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07/31/2002 Archived Entry: “Yet more boring drivel”
For whatever reason (probably lack of sleep) I feel like absolute crap this morning. Absolute. Crap. I didn’t get to go jogging – well, okay, I didn’t *go* jogging becuase it’s raining. This sucks, because I am not mad enough to want to go out in the rain but I do *really* want to get fit.
So, anyway, what was I going to ramble about? Any ideas? No?
Nor have I right now, I kinda started with this whole bunch of thoughts but tiredness seems to have taken them away.
So I’ll ramble about yesterday until something more interesting pops into my head (I’m in one of those moods where I need to get some thoughts out of my head – so you’re the lucky/unfortunate individuals who get to see them) – yes. So, yesterday I finally actually did some excercise, actually I did a fairly major amount of exercise by my standards….
Got up at 8ish, actually *went* jogging, then walked into Bristol (about 30 mins walk from here), grabbed an application form for a Nursing Assistants role, popped in the film for processing (incidentally, that reminds me what I wanted to ramble about – but now you’ll have to wait). Yes, so, did that, wandered around, decided I want a Nikon Coolpix 775 (it’s so Niiiiice. If I get this job I’m having one. Okay? Good). Almost got a mobile phone (cheap contract, phone on sale), but didn’t due to: knowing I can’t really afford it, not really needing it 99% of the time (if I’m working in a hospital….), and having at least a nanogram of common sense (getting a 12 month contract when you’ve got *no* money coming in – not wise).
Yes, so, went to Starbucks (actually, that reminds me of another thing that happened a while back (am I wandering off on enough tangents today?). When I was in Oxford with Stephanie, James, Peter and Lauren I asked Stephanie if there were any Starbucks in Oxford (‘cos she used to live there, apparently). Anyway, she was under the impression that there weren’t – but as we spent the day in oxford more and more of the appeared – and I say “appeared” because that did seem to be what was happening. You’d walk down a street one way, and then half an hour you’d wander down it again and a Starbucks would have just appeared. It’d look like it’d been there for a while – but you knew it hadn’t….anyway) where I filled in the application form (please give me a job, please, please!). Before trundling back and wandering around forbidden planet (which had lots of stuff I’d quite like – and I feel guilty about not getting from there but I can get it *vastly* cheaper elsewhere) – although we did see one thing….
A Jesus action figure. Seriously! It’s got moveable arms and….wait for it…..rollers underneath so it can “glide”. Scary stuff.
Incidentally on the Coffee theme, what is with this sudden explosion in the number of places doing Coffee? I mean there was a Costa Coffee *in the bank* in Southend. Actually in it. Part of it. Can people not wait until they’ve completed the bank transaction and walked all of maybe 20 feet to any one of the 8,000 *other* coffee shops not actually *in* other shops? Bah!
So, anyway, photos. Yes, photos, mirrors and videos. It’s interesting how people see themselves – I mean, people say I’m okay looking (and some overzealous people claim I’m pretty) – but I simply *cannot* see it in mirrors or photos. I can maybe see that I look okay/sound okay on video (ta Aisling, that’s actually improved my opinion of myself). But other people seem to be different. Some people prefer themselves in photos, or hate themselves in photos and prefer mirrors….
I for one can’t *stand* mirrors, photos….well, I’m not that keen on them, but they don’t really bother me that much (not as much as I make out – I just enjoy the chase ;-)
Of course the sad thing about this is when there’s someone who’s *gorgeous* who just doesn’t see it. At all. And who doesn’t see it in pictures or mirrors, and who you don’t have a video to test that with…..of course, this is why I need Nikon Coolpix 775. Yes. Ah…..
And then to go and see *cough* someone who I think is fantastic looking who just doesn’t believe it…..
Annnyway. And on another topic I finally ordered the Norwegian dictionary from amazon. You wouldn’t *believe* how hard it is to get a norwgian dictionary here. I’ve tried Waterstones in Bristol, Southend and Newbury. I’ve tried WHSmith in Southend and Newbury. I’ve tried a couple of smaller bookshops. Swahili, Swedish, Russian, Welsh, Irish, Spanish, Mexican spanish, Polish….all available. Dutch, not a problem. Italian – easy to obtain. Norwegian? Not a hope….Ahh well, it’ll hopefully be winging it’s way to me soon. Then I’ll be able to read this newspaper. Slowly…… :-)
And don’t forget the competition to win a pebble is still open….
Replies: 3 comments
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item;=1754963896
Not kidding.
*giggle*
There’s about 15 of them for sale on ebay atm.
Posted by lonecat @ 08/01/2002 10:26 AM GMT
Sigmund Freud action figures?! You’re kidding right….. [Please say you’re kidding]
Posted by Kate E @ 07/31/2002 08:11 PM GMT
He he… I knew about the Jesus action figures. Ebay is the place to look – more action figures than the mind can comfortably conceive. I’m not sure if I’m more scared by the rolling Jesus or the Sigmund Freud one.
Photos… It’s taken me a while to get used to the idea that I look okay in photos. I think I can guess who you’re talking about, and it’s really sad that they can look into a mirror and not see what I see when I look at them.
Posted by lonecat @ 07/31/2002 02:03 PM GMT
