Watercooler 0: Nothing Is A Problem For Me

Onimo beat me to the nme thing.

If you treat the internets like a competition you can only end up a loser.

Today's my last day teaching at the castle :-(

Aw, Mr G.

I've often thought that we'll only know we've got over sexism when people stop making any sort of fuss about overcompensating. The Plan B editorial management presumably have reached that phase - clearly the letter-writers haven't. And the same goes for other -isms too, of course.

Anyway, my sore throat is still sore, and (for other reasons) I'm feeling a bit emo. I need to pull my finger out of my arse,* talk to the woman who wants me as just a body to play with (whilst dating other men as potential boyfriend material) and say: "look, you know, this just isn't what I'm looking for". If I can, I should do it *before* my forthcoming date (with someone who knows all about the situation and how I feel about it, but, even so, you know)

* not literally. Both my hands are on the keyboard right now.

kerr that was meant to be light-hearted but reading it again it's rather cuntish. Sorry.

xxp to me

I dunno, I did once treat the internets as a competition, and won a copy of "Spiritualised live at the Royal Albert Hall"

Kate, I think I'm about as far from your ideal man as you can get, but here are my eyelashes:

http://static.flickr.com/113/302178693_5389751043.jpg

Aw, no more castle. Boo.

I've slid back into depression over the past few days, which is teh suck. Sometimes it's like slipping back into a lukewarm bath, long after it's stopped being comfortable, just because it's familiar.

And even more suck because I feel like I'm not even allowed to talk about the things that are the triggers, I'll just be shouted at and told I'm not allowed to feel the things I feel.

Sigh.

Ah well. There was a boy on the bus this morning with a nose as pointed as the prow of a ship, pale strawberry blond hair and eyelashes that were almost white, though half an inch long. Beauty. Beauty is really the only thing that ever makes me feel any better.

Argh, and there's system crap this morning that I'm getting the blame for because people have been running reports that they shouldn't

Argh, I also forgot to buy a travelcard this morning. So I guess I got a free ride to work. I can't believe it was that easy, that there really was nothing or no one to stop me. I'm far too honest to do this on a regular basis, but it's pretty tempting.

Streatham (no barrier) to City Thameslink (no barrier) then a bendy bus from there to Holborn.

OK, I'm going to go to Farringdon on my way home, and will have to buy a ticket home there, but honestly. I could retrace my steps and get a whole day's free travel.

In case it wasn't clear to you, people, let me lay it out for you. The guy who jumps on the grenade to save the rest of the patrol DIES. Everybody else happily kills the hapless Germans in the bunker, wander into the village where they are fed farm-fresh omelettes/ Subsequently they recieve commendations, eventually settle down with buxom maidens, become prosperous local businessmen, and have many, many children. (Once every five years or so they remember the dead guy.)

whut?

I think that was meant to go on the CoD3 thread.

Ha ha ha, Mitya, I've done the exact same thing myself, Once I typed out a snarky response to something on ile w/my head down, looking at the keybard, hit tab then return, looked up, only to find I'd posted in in a thread at the-gas-station!

I am sucked into the vlaanderen vortex. I am waiting for other things to be done before I can complete my work.

Argh, that is the worst. I'm not waiting for anyone but my own lazy ass. I'm having to get motivated because today is the last full day I'll have to do stuff before monthend.

And New Order on the headphones, trying to get psyched up. Bleurgh.

I'm just in one of those "nobody loves me, everybody hates me, I'm gonna eat some worms" moods.

Oh, BTW, Pash - "Western Brass" is really, really lovely! I like it a lot. Very stately and beautiful.

NO WORM EATING.

Hi there. First class of the last day was strangely shitty. Students (as I might have expected) didn't want to talk about A Modest Proposal, or their favorite texts from the term, or how much they love me. They just wanted to get it over with and back to their LIVES. Can't blame 'em, I suppose.

I'm hoping (and guessing) that the other class (which, is, it must be said, usually the 'good' class) will be a lot better.

But... but... A Modest Proposal is brilliant! Damn unworthy students.

For serious. Actually, one student (I knew he was going to do this) responded to my opening gambit ("What did we think about A Modest Proposal?") with a totally straight-faced endorsement of Swift's proposal, talking about how it is a brilliant political solution to a difficult problem, how it's still applicable today, especially considering the population explosion in China, etc.

No one in the class said a fcking thing.

Are you sure said student isn't an ILX0r?

(though man, what a stiff bunch they are if they can't even be wound up by such a wind-up.)

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No, I knew which thread I was posting on. Isn't this for random work-related venting (yes yes and DDBs and pointy-nosed boys).

Sigh.

Nobody knows what this thread is for except Kaet. And that's subject to change at short notice.

You are expected to take a grenade for your colleagues? Now that seems extreme, Mitya.

What's extreme? It's Russia.

MySpace downloading is mysteriously working for me again. I've got Pashmina's track, the new Bronsteins track and all Gooblar's stuff. What else can I download that will amuse me?

The comeback, to a honest acceptance to a modest proposal, is to tell said smart arse student that his modest proposal won't work as chinese babies aren't nearly as edible as irish ones.

Why? Are there EU directives on the edibility of babies?

Oooh, so this where you all went! I don't know, you leave for a little bit so you can help a bunch of teachers understand that opening zip files in Word isn't going to help them write their reports, and *poof* ILX disappears again.

I have just got back from raiding Borders for my grandmother's Christmas present, a rather oversize book of maps of the world from the Middle Ages. And it's now a month until I fly away to America for the New Year...these happy thoughts are fighting away the ickyness of being covered from head to foot in water from a passing lorry earlier this morning. At least I'm dry now!

Aw, can I made like the Big Bad Wolf with your grandmother in order to get that present? that sounds awesome!

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Is that why it's traditional at baby showers in China to give bottles and soy sauce or mustard?

(ewww)

*xpost*

Haha, she's still quite spry! And if she takes a swing at you with it, well, I'm thinking a light concussion at the least! I do like a book that can be used as an effective weapon if needs require...

afternoon

workcrush makes the day go speedy

ogle ogle rowr

I think I've offended mine crush. He took down the photo I commented on.

:-(

Worms, worms, worms...

Are you telling me I couldn't nick a book from a grannie? Next you'll be telling me I couldn't take candy from a baby. OK, I probably couldn't, but there's no reason to rub it in.

babies always manage to slobber on the candy before i can get it away from them

(see i told you i'd register)

My grey hairs are outta control. I made a pact with myself not to pluck them any more, and now I've got a PATCH of them. I can count at least 3 sprouting from the top of my head. They're thicker than my normal hair, so they stick out, too. I'm dying to pluck them out, but then I'd be bald soon. :-(

Yo, Gooblar, what on earth do you use to make that noise that sounds like a piano being pushed off a cliff and run through a giant spring reverb, faintly in the background on Twentieth Century?

No problem Gerry, since it was you ,I took it as a joke anyway.
How is everyone today?

Honestly, if I remember right, I did that in GarageBand, without even a proper keyboard (I used my laptop keyboard). I think we then ran it through one of Willy's ProTools add-on effects (I know there's a technical term for those, but it's eluding me), can't remember which one.

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Wow. Mitya posted on (sandbox)ILM. Never seen him post there before.

It's a nice reverb patch.

And it's one of those sounds I couldn't tell if it was guitar or piano or what, which I kinda like. Those instrument hybrids you can make in sequencers.

A fringe benefit of working in a belgian office appears to be pretty good coffee and an endless supply of really good chocolate biscuits.

gonna have to start watercooler -1 soon

I doubt we'll hit 1000 posts in a week. There aren't that many pointy noses in London.

man, I'm jealous. I want chocolate biscuits.

The biscuit seems to be but a carrier for a brick thick layer of chocolate on top.

Further 'coolers here shoul incrent in i.

Oh! I know those biscuits. You can get them here, though I forget the name. They are the best thing ever for dipping in coffee or tea.

It's funny, I never dip chocolate biscuits in tea on the few occasions I have it. Digestives or Rich Tea biscuits or Ginger Nuts on the other hand get dunked(not the choco versions though).

I suppose the chocolate biscuits are better in coffee, really.

But anything that goes in coffee, I'm perfectly happy to dip in tea.