Category: General

  • 10/12/2002: No one knew the way, to the bright side

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    10/12/2002 Archived Entry: “No one knew the way, to the bright side”

    Bah.

    So works been going okay. I still fear the result of them finding out about me before they know me. Once they know me, hopefully it’ll be okay. Maybe.

    Anyway. Just thought I should say, just finished my first shift. Not too busy, but I’m moderately tired. Not as tired as I expected to be. But quite tired.

    It also chose to piss down today, so Rachel gave me a lift back….muh.

    So yes. Oh, yes, listening to “Best of Saint-Saens” – specifically the Finale of “Les carnival de animaux” always makes me wish my hands were less fucked. Because then I might have some hope of playing again. And learning to play it.

    Bah.

  • 10/08/2002: And I quite like you, you are my ice cream

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    10/08/2002 Archived Entry: “And I quite like you, you are my ice cream”

    So. Been doing more training. Got a new phone. Hrm.

    Oh yes, the weird conversation. So I’m sat there doing battle with the Nokia (yeah, yeah, I know, but it was cheap) – attempting to work out how to use it….and this woman sits down next to me. A few seconds later I realise that she’s speaking….to me. And she’s telling me all about her various ailments. And her teeth. And I’m making appropriate sympathetic noises (and hoping that she’ll stop so I can actually finish trying to persuade the phone to send a message – something which it turned out I needed more knowledge to do – I had to make a call first…).

    And she’s still talking, then she asks if I go to the college. I say “no, I’m working in the hosptial”, but I seem to be surplus to the conversation, because she’s actually ignoring me….

    …after about 10 minutes I managed to say my goodbyes….but anyway, from this I glean that I apparently look 18, which is not so bad.

    Yeah. So.

    Oh, an incidentally, in case she thinks I’ve forgotten her, Hey Amy – hope things are going well with you – oh and was it you who tried to ring me a couple of weekends ago?

  • 09/24/2002: I cross the street and I quicken my pace

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    09/24/2002 Archived Entry: “I cross the street and I quicken my pace”

    So. I wanted to get some[1] photos put onto CD. My ireland ones. Because, basically, I can’t be arsed to scan them all. The ScanWise sofware on the Mac is lovely and powerful, but also incredibly irritating (I can’t persuade it to default to saving to a particular format, and after each preview it forgets which directory you’re saving in). The RiscPC has the CanoScan 300 which has helpfully semi-died and it turns out never produced partcularly good scans. Bah.

    So I thought, “Ah ha, I’ll go and ask them to do a photos on CD thing, I saw that in Ireland and it wasn’t terribly expensive”. Indeed, in Ireland it worked out at 100 photos for 12 uk quid. I’ve now discovered there are 2 shops in Bristol that do it (I thought it was one, but it’s actually two, just remembered the first place wanted 20 quid, so I put them out of my head).

    Anyway, it would actually work out 30 quid cheaper – if I could get the same deal on flights – to fly to Ireland and get them put on CD in the shop in Dublin. In *DUBLIN*, that it would for me to get it done here.

    Insane. Completely insane.

    [1]About 200, actually.

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    So… come. COME to dublin!

    *breaks into Aphex Twin* Come to dublin, come to dublin, come to dublin. COME TO DUBLIN!

    Posted by Aoife @ 09/25/2002 12:51 AM GMT

  • 09/22/2002: Jesus this is hideous HTML

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    09/22/2002 Archived Entry: “Jesus this is hideous HTML”

    Book Worm Meter for Kate

    Shut In 71%
    . .
    29% Out Of The House
    Intellectual 95%
    . .
    5% Moron
    High Attention Span 95%
    . .
    5% Low Attention Span
    Bookitude 96%
    . .
    4% Book Burner
    Book Worm 89.25%
    . .
    10.75% Bug Stomper
    Take your bookworm readings.

  • 09/22/2002: Faking my way through the land of the living, into the sun and the sand that is sinking

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    09/22/2002 Archived Entry: “Faking my way through the land of the living, into the sun and the sand that is sinking”

    You can tell when I’m stressed can’t you. The frequency of diary entries goes up quite dramatically. Might be an interesting graph to plot that….

    Currently I feel like hell – I spent half the day in bed asleep – which is bad – because I get dehydrated and then get a headache, and then when I finally *do* get up I feel like hell. Hence…. Anyway, serves me right for not getting up until 2pm.

    I’m feeling the urge to do the design for the upcoming site properly. Dunno how yet. Probably – while I’m at home I’m going to have a fair bit of time on my hands and no internet connection to sap my time. I mean, a few days ago I was happy to do it as basically a rip-off of the new Regolith site – being a sponsored by Regolith mini-site, but I don’t feel that’d be doing it justice now. So, lots of time I suspect spent learning CSS coming. Bah.

    Never mind.

    Anyway, what prompted this? Well, Amys site has the funky new look – which is really hopeless for actually *reading*, but looks incredibly pretty. And then I saw Metaphobia – and I guess I thought, “Hrm, this CSS stuff is dead powerful, I wonder what I could do with it”. It probably also comes from me being very stressed. I tend to be more creative the more stressed I am. Which is a shame really, because it means all my best stuff is done when I can barely cope with existence – and then when it all calms down I can’t find the enthusiasm to do anything.

    Or indeed actually have any creative urges.

    Bah.

    So, anyway.

    That wasn’t going to be what I was going to write about. But I can’t remember what I was intending to write about. Oh yes, Trabants. Current obsession.

    So, yes, while I was in Ireland I found this Trabant – as has been previously mentioned. But now…now, well, anyway. So I looked at this trabant in a field and I went “Oh wow cool, it’s a trabant! In Ireland! Wow!”[1] and took a picture (which was unfortunately the first one on the roll and didn’t come out) – and went on my merry way. Unfortunately, having got far enough away from the Trabant, and not wanting to appear overly weird to Aoife and Aisling I, well, didn’t actually go and have a proper look at it.

    Why I was worried that they might think I was wierd – I mean, it’s fairly bloody obvious that I’m weird! Anyway, so, I didn’t look at it. And now, because I need something to direct my stress into I’m obsessed with trabants. I mean, I really want one. I’ve always wanted one tbh, and realising that they’re cheap, there’s one which is calling to me, I want to go to ireland again annnyway. You see, all sorts of reasons for me to save this particular example of Trabantiness.

    It’s blue, incidentally. Glacier Blue is I think the colour. Not that it really matters, I mean they only came in four colours!

    So. Yes. Anyway. I’ve run out of thought. So I’m gonna stop now.

    [1]Okay, so I might have said wow a few more times, and commented on it being a trabant, and it’d be cool to have it. But no more than that. I’m sure. Ish.

    Replies: 2 comments

    Shush you! I only said I was *trying*

    And I couldn’t possibly have talked about it for days, I was only there for another day or two.

    Posted by Kate E @ 09/23/2002 11:24 AM GMT

    erm, you were trying not to seem too weird about the Trabant?? You taked about it for days!

    Posted by Aisling the beleaguered @ 09/23/2002 10:35 AM GMT

  • 09/22/2002: Waiter, there’s a feminizing chemical in my soup

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    09/22/2002 Archived Entry: “Waiter, there’s a feminizing chemical in my soup”

    I’ve changed. Wow.

    1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002

    HRT really works :-)

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    and there was you making noises at me for comparing that photo from last year to one you took, hrmph!

    Posted by Aisling the unbelieveable @ 09/23/2002 10:33 AM GMT

    Na-na-na-naaaa-naaa, Kate looks like her mum!

    Posted by Jas @ 09/22/2002 09:35 PM GMT

  • 09/21/2002: Because of you

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    09/21/2002 Archived Entry: “Because of you”

    [KateRPC(~Kate@ponder.linuxgrrls.org)] reminds herself that buying manuals for a car you don’t own in a language you don’t understand is not merely foolish, it’s actually downright stupid.

  • 09/19/2002: I am better….

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    09/19/2002 Archived Entry: “I am better….”

    I am better than I used to be. I think. No, I am. I know I am.

    I looked at lots of old diary entries today – and I know I’m better than I used to be. I also re-removed one which was accidentally returned to existance after I redid the site layout. Yes, I’m still depressed and depressive and so on. But I am better.

    My life may be absolute f*cking chaos, with only the vaguest hope of me sorting it out….but, no, I’m definately better than I used to be. And I have a plan (again) which will at least allow me to get to a place where I can start to sort it out. I hope.

    On an unrelated note, I really wish I’d had more time in Ireland. I want to go back there….oh, and incidentally, anyone want to fund me rescuing a trabant?

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    Whee, now I just need to get each diary reader to pledge, say, 50 quid… ;-)

    No? You don’t all want to pay for me to have another holiday and rescue a sad little car? No? Bah, you’re all evil.

    Posted by Kate E @ 09/19/2002 05:22 PM GMT

    I’ll provide moral support

    Posted by Aisling the mushroom gnome @ 09/19/2002 03:52 PM GMT

  • 09/18/2002: Back

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    09/18/2002 Archived Entry: “Back”

    So I’m back (from Ireland….tut, forgotten already?). Now, I can sense that you’re all waiting for this huge write up, or elese thinking I’m going to say I spent the whole time in Aisling and Aoife’s flat. Well, neither is what you’re going to get. At least, not yet. You’ll just have to wait. So :-P

    Basically, this is just to say I’m back, I’m alive, I had a fantastic, enjoyable and at times “interesting” trip – and I’ve got approximately 80 million photos to deal with (roughly 7 films worth). I’ve got Aislings photos here….and….anyway….yes. Oh yes, and I’m currently running at having been up for [checks] 26.5 hours.

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    And I spent 6 days with these people! Six!

    And I’m not telling *anyone* *anyfink* until I get this thing done….[How’s that database ‘n’ stuff coming along Aisling (says she who’s done sod all of her side of the bargain)…..]

    Posted by Kate E @ 09/19/2002 11:03 AM GMT

    They say love is blind, while lust is not only blind, it also has no sense of smell

    Posted by Quoto The Quoteomatic @ 09/19/2002 12:28 AM GMT

    *SMACK*

    …so there

    anyway…eh, what happened??

    Posted by Aisling (happy pixie person) @ 09/19/2002 12:26 AM GMT

    Tell me! tell me what happened! No seriously, Aisling can’t remember :P

    TELL ME! WHAT HAPPPEENNNNNEEEEDDDDD!

    (Let’s make biscuits!)

    Posted by Aoife (otherwise known as Gir) @ 09/19/2002 12:25 AM GMT