I’m trying to decide if I have a hangover or if I’m just missing sleep. I woke up at ungodly o’clock to have a coughing fit and never got back to sleep.

Oh, that’s a pity, Sub Zero pretty much described the temperature in my office at the moment

I just wanted to avoid the Sub Sub references at all costs!

There’s a law against these temperatures! Where’s the EU when you need ’em??!?!

Call Boris! get him to complain to Elf and Safety!

Though aren’t you Scottish? You’re supposed to be able to laugh at sub zero temperatures and arctic winds! It’s Socialist to have everyone the same temperature as outside!

Hi watercooler. I’m feeling shit today. Really shit. Not physical, just really bad ennui. So I’m going home at lunchtime. What can I do to perk myself up? I hate feeling like this. Ug.

If I had a £ for every time someone in London has said to me, “You’ll be used to these temperatures...” (xpost)

Oh, yes, Dada! Ed says he may have bailalaika connections. Will you join in the drone if we obtain one? ;-)

Hi, JB. Sorry you’re feeling rub. It’s that time of year, there’s a lot of it going around. Go home and do something that you really enjoy, that you can really lose yourself in.

Bake a cake, eat a cake, job done.

Oh, yes, Dada! Ed says he may have bailalaika connections. Will you join in the drone if we obtain one? ;-)

I was probably playing mine all wrong. But I suppose you can’t really go too far wrong with three strings...

I got used to weather a LOT colder in Upstate NY. But on moving back to London, I was shocked by how much colder it could feel. Probably it’s the humidity. Or the fact that you think it’s not really cold so you don’t bundle up the way you would in a Lake Effect snowstorm.

Can I post some more cute pictures, or should I get me to a Shush of Crame thread?

Mmmmmm, cake. We should have had cake last night. But then again, I was stuffed after the pielettes.

Go home and do something that you really enjoy, that you can really lose yourself in.

... and after you’ve had a wank, things will look better! Or you’ll be sleepy.

I can’t imagine wanking helping. I always feel worse afterwards, as I’m sure everyone does. I only wank when I’m bored anyway.

Cake’s a good idea though. Banana cake always makes me happy, I’ll make that. I think I’ve got some bananas that are just about to turn, so perfect for cake.

Somebody’s birthday at work, sio I’ve just been given some saisbury’s snarties chosolate cake. ALl bought cakes arew a travesty, but this one is really wrong, like a badly-phrased metaphor.

Just struck me:

It’s the one on the left, isn’t it? Pointy nose, looks like Alex Blur (in that pic)..

Amirite?

It’s not the Preacherman

Pointy nose, paisley shirts, instead of glam rock jumpsuit, gets jumpsuit in “tweed, with an extra pocket for your library cards”, neurotic, obsessive, slightly useless... COULD HE BE ANY MORE PERFECT?!?!?

Oh wait, he likes Jazz. OK, I can live with that. He will have to listen to jazz in the shed and keep it in a cage because I diapprove of jazz running around free.

Anyway, here is a better picture of that dress:

This would be an AMAZING shirt. I would quite simply love it as a shirt. But she has forgotten to put on trousers! Go home, girl! You look cold!

Nice Legs Shame About the Sexism

Wanking *can* be kind of a topical anti-depressant. It used to work for me. However, now I’m actually on *real* anti-depressants, it is almost impossible, physically, to wank. Sorry, TMI, I know. There is nothing more depressing than the vague occasional desire to actually, like, wank, and then realising that you can’t. But then I pop another pill and feel all shiny and happy again. :-D

Also, actually, the one useful thing I learned from my last shrink is that bananas are actually quite good for depression—they contain the building blocks of amino acids that the brain turns into serotonin. So banana cake may really help!

I always feel worse afterwards, as I’m sure everyone does

Really? Unless you mean in the sense of “a moment ago I was horny and orgasmic, now I’m neither”. Though if you’re miserable already I can see how it might contribute to a further feeling of deflation.

I think Amber has a dress the same size, similar style.

It looks better on her as well.

xpost another alt.smiths lyric?

Grr, xpost

Hi. I second the bananas advice. Over the last few years, natural “remedies” (e.g. bran cereal & yogurt for disgestion issues, turkey for insomnia) have worked well for me.

OK, I just want to repost this shirt:

That is some GOOD paisley. Especially the way it clashes with the wallpaper. Shame about the weasley little tosser in the background, though. ;-P

Oily fish is good too.

It’s a little bit too hawaiian-shirt for me, kate. good paisley is a balance between subtlety and psychedelia.

Did he make his own hat?

I’m still trying to comprehend that that was J Stoen up thread. Last time I saw her she was some twee teenager.

Just ate a couple of bananas 1/2 an hour ago, I don’t feel much better though. Miserable b/c it’s so COLD. I think Joss Stone looks pretty hott in that photo tbh, but her act/manner on that brit awards clip was repellent.

I was stuffed after the pielettes.

I thought that said Pipettes.

Oh my, His Girl Friday! *swoon* Saw it last night. What a movie! How had I never seen this before? I think it’s instantly become maybe my favorite movie.

I hate bananas, so I’m fucked basic’ly

eat kippers, the bananas of the sea.

Does anyone want to see hot fuzz next week, possibly on tuesday?

I also thought Kate was going to say

Also, actually, the one useful thing I learned from my last shrink is that bananas are actually quite good for depression wanking

I love hawaiian shirt paisley, especially in those weird 70s fabrics. I used to have the greatest collection of paisley dresses and shirts, but I’ve mellowed with age into wearing Liberty style paisley because I think it’s more dignified in a person my age.

Oh, that reminds me (eye bending paisley) that I finally brought in the picture of my mural, so I should post it. It’s almost the same colours as Julian’s shirt there.

I saw Hot Fuzz last night! It was great! Though I predict an avalanche of people saying “it wasn’t as good as Shaun of the Dead”—I’m not sure I disagree with that, but I definitely enjoyed Hot Fuzz more.

She does look hott, but she’s got massive heels on. I have a distrust of women in massive heels, especially hott women.

I was stuffed after the pielettes.

I thought that said Pipettes.

I thought you said pilates.

I am no expert on feminine hotttness or not, but I just think that she looks COLD. Like, I want her to put on long johns or something. (This is not a fashion suggestion, or a suggestion of importunity involving JB.)

it could be a beautiful dress, but it just looks uncomfortable.

She is not that hot.

That didn’t occur to me (“you’ll catch your death in that, love” or w/e) b/c that’s standard winter clothing for women up here in the NE. In summer, women dress up warm, in winter skimpy little short dresses like that. Men are the same—jeans & t-shirt in winter, thick jumper in summer. It’s a bit fucking daft, isn’t it.

(x-post—no, “that hot” for me being eg louise brooks, but I do think she is pretty, & has nice legs.)

eat kippers, the bananas of the sea

I always intend to buy kippers but I never do!!

I don’t think I have a standard for nice legs, but I don’t think they are them.

I have been up to your parts, and I think the people are part deep sea fish in their attitude towards winter clothing.

Anyway, thanks to Gooblar, here is the wall in my bedroom. This was intended for “art in your home” but that’s in the Other Place now.

They’re quite long, which is good, but a bit mottled (xp)

Those are not mottles! Those are goose bumps coz she is so cold!

Anyway, if you lot are going to debate Joss Stone’s legs, does this mean I can post more pictures of Julian Barrat in eye-bending paisley shirts?

She looked bloody awful (OMG the hair)and had to be cowcatchered offstage by Russell Brand, which is saying something. Legs were something of a side issue.

n.b. I did not actually see the Brits, I was too busy getting drunk eating pie and singing folk songs about the English Civil War.

Did anything interesting at all happen? Apart from that dress?

... not with me they’re not (xp)

Maybe I should just post loads of pictures of Louise Brooks, then :(

Louise Brooks is totally hott. Feel free!

Ms Stone has no hips so not my cup of tea really. (also, I don’t think she’s pretty though she does look facially a bit like an ex of mine)

Jeeeyarvis presented an award. Amy Winehouse was pissed. Lily Allen won nowt. Oasis set was sheeeeyiiiite because of Loam and it looked like Noel was going to kill him later. Liam looked like he had been eating way too many pies, thus creating diaphragm pressure responsible for sheeyiteness.

Nothing wrong with pies. Mmmm, pies. Lots wrong with Oasis, though. Which is worse, Oasis or Jazz? Oh god, no, I cannot decide, shoot me now.

rowr:

Oh there’s loads better photos than that one

... not that that one is bad of course!

400-odd photos here:

http://silentladies.com/Brooks/pages/Brooks098.html

Trying to find silent movies on DVD is pretty tricky.

I really like that first Louise picture!

Please sign to keep the British Library free!

Blimey, would imagine it would be easier to find them as they are DVDs are so much easier to produce, and you could fit quite a few silent films on them. But I imagine there isn’t the market.

We used to have a poster of Louise Brooks when I lived in NYC. and Theda Bara over the sofa. We would not have been proper Goth Chicks without them.

We were speaking of bananas...

My colleagues have just insisted that I either GO HOME or take some cough medicine. I can’t go home, I have too much to do today. :-(

*xpost*

You can get a few silent films if you can play Region 1 DVDs (here’s the Amazon page for Lousie Brooks). I spent a lovely night over the Christmas period with my crush watching Clara Bow’s “It” as we shared a bottle of gin. Fun times.

I loved how The Brits were being hyped-up so that anythign could happen, yet on the night, they were broadcast with a tape-delay to catch the more blantant swearing. But I did get to see Lauren Laverne on the ITV2 coverage, so it wasn’t a total loss...

morning! i hate how i only ever get called for last-minute work when i want to sleep in, not when i’m up early and presentable. (er no i haven’t just got up, they called at like 10.30 or something.)

Bah to getting up early when feeling like sleep, but hurrah for last minute work.

Emsk, this is clearly your fault, so you are going to have to deal with the consequences of me following you around going NOSE!!! LOOK AT THE NOSE!!! LOOKIT THAT PAISLEY HOUSECOAT, GIVE IT TO ME, GIVE IT TO ME.

Maybe I should have lunch, but I’m not really hungry.

you are going to have to deal with the consequences of me following you around going NOSE!!! LOOK AT THE NOSE!!! LOOKIT THAT PAISLEY HOUSECOAT, GIVE IT TO ME, GIVE IT TO ME.

plus ca change...

Rowrowr L Brooks! :D

That first photo of Louise is great, it looks like she’s been snapped popping to the shops.

Emsk, you cannot be unaware of the danger involved in showing me that programme. Are there any persons who have watched it who have not developped a crush on one of the principals?

Or maybe I am completely mortified at finding myself actually enjoying COMEDY that I am trying to diminish it by saying that I was only actually distracted by teh hottness.

OK, this was the poster we had:

Sorry for the smallness of the hottness.

Hari went to see The Mighty Boosh when they did that tour. He said he loved it.

One of my mates was wanting to see them in Glasgow but it had sold out. I’ve never seen it but he said he could loan me the dvds he has(once I’ve finished watching the Tom Baker era Dr Who videos he loaned me.)

Maybe he will bring them when he has finished with the dvds of “M”, A Clockwork Orange and Goodfellas that he loaned off me about 6 months ago.

No, no, going to see the COMEDY in person would be too much to me. I’m only just starting to understand the COMEDY in video or MP3 form, in small doses.

Be gentle with me, I do not understand the arcane world of teh FUNNIES.

Are there any persons who have watched it who have not developped a crush on one of the principals?

yes, me! just like doctor who!

Talking of which, I heard Billie Piper on the radio t’other day, she is sooooooo POSH!

Well, you are just weird, Emsk, you never get crushes like you never get hangovers. Except for your rare actual crushes which out-crush us all.

Are there any persons who have watched it who have not developped a crush on one of the principals?

(raises hand) and possibly my mate Mark, I’ll have to check.

Oh, whoops, I mean to say “female persons” instead of persons (depending on your sexuality) but thought that would be considered sexist.

Everyone I know has a crush on one of them! Except I am just sensible enough to fancy the cool one.

dude he has a TACHE!

The “so uncool he’s cool” one? I wonder if that’s similar to fancying Ringo, as one of my friends does (well, did)?

Errr... but that’s so uncool it’s cool! (Argh, I just opened my mouth and Nathan Barley just came out, how did that happen?) x-post HA HA HA HA HA Ha

I prefer him either clean shaven or fully bearded, but it’s not that bad. I mean, it’s not a Hitler mustache or a silly Ned Flanders tache, it’s a proper droopy Edwardian gentleman/Mexican bandito/German biplane commander tache.

I don’t know. The jazz is a bigger concern than the tache. But that makes me just think we could have great obsessive FITES about whether jazz is classic or dud.

maybe I’m going to start having a *thing* for men with ‘taches! But only if they wear goggles. Oh dear lord, what is happening to me?

Yeah, but the FITES would be punctuated by music. You might even get a Jaxx MixCD. Ew.

That would be hilarious!

Your search—“jack white” goggles—did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

Make sure all words are spelled correctly.

Try different keywords.

Try more general keywords.

Try fewer keywords.

Nothing wrong with jazz. Someone here must like Jazz (Dada?)

I do, a lot.

I like a little bit of everything

Your search—“bob dylan” goggles—etc.

YOU ARE BANNISHED TO THE JAZZ SHED, ALL OF YOU!!!

GER OFF MY LAND!!!!

(n.b. I am attempting this form of discourse called “comedy” not actually threatening to ban anyone for the discussion of jazz.)

I haven’t actually rewatched Nathan Barley since discovering Boosh, I wonder what it would do to my appreciation of Barratt.

... he was great in NBarley

... proper acting

Yes, I couldn’t stand him in NB, so his acting in one or the other (or possibly both) is outstanding.

I was thinking more this, Farrell:

Where is that picture of Nigel Spivey in his bomber jacket outfit?

Hey, I posted that pic first!

It is a wonderful picture, Dada!

I like a little bit of everything

Dada No 5!

B-but the only one with a tache doesn’t have goggles! I mean, if you want men with taches who are associated with men in goggles, then The Edge to thread! Or god ‘elp us, Ali G. Or Derek Smalls! Okay, there’s no goggles, but there’s twice the tache!

Cool, that is awesome! How did you explain it?

x-post

Kate> check if you got the Marmoset album. I know i did it before you had your long weekend , so it’s possible that you forgot to play/download it.

LUCK or MAGIC: i just mumbled something oh my friend had it and then she moved house and she lost it in the move and she only found it recently i just got it back last night mumble mumble, but then it popped up on the screen and it was already at £00.00!

also they swapped my old-skool hackney libraries card for a new one which has PICTURES OF BICYCLES on it (you could choose some squiggly things or a mural or er actually i don’t know, i saw the bicycles and i was lost) and also a thing you attach to your KEYRING so if you forget your library card you can still take stuff out.

I am not done listening to the last 3 bazillion albums you just sent me, Kerr! It takes me ages to listen to music. If I like it, I have to listen to it several times to digest it, get my head around it, absorb it, try to understand it, listen to it in several moods, to see if my reaction to it changes.

Unless of course, it’s jazz, in which case I scream so loud I irritate my collegues and rip it off in under 2 minutes.

x-post whoa, they have great stuff in the Hackey libraries. Then again, I haven’t actually taken anything out of my local library for ages, since I got a proper job.

(Also, I can never tell if these new threads are parodies or not. That is irritating, when you think someone has started a new topic, and next thing you know there are 20 posts taking the piss out of you. Why are people so... ornery?)

Hmmm. So we tried to search for a Hungarian market yesterday but it was closed. Typical.

I mistakenly read that as “tried to search for a Hawkwind market” but I might just have a one track mind.

That suit does appear to be designed to blend in with your bedroom mural, Kate...

I think money should be extracted from the Texan anyway, and given to the libraries, but I am quite hardcore about things like that.

Holy crap, I didn’t notice that. I mean, I knew it looked like something I would wear. But it does match my mural. That’s it, we are FATED by colourblindness and love of swhirlies to be together.

Aww, don’t extract money from the Texan. She is totally work permit-less until she gets married, and therefore totally skint.

Today appears to be lazy observational comedy parody day or something.

I love it, as it is insane.

iLiKETRAiNS should dress like this, obviously:

I am upset because my mother had forgotten it was Shrove Tuesday, and there are no pancakes, nor any eggs to make them with.

That’s pretty much how they used to dress! They were magnificent.

Argh, stupid people at work. This woman... she sent a spreadsheet of people to add to the HR system obviously without checking it, as she had never heard of one of the people she told me to add when I asked her about it. THEN I discovered that she had deleted the ENTIRE Finance Department from the HR System.

Now she’s asking me for the “spreadsheet she sent” despite the fact that she sent me the same spreadsheet FIVE TIMES.

Today appears to be lazy observational comedy parody day or something.

I really like it, because the forces of Shit ILX are having no effect, and in some cases are making things more interesting instead of less. Who knew that the secret was “ask more questions”?

EMSK!!! Can you still get a video projector thing?

Night of the Long Swords need one for our gig.

(Though actually it would be pretty darn cool if we could use it, and project like, the masquerade scenes from Amadeus behind us as we played or something.)

I am having a no-pancakes sulk now

gah i don’t think so. e doesn’t work there any more. the artmusicpolitic people have one that we were gonna borrow for stuff in our house but i dunno how to get hold of them while j is out of the country.

Bah, oh well.

Hmm, pancakes.

And I’m never going to get a reply on how to do print screen from a Mac DVD player, am I? Sigh. it’s probably just as well... wait! What would happen if I put the DVD in the work ‘puter?

I’ll have to try this some weekend when I’m working and no one is around.

FP > That’s what 24 hour garages and asda/tesco are for!

The answer is VLC, which doesn’t seem to work on our computer, and you won’t let me ‘fix’ it.

Maybe you can do some screengrabs for me on YOUR ‘puter and I can take them away on mine data stick. Huh?

Anyway, I am bored of work and I want pancakes. Get heatin’ up that skillet. I’ve got an oilcan of Vermont Maple Syrup!

VLC works great!

Do they have Windows DLL (for windows media codecs, etc) wrapper support working on the Intel OS X version?

ed what time is pancakes (oo-woo-oo-woo) i will bring beyond black! if i can find it. going to look NOW.

I was in the middle of reading Beyond Black when I got dumped a few months back, and now when I’m not single I daren’t start reading it again.

Everyone is probably in the middle of eating pancakes ....apart from FP.

:-(

Cheer up FP, think of all the things you can do with syrup later...

Have pancakes some other time. A pancake is not just for pancake day, you know.

(saying that, I am going to make pancakes in about ten minutes for my supper because I was otherwise engaged earlier)

Morning! I am having pancakes with Herself tonight, and pancakes with The Parents on Thursday night. Hurrah!

for kate:

http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html

Oh, hurrah, just what I wanted!

God, pancakes are num. I want to eat them every day now. Especially with maple syrup and whipped cream. (Not so sure about explosive orange brandy.)

And I’ve got Funkadelic stuck in my head. I wonder why.

You sure it’s not the Flapjack band?

I am still searching for interweb proof of the Flapjammer.

Good morning e’erbody.

Morning, Gooblar, how are your energy levels today?

Lowish. Minor headache for no reason. Second coffee coming. You?

Oy vey, don’t mention coffee, I’ve given it up for Lent!

Alright! My mum lives in an Episcopalian hotspot!

(Well, if you can call medium green colour “hot”.)

That’s quite hot enough a colour for Episcopalians.

Proper Anglicans would never wear that bright a colour green! Even on Trinity Sunday, it would be a nice, tasteful hunting green.

First rehearsal tonight for J1m Cl3m3nts and the R1ght to D1e.

Last year’s crush, bor-ING!

LOL

My friend Catty used to have this recurring fantasy/story/website about where all my crushboys went after the crushes died. Like, somewhere there’s this support group for boys formerly crushed on by Kate. And they all get together and compare stories and try to warn each other “Hi, my name’s Alex James and I was once Kate’s Crush” and then Little Jay Ferguson would arrive and would swear “No, no, she loves me, she loves me forEVER!!!” and they would all warn him “No, no, she is fickle, it will not last!” and he would be all “A Canadian does not make lov, a Canadian IS love!”

Aaaah, good times...

Anyway, honestly, I’m going to get offline and do some work today, I swear to god.

Kate > Do you like 5ive?

5ive? As in the Medicine song (yes, very much indeed) or the 90s boyband? (They had that one really good song, actually)?

keep on moving

Yeah, that would be the one. The video was quite good, too.

HEY! I’m supposed to be working. I am in the maths groove.

Neither

I’m sure I put some 5ive on those dvdrs.

After reading that short biog I looked up expecting to see Ned’s name there for some reason...

So, the brother was in town yesterday on a flying visit, and told me that the comedy club he helps run, Full Mooners, is doing a gig in Glasgow on Patricks Night. So now I have to figure out if I can get to Glasgow for reasonable money for Patricks weekend so I can have some comedy stylings.

Do you have any brothers that don’t do comedy? Or is this a different brother to the one that I met?

Also, isn’t flying from Dublin to Glasgow for St. Patricks Day a bit... backwards?

I am having green tea, oh god, methadone of the caffeine world. I keep thinking that one of these days I will pick up a taste for green tea, but I never really do. It is not coffee. It’s hard to get into the maths trance without coffee. I hate lent already.

Full Mooners!

In a hotel, had Lemon/Ginger tea just sos Dawn’d have another normal tea for the morning. That’s a bit nice, LemGing tea!

(Should I feel bad that every one of my stupid comments is being emailed to Andrew?)

No, that’s half the fun, mwah hah hah!

LemonGinger tea has no caffeine. I need to keep a drip. Hence the green tea methadone, which has less tea than either coffee or black tea.

I am going to go home and eat my last avocado of lent. :-(

Ha ha, I have created a double of the vastly successful “How Am I Driving” report called “How Am I Banking” whose name created much mirth around the office due to its potential for misuse.

Oh dear, we are such geeks.

Emsk! Are you working today? Can you drop off a CD in Stoke Newington on your way home if you are on bike?

Just realised why S’s CD went missing—she gave me TOTALLY the wrong post code.

Hi.

KILL KILL KILL my entire family needs their heads knocking together.

Ha ha ha, my predecessor is in today, having to deal with the Oracle system. I had to go over to laugh at him.

Why, what are your family doing now, Suzy?

Do you have any brothers that don’t do comedy? Or is this a different brother to the one that I met?

This is the same one you met. He was on a flying visit to Dublin yesterday and the day before.

Also, isn’t flying from Dublin to Glasgow for St. Patricks Day a bit... backwards?

’Tis the beauty of the thing. Ever since they Americanized Patrick’s Day, well everyone just goes out and gets really drunk. In the old days everyone just stayed home and looked at the rain.

Ah, the pointy-nosed scruffy haired hott brother. Wait, I am not perving over your brother, just making an observation. Otherwise I’m going to turn into Dog Latin. Or was it Sick Mouthy that used to perve over DL’s sister? I can no longer remember my ILX memes.

I just got asked for the Oracle passwords, ha ha, it’s kinda pathetic that I’m really the only person that knows them. What if I was hit by a bus?

Hey, my brother’s got a lot of love to give, ladies.

(No, seriously, he’s a hound.)

It does seem daft that only one person in your office has those passwords.

I miss Dog Latin :(

Everyone else has either quit or been sacked! And no one has noticed!

Most things the Sys Admin can just hack into. But not the old Oracle system. Mwah hah hah hah. They actually had to dig out my old workstation out of storage to get back into it—I only recognised it because of the curry stains on the front.

x-post me, too.

Okay, so, I’m supposed to go to the theater tonight with my mother, but I can’t stop coughing. I don’t want to spend the evening in the theater coughing, but I also don’t want to let my mother down. And if I drive into town to pick up the tickets, then I’m in town and I might as well go to the theater, no? No, because I will cough all the time.

I don’t know what is the best thing to do.

go to the theatre and suck on something.

Yes, suck on boiled sweets—especially riccola.

Wait, does “hound” mean like “dog” as in unattractive or “dog” as in slut?

If he’s a slut, that means he might not be very choosy which means I might stand a chance at getting laid and... no wait, STOP that thought right there. La la la la la. Oracle programming, green tea, funky dollar bill, la la la la.

Pimp Yer Sibling: the new thing on ILX.

Bah, I have no siblings to pimp!

Wait, does “hound” mean like “dog” as in unattractive or “dog” as in slut

I mean, to use my mother’s terminology, that he would get up on the crack of dawn. However, he likes ladies who are prepared to run around after him, sit by his hospital bed, and listen to his endless stories about how great all his comedian pals are, so I would advise against him.

Boiled sweets no good. It is a chesty, inhalery kind of a cough. Like spasms. I guess I’ll just see how I feel when I get there and if I’m coughing too much I’ll just leave.

My brother is now married off to an heiress so no pimping for me, either. Dammit, brother, why can’t you pimp ME off to one of your rich buddies? Oh wait, they’re all Republican CUNTS. never mind.

No, I don’t like high maintainance boys who have to be too looked after. That’s no good. I think I just need to get laid, not actually have to run around paying attention to someone, bah.

Ah, is it the coughing fit, can’t stop kind of a cough? I’ve had those all week and the only thing to do about them is leave the room and gasp for air and maybe drink some cold water. Yuck.

(saying that, I am going to make pancakes in about ten minutes for my supper because I was otherwise engaged earlier)

I too had pancakes for supper!

Kerr, some of teh Glasgow folks are meeting for a wee pint tomorrow night —> Shall We Try Glasgow Some More?

around 7pm. You should FAP.

Bored now. I hate having to actually focus on things. Ah, now I don’t have to.

finished...deadline....must drink champagne....

Pancakes, anyone? Fresh ones because I am a sinner.

Suzy you will be about and around when I’m there, yes?

Ned, we must make this potluck happen.

Nooo, no more pancakes. Not for another year.

OK, I am finally out of the maths trance and I have sorted out that stupid bloody HowAmIWanking report. Bah. Now how can I goof off for the rest of the day?

Thanks gerry, but I’m skint and i’ve not even got enough money to go see Trans Am.

btw I forgot to mention on monday that my dad got his car back. Never heard anymore from police or insurance company about the lorry driver. So Looks like he got away with it.

Did your dad pursue it himself with the police?

No.

He didn’t want the hassle and the strain of having to do that, esp as they had said there was no cameras there.

Ned, we must make this potluck happen.

Oh hell yes. Your place (I assume), the 8th. How many people can we get in there?

Well, you can’t be too surprised/disappointed that they never caught them then. Also, there are plenty of other place they could have seen them and I thought you said it was your dad who thought there were no cameras based on the police not saying anything rather than confirming the lack of cameras and...oh, half a dozen of us have told you all this already.

Accentmonkey—how long will you be in Glasgow, if you come over? Would be nice to meet up since we all arsed it up so badly the last time.

Hundreds, as long as we all stand up and breathe in.

Seriously, 10–15 I guess.

There’s Hina and myself, BLAM and his wife might want in...plan away with that in mind! There’s the thread on here and when real ILX is back we can kick up that one some more.

So are we still here today? It says nuILX is ready, but it’s not opening for me.

(Ed, I need some Zermatt advice.)

Accentmonkey—how long will you be in Glasgow, if you come over? Would be nice to meet up since we all arsed it up so badly the last time.

Yes, it would. I don’t know yet, but mostly likely Friday till Sunday, with for definite being at Full Mooners on Saturday night, except that I don’t know where it’s on.

I did go to the theatre last night and didn’t cough too much. I did almost punch the people next to me, though, who didn’t really get Mamet dialogue and whispered theories to each other about what was going on all through the second act. Stupid people. Of course I suppose (she said snobbily) that that’s the risk you run when you go to see plays that have TV people in them.

Zermatt Advice:

To get there get the train from the airport (both geneva and zurich have stations in the airport). You can get what is known as a Swiss Transfer ticket from http://www.sbb.ch/ which is cheaper than an ordinary ticket which covers you from the airport/border to your final destination. If you fly with Swiss they can check your luggage through to the railway station at the end of the journey.

You can buy passes in advance on-line, but it costs a little extra for the reusable rfid card, see http://www.zermatt.ch/

For good apres ski, get to the Hennu Stall on the last run between Furi and the main town.

In the evening Paperlapub and the sneewitchen seem to be pretty reliable.

Ack! Not that kind of advice (although it’s appreciated, of course).

Any thoughts on which end/part of town to stay in? Last time I was there was five or six years ago, and I’m finding it difficult to differentiate Zermatt memories from Val d’Isere ones (I remember the caipirinhas quite clearly, but after that all is a blur :).

My colleague has intimated that he may not be around much longer, and that I might want to lock in some vacation sooner, because it may be difficult to get time off later.

It’s -20 out today and somehow skiing is just not exciting me much, but I can’t find anything else particularly interesting or reasonably priced for mid-March. :(

There are lots of nice chalets around Hauptstrasse which is well placed for the Bubble to Kleine Matterhorn and Riffleberg and good for the town as well.

I am cross with my detractors on the board. Should I shrug it off and say “so what? they’re only having a laugh, innit?” I am confused as to the correct course of action.

Just ignore them.

This is a sign, clearly.