Last Week This Week

This week

Today: waited in for surveyor to look at house, going to see Múm.
Tomorrow: going to agencies
Wednesday: avoiding Tube strike
Thursday: no idea
Friday and Saturday: Black and white ball in Shepherds bush.

This week: looking ahead towards Friday with a mixture of fear and gratitude

friday: I went to see Rory Bremner live in Hayes.

saturday: slept alot, went to the video shop, posted on ILX, chatted on IM.

sunday: went to see "my big fat greek wedding" and hung out with some friends, posted to ILX.

today: at work, packing boxes, might be going to see Signs this evening.

rest of the week: same old, same old.

Tuesday: work blah work blah interview blah work blah BUFFY WATCHING yaaay (but also blah cos some of the eps were k-rub) and yummy curry eating and booze drinking!

Wednesday: felt very ill and miserable. Went home.

Thursday: booked flights to DUBLING!

Friday: played Dance Dance Revolution and sat in DODGY BAR then went home and probably watched some ANGLE.

Saturday: REJECTION LETTER HELL. Sat at home. Felt depressed. Drank. Ate. Felt more depressed. Left house once. Good thing: read the Dark is Rising sequence.

Sunday: Same as Saturday but cheered up later on in the evening with CURRY and BUFFY ahem.

THIS WEEK:

Monday: work blah work blah COR BLIMEY L0rd Wh1tty is using our grebt work canteen bah chiz humbug soon the bourgeoisie will take over our works canteen bah bah - actually it is OK because he is our favourite Minister. Then later on a PINT!

Tuesday: ER Buffy *perhaps* but am not quite sure now, will have to consult with autres..

Wednesday: work blarr blarr although them Butterflies of Lurve are playing (Katie R this with ye Pauling???) so might go..

Thursday: ZELDA ZELDA ZELDA (ok, dunno yet)

FRIDAY: HAHA Friday is my DAY OFF! Although I have no real plangs - R it the black and white ball so soon? I shall be there!!

this week: will be on ILX, will watch TV and read a book.

Nath said she might possibly come over to London on Sunday but from her above post I assume that she isn't.

My plan for the week, therefore:

Keep working (I have to now, being a professional and all that ahem). Try to square in my mind exactly what kind of distance I should keep between myself and others. When there's too much distance and too little distraction, that's a deadly combination. Drift too far away from people and you can never reach them again (e.g. nearly everyone I/Laura knew in Oxford). Drift too close to people, things get over-intense, they retreat.

I need to get out more too...not just to work, or to get records and books, I mean get out properly, as in trying to meet and link with other people. I'm not doing nearly enough of that at the moment. And it's up to me to open my door and let people in. At the moment I feel as though I'm searching for the right door in the dark.

I did nothing last week. I didn't even pay my credit card bill, which was foolish, because now it's a week late and I'll have to pay two days' wages. This is my own fault for being too crap to remember bills or to get a job that pays better but I like to complain. I will probably do nothing next week. I'm so rock and roll...

Friday: went to pub (Whitehouse) with workmates
Saturday: went shopping, compered charity quiz in Kidlington
Sunday: lunch with girlfriend, went round Hinksey Park, visited friends in Islip

Monday (today): staying in and watching new series of The Office
Tuesday: going to see Tompaulin & Butterflies of Love at the Cellar (as Rebecca just mentioned. Who is Dave K?)

Wednesday: going to see Libertines at Zodiac (possibly)
Thursday: quiz night again, don't know who against yet as I don't have a fixture list!
Friday: probably staying in.

This week: going to Argentina on Wednesday (hooray)!

Tuesday In different office doing holdiday cover, working with my friends Suzy and Susan. Ended up in pub with Suzy and my mate Ben. Finally reached someone I'd been trying to get hold of all week and had to do phone interview in pub toilets.

Wednesday Started to panic that I did not know enough about teenage girls to be working where I was.

Thursday Had lunch with my friend Malik. Evening went to Camden to see Lucas' band do their first proper gig. Went back to their flat, got very drunk.

Friday Woke up in all my clothes, including demin jacket with handbag over one arm. Legged it to south bank. Went to pub with Suzy,Susan, Ben and others. Went to Two Brewers in Clapham. Ended up with a bloke called Dean teaching me how to Vogue to Bananarama.

Saturday Woke up, crawled back to Crouch End from Balham, had shower went to meet a band whilst they recorded a TV show (work) came home, fell asleep on a copy of the Guardian.

Sunday stayed in bed all day reading papers, played Playstation with my nice housemate Steven in the evening.

Monday Well I've made meatballs, done some writing (the Ford Ka, whooo), made some phone calls. I have another looming deadline and no clean clothes, so I will be staying in this evening.

Tuesday A day of sending out innvoices and trying to organise finances. Blah.

Wednesday and onwards: How organised do you want me to be?

(Right, time to add another line break and delete it again just in case anyone's bored enough to check the last modified date. I hope the sysadmins aren't bored enough to use cksum or anything.)

oh no! i went there earlier this summer, it was...terrible (and slightly embarrassing!)

THIS WEEK
monday. gym at lunch. probably will stay out for a bit after work, maybe grabbing dinner at better burger or at the place with the september sushi special. laundry and reading the other books i have to review by next week should be done as well.
tuesday. out to the suburbs for dinner and target/trader joe's run with parents.
wednesday. birthday drinks for friend.
thursday. drinks/dinner with friend who will i am hoping help me get my life a little sorted.
friday. joe arrives. not much else confirmed yet - perhaps we'll go to tupelo.
saturday. birthday drinks for a friend, and a live performance by another friend.
sunday. up in the air but it'll probably involve me eating soup and shopping for clothes.

PUMPKIN BEER?????????

Smiling Pumpkin Ale:
An orange colored harvest beer. Made with honey-roasted pumpkins, and subtly spiced with Ginger, Cloves and Cinnamon. Finishes with a tasty, residual malt sweetness and lingering pumpkin finish. 5.0% alc/vol

also you can get it in a cocktail - pumpkin beer mixed with cider and served in a glass with crushed roasted pumpkin seeds round the rim! num num.

This week: no idea. Buffy, I suppose; interview to set up that keeps slipping through planning cracks; need to pick up bicycle from faraway place where I locked it after a tire blew out; two things to right; go out with weird girl from Georgia who I met at Le Tigre show last month and then very weirdly called me yesterday.

Last week:
Monday:I forget

Tuesday:Had driving lesson.

Wednesday:Went to town to get a driving licence, looked at CDs but managed to not buy one.

Thursday:More driving lessons. Collected my bro from the airport, he was back from London for the weekend.

Friday:Failed driving test, didn't care too much surprisingly. Went and had lunch with friend Phil and my brother, then went drinking with Phil, my brother, and some of my brother's mates. Got a lift home with best mate who happened to be calling over to mine, played him some MP3s which my brother had given me on CD "Vitalic live, wahey!", then got a lift to the off licence and went to another friends house. Was slightly drunk and high and talked bollox to mate's girlfriend who said "god you're way more sociable after a few drinks". Then went to the local pub and talked to another friend about the impending Darren Emerson gig on Saturday. Went home, slept.

Saturday:Got up and had lunch with my sister and her boyfriend who were also home for the weekend. Chatted to brother's wife and brother most of the day. Then read for a while. Met mates at 7.30 and had a few beers before going into town to see Mr Darren Emerson, nice and early so we'd see the afore mentioned Phil do his set too. Club was packed and we had a mad time, left club at 5, went to mates house, all my friends conked out except me and one guy, we drank some beer, I am not a caner normally! So we ended up very hyper and kind of insane, called to local shops to buy skins at 8, then went home at about 11.

Sunday evening, went for meal with family.

P.S. I know where you live.
P.P.S. Unless you really can't get there, in which case I'll just prod you with a stick or something.

But, having just grumbled about spending two days' wages on being a moron and not paying a credit card bill for about a fifth of the cost of the fee on time, I might be even more foolish and spend three days' wages on a taxi home. But I shouldn't. So. I will think about it. And if I regain my financial senses I will prod myself - hur hur, Dan to thread, and so on - with my nice sharp new 2B pencil (actually, I bought a 4H too, that's probably more painful) instead.

(No to back him into a courtesy corner or anything. Sorry Mark)

Yesterday-Bought jeans, and a hoodie, and a sweater. Went out to discuss the weekend in friends house, had fun in moderation.

Today:Try and write something. Read more of Irvine Welsh's new book. Listen to MP3s, later this evening maybe go out for a drink.

Tomorrow:Find friend Rob who I haven't seen all summer and do something with him, maybe the cinema, who knows.

Thursday:Unknown (handy escape word gareth)

Friday: Don't know what I'll do in the day but Friday is always a night for going out with my friends who live near me, should be a laugh as usual.

Saturday:Go into town and look at decks with a view to buying some. Then the highlight of the week will be Plump DJs in a tiny but banging club with friends. I am attempting to give up drugs for a month following Saturday so I'd better enjoy myself or else I'll have to fail.

Sunday:Sleep.

Change my plans for today to form filling and agency visiting seeing as those gits at BIC decided to find an internal candidate, grrrrrr.

Bad luck Chris, at least the agency man likes you.

NB :)

[* Viz = dud (I suppose I picked it up from 80s ZX Spectrum magazines instead, which should probably be even more embarrassing), but I do like the name Finbarr Saunders, and I think it is a terrible shame that there is no scan of the Student Grant "...but we gave you some pogs..." cartoon online. If anyone reading this has any idea what I'm talking about then make my day and scan it in so I can realise that it wasn't actually that good in the first place.]

What's with the red "unread answers" bit? It's very pretty but I haven't yet worked out the difference between the red ones and the black ones.

Red unread counts are for things you've already looked at once, though it may be a bit intense. Pretty, but intense. It's cuz I only bother with like 3 ILM threads ever and I like to see when the ones I have looked at have been added to.

(Am I the only person in the world to use pico to edit PHP scripts over a Java SSH client from a slEazyInterwebCafe? And to add such a useless feature? I hope so)

ps also i just emailed you on the mac.com address as promised