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11^th May 2002, 16:14.

Eeep, it’s 16:14.

I wasn’t expecting that just yet. Anyway, I’m afraid my plans for the new
website are slightly on hold. This is due to a mistake I made many moons ago.
For some inexplicable reason, at some point in the past I set the install medium
on bursar to be the wrong version of SuSE Linux.

Then, much later, after I’d forgotten I’d done it, or indeed why I’d done it
I installed quite a lot of stuff, using Yast2, which popped up in its usual way
and said “oi, this is *allll* out of date, shall I fix it?” and foolishly I said
yes.

Now, having managed to get Yast2 at least apparently working again, although
in a rather cludgy sort of way, I felt quite smug and left the machine in a
state which I thought was, well, if not well was acceptible by my standards
(i.e. it appeared to be working and it’s been up for 26 days….so it can’t be
that sickly ;-)

Unfortunately today I discovered that it’s really not that well. Yes, further
checking shows that although Yast2 appears to load and run, it doesn’t
*actually* work.

*sigh*

So, I think that in the interests of having a machine which actually works as
opposed to one which quite clearly doesn’t I’ll probably nuke it fairly soon.
Which is, to be frank, a good thing, since I broke the printing system many many
moons ago (bloody HP).

Anyway, I guess I can work on the look of the site rather more. It’s still
very rough, but I think I know what it’ll look like :-)

Yet again, I’m intrigued to know who it is who reads this site. I mean,
initally it was obviously basically my friends who wanted to know what was going
on in my weird, twisted little mind – because I’m not very good at expressing
myself verbally and I tend to, well, fuck it up, would probably be the best way
of putting it.

Whereas on here, well, I still screw up quite often but not nearly as often
as I do when it comes to speaking how I’m feeling. I guess I’m also better at
describing how I’m feeling in writing rather than in speech – probably because I
can think about it more – and delete stuff – which you can’t do in speech.

And it doesn’t matter if I get stuck in the middle of a sentance, or forget
what the next word is I can just stop and then carry on later.

I don’t intend, incidentally, for this to become a debate on politics/rise of
the right in Europe/etc. I just thought I’d comment on what Snappygirl
said after my 4^th May entry….

“I am not that kind of racist but i know why BNP won three seats, cos the
voters just fed up with lots of foreigner come over here to stay UK instead
other european counties.”

*sigh*

I know why the BNP got in, and it’s not actually the fact that they got in
that bothers me. Well, obviously that bothers me enormously, scares me witless
actually

Some information for you….

“The BNP got an average of 12% in the 66 seats they contested.” Now, obviously, the BNP only really contested seats where they had a chance of winning, but that’s still 66 seats where there are enough nazis in the area to give them an average of 12% of the vote. And that disturbs me. (And incidentally, I’ve had it from members of the BNP before “I’m not a racist but…”. Well, you can fuck right off. If you’re voting for the BNP then you *are* a racist, and there’s no point in trying to hide behind your manifold ‘other’ reasons for voting for them.). And it gets worse. In Oldham the BNP had candidates in 5 wards and they took an average of 28% of the vote. So, of the people who could be bothered to vote, almost one third of them voted for the BNP. Go read this: article

What bothers me is that everyone is playing down the importance of these
results. Because quite simply there are clearly major issues that need to be
tackled, both in these areas where the BNP did well – and elsewhere.

The BNP’s manifesto is an impressive piece of populist policy making, and is
clearly designed to appeal to as many people as possible – and it scares me.
Because I recognise it. I recognise it from the translations of the Nazis.

I’m going to leave you now with a couple of lines that scare me:

“The British people were never asked if they wanted a multi-cultural
society, immigration was forced on us undemocratically and against the clear
wishes of the majority.”

“we would put in place a system of voluntary resettlement whereby those
foreigners resident in Britain would be encouraged to return to their lands of
origin. “

there’s more

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Kate E

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Tam at Sun May 12 12:12:15 2002 said:

The BNP are really scary :( I really hope they don’t become any more popular. I know what it’s like when people who hate other groups of people get control – not good!

 

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4^th May 2002, 20:56.

Hrm.

So, I’m feeling much less neurotic you’ll be glad to hear. Although my
fingers are sodding freezing. Perhaps I should stick the heating on.

The main thing I wanted to comment on is the whole BNP thing. I mean, that
scares me witless frankly – that the BNP got in. And not only that but the BNP
didn’t just get 1 seat, or 2, they got 3 – one of which represented – not the
centre of burnley – where I could understand it at least.

No, a small village.

Full of fucking racists.

I’ve spent years telling my mum that that *kind* of racism just didn’t seem
to exist here. That the KKK got kicked out of the UK. And what do I find – that
I was wrong. There *are* people in this country who classify people by skin
colour. *sigh*

I’m angry and I’m frustrated.

And there’s not much I can do about it at this point. *sigh*.

So. Yes.

Christ I’m cold.

Yes. Anyway. In better news, I went swimming today. Managed a staggering 3
lengths? We think? Anyway, everyone’s been saying “is that all” – but frankly
I’m quite pleased with myself. 3 lengths isn’t bad for someone who’s not swum at
all in 7-8 years. And last time they did swim it was just across a canal,
wearing a life jacket, having fallen in.

So, I’m knackered and quite pleased with myself…..anyway, I’m going to
collapse in a heap soon.

The pond is now done, btw. Attempt 2 was successful.

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Kate E

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SnappyGirl at Thu May 9 02:26:28 2002 said:

I just let you know, i am not that kind of racsit but i know why BNP won three seats, cos the voters just fed up with lots of foreigner come over here to stay UK instead other european counties. That all i know, Oh by the way Germany Nazi kill disabled people, I am born deaf, i know if they come in power then i will leave here.

Snappygirl

 

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1^st May 2002, 10:21.

So, these have been hanging around for a while…

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And what might you be? Find out at roachspray.com!

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Kate E

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01/05/02, 12:25

C4’s Gay-o-meter reports that I am 56% gay. “Very open minded between the sheets and just as balanced when out on the streets”. Apparently.

It seems to be that time of the month where I get cranky and have to resist stabbing everyone to death. Which is hard because absolutely everything seems like provocation at the moment. Perhaps anger is an appropriate emotion to describe me.

Must remember to fix the 26^th and the 29^th entry.

I know that I have – particularly at the moment – somewhat of a short fuse. And at points I have to struggle to keep my temper under control. I know what I can do if I lose it – so I don’t.

*sigh*

So anyway – I suppose it’s good that I’m fairly aware of this. It doesn’t stop other people driving me spare.

Does anyone out there fancy doing a review of a prototype website for me? Thing is – while I was at uni I used to get James’ opinion on sites (I’d link to his homepage but he last updated that about the same time as I left Eastbury). This worked quite well – at least as far as I was concerned – he’d say “okay, this is good, and this is good, and this is nice, but this sucks, and I’d do this like this and this like this. Maybe make this bigger? Oh and this doesn’t work”

This allowed me to know at least what he thought was good/bad/neither in my many sites. Now webdesign has moved on a lot since then – and those early sites look incredibly ropey now :-)

Anyway, my problem now is that no-one offers me that kind of critique of the stuff I do. I either get people who just say “yes, it’s fantastic” – or I get people saying “I don’t like it”. I never get “I like it but” anymore. I’m all for constructive criticism, but when you never get a positive remark (a real one, not just an “it’s lovely”) it’s completely disheartning.

I have enough self confidence issues as it is.

[I have to wonder if anyone else in this company goes to the loo – I know there’s only one loo in the office, but only twice in 8 days has there been anyone else in there!]

At one point I got so bored of it I considered pulling all my websites. Well. That mostly amounts to this one and the 194 sites, since the pretentious gallery site was taken down due to making me look like a complete tosser.

So anyway. If anyone who doesn’t just hate the style of my websites fancies having a quick lookover a development site for me, I’d be very grateful.

On a totally different topic I went out to the Mog this morning and discovered a flat battery. Unfortunately, Halogen headlamps, the heater, a dynamo and traffic jams do not mix.

And so I discovered why the Mog didn’t come back with it’s starting handle. The repairs to my front bumper required a strengthening piece in the centre. This blocks off the ‘ole where the starting handle would go. Fortunately starting it off the spare battery in the house worked – ‘cos I really didn’t fancy doing the mixture on the bike at 8 in the morning.

Which lead me to thinking about getting the alternator….and obviously everything else I fancy for the mog….

I can’t afford it right now, well, lets be fair: £871 just on “tweaks” is a little bit much!

That breakdown did have one nice effect – something that’s put me in a good mood for the day. Well, I’m still in a good mood. Despite me repeated telling him not to, Martin sent me a book for my birthday :-)

So, despite feeling slightly embaressed and feeling slightly guilty I also am smiling loads – so, a big Thank you to Martin, my AFP fiancee….even if his link to my site is broken….

15:21

So, the clock on my iPAQ is about 12 hours out. Never mind.

In my boredom, as usually happens I started trecking around the ‘net looking
for diary entries to read. Then I remembered the Army of Kittens website – and how it had arrested a previous fit of boredom (I feel this comes off aj unfairly negative actually – I really like the current itteration of that site). So, off I went. Then a moments interest has hopefully saved me shedloads of work.

Which is handy because my computer time is fairly limited at the moment – what with the only computer of mine actually on the network (i.e. this one) being Monitor/Keyboard/Mouseless (yup, it really is being a server) – the other two being in one case, in bits (RiscPC) and both being a long way away from a network connection. We need more space.

I’ve probably upset everyone with this entry. It’s a while since I’ve done that. I should probably make a point of not doing diary entries when I’m so moody….

In other news – I got the radio-cassette working in the mog; one of the speakers was indeed knackered.

16:14

It’s funny. I don’t feel so bad the rest of the month, but right now my brain is doing its upmost to kick me while I’m down.

The self-hatred used to be very directed – I hated myself – I felt like a liar, cheat and a fraud. But most of it was directed at my body. No, I’m not going to talk about the self harm.

For a long time I didn’t consider it self harm. It’s only looking back I can see it for what it was.

I digress. These days, the self loathing is much more directed at failings in me. [That’s right, sit and smile at your temporary colleagues]. Hatred of my self. I know it’s not there throughout the month. That doesn’t help. Not at the moment. [smile and laugh]. Right now? My brain is back on the find something you’re good at problem. This being a problem because I’ve still not found anything I’m good at.

Nothing that involves thought or creativity anyway. I get very jealous of people with talent/s. Writing, programming, drawing, music. Anything really – just because there is nothing at which I excel. I meander through life being mediocre. Part of that is obviously my fear of trying – I’ve failed so often before that these days I’m scared to try.

Why haven’t I re-written this site using jsp? Because I’m scared of fucking it up. Because I already feel stupid e-fucking-nough without screwing up something else. Why is it I ask questions about cooking when I managed to cook perfectly fucking well for three years? Why is it that despite being involved in setting up a studio I’ve barely touched the software? Why the FUCK. [smile, damnit, smile for your audience].

[breathe. calm down]

I promised myself that I wouldn’t let my fears of failure stop me anymore. Well, there’s a suprise – another broken promise.

One part of my brain is screaming STOP. I don’t know if this is something which with enough thought I can defeat, if it’s something I can “get through”. Or is it like ts-ism, something I can think myself into oblivion with? Something that no matter how much I think about it it doesn’t get any better. I’d like to think I was more in control of it now. But I’ve always been able to put it all away, out of site, with only a few seconds notice.

16:58

During my ‘saner’ moments I sometimes wonder why I hate myself so much. I think the thing that gets to me the most is my own mediority.

I have this desperate need to be good at something. It’s not actually the things I’m bad at that get to me, I can kind of accept that. Although being bad at expressing myself does bug me. You’d think I’d be better at it by now. It’s the things that I’m okay at. The things I can do, but not particularly well.

And that’s nearly everything.

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Kate E

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amy at Thu May 2 15:51:55 2002 said:

Does anyone out there fancy doing a review of a prototype website for me?
memememememememememeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! pick me! over her! meee! mememe!

 

Martin Wisse at Mon May 6 00:06:54 2002 said:

“….even if his link to my site is broken….”

Your wish is my command. Fixed.

 

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29^th April 2002, 12:40.

Yeah, so, yet again some more quizzes, I’m beginning to wonder if I’m
not doing too many of these things. I mean, it has been mentioned.

Anyway. Most of todays entry is on the iPAQ, so I’ll get back to
writing it on that.

Which Anne
Rice Vampire are you?
by Tera

Which He-Man LiveJournal
Icon are you?

Take the test here< /a>!! Made by Jenna and Robbie.

A victim is shut up inside you,
then dropped into some body of water. They drown, of course. A
claustrophobic demise. If someone gets you mad, you just get away from
them and forget it, though you quietly seethe for a while.

What torture would you be?

Visionary, revolutionary, vigilante – these descriptions all fit you well. You are thoroughly disgusted with society and humanity as a whole, and you have several rather diabolical plans to reshape it to fit your designs. You’re probably a loner, and most people think you’re crazy. That’s just because they don’t understand, though, and you’ll show them someday anyway. Heh heh heh. You are known to become very passionate about many causes, have torrid love affairs, and be seen as a either a demagogue or a hero to the proletariat masses.

Be cool! Take the What
Do You Want Out Of Life? Quiz

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28/04/02, 09:36

Note: This entry is really a miriad of very short entries made throughout the day

Bleurgh – I feel like shite.

Yup, it’s another one of those funky iPAQ entries…anyway – so – first up, I saw this – which amused me. Why? Well temping gives you an interesting opportunity to see what different companies are like for security – and my current opinion is that they are all crap. This computer in front of me, yes? It has the users passwords written on stickers on it.
I’ve heard users giving out their passwords and usernames over the phone, and to each other. What, you have to wonder, is the point?

Ahh, all becomes clear, I was going to have a major bitch about the number of
lemming-peds out today, but I understand it now. They were all looking at the flying pigs. (Incidentally, for when that news page changes (and for those too lazy to look) I’m referring to Microdigital having a working p ototype Omega.

You know when you see something and you just want to say “jesus mate, chill” (or words to that effecty? Well; having discovered that the T* biochemist I linked to a few days ago is actually someone I talk to online (well duh!) I saw this comment. Obviously, both due to being bored and also due to the fact I have nothing whatsoever against Diane I wondered if this persons Livejournal might shed some light on this comment….but since it’s a friends only journal I guess I’ll remain in the dark….

So, it’s now 15:30 and I’m feeling incredibly awful – headache/sick. This is probably related to the awful nights sleep I got last night. I suspect I got about 5 hours – which seems like quite a long time – but really isn’t.

I don’t think it’s related to the whole throwing up/feeling sick thing I had on Saturday. I’ve still got no iden what caused that. Only that it was very bad and I don’t want it again. It might be related to overtiredness I guess. Although I’ve been more or less managing to get to bed at a reasonable time I’ve not actually been sleeping particularly well.

Actually, this could all be tied in. My Stress Related Disorder is back (yup, that excellent way to lose weight). Hrm.

Not that I have even the faintest clue what to do about that. As my GP said “be less stressed”. Oookay….what am I meant to do? Listen to relaxing music? Take more baths? I’ve actually stopped using the PC here (temping still) because my eyes hurt – and I’m feeling sick. Though that’s possibly related to the amount of caffine I’ve had just to stay awake.

Wow, I’ve never heard anyone actually say “we need to think outside the box” before. Well, not seriously :-)

Undoubtedly the worst thing about this job is not being able to use IRC. You see, I’m not actually terribly busy, indeed as you have probably noticed I’ve been spending lots and lots of my time writing overly wordy diary entries – and doing far more online quizes than is healthy….

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28^th April 2002, 1220.

My friends have weird friends:

Ah; I see you’re another one playing The Game. But of course you are; everyone’s playing
The Game. Some of the most successful players of The Game don’t even know they’re playing it.

It’s very simple really – the object of The Game is to forget that you’re playing The
Game.

Oh, sorry; and you were doing so well too.

James: from Phil in my office (paraphrased).

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Kate E

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Ryo-Chan at Sun Apr 28 23:45:47 2002 said:

you know.. I swear I saw that first in a star trek novel.. um… the entropy effect i think it was called – the one with the glass spider… Kirk teaching god how to do it right ^_-

 

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27^th April 2002, 1119.

It’s not my time!

I’m not ready!

Noooooo….

…..I can’t become [shudder] domesticated….

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amy at Sat Apr 27 17:00:27 2002 said:

byebye kate.. It was nice knowing you. *sniff* I didn’t expect you to go that way just yet though *sniffsniff*

 

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26^th April 2002, 1024.

Sooo.

Yes, the bloke from the RAC (well an RAC Agent, you’d think that
given 6 hours they could have sorted out getting me an actual RAC
person…) appeared, only 20 minutes late (with an apology from him ‘cos
he could have been here on time but his boss didn’t give him the job
until 17:15. Given that he was at best 25 minutes away – according to
the AAs route planner – the fact he made it here in 35 minutes isn’t bad
at all – in rush hour – mind you he did go a twiddly backroads way.

Anyway, after a lot of work he managed to get the bike to run – he
also bled the oil pump and guess what – it sounded god awful. At idle
it’s not too bad – but as soon as you take it off idle you can hear what
was once a bearing grinding itself to pieces.

Still, I’m impressed with MZ’s, I mean 200 miles with basically no
oil – and they weren’t 200 nice easy miles they were 200 gruelling,
being thrashed witless miles where I was using maximum accleration every
time I went anywhere.

I fear looking inside the engine – he reckons the big-end-bearing has
gone. I’m praying it’s just the small end – because I can fix that –
I’ve done it before. I feel so s*dding stupid though. I feel so bl**dy
stupid. In my defence the reason I didn’t notice it was simply that I
was using the bike so intermeittently that I couldn’t ever remember what
state it was in when I last checked it – or when I’d filled it up. It
was only this week that I started to think that something was amiss –
and really by the time I realised it was too late.

Even if I had realised last on Tuesday when the very very very first
signs that something was amiss appeared (the Nippon Denso sparkplug
stopping working despite not looking *that* knackered. I would have
expected from the state of the plug that the bike’d be running a touch
slower than normal.

*sigh* And I guess, had I clicked, I’d’ve realised that the slight
drop in top speed wasn’t due to changing to a less-good-spark plug, but
due to something more serious.

*sigh*

Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.

Oh [insert swearword here as I berate myself in such a way that it
would quite defiantely not get through this companies filters]

Okay, I’m going to do some really scary stuff with the new site. I
hope. I think.

I have plans^tm. I even have a fairly good idea of
how it’s going to look. Okay, I’ll be honest, I know *exactly* how it’s
going to look. I even have a development page here.

Ha! You don’t think I’m going to let it out yet do you?! Nyaha. And
frankly, I don’t care if you all hate the new site. I like it. Well, I
do at the moment. I might change my mind. I might not.

Mwuahahahah.

Of course the thing is it won’t look anywhere near as impressive to
any of you as it will to me, because 99% of what I’ll have done will be
background stuff which you won’t even see. I mean. It’s a bit sad
really, isn’t it!

Still, it should make my life a touch easier. Less faffing – and less
mistakes – I mean, you can see, well, those of you who saw my diary
yesterday/day before will have seen numerous errors – tiredness meant
that the dates were wrong on the index page, at one point you got a 404
error for one of the entries….not good.

Ahh well.

So, moment of boredom and I’m following random links around
Livejournal. It’s funny how that’s caught on – on the one had the lazy
part of me quite likes the idea of someone else taking care of all the
work – and the other part of me – which likes having control doesn’t.
Not only that, but quite a lot of the stuff in here is very personal –
and I don’t want some company turning around and saying “and now
we own the copyright in everything you’ve written.

So…I found a T* biochemist….
while I was on my wanderings. Managed to completely screw up adding a
comment – so it’s appearing to be a reply to someone elses comment.
Never mind, so I’m a f***wit.

I wonder if that’ll get past the filters or if they have an asterisk
scanner.

Anyway, the reason I mention it is it’s them who I’ve nabbed this of:

Pick a band and answer using only that band’s lyrics.

0. Band:

Elastica

1. Are you Male or female?

you’re a strange girl

2. Describe yourself:

sometimes i just can’t function

my heart’s spaghetti junction
Or possibly:

keeping a brave face

in circumstances

is impossible

cannot describe

so many decisions

it’s impossible

to know which is

the proper order

the best position

to be in

take advantage

or so it seems

the way it goes

3. How do they feel about you?

you don’t care what they say

4. How do you feel about yourself?

just i think you’re faking

it’s just i think you’re faking

wanna know ’bout all the little things you sorted out

you know you’ve got a problem

5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend:

..a lover who loves me when others have loved me not

..is a big love, two spoons in a drawer, the master plan

..a lover who can love me slowly

..to make your heartbeat faster

6. What would you rather be doing?

i just can’t escape the feeling

that i’d rather be free wheeling

7. Describe where you live:

in the city

8. Describe how you love:

..is to love you everywhere and everyhow

..to kiss you until our lips are numb

..kiss you ’til everywhere hurts

9. Share a few words of wisdom:

i’d work very hard but i’m lazy

i can’t take the pressure and it’s starting to show

in my heart you know how it pains me

a life of leisure is no life you know

10 points and a biscuit to the first person to name which song they
all came from.

Chr*st, it’s pouring with rain…. hrm, some work to do…

So, continued mooching around the net. 4 Hours until I finish work
and it’s *cough*ing down with rain. Anyway, so, I’ve been trying to
scrounge a PC. I mean, that’d not be bad going really – it’s unlikely
that I’ll succeed, but still….

I had a quick go at angling for a printer too, but they’ve taken it
out to the van…

So, anyhoo, while mooching around I found yet another cartoon – the
advantage of cartoons is you can sit and read pages and pages of them
and then find that you’ve used up two or three hours. Also there’s lots
of them. And I don’t have to think too much. And we know I don’t like
thinking. Anyway, it keeps me slightly more cheerful….

So, anyway, here’s one I spotted…which I quite fancied having a
teeshirt of :-)

Aww, nuts.

The IT Support guy’s just wandered off with the PC I was angling for
(“If I take it away it’ll just get thrown away” “Well, I’ll have it
then”). Gah, some other sod’s pinched it – that’s not fair! Just ‘cos
I’m temping and he’s a permie. Grr….

I was quite keen on that as an idea. Having a PC….it would have
been equivalent to a bit of a payrise :-)

Waah? It just went back the other way with someone else?! I don’t
understand….grr…Ahh, right, yes. It’s gone. No fair, I asked
first….[pout]

Quick ‘nother test…

The Annoying B-List Celebrity Test

You’re utterly brilliant!

Oh wait, no, you’re not. You’re Timmy Mallett.

You achieved fame and success as the presenter of the shoestring
budget children’s morning show WACaday, which was an offshoot of equally
low-budget Saturday show The Wide Awake Club. The latter spawned such
successful names as Mike Myers and, um, Tommy Boyd, but it’s you that’s
become the legend. You.

Why? Because of your incredible, unmistakable naffness; you wore
bermuda shorts, loud shirts and the dodgy plastic novelty glasses that
were all the rage in the eighties; you actually released a cover version
of Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini; you had to change the
format of your show because it was leading kids to hit each other over
the heads with hammers. Oh wait, that last bit’s cool.

These days you’re a washed up has-been, but that doesn’t stop you
from trying. Bless.

You can tell the world that they mustn’t pause, mustn’t hesitate
otherwise you’ll get hit over the head like this or like this with the
following foam mallet of a graphic:

Which annoying
B-list celebrity are you?

Well, it wasn’t going to be a good answer was it?!

The thing with this cartoon is it’s very variable. I seem to go
through quite a few that I just don’t find funny – and then suddenly
find one which makes me laugh. Ahh well….

Yeah, so, I think I’ve found a look that I like….

Using Windows paint to create these images is, shall we say, not
ideal.

Anyway, yes, it’s always a look I’ve quite fancied, but being of
asian decent means that the goth look doesn’t work so well – you really
need very pale skin to pull it off – which is rather a shame really…

I wonder if it says something worrying about me that I tend to
identify with/wish to be like characters who tend to be somewhat on the
evil side….

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25^th April 2002, 16:33.

Okay, now this is getting silly. I mean, no one seems to have
actually done the “what test are you” – and I couldn’t find the “What
Kleenex are you?” test – but this is almost equally silly:

what adjective are
you?

quiz by
maikamariel

See what I mean!

On the other hand, this is good news:

Which Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy character are
you?

And while I’m here I may as well do this one too….

Take the “How slutty are you” Test
created by sami

And on the “while I’m doing them” subject….(hey, I’ve got 40
minutes to kill before the RAC arrive):

Find your emotion! [?]

I have to ask with this one exactly how I came out as Anger. I mean
usually I can see vaguely where the answer came from – but this one
defeats me.

And for once I’m going to give the answers I got – anyone else hazard
a guess from these where “Anger” came from?

• 001. What kind of clothes do you wear?
  
  Shirts that say “go to hell, b****”
• 002. How about your friends? They are:
  
  Relaxed and funny
• 003. Do you have a significant other?
  
  Yes, and I like them a lot.
• 004. Got a favorite color (of these)?
  
  Blue
• 005. If you could speak ANY language, what would it be?
  
  Russian
• 006. What’s best when it comes to music?
  
  Uhh..whatever..
• 007. Any personal defects?
  
  I cry too much

So, right. Apart from the first one…?

36 minutes to go….

You are Yourself! Gay, straight. These words mean very little to you. You are yourself and that’s all you need to know. You fall in love with the same gender, but you believe that isn’t all there is to you. Your lack of “traditional” gay pride is interpreted by many queers as internal homophobia, but in truth you just want to be your true self. Not just gay.

Take the what
kind of fag are you quiz by PsychosisX!

You’re probably bored of these by now aren’t you, but for once here’s
a test which I actually went “ooh, funky” at:

Take the which Silent Starlet are you quiz!

Of course I’m wondering, since I’ve moved over to actually having a
copy of the pictures on my machine instead of using the ones on the
sites (because on looking through my diary entries I noticed that some
of the older quizzes had disappeared) – what’ll happen when I move over
to my new site layout that I’ve just e-mailed myself and that you can’t
see yet.

Not least because I need to work out a way to get all the content out
of these pages – and into a database….

Anyway onto the next one…

Yes, I can definately see this becoming an issue. Unless I write a
script which fixes all the broken links. Of course there’s only one
minor problem with that. I’d have to write a script – and I have no clue
as to how to do that.

Okay, you can be thankful – I’ve actually discarded one of my
results…..just ‘cos I couldn’t be ars*d. I’ve had enough things saying
I’m a goth of one sort or another and one with not-very-good-images is
one I can’t be arsed with.

However, I rather liked this one…

what’s your battle
cry? |
mewing.net | merchandise!

And this one…

take the non-offensive
quiz.


and go to mewing.net. laura = great.

And finally, in my boredom-tastic quiz-extravaganza:

take the “what’s my fault”
quiz.

(and then browse around mewing.net.
because laura is cool.)

Oh godly god I’m bored.

And frankly, I’m missing the bath I didn’t get yesterday – this is
what comes of gardening you know – you uddnely find it’s 9 o’clock at
night and you’re hungry and unwashed ;-/

Still, it’s quite nice to see some impact on the garden. We’re going
to have a bonfire to clear away the crud we’ve generated…

[RAC Bloke arrives]

—

Kate E

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