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Deafening sound of continuous car horns from vehicles draped with Turkish flags, or passengers flying them out of the window - hardly peaceful in this area when Turkey have done well in the football....
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Was at a food fair in Dublin today; was hoping for lots of tasty bits of food from various restaurants around Dublin. Was twenty euro in, and then one had to purchase a minimum of twenty euro worth of 'Florens' (fake currency seems to be rather popular at food fairs) to purchase little plates food with which was just as expensive, if not more so, than it would have been to buy at the actual restaurants. And, there was only one stand doing hot vegetarian food.  |
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« Reply #6287 on: 06:54:59, 16-06-2008 » |
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Deafening sound of continuous car horns from vehicles draped with Turkish flags, or passengers flying them out of the window - hardly peaceful in this area when Turkey have done well in the football....
Imagine what it be like if us English had been there and won!! |
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« Reply #6288 on: 08:24:49, 16-06-2008 » |
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 Just off to work. Feeling a bit better probably because I have something to do today. |
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'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 |
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« Reply #6289 on: 08:42:41, 16-06-2008 » |
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Maybe having a queit weekend, didnt work too wellfor you hh. Hope you be feeling better soon.
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« Reply #6290 on: 16:20:26, 16-06-2008 » |
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Thanks. Part of the problem was anti-climax. There's all this rush to the end of term and the marking, and then there was the whole thing about copying these parts. There are things I should be doing, in particular there's the piece that I abandoned a couple of months ago, but I just felt so drained over the weekend. Like there wasn't much of me left and that I needed support from other people so that I could grow back again. Like a liver. But instead I drank a bottle of wine on my own and felt rough yesterday.
Today I'm a lot better and I have plans in place for the next two weeks so that's looking good.
Also I had two nice letters today: one from the Master of my college in Durham congratulating me on my degree result, and a thank you note from my 8-yr old nephew.
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« Reply #6291 on: 22:54:45, 16-06-2008 » |
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Thats great hh. Glad everything is looking better!
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« Reply #6292 on: 23:24:20, 16-06-2008 » |
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Deafening sound of continuous car horns from vehicles draped with Turkish flags, or passengers flying them out of the window - hardly peaceful in this area when Turkey have done well in the football....
That drip-drip noise you hear coming from Köln is my heart bleeding for you.  Do you know the word Hupkonzert? |
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« Reply #6293 on: 07:02:48, 17-06-2008 » |
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I CAN'T SLEEP.
I think if I have another bad night I will probably go mad. If anyone has any solutions, please tell me!
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« Reply #6294 on: 08:47:35, 17-06-2008 » |
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That's rotten luck, Mary. Do you take any kind of sleeping pills? I don't usually have any problem sleeping well, but if I know I really need to get a good night's sleep I often pop a couple of paracetamol (or whatever) before bed. But I'm sure we're all different in that respect.
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« Reply #6295 on: 08:55:54, 17-06-2008 » |
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I had big problems with getting to sleep for most of my teenage years and on into my mid-twenties.
What I do now at the end of the day is replay my day. Not in real time, but I go through what I've done, what I've seen and think about it. It's not an opportunity for thinking about what I haven't done, or what I've done wrong; part of the whole benefit is accepting everything and not judging my actions. I very rarely get to the end of the day because it seems to relax me. Recently I've either been too busy to need to do this, or I've got into good habits so I haven't needed to do it, but I know it's there if I need it.
I'm not saying it never fails, but it's the best method I've come across to date.
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« Reply #6297 on: 11:27:45, 17-06-2008 » |
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ARRGHHHH! Some of those are horribly familiar, particularly 'cascading'. Utterly meaningless Another one that really gets my goat is 'Unpack', as in 'Well when you unpack this situation ...'. Complete billhooks! <stomps off to Tunbridge Wells in disgust> |
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« Reply #6298 on: 11:39:07, 17-06-2008 » |
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Ages ago my other half told me about some stroppy person in his company answering back to the boss "I hear what you say." The boss riposted "You hear what I say and you will do it."
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #6299 on: 11:53:49, 17-06-2008 » |
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I went to put my bets on this morning and the bookie's service opened with a snatch of music followed by the presenter saying "And that rather regal fanfare leaves us in no dobt that today is the first day of Royal Ascot". Many of you will be ahead of me, having guessed that the few bars they played were from Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man.
This comes shortly after my visit the Hope Street festival in Liverpool on Saturday where we saw a trendy chappie spreading the good news outside the Metropolitan Cathedral with the aid of what appeared to be karaoke equipment. While we were there he treated us to Phil Collins's anthem to bitterness & hatred In the Air Tonight with its quintessentially Christian lyric "If you told me you were drowning I would not lend a hand".
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