UK Watercooler 2: Electric Boogaloo

We all went out for lunch, and now I'm slightly regreting that decision. I should have had booze while I was out. Sigh.

Beer only works as a cheerer-upper in multiples, award winning or otherwise, surely?

This was "Gem" by Bath Ales and I was rather disappointed with it. Though it did do the trick of relaxing me. Tonight, I've got Ruddles apple ale and I'm really not sure about that.

Tomorrow I play on drinking Nelson's Victory Ale in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar. Hurrah!

(Sorry, Matt.)

Blimey, it's wet today. I got completely soaked just walking from the train station to the bust stop (didn't even try to walk all the way to work).

Not sure how this will impact my planned Brighton trip - if it doesn't clear up, I may not go. Bah. :-(

However, I am now even more enthralled with my tweed jacket. Dammit, those things are weatherproof. My hair and trousers are soaked but the rest of me is bone dry. Guess you'd have to have good cloth in a country where it rains 250 days of the year.

Ha ha, they've just instituted a dress code at work. (Bah humbug, no jeans on Fridays) So I've started wearing tweed most days.

At least it's Friday.

None of the management are in today in the nice temp's office - so, for once, that part of the building is cheerful and relaxed.

If it stops raining by lunchtime I might head down to Trafalgar Sq to gawp at the tourists gawping at the celebrations.

my waterproof-looking jacket turns out to be nothing of the sort and i have dark patches on my t-shirt which attest to this. jeans are also very damp. and i forgot to bring my lunch.

Just made the mistake of trying to enter into a discussion with a troll. Stupid me.

x-post, yay for stopping raining! At last!

That being said, I've been thinking about starting a small press, that's constructive, isn't it?

Small press sounds excellent. Bit of a financial drain, but still. I have a friend who runs a small press and loves it.

Bah, my anger management techniques aren't working today. I'm not even angry, just irritated. Means my mood is changing. Perhaps the depression will break, then.

I have no idea how I managed to typo "work". I also resent having to have artificial light on at ten o clock in the bloody morning.

Kate, you are probably correct. But there is a lot riding on this essay so I ought to be cracking on, really. And irritated is way better than angry.

I definitely need to give that more thought.

I'm in a pretty good mood. Just need to get off ILX, stop being wound up by trolls, and do some work.

(Sorry, I know that was on the other thread)

I don't know what happens. I just get kind of stuck in this spiral of paranoia and anger and self loathing and outer directed loathing and paranoia and can't get out of it and wind myself up to the point where I no longer feel like I can control myself and I no longer know what I'm doing or saying.

It's scary. But I don't ever seem to be able to stop doing it. And that makes me terrified. :-(

I want sleep and pizza. And a new brain.

i can be in town pretty much whenever... i cannae go anywhere expensive though!

I'm really craving Pizza GoGo but that's in Streatham. I don't think there's one in Holborn.

SuSE is awful and annoying. I used to use it, but switched to Gentoo years ago and never looked back.

x-post

x-post ha ha, I've had to do that before. stopped pretty quickly when they saw how much of it was taken up with "Pointless Admin".

I hate how Fridays are supposed to be a bit more relaxed than the rest of the working week but instead everyone's getting stressed.

I've got this really annoying, almost painful tickle in my throat which is making me cough too much. Compared to everyone else, it's pretty minor.

take care of that throat, Beanz, this is how my lurgy started.

Gah, that horrible woman from earlier is back, bugging me. How did she ever get my email address? Bloody users... Now I know that she's looking on the Oracle system, because I've already had a call from the helpdesk and I had to tell them "the Oracle system basically just doesn't work any more". But this email she's all "Oh, the reports in the ::new system:: don't work!"

Argh! I wrote her back and told her if she could manage to tell me the exact name of the report, and where she actually find it, then maybe I could help her - WHEN I GOT A CHANCE, i.e. not on my lunch break - but who knows if that's too complicated for her puny BRANE.

Yes, she wrote back. She still hasn't told me what system she's looking at. Except she's given me a clue in that she's looking for info from 2004, when the new system wasn't even working. Grrrrr.

http://www.larabar.com/ing/dates.jpg

(Don't mind me, I'm just cranky because none of the hott men on dating sites ever write me back.)

And then he said "btw did I mention I'm sensitive and I like Rugby?"

I suppose that was "funny" I guess. Sigh.

I will only end up deleting my entire profile in a week with my opinion of internet dating and dating in general reconfirmed. ::blows raspberry::

i am trying to book cheap train tix to glasgow when smoosh are playing and the booking system don't work and i thought it was cos of mozilla so i switched to a whole nother computer and it STILL DIDN'T WORK so i tried buying it through a diff company and it STILL DIDN'T WORK and i can't call them because our landline is busted and calls from my mobile cost a MILLION POUNDS because i have such a cheaparse contract.

how do you people have such confidence to go and ask people on dates? you are all aliengs.

also had a look at the back of super monkey ball and the top picture on the back of the box is of them playing tennis:
http://www.continuum2.com/gcn/monkeyball-2_6.jpg

you underestimate me.
it's THE MOVIES.

Emsk, I have no confidence or courage. What I have is DUTCH courage.

One of my colleagues just came over and told me our email system has been up and down for the past two days (which means that now I don't know if the friends I wrote who haven't responded are just busy/mad at me/ignoring me/just didn't get the mail in the first place) so I wrote to TGL from my yahoo account.

And didn't realise till I hit send and went back to reread what I'd written, only to realise that it ads a .sig which has links to my blog and my band's myspace. ARGH! I don't think I've mentioned him on it... (though there is a picture of him on it. But honestly, it's there because it's a picture of me, and my friends, having fun in Kent.)

Oh well. Maybe he will like the pretty music on the MySpace. And he did send me a link to his blog. Who knows.

I actually like the people I work with. This is a first. Good note to the end of the day.

I have spent the day at home setting up my new PC. It feels like Christmas.

Anyway just testing the internet settings and they work fine obv.

Hope you all had a good day at work without me ! ;)

I finally slept. It was glorious. I think I slept for 10 hours on Friday night and 12 hours on Saturday. I took a pill last night to help me sleep through my cough, and ended up sleeping through my alarm clock as well.

Saturday I lay in bed reading the papers and Country Life. Sunday I did some work on NaSoAlMo (new song!) and then went to see Architecture in Helsinki. Discovered that a former crush's band was supporting. (Thanks for warning me, Chuck No.4) That was bizarre. Watching him, I felt nothing. Kind of like an empty vessel that passion had once passed through. AiH was entertaining. Managed to avoid getting in a fite with my friend over pop music, which was a bit of a relief.

I still don't feel entirely well (physically or mentally). But less mental and stressed than I did.

UK Watercooler Conversation 3: The Revenge of the Cookie