Month: October 2002

Patrick came around here early this afternoon to watch some movies. The order of the day was Ring followed by Battle Royale followed by my first viewing of Audition.

Fuck. The latter was a scary movie. Not only did I cringe in places (and trust me you’ll know when) I turned away from the screen a couple of times. Thats pretty damn rare. What is even rarer is that I was actually queasy for a while after it finished.

In other news, I’m have nothing else to share.

Oh yes actually I do. Buffy: 702 Beneath You. Not bad at all, this could be a damn good season. I didn’t like Spike in 701 at all, but not bad at all in this one.

Oh more stuff.
I still can’t find those books which is really pissing me off. I really don’t think I would have put them in storage in the attic, but it is starting to look like that is the only place they could be. I have the fact that I am so disorganised. I’m probably in a worse state than I have been in a While and given that I bought two more book shelves recently… That is saying a lot. I hate it.

I have never been a tidy person in my own space, but back in Dublin I had all my books sorted out and I knew where they were. Here they are all over the place…literally. I guess it is in part to me having so many graphic novels. They take up a lot more space on the shelf. I could fit all of my books comfortably into the space they take up and probably my dvds and cds aswell. I don’t know what to do about more space.

*sigh*. I wish I had money. Nothing would make me happier in this city (well almost nothing) than having a place of my own with for lack of a better word a library. A room with wall to wall shelves where I could put everything up nicely in order. I would not only enjoy the actual process of doing that, but I would be able to pick out what I wanted in seconds. It would be so very nice.

Maid…thought about it before, talked about it with flatmate…at her suggestion. I wonder. (Silence in the peanut gallery).

I’m getting very very scared of Tokoy. We finally were able to book a place to stay to cover the entire trip. Total cost just under £1000. I know that is for two of us, but fuck me this holiday is costing me more than £900 already.

Speaking of flatemate, I’ve not seen her in a couple of days. Sounds bad I know but I really wish I don’t see her till Monday. That would give me my day alone tomorrow.

So very tired going to bed now.

– I appear to have badly misjudged some priorites. I shall have to bear that in mind for the future.
– I think I may have harmed a team more than I ever helped it
– I really hate it when friends don’t get along.
– Somewhere to stay for the time I’m in Tokyo is going to cost me more money than I have. I need to work on that.

– I hate the world. If you loved me you would kill yourselves.
– Thank you Alex.

My mother claims my missing books are not in Dublin. I shall have to search my room tomorrow for them.

I have about 6 shows to watch over the weekend. I am quite glad about that.
I am SO sleeping in late tomorrow. Goodnight.

oh yeah re: “all blokes lusting after goth chicks”
I have one comment to make:
umm…yeah 🙂

Posting removed with apologies.

Not only did my Amazon package arrive this morning and the special edition of Battle Royale seems to be really sweet. I got a package from the lovely Alex containing the hardcover The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which I have been looking to get a hold of for months!

Thats a pretty damn good start to the day 🙂

GAIMAIN vs McFARLANE UPDATE: Neil Wins On All Counts
So does this mean we might actually get some Mircle/Marvel Man reprints?

Either way it is good news 🙂

I’m about 45 minutes into Amelie and I’m enjoying it a lot. Its a pretty sweet movie that is just flowing along nicely. I’m doing a lot better with the French than I had thought. It might sound strange to say but I’m able to understand at least 70% with the aid of the subtitles. Maybe someday I will go back to doing French and see if I can improve on that. I stopped watching it because I was close to falling asleep. I’m going to head to bed early tonight, pretty soon in fact

Blogger claim to have fixed the time stamp entries, but I don’t believe them. New template bad I know, I’ll look at it over the weekend…maybe. I really don’t have a clue what to do with it tho. If I could take a half day it would be cheaper to go to Dublin for the weekend and see Sigur Ros than to go to Bristol and see them. In fact a weekend in Dublin leaving tomorrow night, seeing the gig on Sunday night and coming back on Monday would cost me a total of £80. However I wouldn’t be able to get into work until 12ish on Monday morning and I can’t do that.

Work yeah, much fun there. I was pretty tired today so I guess that didn’t help. Interesting day. I am so very glad tomorrow is Friday. I suspect a quiet night in would be very good but somewhat unlikely. I can but try but if Nick mentions those cute girls again, the night will be set. I have some stuff on order from Amazon which shipped yesterday. If that arrived tomorrow I think the weekend would be pretty much set. A lot of time alone in my room watching tv or surfing the net. Kinda sad I know but it has to be done every now and again.

I rarely read anything I write here. I know its not good idea to even post without rereading it but I don’t care to be honest. If I go and reread it…well I just won’t. I don’t have the patience. I also would more than likely just sit and cringe at whatever it was that had come to mind which I had shared.

I am so very tired. I can’t remember the last time I nearly fell asleep at 8:30 in the evening as I nearly did earlier. In fact I’m pretty sure I could have fallen asleep at my desk had I wanted to.

Yah some more work stuff actually. I use to think stress was a good thing. I may not have always handled it well, but I could focus it. Or more accurately it focused me. Only when I was really worked up about something could I sit there and hammer at a problem and make the damn thing work. It was fun too, I knew I could do it and I had to do it for whatever reason I was stressing about. These days its just not working. Stress just gets to me. Full stop end of story. It doesn’t help in anyway, it hinders. I don’t like that.

I feel out of place these days. In every way and everywhere in some places more than others. There is as usual stuff going on in work and blah blah blah. Its not fun and I have no idea how to deal with it and blah blah blah. I never ever want to have to manage people in my life unless I can a) bitchslap them anytime I want b) fire them anytime I want. Bitchslap them while firing them if they come out with the word impervious.

God I love memes. Sometimes they really just work. Impervious still brings a smile to my face.

Please take note of the following. The word tho IS in fact a word and holds the same meaning as though. I was going to break the habit of using it…well I was going to try but I just added it to my custom dictionary so fuck that. It is a word..so there.

So.There. I love the idea of this website. I don’t read it all that often but it just works as a concept.

A team of scientists have taken the past 4 years to come up with the conclusion that the following is the worlds funniest joke:

Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services.

He gasps: “My friend is dead! What can I do?” The operator says: “Calm down, I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.”

There is a silence, then a shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: “OK, now what?”

I am less than impressed. I am much more impressed with the funniest joke in Europe which did make me laugh. It is:

A patient says, “Doctor, last night I made a Freudian slip, I was having dinner with my mother-in-law and wanted to say: ‘Could you please pass the butter?’
“But instead I said: ‘You silly cow, you have completely ruined my life.'”

However the folks at Grammarporn tops both of these quite easily, but be warned the humour is a little risqué:

Q: What do you get when you stab an infant with a kitchen knife?
A: An erection.

It scares me that I am considering going to Bristol on Monday night to see Sigur Ros. I have in fact spent the last 30 min trying to see if I can get to Dublin for the weekend to see them….I can and pretty cheaply too but it would involve taking time off work and I can’t do that 🙁

I can see them in Oslo in a couple of weeks time on the 19th and I think that is really really appealing. Gotta think about it a little.

So last night was a drinking night. It was meant to be a games night, but we ended up sitting in the pub until late and drinking lots. It was a fun night I guess, some strange stuff going on that I just don’t want to deal with this morning. I don’t see any choice tho.

Some people need to learn that there is a line you just don’t cross.

I’m tired, I’m not happy (then again I have not been in a while). Tokyo is gonna cost a little less than I thought but it is still gonna be damn expensive.

I think tomorrow night I should come straight home from work, lock myself in my room and do nothing. I could do with a break. Shame a long weekend is out of the question.

Last night was kinda strange. As I was lying in bed I heard music. I didn’t just hear music. I heard music perfectly. It took a few seconds to realise but I was actually hearing it in my head. It was something by Sigur Ros and it was playing 100% spot on in my head. It was strange but cool.

It was also a strange night for other thoughts. Dwelling on the recent past a little and while I don’t think I want to talk about it, it was freaky.

Hmm I should sleep. I don’t want to be hungover in the morning, but I don’t think I can avoid it.