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Morning CJ. So that ecstasy I slipped in your coffee is working, eh? ;)

substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm like an irritatingly bouncy Tigger at the best of times, so can you imagine how completely unbearable I'd be if I took mood-enhancing drugs as well?!?! It'd be like living with a hyperactive Pollyanna.

C J (C J), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Johnney - can't you avert your boss being mean to you by raising the issue proactively with him now? Tell him that despite your best efforts, people are being slow in giving you the information you need to be able to do your job, and you'd appreciate his managerial assistance. He's the boss, he's paid to sort problems out!

C J (C J), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I've tried that. My boss is lovely, but when I've raised this issue in the past his response that it's my job to manage them and put pressure on where necessary. I'm just a little uncomfortable putting pressure on people who are likely to sack me if I piss them off. Like when I have too much work on and I tell my boss not to keep giving me work, he responds that I need to "learn to manage my workload better."

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link

hello! i'm the biggest moron in the world! goodbye!

emsk ( emsk ), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh emsk, no you're not! You're great!

(what have you done?)

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Good morning!

JB, I feel your pain. I'm still in monthend myself. Though at least I'm not waiting for other people, because I'd have to KILL THEM if I were.

Other than that... well, I feel kinda weird. I'm having huge doubts about going to ATP. I know that I'm probably going to have PMT all weekend long and everything will piss me off. I'm exhausted and want nothing more than a weekend where I get to sleeeeeeep and do nothing. Plus, it's the last free time I have to CLEAN UP my house before my mum arrives, and even though she says "don't worry about cleaning, I just want to see YOU!!!" I still don't want her to see my house in this state. Plus, I can't take any more time off work...

But then I get emails from Dare where she's just all "BLEEEEEEEE!!!" and that makes me feel 17 again and her saying "...and Rock Star X will be there, and maybe Rock Star Y..." which makes me laugh and laugh.

And the 17 year old in my is saying "GO! GO! GO! YOU WILL HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE!!!" and the grown up in me is saying "You have a mortgage and should be good and stay home."

What do I doooooooo?!?!?

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Go.

Ed (dali), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Go!

C J (C J), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I am going to get no sleep. I am going to be PMT-ing. I am going to be surrounded by cnuts. (No, literally, there's a Norwegian in the party.) If this isn't a recipe for massive moodswings I don't know what is.

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Pay your mortgage! Your home is at risk if you fail to keep up repayments on a mortgage or other loan secured on it!

(I've heard)

tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Go anyway, Kate. If you don't go, you'll maybe wish you had.

I feel even worse today than I did yesterday. I'm closing up and going home after dinner, fuck this.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry to hear that, Pash. Have you got anything for it?

I need to decide how I want my hair cut within the next ten minutes.

tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Pseudoephedrine is what you need.

Ed (dali), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Ach, that's awful, Pash. Get some rest, feel better.

TISSP! don't cut your hair. Pavement will laugh at you.

I guess I should ask my boss what's going on with Xmas holidays, because it might be OK if I can take Friday and maybe Monday off. But that depends on how much time we get between Xmas and New Years... argh.

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

"cnuts" just made me laugh out loud :)

Hope you feel better soon, Pash. Go home and tuck yourself up in bed.

tissp : shave it all off.

C J (C J), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link

No really, it needs cutting! The length isn't bothering me, but the thickness is--my head is like twice as wide as it needs to be

xposts

tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Why don't you get some little devil horns to keep it out of your face when it gets long and thick. Like this:

http://musicphotog.com/wp-gallery2.php?g2_itemId=1780

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Interesting, I actually knew what that picture would be before I even clicked on it...

tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but you probably thought it would be this:

http://musicphotog.com/wp-gallery2.php?g2_itemId=1762

God DAMN it, who keeps going in the MySpace and changing the pictures? We specifically got new photos taken with the new lineup, and someone goes and changes it to one that's not just the old lineup, but also has BUMLOVE all over it. Get that shit off my band.

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn. I'm Mark today. Why can't I be Ben? I'm always Ben! My colleague is being Ben today. It isn't fair.

(Coffee mugs we end up getting.)

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Nothing wrong in being Mark!

M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

what HAVEN'T i done

emsk ( emsk ), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

There's just so MANY of you is all.

Meaning: Brave
You like to defend
To support and to save
You are dauntless and daring -
You are truly brave
Your name reflects the fact
That you have no fear
You protect your posessions
And your loved ones so dear
Whatever the struggle
You're sure to succeed
Against any opponent
You shall take the lead

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been in a meeting for the last hour where most of time was spent deciding where to eat for our xmas lunchtime get-together. Nothing was decided, so bah humbug to the lot of 'em.

Oh emsk, you've done lots of stuff, the majority of it brilliant. You know this as well, so i can't see the problem. Unless you've murdered a kitten or something, in which case, you're a bad bad woman.

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I got a script from the doctor the other day for some antibiotic or other, she said to try steam inhalation, and if it didn't work after a couple of days, get the antibiotics. I was up till 4am this morning, coughing & hacking, so I guess the steam didn't work, ugh.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link

yet another thuringian cittern on ebay that I probably won't win

Nice decoration, though.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, there's a time and a place for steam inhilation and there's a time for HEAVY DUTY DRUGS.

I can't decide if it's a blessing or a curse that MySpace tells you "so and so is not just ignoring your mail, they just haven't actually read it yet."

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Pash needs one of these :

http://www.momentum98.com/netinewfx.jpg

C J (C J), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

A gravy boat?

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

A lamp with a genie in, clearly!

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.solidimages.com/3d/jpg/genie_lamp.jpg

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I favour strong drugs over steam inhalation.

I couldn't sleep last night cos of rib pain - I am going for another x-ray tomorrow as I fear there is more damage than I thought.

Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link

It is done.

tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Woo, I just completed a medium-level Guardian kakuro puzzle for the first time! 35 minutes!

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw man, be careful, Dr. C!

What is done? Your haircut? Oh noes!!!!

Hurrah for puzzles. I don't even know what a kakuro puzzle is. I never got past crosswords.

Right. First we had a fire evacuation because some burgers caught fire in the pub kitchen. Bah. And then I talked to Dare on the phone! She's brought extra skates for me! I can't believe she is going to make me go ice skating!

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link

It's like a crossword where you have to do sums.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, my hair has been cut. Now my beard is all wrong!

tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Every time I see (your hair) falling, I get down on my knees and pray...

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a major disaster at our office this afternoon - we're all out of tea *and* coffee!

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Argh! Send in the Red Cross!

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

And I've bought some cheap jaffa cakes from the discount sweet shop in cowley centre. Tasty AND to a budget!

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I've broken ribs twice and both times I was told there was nothing they could do other than prescribe heavy-duty painkillers. I'm sure you'll be fine, Doc, but I feel your pain :(

Dare sounds like she'll be good for you, Kate - I hope you have fun!

Maaarghk C (Maaarghk C), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Filling me full of booze, making me hang out with rock stars, insisting we go to Mother Bar at 2 in the morning, dragging me off (including throwing a sickie at work) to go to a festival on no notice = good for me, in what universe?

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

First thing she said to me: "Dude, I just saw Pete Doherty on the TELEVISION!!! Is he, like, famous, here or something?"

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - I will take care, ta! I am going to go out and buy REAL strong painkillers in a bit. Any recommendations anyone?

I've bust a rib once before, and it hurts, but this is slightly different in that it as far as I know the rib is OK, but loose at one end. I'm now thinking that I may have cracked another one though - I can feel it thru my skin.

Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

In the universe of fun. And you love it, stop being coy.

Whenever I go ice skating I wobble like bambi and I keep thinking that I'll fall over and someone'll whizz by and slice my fingers off.

I'm sure that won't happen to you, tho.

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

She is a mad half-Russian mentalist! She is all DEVIL ON SKATES, WOOO!!! and I am going to be pottering along grabbing the sides of the rink. I told her LOOK YOU REMEMBER HOW LONG IT TOOK ME TO RIDE A BIKE, AND DRIVE A CAR, AND ALL THAT!!!

But then she remembered that it took her even longer to drive a car than it took me!

You know, there are some levels on which it really rocks, having a friend who you've known more than half your life. Like, you can talk about stuff that you did in 1986 and it makes sense.

masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i went ice skating last weekend. some 7 year old girl pushed me over, and another 7 year old boy helped me up, it was very embarassing. and then the 7 year old girl took all her 7 year old girlie friends to come and apologise to me and to make sure i was alright.

ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i've got all their numbers and myspace IDs.

ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link


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