UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

Today is going to be a very long day. :-(

Garfield Minus Garfield

I think Kerr posted that before, but this is looking particularly like my life right now:

http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO7adgd17jDkzuKRV_500.gif

Or was it the random Garfield generator?

mine might be but i take an inordinate amount off pleasure from my rubber band ball. bouncy.

OK, I've handed over.

Now I have to try to get my timesheet signed when MY boss isn't here, and the IT boss (the IT department are technically paying for me this week) is not here. I've left it with the IT department, but can't leave until it's signed off. Bah!

Three. More. Hours. And then I am free.

Since I'm talking to myself, where should I eat supper? I've got to get to Deptford by 9pm, but that means I could have supper in, well, Covent Garden or Charing Cross or anywhere between here and there, either. I quite fancy pizza.

And now I'm getting the terrible fear that I won't get my timesheet signed at all, which means I'll have worked for these bastards for FREE for a week - OR I have to come back next week. ARGH!

I hate this place SO MUCH I never want to see it again.

Go have Messcan at Wahaca, if you're early you won't have to queue, they explain anything obscure and/or make adjustments for dietary stuff and all the veg options are good, meaning I ate them when I was with a veggie and didn't moan about NO MEAT.

I has timesheets! Hurrah! Don't know this Wahaca place, but you have actually just reminded me of a really good veg place in ... uh... oh, where is it? I can see the street, but can't think where it is.

Something to do with a pump. Where on earth is it?

Grumble, I can go home early today, however this is because i am expecting a support call from india which is scheduled for 5pm, but judging on past performance could be anytime up to 9pm. Grr.

But isn't 9pm UK time, like, 2 in the morning Indian time?

There is never any logic to support calls from India. (also this is TV and it is often easier to do things in off hours)

http://www.mildreds.co.uk/

Mildreds on Lexington Street! That's the place I was thinking of. The pump is the pumphandle on Broad(wick) street that was removed to stop a cholera outbreak.

My brain works in strange ways sometimes.

I am now drinking my last cup of masala tea. That timed out well!

TWO. MORE. HOURS.

http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5v5is1v1viuKME7_500.jpg

Oh Kate i dunno if you read new Terrorizer (ok I do know you wont have), but there's a two page article on Nadja and apparently Leah Buckareff (Bassist & Aidan's partner)recently gave a lecture at the Toronto Arts Festival on the maths of hyberbolic crochet - knitwear design based on Pythagorean geometry

How'm I gonna read it when they don't send me staff copies? I've still never even seen my Hawkwind review. :-(

They just asked me today if I wanted to review Merzbow.

Um, NO.

But ha ha, Ed, you and Lisa gotta get working on the pythagorean knitwear now!

Tzr has vasically beome the wire now, hasn't it?

I think I will celebrate this support call at home with a pink gin.

ARGH don't insult me like that. I'd never in a million years write for The Wire. I only keep writing for Tzr coz the live editor is so charming.

I was commissioned ages ago to write a review of Lionheart Bros/Kontakte for Plan B but seeing as how I've not heard from anyone since I quit (which is actually pretty freaking depressing) I have no idea if they are still expecting it or not. I suppose it can't hurt to write it.

If you do get off yr support call before midnight, come on down to the Deptford Arms - I'm going to South Eats London.

I like The Wire.

Argh, again the thameslink pulls out of wimbledon as the tram pulls in.

Welcome to the life of a Sarf Londoner.

I DON'T HAVE TO DO THAMESLINK ANY MORE!!!

::DOES HAPPY DANCE::

Well, not until I find another job, that is.

I don't much like the wire these days, it's pretty dry whenever I look at it. It's OK to have fun sometimes, you know?

I was going to get tzr, but it had boris on the front, YAWN.

The Wire purposesly DOES NOT DO FUN because so much of their readership is abroad - especially in Germany - and humour simply does not translate.

I'm still cross about the Boris cover. You would have liked it if it had been *my* Boris cover, that I was going to do, Pash.

A kate cover *has* to happen!

ONE! HOUR! LEFT!!!

ONE!!!!! HOUR!!!!!! LEFT!!!!!!

I don't think I will ever have been so happy to leave a job!

HALF! AN! HOUR!!!

A pointless session of self googling actually led me to a recent Flickr photo of my ex. It does not appear that the man has bought any new clothes in 5 years. I recognised every single garment that he was wearing. I'm not sure if this means my memory is good or... well, I guess it means that I'm completely over him, that it was amusing to look at the picture, and not painful.

Sod it, I'm going NOW.

have fun

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7333155.stm

Oh great. A hidden solar system!

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to meeee!

And I got the bestest present ever... I'm going to Harmoniaaaaaah next week!

Woooo! Happy birthday Kate! I''ll bake you some kind of tasty birthday carrot cake for next time I see you!

Yay!

happy birthday.

Weather looks good for saturday too.

Happy birthday, lady!

Happy birthday, Kate! Here's Gaston, to play some drones on the Gaffophone for you.

http://lagaffemegate.free.fr/journalspirou/index/images/obj/gaffophone.jpg

Happy Birthday, Kate!
is Saturday walking still on?

kiss me maybe I turn into birfday ddb prince!

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080410/capt.9aa651cc136342408e3060152a639600.indonesia_lungless_frog_bk104.jpg?x=400&y=266&sig=W1KZcfnL4ahVFifiOM3mTA--

Happy birthday

Woo, Kate: Birthday, have a happy one, all that jazz (um, no, not jazz! All that drone, yes, better).

Yay, thank you! Through the hangover... oh, life is good. I love life. yes! Walk on for tomorrow. Pester Ed for details. It's a MYSTERY to me.

JAZZ HANDS!!! oh yeah.

So how is everyone?

Still resisting the new SPZ album. But may be caving on the broadband idea.

Hello all, I was indirectly grumped at by a grumpy welsh newscaster yesterday.

Also we talked of an outing to a steam railway at some point, when shall we do it and shall we pick one that FP can come to as well (GCR or Peak Rail would suit, probably)

Huw Edwards?

HURRAH HURRAH, STEAM RAILWAYS, OH YES!!!

Also, I want this on a t-shirt:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2248/2420117503_8e73c3c6aa.jpg

easy enough to do with those iron on inkjet transfer things.