― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Ed, my mum would like sausages and bacon. Can you oblige her, maybe Wednesday or Thursday this week?
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
A pedant writes: if they're at the back they're not footnotes, they're endnotes.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Harvard - the name of the author (or authors, though et al is more common for more than two) and date are given throughout the text and the bibliography is listed alphabetically by authors' surnames.
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Every year at work the company buys loads of white stressballs and we have a "snowball fight" in the office. It's organised fun of the worse kind, but still. The safety email that's just been sent out liberally made use of the phrase "snowballing", which I remember from Clerks. It casts the whole safety notice into a new light . . .
Safety points to note:
Snowballing is a voluntary exercise, so join in at your own risk.
Have a quick warm up before going from a period of sedentary work to sudden activity. We don't want anyone to hurt their shoulders and retaliation won't be possible if you are out of the game!
Please be careful snowballing around people who are wearing glasses.
Have respect for those who don't wish to participate.
Water and electricity don't mix so remove drinks, etc from the desk before the games begin.
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Why am I feeling so rub today? I just feel more and more down as the day goes on. It's not normal Monday blues.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link
I feel terrible today. The weather's not helping either, cold and wet and grey.
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link
And the reality of no more band sinking in. It's hard to get my head around. The amount of email that used to go back and forth every day, OK, it was a big hard to handle at times, but at least it made me feel 1) like I was important and 2) like I actually had friends. Now no one writes me at all any more. And it just reinforces that feeling of "Oh, we weren't actually friends. You just hung around me because of what I could *do* for you. And now I'm not *doing* anything for you any more, you have no reason to talk to me."
Which is a horrible feeling.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link
damn x-posts
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Monday, 18 December 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Just.
Fucking.
Great.
All you former friends. Love each other. Hate you.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 18 December 2006 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link
no photo, Kate. anyway, if that's the case, then they never were your friends, so you should glad to be rid of them. (And the farther you get from Bumlove, the better, no?)
So I just (finally) signed a lease on a new apartment. Of course, it's so expensive that it means my "plans" of buying next year have gotten noticeably less realistic, but the view! The View!
― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
I still feel like I've been slapped in the face. You. Are. Not. Part. Of. Us. Look at how happy we are without you.
I don't care if I'm reading too much into one photo, but it's not just one photo, is it?
I don't know understand how to "have friends". I don't understand how to keep friends. I don't understand any of this. It makes me want to become a recluse and never talk to anyone again, never try to do anything again. If my mum weren't here, I'd probably be contemplating suicide again, as a defiant final FUCK YOU to the world.
I wish I knew how to just give up.
Well, at least I don't have to worry about "not talking about it" for fear of offending my "friends" if I don't have any, any more.
No matter how much I hate anyone else, I hate myself most of all. So how can I blame anyone else for hating me?
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Kate, remember, it's always going to be rough when people you know get together and don't include you or seem to have forgotten that you exist when planning socially. Especially when there are certain past friendship or relationship issues involved that they appear to be oblivious to, or just way too egocentric about (in your opinion) because they are committing the grave sin of disrespect or omission. It is easier said than done to ignore.
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Let them go.
You cannot force these things. You cannot force people to remain friends with you.
(It just feeds the fear that actually, yeah, I am fundamentally just an asshole. And I am, fundamentally, just unable to carry on normal human relationships. I have been going through the motions for a long time, doing the things that I think are "normal" for friendships, but they just aren't working, and other people can tell.)
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
:-(
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Otherwise please please please be kinder to yourself. You are not an asshole, whatever you think.
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Band breakups are a lot like romantic breakups - sometimes even harder for me, I guess, because it involves work as well as emotions.
I thought I was walking away just "Phew! Everything's OK now!" when obviously I've still not dealt with the issues which broke up the band in the first place.
I am being an asshole at the moment. I'm being a totally self indulgent, selfish, not giving a shit about anyone else asshole. That's how people who are in pain behave. The pain will go. It's just unrealistic to expect it to go so soon.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
I've got another friend in pain due to a deep personal loss and it's never been so hard to be her friend as it is right now. I am optinistic that things will get better. In both cases you have lives filled with structure and work and friends beyond the relationship/tight circle you've left, so hang onto that.
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Morning all.
― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 07:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Although I've been meaning to post some of the last two places I've stayed, both of which are quite... "instructive," I think. People ask often. I'll try to get around to it before Xmas.
― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link