Hopeless Naif

[slemslempike]

Today was the first time I realised that when Lou Reed sings "when I watch you come", he might not mean "arrive".

I have only just remembered that I am on a course next week! A one week mornings-only course on Critical Discourse Analysis. I'm not taking it as assessed (...probably), so it should be just a nice introduction for me. Also, I will have to miss Friday as we're off to Manchester to see Paul Merton.

The jobcentre people rang me at 8.30am. This is earlier than I used to get up to go to work. I was not at my brightest, and answered at least one question incredibly stupidly. I have an appointment on Monday where I should find out whether or not I'm entitled to any benefit whatsoever.

I cleaned things and swept the floor and then I got over-enthusiastic and scraped all the debris off the bottom of the cooker. It was incredibly satisfying. It's best to let things build up and get really disgusting before attacking them, otherwishe you don't get the same euphoria. I also went to the laundrette, and while I was buying ant poison and a pepper from the shop to get the right change for the machine the lady asked if I was planning to poison someone. Just conversationally, she didn't seem at all perturbed by the thought. (I am not intending to poison anyone.) I have located a likely hole for an ants' nest and squirted foam down it and around the edges.

hignfy soon hurrah!

Comments

[belladonnalin.livejournal.com]

Today was the first time I realised that when Lou Reed sings "when I watch you come", he might not mean "arrive".

This is the best thing I've seen all day. Can I quote you in my journal?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Certainly. ;)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I couldn't remember for the life of me what icon I had used when I read this, but I do rather like it. It is for happier occasions than this icon.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry! It was partly - I chose it because of the gay gay cops last night. So gay and so lovely. But it is also part of my Escape from Atlantis set of icons from where Sarah was manipulated purely by Jen assigning gay cop characteristics to little pieces of wood.

[nerdcakes.livejournal.com]

Today was the first time I realised that when Lou Reed sings "when I watch you come", he might not mean "arrive".

Hee! I only recently realised that when he talks about "the straightest dude I ever knew", he might not actually be talking about the most heterosexual man he ever knew.

Oh, I hope the ants are dead. I am very impressed that you fixed the bottom of the cooker, dude.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I think they might be. I cleaned all the bits around that area and there weren't all that many to start with, and hopefully the foam will do the trick.

Aw! We're like Lou Reed opposites.

I scraped and it came off and it was great. In huge black lumps. The rest of the cooker is still best described as filthy, but the bottom might even hav a touch of gleam under the remaining grime.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Do not mix up your ant poison and your pepper. That would be quite a bad thing to do.

I wonder what the lady would've done had you said yes. I hope the tone would've remained conversational and benign. Though only for comedic purposes. Morally I have to hope the lady would've sicked the police on you. I'm glad you're not planning on poisoning people.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

The ant poison is foam and the pepper is a yellow bell pepper. I wish I could say that this precluded any unfortunate mishaps.

Perhaps she would have kept tabs on what else I bought, and then when I later returned for bread, started a list of foodstuffs with which I might be poisoning people.

[bouncymonkey.livejournal.com]

Today was the first time I realised that when Lou Reed sings "when I watch you come", he might not mean "arrive".

That actually made me laugh out loud. *luffs*

[cosmolinguist]

It's best to let things build up and get really disgusting before attacking them, otherwishe you don't get the same euphoria.

I was thinking the same thing recently as I finally got around to scrubbing the nasty yellow-brown sludge that had somehow leaked in our refrigerator. It was really disgusting but really nice to see it get all shiny and white and feel like I'd accomplished something.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Yes! The build up of disgustingness is all part of the process of shiny and clean.

[lsugaralmond.livejournal.com]

I was confused in general by the alternative meaning of the word 'come' for years. When I was growing up whenever I asked my mum anything about sex she told me to look it up in the dictionary, and I could never work out what was so brilliant about people 'arriving'.

We got some 'Raid and and cockroach spray' yesterday and it's brilliant. It actually dissolves them! Hurrah! Going on a bit of a killing spree now...

[lsugaralmond.livejournal.com]

Obviously that was supposed to say 'ant and cockroach spray'. The cat is sitting on the keyboard.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

We haven't had ants yet today, although that might be the cold. I am leaving a little bit of washing up on the side to see if it tempts them out, and hten I can try and work out if I have found the source of the invasion.