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slemslempikeI have been hating people who, when you're in a perfectly normal conversation about generalities, suddenly smile condescendingly and say "you're talking to someone who...", where the ellipses represent something incredibly banal, and frequently almost entirely unrelated to the topic in hand. It leaves me thinking ...and? What on earth have you added to this conversation by saying that? I mean, my god, if I'd known I was talking to someone who has two legs, I'd have been more careful! Imagine how much of a fool I feel now that we've been talking about [completely unrelated subject], and I hadn't been told about the two leg thing! Think of the fool I have made of myself!
I have been being exasperated with toilets where they have very kindly provided a sanitary receptacle, but have chosen one that takes up the entire side of one cubicle, so that when you sit on the toilet seat, it cuts cruelly into your thigh, and taints what might have been going to be a pleasant evacuation.
I am also very taken with Robert Webb's sex arms. Specifically in Peep Show, when the lucky recipient has the camera on their head. I saw him do it live as well for the Mitchell and Webb thing in Preston, and very nice it was too.
I walked into a seminar the other day to hear a bearded man say very earnestly "of course, extremism of any kind is dangerous" and his neighbour nodding sagely. I eavesdropped shamelessly hoping to hear pearls of wisdom to steal in case I found myself in complex political discussion, but it transpired that they were actually talking about how cold the weather was that day, and how damaging the changing temperature was to women's skin.
What have you been doing? I missed you all trimmensely.
I have been being exasperated with toilets where they have very kindly provided a sanitary receptacle, but have chosen one that takes up the entire side of one cubicle, so that when you sit on the toilet seat, it cuts cruelly into your thigh, and taints what might have been going to be a pleasant evacuation.
I am also very taken with Robert Webb's sex arms. Specifically in Peep Show, when the lucky recipient has the camera on their head. I saw him do it live as well for the Mitchell and Webb thing in Preston, and very nice it was too.
I walked into a seminar the other day to hear a bearded man say very earnestly "of course, extremism of any kind is dangerous" and his neighbour nodding sagely. I eavesdropped shamelessly hoping to hear pearls of wisdom to steal in case I found myself in complex political discussion, but it transpired that they were actually talking about how cold the weather was that day, and how damaging the changing temperature was to women's skin.
What have you been doing? I missed you all trimmensely.
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Date: 2007-01-29 02:00 pm (UTC)I was just thinking about you yesterday, re: a weird sort of quasi-legal use of the word 'entertainment' as a get-out-of-jail-free card (on a DVD thingy: the commentary on this DVD is FOR ENTERTAINMENT ONLY and no-one at Sony is legally liable for anything the director might say'). Lovely to see you back.
I have been having a Barthes icon made for me by
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Date: 2007-01-29 04:30 pm (UTC)Nice icon!
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Date: 2007-01-29 02:10 pm (UTC)I was going to e-mail you, cos I got a card from you at the weekend from Far Away. Eee!
I don't think I've been doing anything nearly as exciting as you. Just the normal, really. There was a visit to Edinburgh, though, which I will write up Real Soon Now.
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Date: 2007-01-29 04:37 pm (UTC)That card took AGES - I sent it right at the start of January. But I'm glad it got there eventually.
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Date: 2007-01-29 02:31 pm (UTC)I have been... finding something to live. And. Um. Bitching about my housemate and his girlfriend. And? That's it, really.
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Date: 2007-01-29 02:57 pm (UTC)Also we talked about going to see Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ...
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Date: 2007-01-29 03:07 pm (UTC)I have been mostly ... er, posting about birds, apparently. I do do other things, honestly, but just lately they have mostly been overtime at work and failing to do DIY at home, so watching for signs of life in winter has been vaguely consoling.
Re: the "you're talking to someone who..." people: I find a response of "Oh. Am I?" followed by my best blank look to be usually sufficiently squashing. If it works, I can then either carry blithely on where I left off or change the subject and run for the hills. A good blank look can be very useful, especially as I never quite mastered the Paddington Hard Stare.
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Date: 2007-01-29 04:47 pm (UTC)Emo and nothingness are two of my favourite traits in people.
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Date: 2007-01-29 03:19 pm (UTC)I have been working a lot, and thinking about work and trying to organize myself. Nothing exciting, just getting on with things.
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Date: 2007-01-29 03:19 pm (UTC)As for me: same old, same old.
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Date: 2007-01-29 03:35 pm (UTC)I have no icons of comedy animals. I feel like I fail at comenting somewhat.
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Date: 2007-01-29 03:52 pm (UTC)I have been: going to Turkey; dropping to part-time in my PhD (I am the anti-you); trying to write a novel; starting seeing a new bloke-person; having an utterly shambolic January involving, to date, losing my wallet, losing £400 worth of library books; spraining my ankle and, as of this morning, having my laptop die on me, taking with it everything I've done on my PhD and novel since the end of November.
I am seeing you next week, yes?
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Date: 2007-01-29 04:53 pm (UTC)YES! I am very much looking forward to it, and have even got a top. It is very breast-ful.
And that laptop thing is actually making me feel very wobbly in the tummy area. Is it at all recoverable?
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Date: 2007-01-29 04:10 pm (UTC)Extreme weather is very worrying but not really very English you know.
New Equus promotion pictures. I will see you in 2/3 weeks now and you really are alive and there are no more strikethroughs on my flist <3
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Date: 2007-01-29 05:09 pm (UTC)I went from having no jobs to having three jobs back to having no jobs and spent a memorable new years eve drinking gin in a force seven gale. Remarkably totally unrelated to the jobs situation.
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Date: 2007-01-29 05:14 pm (UTC)The jobs thing sounds dizzying. I went to bed before midnight on new year. I don't hold with it.
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Date: 2007-01-29 08:52 pm (UTC)That's a very nice icon.