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― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Because I had a nice birthday and am feeling pretty ok.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i was coming home from work tonight (i know, it's labor day ... the law never rests!), got a seat on the PATH and pulled a bunch of lawyer wanted ads out of my bag to read on the way home. a young lady looked at me, and then asked me "are you a lawyer?" i said yes, and that i was looking for work. turns out that she is a secretary at one of the NYC firms that i would KILL to work for -- it's a T&E/Tax/ERISA boutique, one of the partners there wrote one of the leading treatises on new york estate administration -- but i hadn't worked up the balls to send a resume to. she said that they might have openings, told me that i should send in my resume and specifically to whom i should send it -- that i could use her name, and gave me some good inside dope on the firm (that it was a nice place to work for, not stuck up AT ALL despite its great reputation).

that, and she was really cute!

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

this will be happy if i end up getting a job there ... cross yer fingers and light a novena candle or two for me, i could use a lucky break right now!

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

hurrah tad! that's awesome!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Excellent, Tad! Good luck.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I am happy now because I just got some of the 1991 synth pop cds I ordered from Amazon (used and really cheap at about $3 with $2 shipping, if I remember correctly) and I'm very happy with them: OMD - Sugar Tax, Mecano - Aidalai

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

good luck tad! happy belated birthday, slutsky!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Because I'm finally warm and dry after being wet and cold at Flushing Meadows all day.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

*crosses fingers for Tad*
I am happy for no apparent reason. I had a lovely evening last night. A friend popped round after work for a cuppa & a gossip. She seems very happy with her new b/f which is great as she deserves it. Then I got to spend the rest of the evening with my boy. We cooked dinner & then watched Jack & Sarah. It made me cry loads even though I have seen it numerous times. Had lots of cuddles as a result, which is always nice!
Also I am going out for pizza tonight, mmmm & I am going to see the Black Keys on Thursday! yay, life is grand.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Because I cleaned my new flat to make it presentable, and it's so presentable that I (who knows where the bodies are hidden) think "this is a really cool flat".

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

about to go see ash naylor and his music always makes me happy!

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i am on tenterhooks for the last weeksworth of waiting re approval of my "if" booklet proposal, but yesterday the comish ed sent me a copy of a book by the writer he said my sample pages reminded him of, together with a compliment which (in context) wz like him saying "your writing reminds me of shakespeare only better obv"!!!

i didn't know what to say (so i said "blimey")

(the writer he compared me to is to my knowledge his fave in this field)

anyway there is an editorial board who have to say yes as well but i'm reasonably sure this guy is rooting for me! fingahs so x-ed!

hide the bodies in the garden farrell you mentalist

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Garden = Paved patio (though there's still a line in the lease about takeing care of the garden - maybe we shouldn't have cleaned behind the toilet)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Who is the writer mark?

Blimey Tad! Jealous! :)

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

r.durgnat

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I am happy because I had a great evening last night. On the spur of the moment a friend phoned up and invited me out for a quick beer which turned into an evening of tearful laughter, g&t and supper in the tokyo diner. I didn't have a hangover, I'm getting quite a lot of stuff done at work today and I'm meeting a friend whom I haven't seen since January for drinks tonight.

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Go Tad!

I am happy because of "Ghettomusick" and "Flip Flop Rock". And because I am playing football tonight.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Tad hope it goes well for you.

mark- shakespeare is v lame ;)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I have had a productive morning making my house look presentable for my nearly-here gf. I haven't crossed many things off my list, though, so my time on ILX is but brief. Away to the recycling depot!!

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

lots of reasons, at least 2 of of them legal as far as i know

― duane, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Mark, how long have you got left?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Good luck Tad! If this all goes well, does this mean you're staying NY/NJ?

It must be fall cleaning week on ILE. It is finally cool enough for me to clean my flat. My landlords have gotten a contractor finally to do work so that's not much time for me to hide the bodies in the back garden. (Why do they have to do this after summer instead of before?)

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

hide them in the centre of the big block of tofu

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"unfashionable scratch-mix DJ Diggory Tofu..."

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

* I made the library look almost tidy. This will be to my advantage when I tell my boss that I'd like to do my library MA after all.
* I read alot of Fargo Rock City today.

I guess these things make me slightly more happy than the norm.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Pinkie, I pick her up at Heathrow in... 41 hours 12 minutes :)))))

p.s. I am now happy cos NEIGHBOURS starts in 7 minutes.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't cleaned my room in a month and long may it continue.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Jel can we be library MA buddies?

I am happy because I just spoke to Matt and he has done loads of sorting and packing, so I can just get home and have a pizza without feeling guilty that no moving prep has been done.

Also, there are biscuits here, which makes the last hour of work seem more bearable...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yep, archel that'd be cool! Though, I have my doubts as to whether I'll be allowed to do the course.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

BASEMENT JAXX

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Bad luck, mark, I'm all out of tofu.

It's stir-fried bodies tonight then!!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"the light the heat
I am complete
I see the doorway
to a thousand churches
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
I see the light and the heat
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light the heat I see in your eyes "

That's why.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Realjukebox just played Ivor Cutler's 'A Real Man' and The Aphex Twin's 'Avril 14th' one after the other. It was exquisite.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to be that complete.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

daaaaaaancing in the rain....I'm siiiiiiiinging in the rain

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm happy because I loved Chicago. Work is busy as hell, especially since I had two days off, but I've still found time to look at apartments online and daydream. :)

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a good day's work on my 'Summerisle' project and now there's a quiet, intelligent French film on TV5 set in Portugal, which I'll visit next month, and I'm feeling good about just being in Europe. What a pleasure it is to live in Europe! To shuttle between Amsterdam and Lisbon and Berlin! To buy cambazola and cheap red wine! Trams! Statues, parks, galleries! Bookshops! Euros! Roman remains! Foreign languages, each one a different way of looking at life!

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Is your Summerisle project based at all on Simon Green's Deathstalker series? That would make me happy.

Oh, I'm also happy because I've finally spoken to Suzy! Next time I will see her IN PERSON!!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

No, Dan, imagine Fennesz soundtracking 'The Wicker Man'.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Or imagine Ivor Cutler with the Aphex Twin played right after.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.poster.net/anonymous/anonymous-gene-kelly-singing-in-the-rain-2400101.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's get back to that Basement Jaxx reason. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm seriously this close *pinches thumb & index finger together* to running out into the rain right now in my bare feet and reenacting that scene in its entirety.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I could do it, too.. but as we know, IT NEVER RAINS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA**!!

(**except for about two weeks straight in January/February)

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Boyfriend
Baby
Telephone

― Ally-zay (mlescaut), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

dunno - just am... have been in a good mood all day for no explicable reason!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe because you've been ending all your sentences with exclamation marks! Kinda like if you smile even if you're not happy and pretty soon you become happy anyway.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan I see your Basement Jaxx, and raise you, BASEMENT JAXX.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I may have just talked
my way into a prized gig.
now time to prove shit!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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its summer, and there is everything to live for

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Because I'm at work and still drunk from my birthday yesterday.

And because I am going to LA this weekend.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

What a wise man.

Hm...I R at work, thus not really happy, but the Portland trip was great and the wedding this Saturday will be equally great I'm sure. And it's payday. So yay me!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

coz year one of part-time study is almost over. Gonna start taking guitar lessons soon.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a good weekend (giggles uncontrollably)

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Reason I am happy now.....

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2004-05-31%2007.45.41%20-0700/Image-6AE7F478B31011D8.jpg

Sorry, gratuitous, I know,...but gimme a break.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

stylish shirt!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Because i had a great birthday weekend this past weekend and THEN tonight, walking down 1st Ave. after a nice bit o' curry I stumble across boxes of nearly-pristine 45's on the corner of 7th St. I start digging thru after finding out they're up for grabs 'cause the record store a few feet away has dumped them. Needless to say, I came home with a big bag of some great sh*t. Lots of bubblegum, reggae and disco, including a few Prelude, 70's NuYorican salsa and some Patrick Adams - produced stuff. Yippeee!

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

she's adorable AND stylin', alex!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno about that shirt - I'd expect an Alex baby to have Jaz or 'Honour the fire!' on his shirt, not a teddy bear.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

b-b-but it's a sparkly teddy bear!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

because I have a second interview sometime this week.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

something changed

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I know I've just got anxiety problems and that I don't really have anything to worry about.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my co-workers did give us a baby-sized Ramones t-shirt, but she has yet to sport it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Stevem spouting pulp lyrics?!

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw bless...

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

An interesting song to choose! Does love come quickly whatever you do...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i was actually referring to my salary

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Love of money is no disgrace. Unless you are perverted about it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i was all set to take a quick catnap but then i realized the wrecking crew was on amc. i win either way.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

in my next life i want to look like elke sommer. it's the very least god can do to repay me.

http://www.cultsirens.com/sommer/sommer004.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

It's beautiful out there.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

isn't it, can't wait to get out of this office

also happy due to having plenty of activities to be getting on with lately, even if they are mundane and unadventurous

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Because I'm going to Chicago.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

SUNNY!

Also, WEDDING! (In 23 days.)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

I AM LUUKING FOR MY KOZZEN LARRY!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Because the weekend will be v. good fun.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

the sun of brazil is still in my blood

excitement at completing my latest assignment

emails from someone who fills me with impetuous madness

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I'm getting to know a very nice person who I didn't know before. It is a pleasant surprise.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 9 June 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

Drugs.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 9 June 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

see. here it is!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

because i'm going home in 5 hours to sit in a deck chair in my garden with a couple of beers getting a tan for glastonbury.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

my dvd of 'wargames' has just arrived.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm still happy I am pregnant. But I have been having panic attacks - reading too much about what can go wrong is not helpful. I just discovered that feta, pre-packaged salads and goatcheese are a definite no-no (unless the cheese is baked). ARGH! But I'm very happy that I'm pregnant. Only I should worry less. :-(((((

We're also going to NY in two weeks time. WE CAN NOT WAIT.

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

I seem to have learned how to sleep. Four straight nights with no 3am "now what the fuck will I do" sessions.

My son seems to be over the chickenpox.

Tomorrow I will be drinking lots of birthday beer and treating myself to new cds.

(Happiness slightly offset by getting another year closer to ticking the next box up on the "age" bit of survey forms)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

cos my offsider has just showed up so in a second i am going to get a coffee. mmmmmmm flat white.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

there's a delicious calzone in the oven!

― Seuss, Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

How do you know it's delicious? I hope it is though.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

I'm an optimist

― Seuss, Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

I have good reason to be, too. It includes spicy italian sausage, roma tomato, kalamata olives, roasted capsicum, garlic and fresh basil

― Seuss, Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm happy because I went on a walk and the FOUNTAIN IN THE LAKE WAS ON, and Boys of Summer came on my ipod. Also, because Mandee is my roommate, and I like my friends, and my cat is cute!

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Monday, 13 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Because I bought a LIGHT METER and am about to make cinematic HISTORY!

Also I had good review

Also it is beautiful and I am going to go and lie in Yuerba Buena and eat the FOOD.

Also I am seeing Frederick Wiseman talk tonight! For free!

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I got cheap clothes for work from Wal-Mart (shut up, my income this summer is going to be like $500) and tasty stuff for salad (avocados, craisins, nuts, mandarin oranges). And next week I'll be at the seaside. And...well, nevermind, I still hate everyone.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm going home for some Jesus Juice!

― The King Of Pop (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

happy might be overstating it, but i'm better than i've been for several days.

― metal detective (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

can't say why. that would jinx it.

― metal detective (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm drinking coffee and it's a sunny day.

― rainy (rainy), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

After 20 years of deterioration from Alzheimer's, my wife's mother's misery finally ended last night. There have been tears, but mostly there has been a lot of relief on all sides, and tonight at the funeral home there was plenty of laughter and everyone telling their favorite Louise stories. This might seem an odd thread to post that, but no... no, not really.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

My condolences, Rock. My grandma was similarly released from her misery a few years ago and I was glad.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

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