thank god its fridya (morning thread)
Plans for the day all? Leaving work early myself as im of to brum to watch mbv. Should probably get in early but if anything ill be late. Still in bed.
Thread not appearing correctly? Click here to rebuild | Report this

Hey Jordan.
I've got work, then I'm meeting a buddy for some drinks, then we'll go back to Reading for more drinks and dancing.
Tomorrow my sister is visiting. More drinking is on the cards. Oh and also rugby and Xbox (if it arrives in the post today).
you're the embodiment of Arab Strap's 'First Big Weekend'
it's true
(it's not)
I'm pretty damn ill
To make things worse I'm supposed to be going to this place tomorrow http://goape.co.uk/treetopadventure for a friends birthday. Pretty much the last place I want to go feeling like this.
Watched All Good Things last night, it featured a pre-nosejob Ryan Gosling and a pre-moustache Ron Swanson. It was weird.
I have absolutely no plans for this weekend at all
I'm not even working!
I'm vaguely on top of my coursework right now and I'm trying to work out if I wanna spend the weekend trying to get ahead of myself or just sitting around in my underwear listening to gangsta rap and playing Sim City 4.
The choice is clear...
going to eat a Subway at Katowice train station with a girl called Madzia
then it's the overnight train to Poznan for a day of frolicking in the last days of Polish winter. Probably go to the dark restaurant and risk the fish menu.
That's some heavy innuendo right there
You didn't explain the Dark Resturant the other day!
TELL ME
aint it when you eat in the dark?
yeah you eat in the dark and you don't know what you're eating
surely these are ten a penny in swinging London?
I've been to this one in clerkenwell
It was ok.
http://london.danslenoir.com/
Have the weekend off from my 'other, nights job'... Soo.....
Finish here at 1.30.
Get changed.
Throw my work clothes in the car.
Walk across into town and spend the afternoon having a few beers before going to see MBV tonight.
YEAH!
Morning
Glad its Friday. Felt worn out this week. Going for a few drinks tonight and meeting a guy whos buying my laptop.
Might get that hair cut I've been meaning to get for weeks
Thank you for the unwitting reminder.
I've been forgetting every day to try and arrange this for myself.
What you going for, a trim or a whole new look?
Off to visit the folks
Don't forget it's mothers day people. (apologies if you're adopted or an orphan)
I'm so very late for work today
I'm still 20 mins away. I don't have to care now I'm leaving, do I?
Tonight I will mostly be cleaning and sleeping. Then tomorrow I'm gonna do a bit of shopping then wait for my lady to come over and I'm going to teach her how to crochet and then we're going to eat a bucket of pasta and bread and some form of pudding. I'm thinking key lime pie. It's my signature pud. I could take the leftovers to my nan on Sunday. Fuck it. I'm making key lime pie.
Can't wait for tomorrow!
DITTO
Do you like Key Lime Pie? ITS GOOD
I love pie in general.
So. Definitely!
YES
Its a really good pie. I will email you now :)
Cannot be arsed today
Going to miss some work deadlines, go to the pub for dinner then watch my colleague play in an orchestra.
I'm expecting angry client emails and it's going to be hanging over me all day.
Just want to go home, cover myself with a blanket and play computer games in my pants for a few days. Is that so much to ask?!
gonna go to the pub tonight and see my mam on sun
Good morning and enjoy MBV tonight
I have to attend a virtual seminar about high value residential property at 10am, woooooooo!
Finally completed my move of flat last night, was odd to sleep in a new room, on a new street. Friday's are clearly bin day too....
Tonight is looking a little more fun with Sigur Ros and beers with an old friend.
yes!
not only is it friday but my boss is off and he's off on monday and i'm going to a casino for the first time in ages tonight and then oxford tomorrow morning and my new stylus arrived. GOOD!
oh hey my boss is off and she's off on mon too
woah
ikr
I feel better today
So you can all stop your prayer vigils.
Tonight I will mainly playing guitar and chilling out. Then I've got a party this weekend which will be full of people who think they live in Brideshead Revisited. They don't.
Kitchmo, just gonna ask this straight up
Can I crash at yours on 23rd March? I have to be away (very) early Sunday so I wont bother you too much. Cheers.
Then I will answer straight up.
Yes of course. Although unless you can seduce one of my flatmates I can only offer you a floor as we don’t have a sofa (yeah I know).
:D Thanks! Much appreciated!
Ha a floor would be marvellous! I'll send you a PM in a bit!
S'up chumps.
Quiet one tonight, Underachievers tomorrow for a bit and then MBV on Sunday. Job's a good'un.
No MBV for me.
Meeting a prospective drummer for our band tonight, fingers crossed that we get on with him.
Haircut tomorrow morning and hopefully out for a meal with the gf Saturday evening.
Got the FRIDAY FEELING :D :D :D :D
Wasn't able to get off work early today, but I don't care.
Beer Festival in London today and Sigur Ros tomorrow
Hurray!
FRIDAY, FRIDAY, FRIAY!!!!!! :D
Where is the beer festival?
I don't know! somewhere near Kings Cross.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ13A0BlxGg
I had a dream I took heroin
it was really good.
Apparently to emulate a heroin high you need to drink as much tequila as you can and lie in a warm bath.
This can only end well.
that sounds terrifying
It will come as no surprise that that small nugget came from T Branton
How are you Joe? Are you going to Bangface on the 22nd?
I'm well!
did I tell you I might be moving to London soon? Would like to go to BF but I'm not sure if I can afford it. I've gone a bit wild with purchasing gig tickets this month. How are YOU?!
Oooh
That is exciting news. Where would you be moving to?
I'm the same re: bangface, I get back from New York the day before so might not want a crazy one anyway. We should meet for BEER very soon though.
I think I'd rather just try smack than drink that much tequila
Despite Terrorvisions claim's, it does not make me happy.
My team is being called into the MD's office individually this morning
I'm terrified.
I went to see Colin Stetson last night
It was amazing, but I fell asleep during Glenn Branca. He's kind of boring these days. Plus I have no idea why he's there, he's not actually properly conducting anyway.
Stetson was really nervous and spoke far too fast so no one understood him. He told a story about the loneliest whale in the world before one of his songs.
Tested out some new running kit this morning as well. Very content. Was thinking of starting a runners thread, are there any on here? How often do you run? How far? What brands do you recommend? Anyone got one of those GPS watches?
This weekend I am mostly working, but going to see FaltyDL and Illum Sphere tomorrow night. Ging to go and see No,,the Gael Garcia Bernalnfilm, tonight.
he told the same story in poland last year and seemed seemingly nervous
he's a true gent to chat to though.
NO is so good
You will have *the song* in your head for days though.
I forgot my medication this morning
SO MUCH PAIN. Thankfully my lovely bf is bringing it to me on his way to work. Hoefully it'll kick in quickly.
Work will be very quiet today which I don't mind at all. I have chicken and pesto pasta for lunch.
Still in tonnes of pain
Might ham it up so I can go home at lunchtime.
What's wrong?
Was that too 'r u ok Hun?'
Nah, its's okay
Sorry if my posts were a bit vaguebookey.
I've got terrible menstrual cramps. I got some stuff from the doctor that's meant to make it not so bad but it hasn't really done anything so far.
This is one of the many reasons I am glad I am not a woman
My gf sometimes gets them too. Get well soon.
Happy international women's day!
Thanks lbc.
should i do medical stats or fluid dynamics next year?
these sound like the sorts of things the journals that my gf manages are about
that makes me an expert. do fluid dynamics
Medical stats then you can be like Ben Goldacre
still feel shit today
might be depressed?
depressed seems a bit of a strong word.
how long do you have to feel lousy and sad for before you are depressed?
.......
You've certainly sounded pretty low on here for the better part of a month now
The question is, what do you wnat to do about it? Normally I'd say go to your GP, but you run the risk of being fobbed off with a prescription for prozac (btw- pretty yummy. I had them for a couple of months when I was a teenager) and not really tackiling the underlying issues. It sounds like you need to talk to someone. Doe syour local NHS area offer CBT/ counselling? If there's no big issue, maybe you sohuld just take the drugs to get you through the dark times and try to get yourself to a better place and then come off the drugs?
(LIFECOACHING- maybe I should not be giving up the day job....)
I'm not going to take any drugs
i don't believe in that ( not that I don't think there's merit in them, just not for me).
thanks po
OK, usual advice then
You need to break out of whatever cycle you find yourself in and the best way to do this is to make one small change at a time. Up your exercise levels, eat well (nutritious food, but treat yourself too.) DO things that are just for you (NICE RELAXING FACIAL etc). Try to open up to a friend or family member. Are you close to your mum? It can be a huge weight off to admit to somebnody who loves you that you're not coping 100% with life.
i just want to go back to bed
also - lol at NICE RELAXING FACIAL
maybe you're just tired?
maybe
just for the record medication is pretty important in dealing with certain areas of mental illness and depression.
Yes, it works for some people and some very particular illnesses such as bipolar etc
I am personally very skewed on this issue because somebody I'm close to nearly died (several times in fact) because of ruthless and needless medicating (Not sure if you remember the seroxat scandal?) So yes, my advice is perhaps not totally impartial.
i hate to quote myself but
"not that I don't think there's merit in them, just not for me''
thanks tho!
Wow. I mustn't read stuff in brackets. As you were CB!
It took me an hour and a half to get into work this morning with my massive fuckoff case.
Big shout out to:
1. Woman at limehouse DLR who helped me squeeze onto the train with my case and scolded a selfish man who was hogging so much space and cramming me. (he says he didn't see me. OK, I may be wee, but my case IS NOT.)
2. Guy who looked like he might be one of you lot, who offerd to carry case up, across and down the stairs at Bank onto the central line. He was puce and looked like he was going to spew at the end of it, but he did very well. Thank you.
3. THe old guy in the high vis jacket (not even sure he worked for TFL) who commandeered part of the platform for me so I could get onto the central line train (I'd been waiting for 20 mins and about eight trains had passed through that I couldn't get onto.)
4. THe scottish man who did my case for me at Bond Street STation. He at least had the honesty to say FUCK ME, WHAT IN SHITTIN HELL YE GOT IN THIS LASS?
Right, had four hours sleep, feeling like being sick against a wall, and got so so much to do.
Sounds like you could do with a helicopter for the evening leg?
It's being scrambled as we speak :D
(I've actually worked out a route- I'm going to walk/ run to oxford circus and get a strong man to help me there, and then it's direct victoria line to euston which is all escalators. YIPPEE).
Please, please be careful with a massive case on the escalators
I will do
I'm a pro at this, I do it about once a month :)
What's in the case?
My life <3
(a lot of sellotape and staplers from the stationery cupboard).
Puce is a great colour.
It is!
I would like a puce dress.
(it's not such a good look on the face- it's like my bikram face!)
is work stuff ok?
No idea. I will know in 30 min.
I am scared.
YOGA BREATHING
I hate when employers do this to people- it's so demotivating and makes everybody scared when you don't know the actual agenda. Hopefully it's good/ neutral news and nothig to worry about.
I hope so.
I didn't see the HR woman in on the meeting, which is a good omen I guess. But, I haven't had much work on for the last 3 weeks. It has been the most soul crushing time. I feel useless. (Indie-bedwetter moan)
Totally valid moan
Try not to worry until you know the lie of the land :)
That's true.
Deep breathe.
UPDATE:
My Mentor resigned.
This makes me sad, as she was the only really positive aspect of my work.
That is indeed sad, but try to think of it as a new beginnning
(also, selfishly, great that your job is safe, which I presume is the case?)
Yeah, safe and static.
I am so bored. I'm at a bit of a cross road as to whether I go freelance until my course starts. But then I am unsure if there will be anything out there for me.
PEOPLE WHO:
Take a massive, fuck off case on the underground during rush hour.
;)
sent my little boy to nursery dressed as a bear for world book day
Parenting advice : if you have children I strongly recommend dressing them up as animals now and again.
I mean young children
not teenagers or anything
so cute, totally agree
THose romper suits with the ears are officialy the best. Here is something I've just seen on facebook whihc has made me chuckle:
"Have accidentally sent son to school in pjs on the wrong day #fail #yearsof therapy"
(turns out red nose day thing is NEXT week. Poor little boy :'D)
World Book Day was yesterday
BAD PARENT
I hope you sent him as a woman today x
im in charge today so were playing scrabble and other games
What are you doing now?
sitting on my phone drinking a fucking fanta
I've lost one of ny students actually. She's zoomed off somewhere. Oh wait its okay she's outside the room I can see her wheels.
I can see her wheels, awwww. this made me go :''D and <3
look at the letters i have
(this is for s_a_d) http://i.imgur.com/f0DwFet.jpg
:D
Oh my god. Its definitely fate. See you on the boat.
SQUEEEEEEE
THis boat is going to be like all of my favorite people in the one watery paradise. I must remember it's not actually my birthday.
HAPPY FRIDYA, YO.
I'M GOING TO SEE DAVID BYRNE. I'M SO HAPPY.
are you about tomorrow?
I am unsure at this time!
75% no :(
hello
Yesterday: My fiancee found a wedding dress.
Today: Printing out invitations
Tomorrow: MBV and then Slouch (hello PO, scout et al)
Sunday: Dog walking
found one?
ew
like i 'might' take a scarf i find and wash it
but a wedding dress?
haha
If you ever find yourself organising your own wedding, you will soonrealise thaht the dress urchasing is a total SEARCH and you FIND it.
(I picked mine in ten mins while pissed).
<3 you so much
MARRY ME! :')
yes!
cool :)
Still in bed.
The Fratellis.
http://goo.gl/maps/0hBER
House of Frasier
Went to Disclosure last minute with work last night
So today is going to be spent with this weird mild hangover, eating too many mint imperials.
Tonight, going to the Kings Stores for DJRoomba's birthday (it's DJRoomba's birthday today everyone).
Tomorrow, RiFF RaFF!
workmate is REALLY annoying me
It is very foggy outside
Normally some decent views into the city centre and out across the sprawl as you walk around the building. Can barely see the ground from the 11th floor though.
FUCK
I've accidentally liked this on Facebook but its not showing up anywhere on my timeline so I can't delete it.
Can someone help me please? I feel like I need an adult.
not doing much tonight, feel a bit rough today
playing footie in the morning tomorrow and then doing a deep-clean on the house in the afternoon because it's a tip. Then out for some beers in the evening with some buddies.
Sunday will probably involve a long run for marathon training, and just chilling out a bit and maybe some cooking. might go to the cinema in the evening to make the most of our unlimited card and see Side Effects.
oh shit
seeing MBV on sunday night. forgot that!
house party tonight for my birthday and cos sarcasticfringehead moved in
pretty excited but i gotta work this afternoon before any of that fun happens
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
quick, someone photoshop up a wiggy + birthday cake/hat/banner picture
http://i.imgur.com/j8gSfjI.jpg
YES! :D
I'm pretty much killing time
until I can leave work. I'm going to get Tomb Raider tonight and play it all weekend (got to go for a run at some point and play a gig on Saturday night though). Hopefully my housemates will all be out, because I'm going to be seriously monopolising the TV.
I'm sure there was something productive I needed to do. Hmmm can't remember.
Can't wait for work to end.
Shitty week really.
Today is 4 year anniversary, so going out later.
65 minutes til home(pub)time!
Just been speaking to a customer on the phone for 40 minutes
At the end of the call I asked the customer to unplug his router and he replied "okay, I just need to go put some trousers on first"
I'm just now off to throw up..
:)
Why do you need trousers on to unplug a router?
Was it outside his house?
can you speak up?
I'm wearing a towel
It feels like my womb is trying to self-destruct
What the best way to ask if I can go home where I can lie down and cry in private?
This happened to me when I worked at EVIL NEWPORT IOW Cineworld
I felt so, so bad and the stupid manager wouldn't let me go home due to "staff shortage" so I just laid down on the staff room floor and sobbed quietly until my shift was over.
Have you been tested for endo?
That sounds fucking awful, you poor love. Would you consider depo provera (or impant). NO PERIODS!
What's endo?
The last doctor I saw thinks it's related to me having abdominal surgery last year, but they were really bad before that, they've just got worse since.
I'm terrified of changing my contraceptive method. Everyone I know that's had an implant has got fat and spotty, other pills I've tried have given me mood swings so bad I've ended up in hospital. My mum thinks I should get an IUD. But from these ridiculous weeks off, the pill I'm on tends to agree with me.
endometriosis
D:
No thank you.
Boys, lads,
I've got to that point where they call you while they're walking despite being only 5 minutes away. This is not on. What's the nicest way to let a person down gently?
Are you talking about your mobile phone network?
In a sense, yes. They aren't entirely blameless in this mess.
todays my dayoff.
i forgottoputin my prescriptions. i'mout of twodifferenttypes of medicine. WOULDN'T BE ANISSUEIF I WASNT CHRONICALLY ILL ANDON SEVEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF MEDICATION OH MYGOD I AM THE BIGGESTIDIOT IN THE WORLD I HATEMYSELF
AND MY SPACEBARISN'T WORKING PROPERLY
not reallyi'm noteven that fussedi'm mint
just a bitforgetful
i amabit annoyed though
andthe stupid spacebar
I'm now one of those people who when they post something on Facebook the only person that interacts with it is their sibling
One of those absolute losers and I feel shit
Still in my dressing gown
Not the best day so far in terms of productivity