TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST

i think i have the same kind of wiry strength that you do, suzy, people expect me to be frail because i am quite skinny and have a small frame but i am very strong (and quick).

That explains all the dead bodies. Would you please stop dry-freezing them and shipping them to me that way? They take FOREVER to resoak for roasts.

sara, i hope you like the candy, i originally was going to send it just to you but in the end i sent some to everyone because i knew deep in my heart they would hate vegemite and i wanted to console them.

who is shipping you dried bodies, ned?

hello all i leave for NYC at some ungodly early hour tomorrow so plz do not break the internet while im gone until i get back and woot woot and oh god i am going to be tired tomorrow afternoon.

estela, I did not try the Vegemite and am afraid John will offer some to me at this point. But I need consolation for the general grueling-ness of the end of my class, so thank you again!

John - have a FUN & SAFE trip (please note that I have *two* directives there). And thanks for info. and conversation this afternoon.

Sara, you should try the vegemite on toast with LOTS of butter. Put butter on first and only put a teeny bit of the vegemite on. Eat while listening to Men at Work...

Also the single most effective retort to sex pests is as follows:

"Put it on the mantelpiece, I'll smoke it later."

once in a great crush at a bar i was crotch groped horribly by someone standing behind me so without turning around i drove my elbow as hard as i could into the nearest solar plexus which was a little risky but i knew i had got the right person when i heard a terrible despairing 'oof' of pain followed by no recriminations at all, i was pleased with my own briskness.

home from just the 1 party, and i am tired! i can't imagine if i'd gone to both!

xp to suzy - you always have the best advice.

estela - WOW, LOL

tehresa - glad you got home safe, and yes, sometimes one party is plenty. Usually even! Our guests left, but not before we were trying to get the kids bathed and into bed... I really have to remember to have them over only on evenings that are NOT school nights. Overall, though, we had a fun day.

a terrible despairing 'oof' of pain

This should be a book title. (Subtitle: 'Idiots I Have Injured')

I would be tempted to buy that book.

Good night, all. Sleep well, fair ITR dwellers...

Attention estela

Have you ever heard the jingle contained in this website?

Sometimes at work i'm forced to listen to seafm (which is v excruciating) and they play this jingle in an advertisement a lot (and it's v excruciating)

OMG thread! Keep it up!

it seems likely that this thread will reach the next big milestone while i'm in Barthalona so I would like to wish it a happy 14,000th post in advance. entering into the awkward teenage years now folks.

Good morning all!

Major jealous-vibes your way re the Barcelona. I would love to go back soon.

ooooh yes i have always wanted to go to spain! enjoy!

Barcelona can be 100 per cent seafood and booze if you just let it.

want

Wow, my SIL is a history prof and Spain is her area of specialty. WHY didn't I go visit her in Barcelona when she was living there working on her PhD?!

gracias doods. five days of OMG paella and OMG cervezas and OMG portishead. (maybe some sangria thrown in there for good measure). i will be thinking of you all as i nurse each day's hangover.

my sister may be moving somewhere in spain in the fall. if this happens, i encourage you all to help me not repeat sara's mistake.

I encourage you not to repeat my mistake! Don't do it!

RR - the fantastic-looking candy bar arrived in the mail this afternoon. Thank you so much! I will use it to get me through the next week (or possibly just through the new few hours...)

attn: wilter, i haven't heard that jingle, but i mainly to listen to radio national if i listen to the radio at all. it is very obnoxious, it reminded of that old tv ad with that toothless boy who used to tunelessly sing 'that's firteen firteen firty-two' (or some phone no. like that.)(please don't tell me you were that boy.)

It is a sad fact that I am currently lacking the motivation to do anything at all.

omg that firteen kid. yeah that is worse than asap glass.

the droll way he pronounced 'firty-two' was the last straw.

It was a lube mobile ad?

I was looking for it on all of the internets but couldn't find ;_;

i think you're right, i couldn't remember what it was except that it was car-related.

i'm glad you got the chocolate, sara! hope you like it :)

I'm super excited about it, but trying to save it until at least tomorrow night, after I meet with my prof about my clinical evaluation. She apparently thought my zillion page paper was okay, because she gave it a good grade, but every time she talked to me over the weekend, I thought she must thought I was a total moron because I was sooooo tired that I could barely respond in a coherent way.

Anyway, thank you thank you THANK YOU! It really is perfect timing, too, because this next few days is going to be a stress-a-thon.

Okay, time to go to sleep.

'Night ITR!

Hi, itr is it windy where you are? The wind keeps blowing my door open and scaring the crap out of me so I put some books in front of it but it still managed to open itself a little. Now I can't sleep.

What are you guys up to?

going to sleep

NYAH

hi tehresa, hardly anything.

goodnight tom

I just put some more books out. This is going to be silly when sleepy me is trying to get to the kitchen for coffee making and stumbles over all the stuff in front of the door!

Tom with the rubbing in : (

Hi estela!

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Hi guys, does anyone want anything else sent from Olde Englande? I got a warm glow sending the Bovril (and a warmer one when a certain delightful young lady sent me NOM NOM NOM treats in return) so place your orders here!

mark c, did you read my generous bovril update on the mites thread?

i just got home from a thrilling night at work: the whole italian family i work with (dad and 4 sons - mum was off tonight) got into a huge screaming match and glasses and teapots got thrown, and two of them had to be pulled apart from killing each other.

guess who got to clean up the mess.

on the upside, i just rented cloverfield and i am legend. i didn't realise the will smith one is a 'horror' of sorts, or i wouldnt have got it - i had two horrendous nightmares last night, the first about a serial killer escaped from a mental institution and the second about a town of vampires trying to kill me.

RR, your life sounds so interesting, although not always in a good way. Sorry about you getting stuck watching all that AND cleaning their mess up. JEEZ.

I liked both of those movies, btw, but yeah, I get crazy nightmares, too. Apparently I Am Legend has an alternate ending on the disc - I forgot to look for that. For whatever reason, I found that whole movie super-depressing.

Also - HELLO to all!!!

someone email me lunch