|
harmonyharmony
|
 |
« Reply #2985 on: 13:10:37, 19-09-2007 » |
|
Just been rejected for another job.  One day, one day.... |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
|
|
|
Janthefan
|
|
« Reply #2986 on: 13:32:44, 19-09-2007 » |
|
Oh, poo, h-h you poor thing.....you need a good break, what a shame.
Never Give Up !!
x Jan x
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Live simply that all may simply live
|
|
|
|
Morticia
|
|
« Reply #2987 on: 13:42:17, 19-09-2007 » |
|
Oh that`s carp on top of everything else, hh. There is a post out there with your name on it but I guess it doesn`t feel like that at the moment. Pecker up and keep going. I send you a cyber hug if that helps.  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Ron Dough
|
|
« Reply #2988 on: 14:06:23, 19-09-2007 » |
|
hh, look at it this way, you've not been rejected, you've been spared. Would you really want to be involved with people who obviously can't see your worth? Believe me, we thespians go through this selection process almost continuously, and there's nothing worse than accepting a job you didn't really want only to discover that by so doing you've missed out on something much better which comes along the moment you've signed on the dotted....
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
TimR-J
Guest
|
|
« Reply #2989 on: 18:07:59, 19-09-2007 » |
|
BUGGER.
Robert Jordan died today.
Been on the cards for a while, but still terribly sad. My girl is particularly cut-up - she's been reading the Wheel of Time on almost continual loop for about 12 years, and now we don't even get an ending... |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
TimR-J
Guest
|
|
« Reply #2990 on: 18:09:17, 19-09-2007 » |
|
We've put the heating on as it's cold here...
At least you've not just discovered that it broke somewhere during summer ... |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
increpatio
|
|
« Reply #2991 on: 18:28:04, 19-09-2007 » |
|
Been on the cards for a while, but still terribly sad. My girl is particularly cut-up - she's been reading the Wheel of Time on almost continual loop for about 12 years, and now we don't even get an ending...
Well she will, it just won't be written by R.J. himself. I'd rather if they just published the rest of it as told them (he gave them a detailed description of the ending I think) in some ways (save us all some time, and be more poignant and trustworthy), but no doubt in a couple of years they'll have the final book out and we can all say "it's not as good as the others, but then again plenty of the previous ones had that said about them as well". On this topic, this inevitable delay means that I'm going to try fit in some Proust in the interim  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
thompson1780
|
|
« Reply #2992 on: 07:49:39, 20-09-2007 » |
|
Grump averted, but for the record, I just wanted to say that a bubbly Polish person answered her mobile phone on the train next to me yesterday, just as I was reaching a crucial bit in the book I was reading. I completely broke my concentration and the 'mood'.
First Great Western and the individual concerned have a lot to answer for.
Tommo
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
|
|
|
|
perfect wagnerite
|
|
« Reply #2993 on: 10:23:50, 20-09-2007 » |
|
Serious train delays this morning owing to ....
COWS ON THE LINE AT ARUNDEL
grr
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
|
|
|
|
Ruth Elleson
|
|
« Reply #2994 on: 10:36:55, 20-09-2007 » |
|
Am just feeling irrationally emotional and rubbish this morning  This is not helped by the fact that I have various pressing tasks which urgently need completing at work, but all the people whose input I require in order to do so are unavailable/on leave/in lengthy meetings.  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
|
|
|
|
Ian Pace
|
|
« Reply #2995 on: 10:41:30, 20-09-2007 » |
|
OK, my rant for the day is about these:  Not Birmingham, but Thai fishcakes! They appear in every yuppie pub, and seem to be consumed for the purposes of proving some sort of spurious cosmopolitanism. I've never been to Thailand, but find it hard to imagine anything like these, at least in their common form, is commonly eaten there? They usually have the texture of unbreakable rubber, they hardly taste of fish at all (but do of large quantities of fat), and come with that grotesque invention of sweet chilli sauce. What is the appeal of the latter? It is hot, but otherwise tastes of nothing else but sugar. I like hot things plenty, but like them to have some other taste as well. This is just some way of carrying adolescent sugar-driven tastes into the adult world, surely? Actually haven't had them for a while, but was thinking in particular of the sweet chilli sauce when I saw some hideous ads for new Kentucky Fried Chicken bites (which looked as awful as they could be, with perfectly white, homogenous, tasteless chicken coated in polystyrene bread crumbs, to be dipped in the ubiquitous sweet chilli sauce!). What does anyone like about the sauce in particular? Yours grumping, Ian |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
|
|
|
|
Mary Chambers
|
|
« Reply #2996 on: 10:47:44, 20-09-2007 » |
|
I also feel irrationally cross about everything this morning.
I had some Thai fish cakes last week in a very ladies-who-lunch restaurant - nothing special at all, and didn't taste very Thai, I don't think. I can't remember whether they had sweet chilli sauce or not. If they did, that wasn't memorable either.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
martle
|
|
« Reply #2997 on: 10:51:34, 20-09-2007 » |
|
Ruth, Ian, couldn't agree more. Yuk, yuk, yuk. Ever tried a really good homemade sweet chilli sauce, though? A world of difference. You've reminded me of a personal rant of my own. Crisps flavourings. Time was, you had the good old standbys of salt 'n' vinegar, cheese 'n' onion, smokey bacon (when do you ever see that any more?) etc. Now, you can't move for BALSAMIC vinegar and SEA salt (ye gods), or sea salt and CRACKED BLACK PEPPERCORNS flavour, or indeed sweet chilli flavour. My personal last straw was seeing 'slow-roasted lamb and thyme' flavour. 'Slow-roasted'?? Who are they trying to kid? Don't answer that. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Green. Always green.
|
|
|
|
Ruth Elleson
|
|
« Reply #2998 on: 11:21:48, 20-09-2007 » |
|
Ruth, Thanks martle - needed that  I'm just in a mood where I fancy going into a corner, curling up into a little ball and making myself invisible. One of the people whose input I needed has since appeared. I got the one crucial piece of information, fed it into the database and ran all the necessary operations (which took about 20 minutes). It gave me no results  |
|
|
|
« Last Edit: 11:24:56, 20-09-2007 by Ruth Elleson »
|
Logged
|
Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
|
|
|
|
thompson1780
|
|
« Reply #2999 on: 11:23:56, 20-09-2007 » |
|
Sea Salt and Balsamic Vinegar flavoured crisps.  Moi R's(as a Poirate would say) Tommo |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
|
|
|
|
