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netbanshee
14:55 / 17.09.02
As radjose pointed out:

"I'm single... hang-overs are fucking rubbish... a raging desire to go out and get drunk again"
"My situation? Single. Drunkard."
"single... relied upon that old stand-by, beer..."
"single... fuck it's sunday, i need another drink!"
"Single, seemingly terminally so... I need academic rigour and alcohol."
even Kegboy said "Single"


Well that's all fine and dandy. I guess I fit somewhere in that too. But what's going on right now, tomorrow, or soon that you're looking forward to?

I'm going through a testing phase at this ad agency for a decent position. Seems that most places are hard to pick out people for their businesses out of the blue since most of the industry went down the toilet over the past few years. Well anyway, I got pulled aside at the end of the trial day and was told that I worked as efficiently as he's seen, let alone based on the performance of one or two other testies (hah). Now I have at last 2-3 more days this week at the place which I'm not worried about and at a decent hourly wage for having me in. Think I got a full-time position coming to me.

Beyond that, my friends who are almost all in this down phase are getting their collective shit together too. All in the last two weeks. Seems like a trend folks. The attitude bar is raised in my circle and it looks to be that the salad days lie ahead.

And you? Tell me good things.
 
 
w1rebaby
15:03 / 17.09.02
I'm not broke right now, much to my surprise, and I've just sent off the last thing that I need to send off to get my visa. I think. So in a few weeks' time, I'll be in a new country, with a new job and considerably closer to my ladyfriend.

What's more, I don't have to be awake, aware or answer the phone from now on until I go. I was woken up this morning by a man selling fish. Fish man: "Do you want to buy any fresh fish, mate?" Bleary fridge in dressing gown: "Er, no thanks." Then I had someone call up and ask if he could speak to Robert Rankin about his insurance, which I thought was a joke call but wasn't. From now on, I don't have to be deal with these people. I can hang out all day in opium dens, or on park benches with cans of strongbow super.

Have you ever tried strongbow super? It's not actually that much different from normal strongbow. Not like superlagers vs normal lagers. Strange.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
15:07 / 17.09.02
that under incredibly distressing circs , a bunch of people i know have come together to support each other, hugs, crying, anger, drinking, smoking to oblivion, dancing, silence and solitude have all been given a space . everyone's giveing permission to everyone else, looks out for each other... amd this in some cases is people who don't know each other too weel.

and that in doing so we're testifying to and maintaining the presence of a fantastic person who died this week. yep, it's been horrible, but there's just been so much wonderful energy, we all want to disappear together and continue it atm.

amazing.
 
 
paw
15:30 / 17.09.02
hey, who deleted my post!
 
 
Mazarine
15:33 / 17.09.02
I really like my apartment. I like where I'm living, and I think that once I get out, it's going to be really good for me.
 
 
Someone Else
15:45 / 17.09.02
Amsterdam. Soon.
 
 
The Strobe
16:23 / 17.09.02
What's good? Well, on Thursday I stop being a teenager, which is kind of good and kind of not - getting older, etc, not sure if I'm living up to it, etc, but fuck, it's a birthday. And it's progress forward!

I'm returning to University, where I have friends, and respect, and broadband internet. I get to play jazz with other people again. I get to sing again. With any luck, they'll let me DJ again, and I can't wait. I'm editing a section of the student newspaper this term, which means a bit more pressure, but free preview screenings, DVDs, and maybe an interview or two. And it's good experience.

I've almost finished my demo CD. Which isn't, like, perfect, and I'm already not too happy with some of it, but it's a line to draw. Something to say "I Made This". And I'm working on a remix for a competition and it's going, well, surprisingly well.

I'm not entirely broke. I had the most fantastic massage today which began to unknot my back, and also began to unknot my brain. I've come to the realisiation that I have a lot of friendships that are stronger than I thought. I've had a rocking few weeks with some great parties, some good trips, and a chance to catch up with people.

Things are far better than I tend to let on, obviously. I wouldn't be the same if I didn't.
 
 
angharad
16:33 / 17.09.02
Just got married two weeks ago! This coincides with a whole bunch of positive things in Angharad-land, after a loooooong period of not-very-good stuff.

Now I am married to my best friend, a man who adores me and fascinates me and strengthens me and inspires me. Now I can focus fully on our future together and stop 'hedging' my bets.

After an 18month period of basically, unemployment, I will also, hopefully, soon be able to work again (if the INS hurries up a bit). I am currently living in a paradisical place - by the beach, in San Diego - but I may be moving soon to the hipper 'n' happening-er environs of Chicago (yeah, I have heard about the winters). We will get cats! I will get a Kitchenaid and cook lots.

At the same time, my sis and her hubby have just about got their visas to emigrate to Canada, so they will be starting their long hoped-for lives in Vancouver or Victoria.

My mum's got a new puppy that's just adorable. My dad's in line to get his dream job creating the tech architecture for a big bit of the human genome project. They might be moving to Half Moon Bay, one of my dad's favourite places.

I'm planning a big reception/vow affirmation party that will be tons of fun to organize and have. We got married in Las Vegas so I'm trying to achieve a kind of early 60's Rat Pack Vegas theme for the party.

Oh, I'm going to be on TV, probably, sort of. I told my cognitive therapy depression success story for Time Life and they are editing it right now.

It *is* weird how good things seem to come together. Life has been really bleak for a long time - bf and I both unemployed for 1 year+ - he now has a great job - family struggling hating jobs/living situation etc. - now all changing and improving. I just hope I will remember how things can turn around without warning when life again hits one of its troughs. (and I will try to forget how screwed the world outside my little circle seems to be right now ...)
 
 
Ambicath
16:49 / 17.09.02
If you're happy and you know it, see a shrink

Must be the fall season - a learned instinct from the school days, when September meant a fresh, new start of a brand new year. That's why everyone's getting their sh'' together these days. Full of hope and optimism... gotta love it.

Ummm, anyway, I'm moving back to my native country into the world's tinyest crib (but cosy enough for hibernation) and back to my old friends and familiar surroundings. Yay. I can't wait. Two more weeks and I'm entering my very own fresh, new start. I almost feel an urge for going shopping for pencils and schoolbooks.

Now all I have to do is find a new job. That hole-in-the-ground won't pay itself. Wish me luck.

Oh, and brand new episodes of CSI on tv.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:03 / 17.09.02
hey, I'm on holiday. And I have new hair. And we've just tidied the fuck out of our flat so it looks nice. And I'm getting my car at the weekend. And Thursday is Talk Like A Pirate Day.
And the vet didn't charge me this morning when I took Biscy in for a check-up.

Life is good.
 
 
Laughing
17:09 / 17.09.02
I'm getting a promotion and a big fat raise soon.

And now that I'm single it turns out there are actually people who are glad that I'm available, because now they can pursue me. A pleasant surprise!

And the bills are getting paid. 'Tis a wondrous feeling.
 
 
bitchiekittie
17:24 / 17.09.02
theres crushed ice in the lobby cafeteria of the building which houses my new job. ah, the birds, the sunshine - they be sing-shining now
 
 
doglikesparky
20:04 / 17.09.02
Currently enjoying (thoroughly) a week off from work. Deliberately made no plans and am having a superb time of it. Lots of late mornings and relaxation.
That and I get to read loads which is very pleasant change.
 
 
telyn
20:23 / 17.09.02
What was good about this past week:

a week ago I got a message from my pa saying that he might not be back in time for my birthday on saturday, because his work wanted him to stay in Germany for the weekend (big deadline coming up etc). He said he would try and rectify this because he wanted to give me a hug.

I replied that I thought his company should fly him home for his daughter's 21st birthday, and that he should tell them this. They'd taken him away too much already (he worked away during the week for the duration of my secondary education).

And they did fly him home and I did get a hug. That was worth more than all the presents in the world.
 
 
paw
01:12 / 18.09.02
i've said it once and i'll say it again: whats good about today- i'm alive and i still don't know what it feels like to fall in love for the first time
 
 
moriarty
01:39 / 18.09.02
Fish man: "Do you want to buy any fresh fish, mate?" Bleary fridge in dressing gown: "Er, no thanks."

I must be getting tired. I honestly thought you meant your refrigerator had sleepily carried on a conversation with someone.

Absolutely everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. I've tangled with all kinds of bureacracy since landing in Ottawa. Nation's capital, go figure. Every day is a new piece of bad news, what with my student loan getting bumped back five times now, to my brother's bursury officer sending a cheque with the wrong postal code, then waiting for HIM to call HER to correct it. And she's done this three times now. We're always broke, living in the most notorious apartment complex in the city, where no one will visit us for fear that kids will beat them with baseball bats for their beer (a common occurence). I could go on for days.

Yet every day my brother and I swap horror stories, laugh them off, make a nice meal and play with the cats. I haven't been this relaxed in ages. If this kind of trouble inspires such incredible amounts of positivity, then bring it on.
 
 
RadJose
06:15 / 18.09.02
this weekend my lil recording project hits the studio for a 5track EP... i get to see my friend Jimmy Moon (guitarist of said "band") and drink w/ him and be way way silly... two bands i adore are releasing new CDs next month... and i'll get to see several shows by one of them... i get to party w/ my "actual band" mates/surogate bros in a few weeks... and i'm awaiting packages in the mail of music, books and comics... sigh... i love orderin' shill off the net...
 
 
jUne, a sunshiny month
07:32 / 18.09.02
"feeling good - lesson 1"

well, people who where around around one year ago can maybe remember how full of shit and depressive i was. near my 30 years old, and just got some lazy lazy job, not feeling my "flesh" friends that much around me, owing money to anybody who was cool enough for giving me some, my passions (music, readings, illustrate) were out of mind and didn't inhabited me that much, and, more of it, my +4 years so called loverelation ship was just annihilated courtesy of my ex.
well, i was nothing but empty, a big void.

now ? well, here's how human are just sooooo pieces of shit : i'm feeling good as i never felt, or so. as far as i remember, i haven't been fine for, maybe 15 years.

- i had recover from my broken heart, seing that what really affected me wasn't the loss of somebody, but more of it, seing that all the trust and confidence i got with certain other person (read: the ex) just came back in my face, which was the first time i really got to ask something important and serious about myself and how i was living.
it made me change about loads of things, and helped me "cleaning around my home", moving friends statuts to anothers, and helped make me think that i got to realy think about who i was, for which purpose (if there's some), and how i could make a life which REALLY interest me, a life that i really, truly dig.

- not to forget : as i slowly (surely but), slowly recover from this bad affair, a girl came directly from the other sides of my deepest dreams, with a similar story as i. and far away from my beautifulest wishes, i got positive reaction when i opened my little not-so-fine heart to this girl. what was something who could looks like "we're bad so we'll helping each other" story became something really cool and nice. i'm with this girl for around 10 months by now, and please don't make it stop.

- the finest stuff : this girl is a very talented illustrator (not the software, uh), pretty girl with loads of cool and greats books and comics (which add an extra bonus point to my eyes, as you could guess), she got strongs skills into 2d-3d cgi (well, she's not using macs, but nobody's perfect, uh), she's involved with earth, animals saves, many great things which reminds me that i could spent my time to other things than write stupid stuff about platypus, Tom Coates and Pin's love triangle.
since "her", i'm a lot into many more things in which i feel myself.

- i finally quit my job as the responsible (well, we were 3...) for doing the ads in a local newspaper, even if at last it gaves me money.
i now get some big helps from french government stupid laws for people in unemployment, which helps me to not panic for at least 2 years (yeah, france isn't that bad sometimes), with correct money falling into my bank holes each and every months.
i'm not this idle, slothful that much (not anymore, at last), so i'm working on different projects in advertising, sometimes with Sandrine (it's "her"), cool enough for makin some extra money.

- cleaning my human environment helped me also to find new directions. as a breakbeat lover (downtempo, hip hop, drum'n'bass...), and dj'ing for years in my little tiny eastern france town, i finally decided to use my experience in some parisian labels i used to work a few years ago to create a brand new label with some of my friends involved with music too. as all of them are tryly passionnate too, it creates some energy and some dynamic twist that is really cool to live through.

- and when nothing's work, well, at least there's always your pals on the lith. which is one of the best medecine i ever found anywhere...

hell, it's a pretty boring and long post, but WellBanshee asked for it, uh !?
 
 
jUne, a sunshiny month
07:37 / 18.09.02
oh yeah and i'm an uncle for more than 1 year now, and it brings strongs desire when being with the lil boy...
i guess it's pretty "good", too.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
10:45 / 18.09.02
Now that I'm suddenly, unexpectedly, fairly inexplicably and brutally pragmatically single again, I am least free to make a play for Zadie Smith, Kathleen Hanna, or any one of the Suicide Girls.

Plus, I can now kill civilians with no remorse!
 
 
Sax
12:15 / 18.09.02
I have just posted off the nov to three agents. I shall be sitting back and awaiting a bidding war that will make me obsenely rich in the near future.

Kali, the smaller and female of my two kitties, dragged a squawking blackbird in through the cat-flap. I was at work and missed it, but Mrs Sax gave me a full report by phone. I'll probably tell Kals off for being naughty, but secretly I'm very proud. That's my girl!

Two of my friends have announced impending baby-birth things in the past two weeks. I'm especially pleased for both of them, but extra-chuffed for one because they've been on very expensive IVF for a year and managed to get up the duff by natural means.

Lentil has only one panel to ink on our Jenny Everywhere strip. He's gone on holiday before finishing the damned thing, but I'll let him off. He deserves a holiday and it ROCKS big time (anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about here, check out the Collective Comic Project thread in the Creation - a fine example of Barbelith forging its energies into something constructive. You shall all be expected to purchase a copy when it is completed.

My boss has gone out for the afternoon so he won't get on my back.

Wigan Athletic beat Tranmere Rovers 2-0 last night.

I finished Jamaica Inn last night and didn't see the twist coming.

I have free tickets for Peter Kay in three weeks.

My Dad's just installed a new bathroom in my house for free.

Life seems sickeningly good today. Strange, really, because I was spitting mad for the early part of the week.
 
 
Mazarine
12:25 / 18.09.02
Due to the laryngitis of the woman who was supposed to train me, I don't have to start my new job till tomorrow. I have time to buy coffee now.
 
 
jUne, a sunshiny month
12:44 / 18.09.02
now, this is good news, Mazarine !
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
15:38 / 18.09.02
I've got a room in college! Yee-HAH!

(not that rooms in college are especially desirable, but oh what a weight off my mind that is)
 
 
nutella23
16:01 / 18.09.02
Just started seeing someone after a long dry spell; I'm making a little more money than I was a few months ago; a back problem I was having that involved a pinched nerve has subsided; my health is good; I'm feeling more creative; that about covers it for now.
 
 
Mazarine
16:58 / 18.09.02
I've got a room in college! Yee-HAH!

Hey, I just graduated from a place with a pretty fierce housing crunch, so congratulations, Kit-Kat, that can be more of an achievement than a lot of people realize.
 
 
Mazarine
18:51 / 18.09.02
In more good coffee news, since Boo doesn't drink coffee, I have the machine all to myself. I can make any coffee flavor I damned well please without the whiny bitchery of those who dislike flavored coffee. Hazelnut, French Vanilla, weird autumn-pumpkin-spice flavors, whatever I feel like drinkin'. Sometimes not having to share rocks.
 
 
Stone Mirror
20:07 / 18.09.02
Hazelnut, French Vanilla, weird autumn-pumpkin-spice flavors, whatever I feel like drinkin'.

:::insert whiny bitchery here:::

What's good? More stuff than I care to think about because it makes me seem like a depressive ingrate.
 
 
kagemaru
20:41 / 18.09.02
I like this topic - good for the spirit.

So, what's good about my current situation?
. I'm paying at least part of my bills by writing, which is the greatest kick I ever got
. I've a number of friends of the sort that do not give a damn about what model of car you drive or jacket you wear
. I can still awaken some interest in attractive young women with my brain alone, which is as good for the spirit as this topic is
. I've still half of my life and then some to keep playing
. most of my old bugbears I've forgotten and/or forgiven

As for being single and introverted - I'm getting over thelatter, which might help with the former.
And I'm a strict teetotaller :-P
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
11:27 / 19.09.02
I have wonderful friends. LOTS of them.

I saw MORRISSEY on tuesday night at the Royal Albert Hall, it was the beginning of an ace night involving a stint at the RAH's 'champagne bar', dinner, drinks and dancing in soho and celeb spotting. Rah. And of me feeling able to be in queer spaces with total justification. Yay! and I got cruised at morrissey! Yay! I've been getting out and about and being with people and its great...

Friends are scattering around the globe, which is sad, but has spurred me into planning anad budgeting for 5 weeks in the states next easter. Be only the second time i've left the uk in 6 long years and I can't wait - waking up in different cities every few days... thinking of doing some of it alone, and really looking forwads to wandering round a new country at leisure (have been to new york but i was so young i didn't like modern art and found galleries booooorrrring. D'oh.)

I'm circusing again, there's a proper class, which will hopefully lead up to a performance at a festival this summer!

Life, despite some tough bits, is feeling pretty good.

(which might be partly from getting my first decent nights sleep in a week.... feeling so refreshed,.)
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
11:29 / 19.09.02
and i love this topic. chance to open up different sides to us. think we should do this every few months as a cleanser...
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
11:34 / 19.09.02
oh and June - I remember your thread about how you were feeling, and trying to find things to say.... and it's great to hear how much things have moved on for you. Big Hugs v
 
 
Captain Zoom
12:13 / 19.09.02
The weekend my store was locked was a long weekend and I actually got to spend it with my family.

I have had ample time to figure out where I went wrong and will not do it again next time.

I haven't had this much time off in ages.

I'm gonna start writing and just doing all the stuff that I always complain I don't have enough time for while I'm working.

I do miss my comic shipments though. Like a little xmas every week. I have food and a roof and good friends who won't let me fall. Things could be worse I guess.

Zoom.
 
 
cyclepathGIRL
21:53 / 19.09.02
I'm single which means I can satify any need I have with anyone I want without hurting someone or being a luvrat.


I've just started my own business and that allows me to work hard and see how it pays off. I'm learning and growing everyday in a workwise-sense, which is something I"ve never experienced before.


I have people I care about around me and my family only mildly annoy me nowdays. And I have parents whom I truely appreciate as well as all the things they have done for me and want for me in my life.


I'm turning my insomia into a positive thing by telling myself that when I'm awake I'm being thoughtful about things that sleepy people don't have the time to think about.


I like my boobs.


I make myself laugh.


I look for the good in people.


I expect nothing.
 
 
netbanshee
22:43 / 19.09.02
quote:

think we should do this every few months as a cleanser...

Good idea. It's a nice change from the negative slope that takes over when you think about things too much.

My week's going well...liking the new job though I've haven't worked this hard in a while. Work on a sweet set-up that greets me in the morning with a nice chime as I ponder over a coffee why one has to commute an hour and a half to work. And the people there are young and open...easy to make new friends. Will see what happens.

That and the lady is getting her act together with classes and work. Think we're both feeling more like adults. So the relationship that seemed to be waning is really being getting a boost as we like the idea of getting together after work to slow down and spend some quality time.

Also talked to some of my friend's from back home today. One got the raise he's been anxiously waiting for, while the other is getting a new job with better pay and benefits.

Life's looking better by the day...
 
  

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