| Hello Fellow Bristolians! |
[May. 16th, 2008|03:49 pm] |
Good day to everyone!
I'm stuck in work in Clevedon and have a huge amount of college work to do when I get home and for the next week :( But then it's summertime! Woooo!
I don't ave any friends on ere yet, I'm an online loner lol! So yeah How is everyone?? Anything interesting happening in our fair city over the summer?
Seb
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| Busy, busy, busy |
[May. 14th, 2008|10:00 pm] |
I have just had a couple of unusual days. Yesterday I went to help my boss and another teammate at a conference at the local football/rugby pitch (not actually on it). This is to give me a preview of the event assistance I'll be doing in my new job. I had to greet people, give out packs, distribute and collect electronic voting gadgets, stand with a microphone for audience members to use if they wanted, and carry things in and out. There were about 70 people there, including councillors and representatives from charities, police etc. I met two people I knew from voluntary work. We got excellent food and the event was a great success from what I heard. Also, outside the ground was a sign showing items you weren't allowed to bring in during football matches. Some of them were, however permitted at rugby matches, including beer and umbrellas. Do the management think rugby fans are less likely to get drunk and attack each other with umbrellas, or something?
Only half an hour after I got in last night, I went out driving. We took a new route including the town where I work but where I'd never driven before. The town centre was tricky and I tended to approach junctions too quickly, but I did very well at the roundabouts.
Today I did a course on communicating with confidence, which took place at a conference centre at the other end of the park where I sometimes go at lunchtime. I arrived early and wandered round the park, finding a waterfall that looked like a bit of the Scottish Highlands. Through the day we did various practical exercises on listening, assertiveness and so on, which were fun and helpful. My last LJ post prompted Mum and Dad to say, once again, how much better I am at writing than speaking. I think it's time to change that, now I'm moving to a higher-profile job. The really hard part of the problem, though, is that I can't see or hear myself as others do, so I can't be sure what effect I'm having. |
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| I knew a guy that got run over in a Venture parking lot. |
[May. 13th, 2008|09:43 pm] |
You want to talk about a shopping mall that's been abandoned for a long time...
Photo taken in the ultra prosperous region known as East St. Louis. |
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| Definitions. |
[May. 13th, 2008|09:31 pm] |
Mar - ket - ing
- noun
1. Improving the perception of your product without improving the quality of your product, thereby increasing sales.
Common uses: McDonalds, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Apple Computers, Comcast Cable, and the U.S. Military. |
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| He's not a man, he's a machine |
[May. 13th, 2008|10:17 am] |
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[May. 12th, 2008|03:46 pm] |
Hello hello!
My friend and I are spending three to four days in SW England as part of a 3 week UK trip, and I'm having a tough time plotting destinations. I hope you kind lj-er's can give me some much needed advice! We're traveling by rail (Britrail Youth Flexipass), but the rail doesn't reach many of the places we want to go. I hear the bus system in the southwest is extensive, so I'm trying to come up with two or three cities to stay in from which we can make day trips. Here's a list of places we'd like to see, and if you could recommend some conveniently located cities to stay in, we'd be SO grateful!
-Tintagel
-Dartmoor
-Penzance
-Land's End
-St Michael's Mount
-Any out of the way, historical, beautiful, ancient, Arthurian places you recommend!
We'll be traveling to the southwest from Aberystwyth, Wales, which is unfortunately a very long and inconvenient journey by rail. There wouldn't just happen to be a ferry or other watercraft that runs between Wales and the southwest, would there?
Thank you so much! |
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| Let's get ready to Strumble |
[May. 12th, 2008|08:48 pm] |
It was lovely to be in Pembrokeshire and see all the signs of approaching summer. Swallows and house martins swooping around; ferns unfurling from their croziers; huge snowdrifts of wild garlic and cow parsley; gorse bushes covered with coconut-scented golden flowers; the bizarre flowers of wild arum; trees coming into leaf everywhere. Once a heron flew right past our conservatory, and I found primitive horsetail plants just round the corner from our house. This pleased me greatly.
We went out most days including several visits to Tenby, a trip to the local woodland garden to watch flowers and eat cake, and a couple of cliff walks. We made our first visit to Strumble Head, a remote promontory pointing north towards Ireland, which is often mentioned in my wildlife magazines as a place to see huge pods of cetaceans. We didn't spot any, but a seal popped its head up repeatedly, and there were seabirds and interesting flora.
Apart from that we worked hard to get the house and garden ready for the letting season. The extension was almost fully furnished by the end of our stay, and I'd got used to the house being bigger. I did a lot of weeding, sweeping of floors, moving around of stuff and taking of stuff to the dump. Less helpfully, I managed to smash a new light fitting by whacking it with a cheese grater. I have very little idea exactly how this happened.
Nonetheless, I had enough of a break to enjoy my return to work and LJ. I was, however, very disappointed to see that the pretty little ash tree over the road has been chopped down. I want to look at trees, not just houses. :( |
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| Fear Me! |
[May. 12th, 2008|06:08 pm] |
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I now own what is possibly the most ridiculous hat known to man. I certainly got a lot of amused looks wearing it on the walk back home. It's not so nice having people laugh at me like that but at the same time it's good to make people smile. |
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| I hate wasps |
[May. 12th, 2008|05:25 pm] |
Hello. Thought I'd post as I haven't done one for a while. To be honest, I don't have any great exciting news, so I thought I'd have a rant about wasps instead.
Two or three weeks ago I saw my first wasp of the year. It had stumbled into my room so I helped it out by opening the window a little more. I remember thinking how much I don't mind wasps at this time of year because they are generally 'with it' and mind their own business. However, for the last couple of weeks I've noticed a fair few of them trying (often successfully) to fly into my room, and not by accident either. I spent about ten minutes watching one as it explored my room, searching for little cracks and hidden spaces to make a nest in. It even managed to sqeeze behind one of my posters. This sort of behaviour I do mind. I do not want to be explored by a loud buzzing thing with a nasty sting, especially when I'm trying to write.
My tolerance for wasps is now gone and the old fly spray has come out. I did manage to catch one yesterday in a transparent plastic thing, and I thought that it's a shame they have to die because up close they look so beautifully fierce. I was actually going to let the one I caught go but it died anyway, possibly because my room was so bloody hot that it dehydrated while I had it incarcerated, or because it was still suffering the aftereffects of when I stunned it (I threw a soft ball at it to persuade it to leave and got a direct hit - which is why I could catch it).
I blame the incredibly mild winter we had here for not killing off enough of them. That's another reason I don't like hot weather. |
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| Ayesha's Challenge |
[May. 12th, 2008|01:50 pm] |
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Ok the prompt was to write about what some of my characters think about relationships family/friends/lovers/etc.
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[May. 12th, 2008|12:03 am] |
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No... I am Iron Man. I've just got home from work after a long audit (it's just past midnight), and we are starting again at 6 a.m. So I've decided to just stay up and keep going. If Jack Bauer can do it, so can I. Wish me luck, folks! (I might catch a 1 hour snooze, which I'm hoping is better than trying to go to sleep for 4-5 hours and waking up all grumpy.) |
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[May. 11th, 2008|03:36 pm] |
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Phew! I'm just about surviving in the heat. Not that I'm complaining, of course. It's hard not to feel good when everyone else is happy and enjoying the sunshine, even if I would personally prefer it to be a little cooler. I've managed to be reasonably productive, too, which is something I usually have difficulty with in hot weather. Tomorrow I have a telephone interview with a recruitment agent, and then I can start looking around to see if it's worth moving on or staying put. Once I've finally completed my pass plus, I'll no longer have anything tying me down to this area, which is sad in a way, but I'm trying to be positive about whatever happens next. So, watch this space! |
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| Happy Birthday Theresa |
[May. 11th, 2008|01:24 am] |
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Go on then you strange people. Give me more slash/porn prompts in honour of the refs :P
Edit: No one? Fair enough :-) |
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| Some limericks |
[May. 10th, 2008|11:43 pm] |
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A Brief History of Gravity
It filled Gallileo with mirth
To watch his two stones fall to Earth
"Their rates are the same,"
He gladly proclaimed,
"And quite independent of girth!"
Then Newton declared in due course
His own law of Gravity's force,
"It goes, I declare,
As the inverted square
Of the distance from object to source."
Next Einstein revealed his equation
Which succeeds to describe gravitation
As spacetime that's curved
And it's this that will serve
As the planets' unique motivation.
But the end of the story's not written,
By a new way of thinking we're smitten.
We twist and we turn
Attempting to learn
The Superstring Theory of Witten.
Also:
There once was a poet named Dan
Whose poems would never quiet scan
When told this was so
He said, Yes I know
It's because I try to fit as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can. |
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| why yes, I happen to watch quite a lot of geeky television |
[May. 10th, 2008|07:36 pm] |
Lots of catchup to post today, and since I have an hour with the warm wind breezing through and the sun shining and a big glass of lemonade, here is some. Fear my way with words, people!
( Doctor Who thoughts, spoilery for the last two eps and also the preview of the next episode, which made Katie do this: EEEE! )
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( Supernatural: Time Is On My Side )
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I am still enjoying The Dead Zone when lovefilm actually sends me the DVDs, but oh, it's not as awesome as it was. Walt gets more and more so, though. I love Walt - a genuinely good man, kind and generous and well-intentioned, who goes above and beyond the call of basic decency again and again and again, and doesn't make a big deal of it. Oh, Walt. *hugs him*
It also made me feel better after watching Higniffy, which I mostly spent feeling sorry for Reginald D Hunter.
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And finally I leave you with two things that are way cooler than my journal. Wild Adventure! - Tracking The Coulton made me sporfle. (The little FACES! And "where do you get your ideas?"!) And this is Stephen Colbert TALKING TO A GUY IN SPACE. No, really. A random basic-cable comedian managed to persuade NASA to hook him up to the International Space Station. Dude.
(Last video is especially notable for how adorable Stephen's geeky flailing is. Hee. And aww.) |
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