Watercooler Sub Zero: Ice Capades

the number of the Swan is v similar to the main no. of this office which makes me wonder whether Margaret gets phone calls saying "the Arkells 3B won't be delivered til Monday" or "do you open all day on Fridays?"

Sinousy headaches Kate? Welcome to my world. For me winter is just one long sinousy headache.

Wild flings would be fun, but I have a horrible feeling I just want to settle down with an elven type that I can watch HIGNFY and play scrabble with.

I would be happy with NOT cheese omelette, just any kind of food would be good. I don't be touching the devil drink at lunch anyway, I'm too tired and bleugh.

Jarvis was great on Saturday at the Roundhouse. He did a cover of Silver Machine by Hawkwind!!

Oi! he nicked Silver Machine from me. He's never in his life talked about being a Hawkwind fan. Grrrrr.

A crush still clinging on is almost worst than no crush at all. Like, you cling hopelessly to a crush, even though you know you're never going to get anything out of it, not even urgent conversations about Dylan lyrics and songwriting, but you can't really find anything or anyone else to obsess on just yet.

And I actually like his music, that's just vaguely... I don't know.

Photos of England? Hrrrrmmmm.

http://flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/307015288/
http://flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/307015689/
http://flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/307012456/
http://flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/180074289/
http://flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/177532352/

Also, this one is for Kate

http://flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/224348580/

Ed is there any other criteria besides England (you've got a LOT of photos on flickr, i just realized)

xpost - kate got there first!

I'll keep quiet then.

We saw a good pantomime at the weekend! It was at a fetish fayre, but still relied on the usual silly pantomime jokes (although there was a disappointing lack of "he's behind you!")

...

OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JUST KNOCK IT OFF, YOU SAD FUCKING PATHETIC GOTHS!!!!!

God, I'm turning into Marcentino. Shoot me now.

lol

(remembers who I'm talking to)

. . . but of course, if you demand less Gothtalk, then it shall be done, oh great one. (fans kate with a palm leaf while peeling her grapes)

Grrrr.

Oh, and how is it that women with gorgeous figures (ie, the goth, and just about every other non-obese woman i know) thinks they actually have a terrible figure and are really just a big bloaty monster when they're really really not?

On A Certain Lady At Court
Alexander Pope

I know a thing that’s most uncommon;
(Envy, be silent and attend!)
I know a reasonable woman,
Handsome and witty, yet a friend.

Not warp’d by passion, awed by rumour;
Not grave through pride, nor gay through folly;
An equal mixture of good-humour
And sensible soft melancholy.

‘Has she no faults then (Envy says), Sir?’
Yes, she has one, I must aver:
When all the world conspires to praise her,
The woman’s deaf, and does not hear.

A sofa, I mean, not whilst driving.

JB, that is a great poem! I've never read any Pope but I have this impression that he has a bit of a boring reputation.

Ed, my mum would like sausages and bacon. Can you oblige her, maybe Wednesday or Thursday this week?

18th Century educated persons had access to/knowledge of a heck of a lot more obscure, often mythological, symbolism than we did. Sometimes I think we are missing out, not having that knowledge. But then I think of all the things that we have to remember these days that 18th Century poets didn't have to have any knowledge of.

What I really hate is when you are reading an archaic book and all the footnotes are in the back, so you have to keep flipping back and forth, maybe even keep two bookmarks. I far prefer when they're at the bottom of the page, as footnotes should be, so they do not disrupt the flow of reading.

A pedant writes: if they're at the back they're not footnotes, they're endnotes.

whenever I hear anyone mention footnotes I always think back to the style guide from when I was writing my dissertation at uni. There was a supserscript 1 in the midst of the text and at the foot of the page the footnote read "1Don't use footnotes."

I have read books in my time when the footnote is longer than the text above the horizontal rule, which is just silly.