russell is sicker, mentally, than Stalin.

miss wonderstarr

08:27 / 08.09.06

That harshed my happy a tiny bit.

Tryphena Absent

08:34 / 08.09.06

Sorry, my suit was hijacked by Alex's Great Aunt while I was focusing on The Sims 2. She's a nasty piece of work.

pointless & uncalled for

08:35 / 08.09.06

Looks like NKs script for Michael Winner: The Musical got turned down again.

Edited to add; Damn, too slow again.

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:39 / 08.09.06

It's worth pointing out that only a fool would use a flensing knife on an area of the body with as little subcutaneous fat as the throat. Alex's Great-Aunt clearly spends a little too much time with Mister Whip and not enough with Mister Knife.

pointless & uncalled for

08:46 / 08.09.06

For those not in the know, a flensing knife was used predominantly in the pre-mechanised whaling industry.

Like the flensing knife, Haus has a point, also at the end of a curve.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

09:39 / 08.09.06

I am happy because:

A while back I had a piece not just accepted but requested for use in a book. The book is edited by someone I respect and is a very important project for him. Now the book is out, my bit is in there, and I am getting props for my bit. Which makes me want to make more bits for books.

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