Can I just mention....

that in Norwegian, the word chat is pratt *giggles*

A letch at the bus stop- the tale of a sad city...


This blog is officially one of my favourite new blogs that I've stumbled across!

Hauling ass to the bus this morning... we got off at Angel to change onto the 30... had a wee chat with our new found French friends who sell coffee and pain au chocolate outside the station. Nice guys. So there we stand in the crowds of people in the gloomy rain... out of the corner of my eye I spot this man who makes kissy kissy actions in my direction... Hazel and I laughed it off and ponder what on earth he could possibly be thinking he could gain by doing this. We thought nothing of it... not but a minute later, he's bumbled through the people and planted himself right next to us and continues his suggestive antics. We were like... hello? you freaking nutter! So we make a loud statement something to the lines of 'it's rather unfortunate that some people are just so rude and intrusive' and walked to the other side of the bus shelter.... Yea, you guessed it. Not but a few moments later he was there again, right in our faces. At that point the bus arrived which was a pretty good thing because at that point I was ready to throttle him. Sicko!

The thing that disheartens me more than his unacceptable letching over two women at a bus stop in the early morning, is the fact that there were so many people around and no one did anything. I mean, if some guy was doing that to another woman and I was there I would certainly pipe up and make it very clear that his actions were not acceptable and that he should sod off... not a man or a woman said a thing... no one wanted to interfere...that is the saddest of all.

Sainsbury's

The sainsbury's at Angel is now open 24h a day. The joy and turmoil, it's hard to recount... Miss H and I stopped in on our way home after meeting up with Theo for a drink... We were by no means, drunk but I believe we were only there to buy fixings to make tacos but ended up spending like 40£ between the two of us... items of note on our shopping lists were...

- 1 joint of beef (hello?) what's that about? I'll have to take pictures as to how Hazel plans to consume this monstrosity...
- 3 yoghurts of various variety (including peach crumble and chocolate banana crunch... no nutritional value in sight)
- taco fixings... including cheese, salsa, avocados, yellow pepper, and taco shells
- Now magazine
- 1 beautiful stainless steel olive oil decanter filled with extra fine virgin olive oil (Hazel couldn't resist, we HAD to own it)

How it amounted to that much... I'll never know... I think they saw us coming a mile away... either that or they've added on a night time service charge... or think we're drunk and stupid... which we weren't but still... why am I so confused?

However, to their credit, Sainsbury's has come up with some great gift ideas for xmas... my favourite being, the chocolate fondue pot. Hmm, someone on my list is going to get that for sure!

today I walked to the bus stop and my socks and trousers got wet from the lashing rain

yesterday I had a great Japanese meal with a friend

the day before I went to the gym and when I was finished, had a nice steam sauna

the day before that I had a terrible hangover

the day before that I walked around town in the rain and got my socks wet

the day before that I rented a bad movie

the day before that, I can't remember a thing

Again the ball of fire has risen in the skies above London

much has transpired over the weekend... hopefully all will settle. The rain and gloomy weather sure did add in it's fair share of pathetic fallacy... lighter notes include being on the 38 on the way home on saturday night after 5 too many martinis taking the role of the bus asshole and dodging anti-Canadian - south park - fueled insults by Keith and Hazel and a screeming queen who was more than delighted to take part...

Busy week ahead... meeting with hon tomorrow night and Therese on Thursday... gym in-between, oh yes and if I'm lucky I might just make it home sometime in between all of that.

Can I just say... do I look like a freaking prossie? I think not. I went across the road last night out into the big bad world outside my loft compound *scoff* and some freaking punter honks his horn at me and tries to follow along beside me... I mean come on now. I'm walking across the road to the shop... so I exit the shop and he's circled around the green and come back and honks again just on the off chance that I am indeed a hooker and I'm just playing hard to get... now I've seen some of the ladies who occasionally work the corners around my street and I can tell you for damn sure they look rough as hell. I really felt like going over to the guys car and asking him if he was having a laugh? Eww eww.

I never thought it was humanly possible for time to pass by so slowly. It's only 14h28 and the minutes are dragging by. I've been clock watching since 13h40 could that be the reason. I think the fact that it started getting dark at quarter past three doesn't help matters much either. Gosh darn it, If had only gotten in on time this morning I could duck out of here early. damn me.

I'm checking though our newest Norwegian site boy does it ever make life exciting...

Please someone... entertain me, or sign me out?

*hides under desk*

I have this really annoying habit...

I can't even imagine how mad it must drive the guy who sits next to me...

I'm a mouth breather. I've just become conscious that I have this habit (for no reason whatsoever) of sharply inhaling from only the corners of my mouth. Why? dunno...

Happy Hallowe'en!

Am i the only person who spells it this way? I remember it being drilled into me while I was at school. Even spell check doesn't like it. Well too, bad... it's one of the VERY few words I spell correctly, so gosh darn it, I'm taking advantage.

There is nothing good on radio 6 today... seriously my ears are bleeding... someone help me.

How much to I love liam lynch's song 'The united states of whatever'? lots :)

I wonder if I can forego my healthy eating attempts and indulge in some chockies in celebration of the day of ghoulishness?

Only 23 more days till our holiday to France!

I'm certainly no developer... but man oh man...

I was working in our CMS (content management system) today and just my luck... while changing a sub-channel name from upper to lower case the whole freaking primary channel wiped. PANIC is too mild to describe this occurrence. Luckily it turns out that I didn't do it, in fact the CMS had been having glitches for the past couple days. PHEW. My god. Deleting an entire content section on a live site that includes live feeds! How fired would I have been?

*heart still racing at 1000 bpm*

I think I'm going to go and work in a shop... less potential for terror in the workplace... hmm less money... yea, scrap that.

I can't seem to maintain any sort of posture or even remotely eat healthily...

no amount of tea can warm my tooties as I sit here at my desk...

Beth from Portishead has a new album out and they're sampling it on radio 6... it's pretty disappointing... man, just shows how much beats did for her... sorry Beth.

I have no idea what to buy mum for her b'day...

perhaps the steam room will provide some solace... aren't I just the ray of sunshine today?

time has overlapped people and places and memories. reality is just that.

I'm overlapped and detatched.

like a custom-made versace couture piece that doesn't fit.

Let Go

drink up, baby down
mmm, are you in or are you out
leave your things behind
'cause it's all going off without you
excuse me, too busy you¡¯re writing your tragedy
these mishaps
you bubble wrap
when you've no idea what you're like

so let go, jump in
oh well, whatcha waiting for
it's alright
'cause there's beauty in the breakdown
so let go, just get in
oh, it's so amazing here
it's alright
'cause there's beauty in the breakdown

it gains the more it gives
and then it rises with the fall
so hand me that remote
can't you see that all that stuff's a sideshow

such boundless pleasure
we've no time for later now
you can't await your own arrival
you've 20 seconds to comply

so let go, jump in
oh well, whatcha waiting for
it's alright
'cause there's beauty in the breakdown
so let go, just get in
oh, it's so amazing here
it's alright
'cause there's beauty in the breakdown

-Frou Frou

I just had a gleeful visit to the stationary bunker downstairs...

the fruits of my newly collected bounty include:

-a gummy wrist protector to cushion my wrists as I type
-blue staples! *wicked*
-a pencil sharpener (I haven't had one of those in years)

My day is officially complete. I'm in stationary heaven!

Just had my flu jab...

Didn't hurt but I feel kind of woozy... and there's a lump in my throat... I'm sure I'll live. Much better than getting the flu let me tell you. Did you know that they use egg in the flu shot... or some dirititive of sorts... guess if you're vegan, you have to just suffer with the flu.

Work is much less stressful to day, infact I dare to state that I've been borderline unproductive this morning... naughty me.

Tori Amos is playing in London in January to support her new album. Miss H and I are going to go, should be quite good! I figure she's such a great musician I should take the chance to see her before chance decides to not align things like this again.... god I sound like such a drip!

Hoping that my flu shot doesn't slow me down too much, I think I may just do a quick stop over at the gym this lunch... I figure if I do half my workout at lunch and half after work I'll have more time to myself at home in the evenings and reduce the frequency of arriving home at nearly 10pm

How badly do I need a hair cut? desperately... I'm the person walking down the st. who hasn't seen my hairdresser since The beginning of Aug! Trying to maintain a fashion cut after it's grown out is not an easy feat... It's sad. just very sad.

Can I just say, thank god for internet radio... it's my lifeline while at work.

I have worked here for just over a month now...

I've noticed for the first time today that I have two large desk lamps on my desk. Previous to this, I had not noted... Why are they there? Why did I take so long to notice? Why is there a rainbow coloured laye (flower thingie) around the neck of one of them?

Why? for the love of god, why did I now notice till now?

I think it could have something to do with being back at the gym again almost everyday... but I have this insatiable hunger... I could literally eat anything at anytime of the day....

it's grey and uber rainy here in the grand ol' city of London today.

Can I just say how surprisingly warm fishnet stockings are? I'm mighty impressed.

It's like a ghost town here this morning... my boss is off sick, one person out on holidays and someone else just hasn't bothered to show up (yet)... not very motivating but hey, someone's got to work.

speaking of work... duty calls...

Jolt

Thanks to Sarah who had a reference in her blog to this site... which reminded me of this excellent comercial I remember only seeing it on showcase during the GLB film festival but it was a good-un!

For all those who have not lived in Canada before... Jolt is a cola with twice the amount of caffine as any other cola beverage...

Sunbeam, stop tugging me! We don't have time for this...

Hi my name is Sarah...

and I'm a Frou Frou addict... more specifically my weakness has been exposed as track 1 and 7.

Phew, now I've got that off my chest, I think I can get on with my day... oh yes, that doesn't mean that I'm going to stop listening.

The sun is so big and yellow today, the sky so blue, it's dang gorgeous.

I tried taking the tube this morning in a trial run to see if it was better than taking the bus... Not a chance... what a nightmare.... I honestly don't know how people do it... It's like a mob scene and I only went three stops. Never again. I shall weather the climate and the clogged roads rather than be part of the underground human sausage factory.

I'm supposed to be going to this drinks thing tonight with the recruitment company who connected me with this job... I'm not terribly interested but they rang and e-mailed so many times that I felt obliged to say yes. I shall then forego my gym-tivities this pm and trundle off to Faringdon to mill around with people I don't know... Perhaps the hob knobbing will come in handy a couple years from now (or a few months if my contract isn't renewed) when I'm looking for work again. I always feel like such a little kid at things like this...

want to know what the winning lotto numbers are going to be on Saturday? I'm thinking 5, 34, 19, 8, 17, 1

Mystery fruit

so yes, as so it goes, I've noticed a strange phenomenon here in ze office... At the beginning of every week, provisions of various fruits arrive in the second floor kitchen... it's the special kitchen that dispenses yummy dr. pepper sodie pops for free. So anyways, back to the fruit. It arrives there and somehow, a portion of it arrives upstairs to the third floor where I work in the lounge/plasma screen tele area. There is a fair quantity and a good selection of various types of fruitful fancy... Then, as if by magic... within a day it's all gone... nothing left but a stray bruised banana. I've never seen anyone eat any of it, nor have I been brave enough to try it myself... but yes indeedy it goes. I'm thinking perhaps it's the TV production team that is responsible for the consumption. Be that as it may, I'm still puzzled as I've never before witnessed fruit provisions from an employer before... super strange. Maybe someone's family owns a fruit stand... I don't know. Gee, the things I waste my time pondering about.

what's the difference between provision and ration? is the only difference is that a ration is limited? But provisions can be limited too, when does a provision become a ration or visa versa?

I love my new gym. I did a tae bo class last night for the first time in over a year. Man, I did we ever look like a bunch of twats. But all the right parts are experiencing a dull ache today so it's all good. I don't' think I'll ever find a class that is as good as the one Eldon ran at Mitel... he knew his stuff, and made you work hard till you thought you were going to die... ahh the joys of exercise.

I've booked my flight home for xmas, finally found a direct one, it cost about 60£ more but it was much more attractive than transferring in Frankfurt and adding an extra 8h total flying time...

Can't wait to go home and see everyone, I really wish I had the money to bring miss Hazel with me...

Yesterday morning I dreamt that I was getting ready to have tea with my dad. I was so excited, sadly I was awoken by the alarm clock before he actually arrived. That would have been so nice....