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Do what it says on the tin. Cry, complain, bitch and ask for reassurance. No being mean.

― kate, Thursday, 6 March 2003 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

these twunts who think that adding text annotations to PDFs will save them so much time compared to writing the same text in an e-mail with "on page 2, para blah". weirdos.

sorry, work bitching. i had to get it out of my system.

oh, and now one division thinks its editors should learn to use Quark. GAHHHHHH.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 11:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Here's my turn...

Last year, my band were offered the support slot on a big, major label tour which would have been great kudos and fantastic exposure. It would have been a near perfect fit with the headlining band, as well.

They've dangled this in our faces for ages, I really feel totally led on about it all. It's two weeks away from the tour now, and they STILL won't confirm or deny if we're doing it. We've basically decided that it's a no, but management STILL won't just come out and say no. Why is it just SO HARD to give us an answer, even if it's a negative one?

In the face of increasing intra-band tension and other disappointments, we've hung a lot of hopes on this tour, and if it doesn't happen, it's 90% likely that my band will break up. It would have been nice to go out on a high, but that doesn't seem likely now.

I never really believed that it would happen, but it's still a massive fuckoff disappointment, and more annoyance that they couldn't just come out and FINISH IT and tell us no.

― kate, Thursday, 6 March 2003 11:31 (twenty-three years ago)

re: making friends in Oxford.
1. Nickie is cool, but I'm never going to see her again.
2. Claire is nice, but completely not interested.
3. Katie doesn't live here either.
4. Lucinda doesn't care I exist.
5. My housemates want nothing to do with me, and have separated me from the girls that took me out on Friday.
6. That's all I have to show for 8 week's friendmaking. And now I have no money to go out.
misc:
7. I hate [x]. [x] hates me.
8. [y] won't even see me, despite liking me and having nothing at all better to do.
9. There are people that like me in Manchester.
10. [z] surely thinks I'm a fucking freak.
11. [p] does think I'm a fucking freak and is not afraid to show it.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 6 March 2003 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

that after everything i'm still the poorest judge of character of anyone i know

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 6 March 2003 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)

that I cannot move objects across my desk using mind control

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Thursday, 6 March 2003 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)

That even progressive European leftists don't like foreigners, and that for "even" you could substitute "especially".

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 6 March 2003 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I have finished all my grapes and I don't want to walk to ths shops so shall remain grapeless until I can musetr the energy. My lethargy is pissing me off.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 March 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

The sound of my own voice. And that I'm a rockist sell-out.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Self-disappointment is GO in the general areas of gluttony, sloth, lust. Anger I'm doing quite well with. Envy and Avarice are manageable. Vanity not a problem.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

The fact that I cannot seem to spell today is bugging me too.

* a pedant hangs her head in shame*

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

-that I'm still sick (this isn't self-disappointment, it's just a letdown)

-that I'm too easily distracted to get much reading done offline

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

There was a big jar of gingernuts in the middle of the table at my meeting this morning which nobody touched, including myself, because I didn't want to be the biggest pig there. And I *love* gingernuts. So I am disappointed at my lack of confidence but then, had I eaten some, I would have been disappointed at my gluttony. Huh.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I never eat biscuits at meetings - I imagine that everyone else would be laughing at the fat girl piging out. Even though I am not fat and would be unlikely to eat more than two.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:34 (twenty-three years ago)

My direct debits never seem to be set up properly, this is annoying and disappointing.

Oh and I can't get anything done, but that's an always.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I am quite happy about my direct debit mess - my phone bill is presently being debited from a closed account and the payments do not seem to be forwarding correctly. It will all backfire horribly eventually but for the time being it's pretty sweet - interest free credit!!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:48 (twenty-three years ago)

People get very annoyed when I don't drink tea or coffee in meetings. It marks me out as a weirdo. If they have fizzy water though, I'm a glutton.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Still water is my meetings choice. Pete is right about the tea/coffee thing - always wrongfoots people when you arrive for a meeting. I cannot sit still in meetings anyway and would only rattle the teacups.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Tea and coffee are dehydrating though - especially if the room is not well ventilated! I'm sure you stun them with your eagerness and awareness (bolstered by the fact that you not procesing all those toxins)!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I usually have a cup of black tea. As I don't eat the biscuit I end up feeling a bit sicky if I'm drinking it on an empty stomach so I usually end up producing a packet of sweets. As a result people approach me as though I am a twelve year old child and I tear them to shreds. Har har!

Incidentally, no matter how many times I say I take my tea black people pass me the milk and the sugar. Black tea and sweets make me a freak in my office.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

has kate ever said the name of her band ?
is it a secret ?

― piscesboy, Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

That I can't see Goldfrap tonight because of looming deadline. (assembled Greek chorus: get off the bloody internet woman!)

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Lara, I'm in the black tea gang too - when I have tea. This annoys people even more.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Anna, are you not going to the thing afterward at Gossips either? Waah!

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Gossips?

*shudder*

― chris (chris), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I know, venue names 'in plural' are naff.

However there is a club night Anna and I were both keen to go to there, and it's also tonight.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a horrible horrible place full stop, really skanky.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Most places in Soho are but I go to It's On because friends do it, and this one is some kind of Duckie affiliate.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

This is NOT a place to describe your bloody wonderful social lives. This is the place to moan and bitch and complain. Take yer happiness elsewhere!

― kate, Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

some Fux0r broke into my sister's halls, crapped in the shower and photographed some of her housemates. I would happily wring his frickin neck right now. Also they threw eggs through any open window!

― chris (chris), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I am disappointed that I didn't make a dirty joke about Madchen's craving for ginger nuts.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I am v disappointed that I haven't come up with a way of telling a girl that has joined the dept (last month) that I rilly rilly fancy her.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Cabbage, I don't understand the bit about the photographs.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Yesterday was a bad day. Basically, I found out yesterday that the reporting structure in the group I work in has changed, and I now report to a guy whose first day was yesterday. While I think that he's a good guy, and will more than likely be a good boss, I'm incredibly disappointed because I found out about this via a third party (basically a friend of mine whom I work with) thinking that a document that showed me reporting to this guy was a mistake. My now-old boss, the "leader" of the group, didn't even run this by me as a possibility, much less ask what I'd think about it. She told me about it about 3 hours after I heard from my friend, and I'd been stewing that whole time. I actually think things might get better, but I'm extremely disappointed with how I was treated. I'm also very disappointed in myself for not registering with my boss how lousy I was treated - but the way my job is now, any sort of reasonable dissent is rewarded with termination. Serious - in my group, since I came to New York, tons of people have been terminated, and the friend who told me about the reporting change and I are the only "old people" left.

In general I'm disappointed with everything that's happened since June of last year in regards to my job. It's nice that they've moved me to New York, I guess (I was really ready to leave Chicago), but it's no consolation if I now hate my job (as opposed to love it like I used to) and hate where I live (I hate my apartment and want to move).

I'm also a little disappointed that I was kind of a goof on the phone last night with someone.

― hstencil, Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

oh and I'm also disappointed that my thread caused so much rancor. I feel like a total jerk.

― hstencil, Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not sure either Madchen, this is from an e-mail I got today, I will be ringing her later for full story, but i don't like the sound of it one bit.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

don't feel bad abt it hstencil: things like this do happen every so often and it wasn't yr fault.

may all of hstencil's dissapointments (and everyone else's) evaporate as soon as possible.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Hahaha, my work disappointment, if it evaporated, would prolly mean I'd be unemployed! That'd be just another disappointment, surely.

Julio, here's something to be disappointed with me about - I still haven't burned your Borbetomagus discs. I am lame.

― hstencil, Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

well I meant that hopefully any 'thing' that you find disappointing will go away and it will be just like it was before the move to NY.

and yes its disappointing abt the discs. very ;-)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

an editor says hes going to run my peice, ignoring me.
no money for school in the states.
father confessor tells me that the hunger pangs i feel for ministry are misplaced.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

improv comp?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

(that was to julio)

anthony, did u get the ilx comp yet? i sent it ages ago.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

it will be just like it was before the move to NY

Baby won't you take me home, back to that same ol' place, sweet home Chicago?

improv comp?

It's a copy of Zurich, a double live disc. Would you like a copy?

― hstencil, Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah i did jel, top of the poppermost baby.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn, I've already moaned about disappointments too much. But I guess I am mostly disappointed in myself. I've been assured I have a half-decent personality buried inside somewhere, but I don't seem to know where/what it is.

― ChristineSH, Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

''improv comp?''

ha! sorry jel. I have been playing different things and just thinking abt a 60 min improv tape for you on and off but not taped anything. I'll tape stuff during the weekend and I'll send it soon.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

''It's a copy of Zurich, a double live disc. Would you like a copy?''

not before you send it to me! ;-)

I don't think jel will like borbeto stencil (knowing some of what jel likes/dislikes). there's far too much noise.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

oh that's disappointing.

― hstencil, Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

very!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

man I thought yesterday was a low day, but I couldn't feel any lower now (and no Borebetomagus has nothin' to do with it).

― hstencil, Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

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I am massively disappointed that our current landlord, who lives in china, wishes to raise the rent on our flat from $750 to £820 a month (or £800 if we can't afford £820). What the hell is this about? What is the best way to respond to this sort of email?

― marianna, Friday, 14 March 2003 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

*good thoughts for tom*

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 14 March 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Despite a series of ambiguous but promising emails, met my crush at a works social for the first time since the two of us went out for a drink a week ago, where she proceeded to rigourously avoid eye contact and meet all of my attempts at conversation and contact with an indifference bordering on hostility, making me feel really shitty and unwanted.

― Nathan Webb (Nathan Webb), Friday, 14 March 2003 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Marianna, send the guy an e-mail linking to whatever story you can find about market forces being in favour of renters right now. Then ask what the rise is in aid of.

I can't imagine a British landlord would dare pull that right now, what with the glut of rental properties around.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 14 March 2003 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone stole my felt-tip pen out of my desk! I know they will not have any new ones in stock in the supply room and I will be stuck with an evil ball point pen. Evil fux0rs.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 14 March 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm very disappointed that GM foods are not necessarily non-kosher - i thought looking out for the little "k-parv" logo might have been temporary way around the utterly ass-backward law here that prevents brands from labelling their products GMO-free.

also i don't get to make my "poison sux u r all goy" joke

― jones (actual), Friday, 14 March 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm disappointed because I wanted another pup and found a beautiful one online that I was ready to rush down and adopt this afternoon... until I called and she'd already been euthanized.

I want to cry.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 14 March 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh Luna, that is awful. I'm sorry.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 14 March 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

That's HORRIFYING. They should remove the pictures well in advance so that things like that don't happen.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 March 2003 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

that's horrible, luna... :-(

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 14 March 2003 22:50 (twenty-three years ago)

:-( :-( Yugh. That just makes you want to scream at the unfairness of the universe all the much more.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 March 2003 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/lumi_029/vwp?.dir=/&.src=ph&.dnm=f6320_small.jpg&.view=t&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/bc/lumi_029/lst%3f%26.dir=/%26.src=ph%26.view=t

She looked like such a sweetie, too.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I am still working on my microhouse piece after a month, and after struggling hard with it in concentrated fashion for two days am only 2/3 finished. Grrrr.

I still have 25 pieces for an album guide book that need to be done by the 1st. well, they actually need to be done by Monday, but they're going to get done by the 1st, so there.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess that was a bit grim - nevermind

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think I can bear to even look, Luna.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Aw heck. Puppy. =(

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 15 March 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

No no - don't - I'll take her out of the photos. I'm sorry.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 15 March 2003 02:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm just a big soft-hearted baby, really

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 15 March 2003 02:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I tried to get Bryan Ferry's "frantic" CD out of the library and it was supposed to be there but it wasn't in the 'F's (or 'G's or 'B's).

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Saturday, 15 March 2003 04:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Submissions rejected by various magazines for being 'incomprehensible'. See ILX, you ARE smarter than the average bears!

― dave q, Saturday, 15 March 2003 10:46 (twenty-three years ago)

What?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 15 March 2003 18:44 (twenty-three years ago)

''Submissions rejected by various magazines for being 'incomprehensible'''

ah, that's terrible dave. don't lose heart.

sorry to hear this luna.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 16 March 2003 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

So eventually the Liliput/Kleenex CD that I won on e-bay arrives. I unpack it. The case falls apart in my hand - not a great start. Both discs look like they've been rubbed, on the music side, with a piece of heavy fucking duty glass paper. They look like they were superglued to the tracks of Norman Schwarzkopf's tank during operation desert storm. You get the idea?

I put them in the Walkman. Neither plays for more than a nanosecond without skip-skip-sk-sk-skipping. Boll-fucking-ocks.

I write a nice e-mail to the wonderful e-bayer who sold me this pup, saying Hi! The discs are coming back your way Miss. Cockfarmer! Once, twice, three times a cockfarmer. A cockfarmer for breaking the CD case and not bothering to mention it. A cockfarmer for forgetting to mention that the CDs were fucked. A cockfarmer for getting them like that in the first place! Cockfarmer!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Cockfarmer!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 20 March 2003 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Sometimes when you point these things out to ppl they go, "what scratches?"

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 20 March 2003 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

To be fair she agreed to take it back, after the usual 'Well it plays OK on my CD player'.

If it did, then hers must be connected up to the European Synchrotron facility instead of using a poxy little laser like the rest of us schmucks.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 20 March 2003 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

so here i am talking to this girl, who i've seen around for a while and kinda had my eye half-on but never really said much to, and it turns out we've got some things in common (like a highschool! but we were in different years, and, as it turns out, both dorky) and she's laughing at my jokes and she's kinda pretty but in a non-intimidating way and i've been feeling really really crap lately about myself and this is going pretty well and then she's asks me if i've read this book - no, i haven't - because HER BOYFRIEND is reading it at the moment and... fuck.

― m. (mitchlnw), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course.

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

usually after a few months of "i'm ugly and i'm going to be alone forever", something comes along to pick me up, but no.

― m. (mitchlnw), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

still... no. misread signals, charming lesbians, erotic dreams - yes yes yes. but no.

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry m. still, "charming lesbians" - LOL

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a waste of time trying to charm lesbians, you know.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Not if you ARE a lesbian though.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i am disappointed because it is 4:43pm in LA and I am bored.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I have met Mitch, and think the chances of his being a lesbian are very remote.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

don't pigeonhole me, martin.

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I know I'm a lesbian trapped in a loser's body. Why else do I love girls so much?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 June 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i sprained my ankle tonight and i am disappointed that i never made it to acid mothers temple

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

after a bunch of working out to (what I perceived were significant results) nobody fucking notices.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Today it showered while I was driving, so I turned on the wipers. Now they won't shut off.

I guess I'll be moving to Seattle now.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Meet up with Donut Bitch, sir. He will improve your move situation.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 June 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i may have failed my property exam yesterday. it will be the first exam i have ever failed.

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 20 June 2004 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Accidentally doubled the dose of my sleep drug (um, oops, but I'm too fucking tired to sseestraight) and I still can't sleep dammit, and I kinda prefer to get a little bit of sleep sometimese which I really ahven't been able to do lately, gah.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Sunday, 20 June 2004 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Took on way too many projects at once and it's snowballing into badness. Getting the major stuff done but I can't relax/go out for more than a few hours before paranoia/guilt about what I'm possibly forgetting/neglecting at the moment sets in. I was on a shit-hot streak just a month back, got overconfident/overgenerous, promised people I'd write for them, help them move house, redo their resumes, do business, start seeing more of them, or just even call/hang out, but there's no time. Right this minute there are at least three people suffering/feeling terrible because I'm not coming through with something I won't even recall until they remind me. I'm proud to the point of arrogance of always having the talent to back up the talk so you know I'm trippin/depressed for REAL when I admit to not hackin it. My Dayplanner is like Vietnam...once this current grind is sorted I swear I'm gonna cop a half O, meet dave Q again, and reach levels of sloth that would shock actual sloths.

― LC, Saturday, 1 April 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Wow, what a strange thread revival.

The "disappointment" at the top of thread turned out to be a "yes" after all, and was one of the proudest accomplishments of my life. Hah.

But LC, dude, take a deep breath. Do what you can. Explain to people that you have too much stuff on, and that you might not be able to meet the committments you said. It's better for them to know in advance - then maybe even they can help you out, or make other arrangements - than to just let it all ball up and let them down. Stop being so hard on yourself. I know, easier said than done, but still.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 12:20 (twenty years ago)

Hey Kate thanks for the feedback, I did read it. This weekend I just said no to everything, geeked out at home, regrouped and rejigged my schedule. yeah, I do have to streamline my projects, but I think I don't have too much to freak out about in the long run - I trust my team and we're getting smarter all the time, especially when it comes to finances + dealing with industry vultures. Storing up that good karma too.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Sunday, 9 April 2006 11:50 (twenty years ago)

Gettign this article rejected from a very small very local newspaper who thought it sucked

The Fate of the South Portland Armory

The Armory has been sold. For months now we have driven by the armory, with its exciting banner, draped enticingly, promising the Museum of Glass and Ceramic would one day appear within. It is not to be: so much for that. Alas, poor Museum of Glass! I have been to a glass museum in Corning, New York, and it was indeed a pleasant experience, so I feel disappointed that South Portland will not have such a distraction and tourist draw. The worst part of it is after months of anticipation we will have no satisfaction. We will have to imagine what it would have been like, with its wavy seventies era tumblers and collectable E.T. pint glass sets.

What should the city use the building for? Well, to keep with the theme of the building we could use it to make weapons, but what country currently threatens South Portland? Now that we have warmed relations with Bulgaria, we have no real enemies on the international stage and no need for an arms race. Perhaps we could build something enormous inside it to attract tourists, like the World's Biggest Meatball or something. When I think of the word "armory" I think of medieval armor being built there, but the demand just doesn't exist for that product anymore. I think given the make-up of that part of the Mill Creek area it makes sense to complete the triple-play of McDonalds, Wendy's and the missing third player - Burger King, but now it's too late to start flame-broiling.

The Portland Regency Hotel and Spa was once an armory as well, and look at it now. It really cleaned up nicely, and now it even has a health spa. Take note South Portland! We too could have such luxury in our midst. The armory may not have heating or electricity, but during the daytime, in the summer, we could offer some really 5 star accommodations. Instead of "turning swords into plows" we could turn cannons into espresso machines and barracks into honeymoon suites.

The armory has been on the market for years now, hopefully waiting for new occupants to busy themselves in its halls, but one thing after another has postponed and prevented any solid sale. The final price tag is expected to be in the range of $700,000, the price of a tool shed in Scarborough. The City of South Portland successfully outbid the trouble-making Children's Theatre of Maine. Thank goodness the ears of the local youth will be saved from the likes of Shakespeare, as if there isn't enough violence on South Portland stages. The City plans a much more noble use for the building: storage space. I guess that's a good thing, because we may need to store a lot of things, like old glass pieces that no one wants anymore. Maybe we should even let the public in to see these works. Ahh yes... now I see your plan, Museum of Glass! And I thought you had given up!

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Monday, 10 April 2006 05:05 (twenty years ago)

my car broke down on friday. the RAC man said it would probably cost ~$300. the mechanic just rang... $625!! oh no. also i've been transferred to a new dept, i've just had to pack up my little box of stuff from my lovely office today, and my new desk is in a hideous little cubicle which is basically in a corridor in a yucky old building. i'm about to go there now. sometimes my life sucks arse.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 10 April 2006 06:12 (twenty years ago)

Poor Gemily! Take heart - I offer a special blessing for you

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Monday, 10 April 2006 06:41 (twenty years ago)

My new job, which I was all excited about six months ago, has gone somewhat tits up (not because of me). My windscreen wipers are knackered, and my neck hurts. I thought I had another bottle of rioja in the rack, but I don't. Bah.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

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