So it's farewell to shelf-stacking. Two years of (largely soul-destroying) labouring come to an end next Tuesday as I head off to be Assistant Manager at the local branch of Scope. It's farewell also to a host of colourful characters I have grown to barely tolerate over the pain-soaked months, so adios to Polish Bart, Badger, Nurse Ratchett, ( Read more... )

Previously I may have given the impression that there was music that I had listened to and enjoyed. I now accept that I was wrong and that everything I had hitherto professed to admire is so much nugatory effluent, washed away by the gloriousness that is Lustmord ( Read more... )

In the frantic countdown to avoid a second anniversary as a 'shelf-technician' I have my first job interview tommorrow at a dentists. I just hope that my modish new haircut and effervescent personality (lie) blinds them to my utter inexperience in anything relevent to the post ( Read more... )

Why Moby Dick is fucking great:

It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx's in the desert. "Speak, thou vast and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that ( Read more... )

Well, for the worst day of the year I suppose that wasn't too bad.

Additional. With the news that Morrissey might be writing Britain's Eurovision entry this year, someone has taken a stab at what that might sound like . . .

Morrissey sings Eurovision

Submission day ( Read more... )

After my rather poor showing of 3/10 for last years new years resolutions I think I will forgo the whole rigmarole this time. Well, maybe only one: Throw acid in the face of printers who print your PhD (for £70) a couple of days before your submission deadline but print the middle four chapters in green and underlined.

I agree with spessartine that the ( Read more... )

A nice prompt I noted on Faetan's journal (borrowed from elsewhere): 'When I make a RL post, I will include five things recently that have made me happy, or that I'm grateful for.' I'm sure this probably originated from the 'home-baked cookies and the baby Jesus' end of lifes spectrum, but I've noticed that most people (including myself) tend to use LJ ( Read more... )

Last night I finished adding page breaks and page numbers. All I need to do now is tidy up my contents page, get my bibliography double-checked and then ho! to the printers. I doubt anything will sink in until I've actually handed in my bound hard copies; when something's been a part of your daily routine for 4 years it's a little hard to reconcile ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think I'm the only person who agrees with political correctness. There seems to be pretty much unanimous agreement at work that most of the countrys problems, from falling educational standards to the breakdown of community, are a result of political correctness having gone 'mad ( Read more... )