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It's not a question. I'm just in a really good mood. The Toronto Star picked up one of my stories today and ran it as a full-page feature on page three of the sports section.
I'm in a very good mood.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 10 July 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, well fuck you!

just kidding, congrats, Bruce.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 10 July 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Nicely done! Is there a link to it?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 July 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Hurrah Bruce! I hope you got paid a decent amount too.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm very angry at the world but I will spare one second to be happy for you.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's The Link
I was already paid for the story. It appeared in the Tuesday issue of the daily I work for.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 10 July 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

OK that looks ugly, but I think the link works. Thanks for the kind words.
Of course, the Star didn't put my byline on the online version but it's in the deck of the print version. Honest.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 10 July 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

cool story too.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 10 July 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Bruce,

I have always been so..soo.sooo impressed by diving. Did you talk to any journalist who actually covers it full-time?

― Eduardo (Rivers and a Lighter), Thursday, 10 July 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I just talked to divers and coaches. I've never actually met (or heard of) a full-time diving journalist.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 10 July 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Another gigantic picture, yawn, move along, nothing to see here folks

― Dada, Thursday, 10 July 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

see, i thought that was going to say the electric prunes until i got to the end.
not really as appealing.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Friday, 11 July 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate my life, but feel somewhat better for your good fortune!

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 11 July 2003 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Bruce, congratulations. I was in a good mood earlier, but then I read a script about a stillborn baby and it made me sad.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 11 July 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

My good mood continues. This morning, I shot my best round of golf ever, finally breaking 90. I also drubbed one of y playing partners – a guy who started playing the same time I did but has always been a stroke or two better. I crushed him today. Everything clicked.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Friday, 11 July 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

one of m y playing partners that should be.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Friday, 11 July 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I'm in a really good mood today, fr some reason. I keep laughing out loud at ilx.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 February 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

it feels kinda nice!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 February 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

I am in a really good mood, for a few reasons, today!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 25 February 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

I just said 'oooooh yeah' out loud to the screen!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 February 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

I think I might go agree with some people over on ILM.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 February 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm in a bad mood.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 25 February 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

why?

― the other kate (ffs!) (papa november), Friday, 25 February 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

markelby i feel bad for not chattin to you last night :(

(club FT with actual real good sound = everyone i DID talk to i wz just smilin and noddin and NOT HEARING A WORD YOU WERE SAYING)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 25 February 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Were they all on eckies or sumthin'?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 25 February 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

no i wz smilin and noddin, they were talkin but i couldn't hear it

my ears are tuned to the wrong acoustic waveband :(

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

when i was little i was kept awake by bats! this is true!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

... and you still have the puncture marks to prove it

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

I feel like I'm stoned except really awake and really cheery. and my ipod miraculously just started working again!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

but at least i don't stress abt what i look like in the bathroom mirror

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

and my ipod miraculously just started working again!

the exact same thing happened me yesterday! it had said "green velvet-preacherman" on it for a week.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

When I was in Paris, I caught a glimpse of a fairly attractive girl reflected in a shop window. It took me several seconds to realise that I did not recognise myself because I was actually SMILING.

I guess I'm in a good mood, then. I found out that I was offered my new job, not just because of my skillset, but because they really liked my personality! That's a shock to me, because my personality is usually the deal-breaker. I actually wanted the job, so I guess that made a difference.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm in a foul mood.

― NRQ (Enrique), Friday, 25 February 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Mark S, I wanted to chat to you too, but the Chapel (and indeed anywhere frequented by young people) is just too loud and I am lame. Next time I hope.

Kate, I don't know really, I was set off by a tiny but dumb mistake at work. Since then I have been shopping, bought two pairs of jeans, but on reflection I'm not sure they're very nice jeans so I feel down again.

That said, there was a moment when I was walking through a Victorian alley in Covent Garden, snow falling about me, with the Aislers Set on my headphones, and I just stopped and stood in the middle of the street as a feeling of amazing goodness swept over me. It was lovely, I just wish it had lasted longer.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 25 February 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm somehow managing to be excited and jaded and cheerful and a bit depressed all at the same time. I blame booze. The good bits are winning out at the moment though.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 25 February 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm...I sort of know what you're talking about. Today my mother mentioned she thought the degree i'd chosen to do was a bit of a mistake....three years after i started it. Since then I've been feeling flat about everything, even though it really was a pretty minor thing to begin with.

― the other kate (ffs!) (papa november), Friday, 25 February 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

what's the degree in?

― NRQ (Enrique), Friday, 25 February 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

buzz harshing redirect.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Fine Art and Education. Basically training me to be an art teacher.

― the other kate (ffs!) (papa november), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

that sounds fine! wtf?

― NRQ (Enrique), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, thats what I thought.

She said I'd probably do it for a couple of years and then get bored with it. I don't even know what that means.

― the other kate (ffs!) (papa november), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

you'll junk it and become a stockbroker. seen it a thousand times.

― NRQ (Enrique), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Ha, now numbers is something I cannot do.

I'm more likely to junk it and work as a cashier or something.

― the other kate (ffs!) (papa november), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm in a good mood, well an okay one.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

buzz harshing overload gaah!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Nooners with the wife always cheer me up.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Friday, 25 February 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm in a really good mood too, for all kinds of reasons.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Cozen, me too! I have a LAPTOP, as of an hour ago. He is called MAPS and is fourteen and we are BUDDIES.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I feel in a sort of medium mood now. There are still a lot of things to be happy about. I am still buzzed about my job. I heard back from the band that I really want to write a feature on, and they're very up for my somewhat conventional ideas. (I want to write about them in art nouveau/Aubrey Beardsley style illustrated form, because I really feel it suits their music.) So that's exciting!

But I feel rather messed about by A Boy right now. It's stupid to let that kind of thing get in the way of my good mood. I should just step away and say "Sod this for a bag of chips" rather than letting it get to me. I wish it were as easy to do it as to say it. He doesn't actually want to see me or hang out with me or anything. But rather than just *saying* this, he just kind of drags it out protractedly. And every time I manage to forget about him or write him off, I get another text message or email and it starts all over again. I don't need any more email buddies that I never get to see. I want someone to just go to the movies with or have dinner with occasionally.

Does anyone want to go to the movies with me? I want to see 2046. And Hide and Seek. Anyone up for it?

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Saturday, 26 February 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Mess sorted out. Good mood resumed. My mother actually noted on the phone "God, you sound so different!"

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Sunday, 27 February 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

despite knock to nerves on fri - see buzz-harshin link above - i am v.chipper at the moment

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 27 February 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

I'm in a really good mood today. Had a great night last night. Drunk loads, no hangover today. Yay!

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 27 February 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Have a slight hangover this morning, as I drank even when I wasn't supposed to. But don't have that crushing sense of awfulness and self loathing that normally accompanies hangovers. I just feel pleased and vaguely hopeful.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Sunday, 27 February 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm too freezing to have a mood. I seem to have watched a lot of Star Trek this weekend, is that a good thing, I dunno.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 27 February 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

I am in an ok mood and I am listening to the raincoats.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 27 February 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

I don't think its possible for me to feel in a better mood right now. Everything suddenly seems to be going right all at once. I am looking forward to tomorrow more than any other work day in years and there's a pretty incredible looking weekend coming up :)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

i am in an AWESOME mood. we won the state election!! that means i still have a job. also today is my first day of being a full time law student. it's gorgeous outside, and i got a parking spot directly outside the law school. this is completely unheard of.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

After several days of not being able to breathe I'm in a fairly good mood. Looking forward to my move and finally escaping my job.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 28 February 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

i'm extant. not blissfully happy but i could be doing much worse.

― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 February 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

I just blew some good mood air into a baloon. Will try to extract it a some later point. BTW, does anyone know if this can be done with weed?

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

you might need to eat the balloon in that case.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 28 February 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Hi guys!

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― Aimless, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

Hi!!!!!!

I am in a good mood too. Here is why:

- Just signed lease on enormous two bedroom apt which will be AMAZING after living in a studio (2 ppl) for two years. Moving next weekend!
- No more class until Sept. This means I have my evenings back but more importantly - no more homework!
- First grade of the semester just posted. A- in Research Methods!
- Ativan and caffeine

― ENBB, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:14 (seventeen years ago)

ME TOO

- 6 week old son at home
- leftover lasagna in fridge
- guests have left house, now I can be gross

― pj, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

AW! Yr six week old soon is adorable, btw. Is his full name Oliver? That's my favorite name for a boy. Not that I'm picking our names for future kids of anything [/crazy lady].

― ENBB, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:33 (seventeen years ago)

yes, it's Oliver. Gaining like a pound a week right now!

― pj, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:35 (seventeen years ago)

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