UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

Anyone on MSN tonight? I'm bored!

Most ilxors use aim for some reason. fp, you and I are the only ones from here on msn since mitya,nath and g-kit never seem to come on anymore.

apart from the jaggers of course.

oh and I mustn't forget emil.y
Though shes never online much now

The Inalnd Revneue are being totally wack at the moment. I heard through the grapevine that they were chasing my former housemate for money they claim I owe from 1997 - even though I haven't lived in that house for 11 years, and haven't lived in the US for 10 years! I have no idea what tax they think wasn't paid unless they retroactively changed the short form tax returns. I suspect what they're actually after is my green card, because if I say that I wasn't in residence in the country then they can take that back. Fuck it, have it! Taxation without representation is illegal acccording to yr own War of Independence!

Anyway. I am sore today. The Upper Fleet kicked my arse. And I ate something that disagreed with me. I'm guessing something scarily pink.

Got home, went to bed with the OMM (and that has NOTHING to do with those pictures of J. Spaceman lying on the floor sucking his thumb, oh no, I'm not the slightest bit intersted in THAT) and fell asleep about 9pm.

I'm going to start taking bets on when (or if) my boss will ever turn up today, or if I'm going to spend the entire day mucking about on the interweb.

he HAS to turn up! I need to get my timesheets signed!

Hey, that's something I can do - I can set up my printers.

I slept like a baby that had eaten too much cake last night. Yeh, the fleet killed my legs. And my shoes. My socks from yesterday were full of fleety goodness and are currently sticking up my washing basket.

Yes, my left sock was still completely sodden and caked in mud when I got home. My boots are gonners. The River of Pestilence and Madness claims two more soles.

Every day I love the health food curry in a bun shop even more.

I really liked Dr C's guitar sound tonight - that Vox amp rocked!

Wow thanks! A great night on Friday - the place was pretty full and everything went according to plan. The albums were even ready on time!

Massive thanks to Ed and Colonel Poo for coming along :)

Today's happy MySpace discovery:

http://www.myspace.com/soundpool

Pretty swhirly girly shoegaze. Yum.

Oh no, oh no, YouTube heartbreaking buzzkiller. :-(

Found hott boy's band's video and they're nowhere near as good as I remembered them. Or maybe I just liked them live but didn't like them on record. Oh no.

An hour and a half to go...

This job is punnishment for every job I've ever had where I've wasted time mucking about on the interweb, isn't it? Now I have nothing to do BUT muck about on the interweb, I never want to see the interweb again.

Something to do! Something to do! I've just been given five more minutes stuffs to do!

here is a rook

http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/images/2006/03/27/randall_rook_450x356.jpg

and here is a crow

http://www.unitedwildlife.com/images/s_crow.jpg

That's so Raven!

Good morning Coolers.

Find some time, this guy's a must-see. He needs no bucket:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDg7kWgs5e0

Awaiting feedback.

Everything seems rubbish today. Bah.

I haven't mentioned this before, because I haven't been on ILX much lately, but we have a dull cloud hanging over us at work. The sort of dull cloud that makes people update their CVs. But. It's just hanging over us and not going anywhere. The storm won't break today. It might wait until tomorrow, it might be later. But until then, the cloud's still there.

In other news, last week I booked a camping trip to Wales just before the news started running stories about how cold wet and windy the Easter weekend is going to be. Bah.

Bah to dull clouds. Bah to wet and windy Easter camping breaks.

Bah to recession, bah to job cuts and redundancies, bah to job interviews, bah to not getting offered jobs, bah to unemployment, bah to getting up at 6.45, bah to getting home from work too exhausted to do anything for myself, bah to scratched DVDs, bah to wind and rain, bah bah bah bah bah!

/rainspotting.jpg ;-)

Funnily enough, I did book a campsite right next to a railway line. So trainspotting *and* rainspotting.

Although there won't exactly be many trains to spot, because it's not a busy line.

Well, at least I managed to reformat my Bigstick so I don't have to buy another one.

Ah, boss is actually in today. Wow. I can get my timesheets signed, even if nothing else.

bosses, bah

Swans in, says "yes, we should talk", I agree, then sit and wait. And wait. And wait. And adjust my profile on OKC and answer some emails. All men there of a suitable age seem to have children already.

Getting some money usually cheers me up. But it won't be until after Easter now. :-(

It's scary how many women around here, of my age, already have children.

Then again, I could probably have said that ten years ago.

Well, considering most of the men who are "suitable" are about 40, it's not really surprising. But still. I think those things tend to work if both people have children so they know what to expect, but probably wouldn't work if one person has children and the other doesn't.

Well, at least, I would find that weird.

I am trying to be open-minded about this. But the pool narrows and narrows and the chances seem smaller and smaller.

I just really went back there to take tests and figure out what kind of hat I am, or what kind of mythological creature I would be, and then men started writing me, so I thought it would be rude not to write back. I don't know. I'm not convinced of the sensibleness of even thinking about dating when my life is such a mess, but at least the horribleness of dating would take my mind of the horrible mess of the rest of my life.

That's not a very good attitude, is it?

My attitude would be: well, you never know, it might all turn out for the good with the man of your dreams etc etc.

There is no man of my dreams. If life has taught me one thing, it is that. And if there were, he certainly wouldn't be interested in me. You get what you are stuck with, and have to try to slog through and make it work. And even if *you* do, there is no guarantee that the other person will attempt to do the same.

And to distract me from such horribleness, here is a picture of Captain Anderson:

http://www.ket.org/pressroom/2006/44/MAST__003612TheEndsoftheEarth_1007.jpg

I still haven't managed to read the last two books in that trilogy.

!!!! Get reading now!

That said, there was a boy sitting next to me on the train, and I glanced at the book he was reading and got very excited that it might be TTEOTE due to springing of the mainmast, but it wasn't, it was one of those Aubrey/Maturin novels. Bah.

Tweedy JH:

http://thecia.com.au/reviews/n/images/notorious-bettie-page-3.jpg

I should get around to seeing this movie, but possibly not if it's, erm, rampant-making.

Now for some amazing sideburns...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/images/bank/programmes_tv/drama/shadow_in_the_north/300jared_harris.jpg

Kate, he looks like he's morphing into Robin Cook (rip) in that one.

He does! It's true.

Right eyes, right hair, wrong nose. And JH is all about the nose.

The hott boy from Youthmovies has the same nose. I think that explains the hottness.

You can see the nose here. It is very pointy:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2313/2106775508_7299ded05a.jpg

I wish I enjoyed their single as much as I enjoyed their live show.

In 20 minutes I will go and get some curry and that will be the high point of my day. And the dilemma of my day will be whether to get a mint crumble bar as well. And then I will spend the rest of the day wondering if my boss will ever come up with anything to do, and then I will go home, exhausted from doing nothing, read until I fall asleep and wake up to do it all over again. Unless I'm lucky and a satellite falls from the sky to crush me.

Yum. Lunch was delicious.

However, remind me never, ever to read 1) Drowned in Sound or 2) any interview with Anton BJM ever again. Sheesh. That's 10 minutes of my life I'd rather have spent staring at the screen pretending to work.

pash, are you around? are you the person who said Journey's "Stone in Love" is the best song ever? it IS!

I wasn't! (sorry) I'd put my money on either Dave Q or Scott S for that one. But, great anyway! I think I may have been repping for "Carry on Wayward Son" at some point fairly recently...

Today in Glasgow I saw some of these in the window of a music shop next to the record shop I go to
http://www.musicroom.com/images/catalogue/productpage/STE2018PK.jpg
Flying V Ukelele

http://www.forsyths.co.uk/ukuleles.htm
scroll down to the bottom

The ones in the shop in Glasgow were £25