YES: I SLEPT ALL NIGHT last night..! And the night before. My days are for wakefulness now. Which is ironic, seeing as we're rapidly approaching the May Bank Holiday -- meaning national blankness is enforced. (Or days in the country. Or at the seaside. Etc. If you're posh and have the means to do things like days out. I suppose.)
Bank Holidays have bad associations with me. Never having had a "contract job" despite dearly desiring one and applying left, right and centre, I was always a casual worker. This meant being laid off without pay at Christmas time and Easter. And being forced to take each Bank Holiday off with no pay. So the next week my paypacket was always 20% short. All for a day off I never wanted to take.
Bank Holidays? Pah!
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My childhood's written up and 25% saved -- STOP PRESS: 40% saved --in draft form. It feels like an old college essay, one of those that I'd apply for extensions atop extensions until it simply had to go in as term were ending and the department shutting down ... It's all scrawled up and dusted, awaiting merely my 80wpm 80% inaccurate touch-typing. (Or 12 wpm and 95% accurate.) 95% is the best, I think, I shall ever do ...
Just don't expect too much from me. No drama. Just lots of crisis. And no fancy phrases. Just me droning on with longer-winded monotony than ever before in history!
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How come on American television, characters carry their grocery shopping in huge brown paper sacks without handles? Aren't they extremely awkward to heave home, especially if you're (very unAmericanly, I admit) sans car? Don't your supermarkets provide ordinary carrier bags? You know, the plastic bags you can carry one-handedly?
Just curious ...
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Desperate Housewives is on -- and probably months behind the episodes you're getting in the mother country. Lynette's bad back ridden husband is skulking in bed refusing to allow the new chef's family pasta dishes onto the menu, even though they've been trebling the restaurant's takings every night they grace the specials board ...
Pride. What's pride worth when it's losing you money?
Men across the world might like to answer that question for themselves.
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Channel 4, incidentally, are doing video on demand over Virgin Cable and the internet. The service is called 4od. So if you want Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, Hollyoaks or the Hoobs at 3am, 4od should service you. ITV have set up a similar service that'll get you Coronation Street. Take note, ye Weatherfield-addicted Canadians -- you might be able to get episodes ahead of time this way!!
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Go here for entertaining army recruitment films.
Great photos (from somewhere foreign ...)
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Hi Gledwood! You seem like you are doing well, and working on your book? Awesome! Had to laugh about the paperbag thing. I think that's mostly for the telly, at least where I shop they give out paper with handles, although thinking on it more, I think they give out more plastic than anything else. Ridiculous amounts of plastic bags really. Sometimes they will put just about 2 items in each bag and you end up with 300 bags by the time all is said and done. Which is a good reminder for me to use the cloth re-usable bags I have. (wow this comment from me is getting crazy long-winded and pointless isn't it? sorry!)
ReplyDeleteSame here! I remember clearing up one time... by the time I had finished I had literally a small closet full of plastic bags...
ReplyDeleteAnd yet even though I approached the shops armed with plastic from then on the dizzy assistants STILL gave me even MORE new bags
weeeeee!
ReplyDeletenice to know you slept well. i had a shitty night yesterday, as i have my exams, sleeping is tough!
yup, we did it with a digital camera :D & the simpliest MS Movie Maker Eva! It was kinda fun, ya know?
Hope to be a frequent guest on yer blog soon :) Have 4 more exams to go! Wish me luck :D
Exams??! Yeeeurrkkggh!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am terrible at exams!
Bet you aren't though.
All the very best with 'em.
You know you can do it!!
wow great photos was an understatement! thanks for the link!
ReplyDeletesmiles, bee
I'm glad you liked it. It's just a shame whoever is posting them up doesn't let us put comments. I hate not being able to have my say ... well really pass welldeserved compliments ...
ReplyDeleteYes, we do get to have plastic bags, too. It's a choice, usually.
ReplyDeleteNot have cars? Are you kidding? I live in Texas. Good luck getting anywhere without a car. Long distances between things. I'm not defending it as a way of life. Just saying.