Why do humans have to work for a living? Its not fair!!!!

I have had far too much strong coffee this morning and now I feel sick

Hope you feel better.

I am in need of some but intend to only have one cup!

I want to go to sleep.

I really can't be bothered to practise the clarinet. I actually haven't practised for the past two weeks - I've only played it in concert band.

Why does the week have to be so long and the weekend so short?!?

I cured it with Green Tea!

I think Green Tea is my new favourite thing

I used to get called Kirsty a lot in school. My name in no way resembles Kirsty, but there was another girl in my year with that name who I apparently looked very like (couldn't see the resemblance myself, apart from our hair being the same colour!) I once got yelled at because a teacher kept calling me Kirsty and the rest of the class couldn't stop sniggering: apparently their sniggering was my fault.

However, within my family I answer to pretty much any name directed at me, because the women in my family are terrible with names, so all us girls know that our names are interchangeable. The name I get most is Karen. Occassionally I even have to answer to my brother's name, but this is rare, and swiftly corrected when it does occur.

Outside my family I answer to pretty much any name directed at me, because my name is pretty much unpronounceable and unspellable, so people just make it up as they go along!

Well, they're still calling me Ruth. I thought it might wear off after a fortnight...

I got called Eleanor for almost a year because I sat in the same seat as another girl in the year below, in ICT.

We have differently coloured hair and eyes, and she doesn't wear glasses.

How could the teacher mix us up? Surely there were people in other classes sitting there as well!



One of my friends is so bad with names that what I hear most often from her is, "Hannah-Cassie-Jackie-fish-dog-rabbit-NICKY!" At home I will answer to the name of anyone in the family, even if they're not in the room.

My mother used to call me Pppp'...eeona all the time, and my brother answered to F'..peeter. He always called himself Pete so no-one else would think he was an alien but I gave up.

Now my mum just calls me Sandra.

(My real name is Fiona Mary).

New random thought - how do they choose the guests on Desert Island Discs?

must be the ones they want to send a long way away ...

Why are all the weather-related smilies winter themed? I wanted to use some summer ones on the weather thread....

I've just been to the dentist. I don't like going there...

I dont think anyone does Barry.

You know if you have an operation, and they take something out or off of you...like an appendectomy, or the amputation of a limb...

What happens to the bits?

(I'm assuming incineration, but I have this vision of a special landfill full of the yellow clin waste bags full of slightly macabre decomposing body parts...)

Why does a certain forum member feel the need to offer me english tuition, because I didn't use correct grammer in a post?

You just did that to incite them to further ire, didn't you?

yes, i did

its people like them that give me a reason to not use correct grammar, because it annoys them

Aw, poor Barry. Personally, I love going to the dentist! He is very complimetary of things... (As is his wife, who is also a dentist in the same practice.) I always come out glowing, even if they've been stealing my teeth or something.

If this is a genuine desire to know, I believe they are usually macerated (minced up extremely small by a machine called a macerator, and then flushed away with waste water).

My nephew asked to keep his tonsils when they were removed, and still has them in a jar, preserved in formalin or something!

There's a 24 hour train strike on Monday

Car Expert

Thank you BerkshireMum, once I'd thought of it I was honestly interested to know.

I still think the ikky landfill idea is good, it'd confuse the heck out of future archaeologists...I mean, there they are in a couple of thousand years time, and they find a pit with lots of bones in, but only a bit of each skeleton and no complete bodies. They'd be bound to call it ritual/ceremonial Except, of course, the yellow clin waste bags would be a giveaway, assuming there were people around who could still read the old language

1)I woke up with a start at John Cage o'Clock.

My bedside radio read 04.33.

It was very quiet.



2) When I woke up again at 8am I couldn't force my eyelids open.

I slept until 4pm.



3) I have now not been dressed for over a week.

I HATE being this ill.

poor Cyrilla.

Like that thought...John Cage o'clock...would never have thought of that...







Poor C...

Poor Cyrilla, I'm so sorry. It's really awful when you go on and on feeling ill. Never mind, I'm sure you'll sleep yourself better very soon now. Proper flu is always devastating.

John Cage o'clock as in his work that consists of not a lot of notes noodle!

John Cage o'Clock as in it was 04.33...geddit????

The weird thing was that I woke up, saw the time and thought, 'John Cage o'Clock' immediately. Mind you, I also had playing in my head an absolutely perfect choral arrangement of a song I'd written - I knew every single note and the piece was gorgeous..I was in a totally heightened state of awareness...being ill sure makes your head live in a parallel universe...

Thanks all for the hugs etc. Hugely appreciated.

Cyrilla -

Are grapes *supposed* to be crunchy like celery

Don't think so skylark!!! Should be crisp and juicy and sweet



MY RANDOM COMMENT IS THIS:

Is this a new "smiley"? Don't remember seeing that one before.

It's an image of Bob, the penguin. He's been there a while, I think.

Car Expert (keeper of the penguins) will tell you more!

Then maybe I've just been blind!!!! Always a possibility.

Yes, Bob's been there a while - but I don't think he gets played with very often (which is probably why you've not seen him before).

I think we need some summer smilies now that the sun has come out....

Yes, but he's not one of the options we can click on to add to posts.

He is a very friendly-looking sun though.

He's not, but we can keep posting him everywhere, and the mods might get the message that we want a sunny smiley!

I'd like some summer flowers too, and maybe some spring lambs and a nice blue sky...

The girl's not easily satisfied

Another random comment:

don't we all have interesting social lives ..... post 7:30 on a Saturday night and we are all sitting in on the forum!!!! I am having wine with mine!! CHEERS!!!!!


I still don't know how to post pictures (like your sunshine) on here.

Hmm. I'm at work. Came in to do some admin stuff which I was planning to do from home but our internet is down again and the uni won't do anything about it until Monday at the earliest (despite that fact that one of my housemates reported it on Friday morning).

I was going to leave about an hour ago as my flute hasn't been played yet today - but I do seem to have become rather side-tracked...

I performed on my clarinet today. There's a story in that too. Watch out for Oldnotes' post.

1) find a picture

2) go to forum, get the reply window up

3) click on the little tree icon

4) type in URL address of photo into the window that comes up after you click the tree (it'll end in something like .jpg or .gif)

5) click OK on the small window

6) click add reply on the main window

7) pour yourself a nice glass of wine in celebration

like this?

Perfect Dawn : well done!

Enjoy your wine!

Yay Hooray!!!!

And in celebration::

Cheers! *finds virtual glass*

Thanks Barry. CHEERS!! One should never drink alone.

this real wine is quite nice too

Enjoy!

thanks Dawn!