tv

The Royle Family was on a little earlier and it is genius. I laughed and I cried my eyes out through half the episode especially when Barbara was doing Nanna's hair. RIP Nanna. Genius.

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8.-|

Thud * * * / * * * *

Thud by Terry Pratchett
a typical Pratchett Discworld novel and since I think Pratchett is very good indeed - that's cool

SPOILER AFTER CUT

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bollocks 8-)

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watched Lost in Translation and thinking of ......... i'm a fool

glass bell soul ringing with emptiness

also saw Vanilla Sky the other day and i'm thinking re ......... tech support, hear me know, i want to live in the real world not pine in pain

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this was designed by Ursula Vernon and it just made me laugh and i was a little shocked but lol



she explains

I am female.

I am not girly. I am desperately ungirly. I look good in pink, but I feel guilty about it. For various reasons, I would sooner belly-crawl through broken glass than buy anything marketed

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relief

my computer is working
last night i was watching tv on the pc when the money ran out on the electricity meter, ok torch, money right sorted and i had power again then shit i can smell burning - fuck smells like burning plastic type electrical fire smell - fuck - then the LEDs start to come on but flicker on my main desktop pc - shiiiiiiitt - ok kill the power to all my computer stuff - opened up my pc and no obvious sign of damage but the power supply smells like something has been melting inside it - so today i bought a new power supply and installed it and everything seems fine.
i had worried that i'd fried the lot
*deep sigh*

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I'm furious that in the current row about women wearing the veil, and specifically Ms Azmi, no senior British politician is standing up for this woman in what I regard as her fundamental right to self expression. I do not buy the argument that a veil intrudes on her ability to teach and I would argue that she is choosing to express a distinctive cultural identity and some people appear to be threatened by that. Where is the rest of the Labour Party? Where are the Liberals?

Of Fire and Night * * / * * *

Of Fire And Night by Kevin J Anderson
hmm readable but an extremely irritating ending and little observance of basic physics

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i've had approval
i have a house
available 27/10/06

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well hopefully I've found somewhere new to live, still renting but a step forward, a 2 bed terrace
it will be wonderful to get out of this cramped hovel of a bedsit and have a little space

pic

an image that caught my attention
The English Piazza aka Baby's first piercing

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I saw someone speeding as I walked home from swimming and thought to myself, "I hope he has an accident," then realised that I was being completely callous and changed my wish to "I hope someone stops him before there's an accident". Then bang in the distance. When I got to the junction there was one car spun 180 degrees, a car whose front was stove in, people standing over a man on the ground and a man shouting into a phone. Later I saw that a woman was trapped or at least injured in the spun car. I saw the man on the ground twitching from time to time and then again more dramatically when he was on the ambulance gurney. I didn't really see anything worth telling the police but I stopped and gave them my name and address and so it's up to them to dismiss or not what I saw ie to corroborate that he was speeding.

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Memorable Quotes from
Harvey (1950)

Elwood P. Dowd: Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.

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so i'm a student again
yesterday I had my first OU tutorial
ha ha

advert/fantasy

I woke up early with a kind of advert idea / fantasy image in my head and spent the morning lying in bed working the details out

it is the 1920s and we're in some expensive hotel room, possibly in the South, but certainly a small town
everyone is impeccably dressed in tuxedos and eveningware
we're in the jazz age
all very F Scott Fitzgerald
it's kind of an alternative world but surreally all the people are personifications of drinks
first as the so called King of Beers Budweiser is Muhammad Ali
as Miller by way of counter balance is Colin Powell
Samuel L Jackson as Smirnoff
Laurence Fishburne as a full bodied red wine
Aretha Franklin as white wine
Sidney Poitier as champagne
Denzel Washington as a simple elegant cool glass of chilled water
Whitney Houston as a Baileys
Jimi Hendrix as a Jack Daniels
Missy Elliott as a Coca Cola - (the lovely lady has the lines like the bottle)
Morgan Freeman as a Glenlivet
I couldn't think of drinks but also including Will Smith, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock

serving them drinks would be Jimmy Carter
and at the end as they boarded a train to go back to New York or wherever would be Bill Clinton as the Pullman porter welcoming them aboard the train

Blue at the Mizzen * * * *

Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian
SPOILER AFTER CUT

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oh fuck
after 2 months of swimming i finally decided that i needed to find out my weight and rather than simply feel better and be told that I was losing weight (thanks Vicky, Anita, Ness and Rob) I decided that actually I needed a benchmark so I went to the chemist and weighed myself
ho hum 15 stone 2 ish
I think I'm roughly 5 foot 9 so according to a body mass converter I'm still officially obese
fuck knows what my rating was before I did all the exercise to trim down to being the minor lard bucket I am today