So B contacted me to have drinks on Friday to celebrate her birthday this weekend. The rest of the section she works in (and I worked in) turned up except for the newest member of staff. It was nice to see them. I bear no ill will towards any of them, but am glad to [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Drinkies
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged stress, understaffing, work on 26 May, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Revenge” on John Cleese
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Palmerston North on 23 May, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The latest in Palmerston North is the appearance of a sign which is supposed to be revenge on John Cleese for calling the town the “suicide capital of the world” when he visited during his New Zealand tour:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4070139a1860.html
I look at that and think ‘how pathetic’. It’s not funny, it’s not clever and residents [...]
Thought for the day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged men, relationships, work on 20 May, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not sure what brought it to mind, and you all probably had this thought dawn on you decades ago, but it’s this:
Women do all the work, which is why men have time to do nothing but create trouble (eg, wars).
I saw Nick the other day. He said (unnecessarily) that they were still [...]
Whew
Posted in interests, tagged belly dancing on 17 May, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I think I mentioned that my belly dance teacher said we had to do a solo at the next event and the fear I felt. The week’s gone by like the click of my fingers and I hadn’t practised much if at all. The music I was going to dance too didn’t enthuse me much [...]
Mother’s Day / buttons
Posted in home, tagged stereotypes on 13 May, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently it was Mother’s Day today. My daughter and I realised just this evening but didn’t care. I’m not into that whole commercial thing – an excuse to spend more money. The Mother’s Day ads used to really annoy me because of their stereotypical nature (all mothers apparently love slippers, pink things, women’s magazines, chick-flicks, [...]
Expectations, stress and fear
Posted in interests, work, tagged belly dancing, men, relationships on 11 May, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
An unusual combination I suppose. It refers to three things I wanted to talk about.
Firstly – expectations. I’m rather disappointed that the guy I went out with a couple of times believes that our “relationship” is off because we haven’t seen each other for a couple of weeks – I’ve been busy! For one [...]
“Horror”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged horror movies on 9 May, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I came home to see my daughter and male friend watching a “horror” film – Saw III. I couldn’t follow the storyline – if there was any need to. It was all drawn-out torture. How anyone can watch that for recreation and ‘enjoyment’ is beyond me. Young people watching this shit become immune to suffering [...]
Latest discovery
Posted in interests, tagged goodreads, librarything on 3 May, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I accidentally came across www.goodreads.com and was hooked. It’s rather like www.librarything.com but is more for books you’ve read rather than books you own. I’m one of these geeky people who actually writes down every book read (except for some reference and text books), so there was no problem adding books I’ve read in the [...]
