NationStates Jolt Archive

Here's what I was doing:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/smoog/LifeishardasaPrimaryNET.jpg
Yes that is a beer can at the bottom of the pic. School finished early today due to exams so I was left with the whole afternoon free, a sunny 30°C afternoon at that. And a beach 20 minutes walk away. Now ask yourself - what would you do?

Yes I know I'm gloating. But I hope you can forgive this. :)

Afternoon has barely started where I'm at. It's only 1:20. So far I've eaten lunch, barely kept myself from flaming the hell out of a person who will remain nameless, and considered doing some work.

Not fair! :mad:

By the way, I think I identified your spider. It might be Nephila Pilipes, since it has the elongated body and the species is native to SW Asia. Only an amateur, so I'm not 100%.

Lucky bastard.

I had to go job hunting :(

Not much luck. Applied at a few places and found a one day job on Saturday. Suppose it is something.


Did you take that picture knowing that you would be posting it on NS later?

No, I actually took the picture to send to a mate back in NZ.
He keeps complaining about how awful his teaching job is at a Secondary school (long hours, horrible students, crappy school etc etc). Yet whenever I bring up that he should move over here and go Primary as I have done (teach half as many classes p/week and earn more than twice what I was getting back in NZ), he always dismisses it as 'Not being interested in teaching Primary'.
Logic hasn't worked, so I figure envy might. He's going to hate me, I know. hehehehehe
When I sent it off to him, I suddenly realised I could piss off more people than just one by posting it on NS as well!


To Vetalia, thanx for that. It is a Nephila Pilipes. Do you know if they are poisonous? We don't have such colourful spiders in NZ, hence my interest in it.

I took the day off work and went mountain biking - it pissed down all the way round so I got soaked/covered in mud. It was great. :D

Took a shower.
Ate 2 bagels, drank 2 espressos.
Corrected a 20 pages technical report, modified Visio diagrams.
Talked with the client.
Lost some time in the NS forums.
Killed 12 of these tiny mosquitos.
Had 1 Internet outage, which lasted 10 minutes.
Looked outside, saw the sun.
:(

I did...bugger all. Lay in bed listening to music. And it's what I'll do tomorrow as well :D

Well...its only 1.16 here so haven't done much yet. I woke up at noon, went downstairs to the kitchen, ate some oreos, went and grabbed the laptop and went onto NS. Oh and I read a flyer while eating my oreo.

Oh 1.24, just got up to get some more oreos...and licourice.

Here's what I was doing:
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Yes that is a beer can at the bottom of the pic. School finished early today due to exams so I was left with the whole afternoon free, a sunny 30°C afternoon at that. And a beach 20 minutes walk away. Now ask yourself - what would you do?

Yes I know I'm gloating. But I hope you can forgive this. :)
I really really hate you. Finished 3 hour chemistry exam this morning, got off at wrong stop on the train, tried (and probably failed) to get a job for the summer, had a row with the bank (I already gave you that. And that. And that. - Repeat ad absurdium) had to run to catch the last post, and now the forums are being slow. :headbang:

P.S. To cap it all off, I'm going camping in the lakes next week, and there's a great big low heading straight for cumbria.

Having said that, things can only get better, right? ;)

To Vetalia, thanx for that. It is a Nephila Pilipes. Do you know if they are poisonous? We don't have such colourful spiders in NZ, hence my interest in it.


I don't know specifically if they are poisonous, but they do cause painful bites if feeling threatened (eg. walking in to their web). It's best to just be careful.

I have Benn expanding my creative mind! ;)

Heres where I'm sitting. (http://img170.echo.cx/img170/469/img01698dx.jpg)

Heres what I'm eating. (http://img218.echo.cx/img218/2568/img01702cw.jpg)

And here is the flyer (http://img218.echo.cx/img218/51/img01715on.jpg) I was reading.

Oh and I'm getting a hair cut this afternoon.

i went to work and something came up and i had to work a 12 hour day :( . just came back from it a while ago. i'm so tired........

I came home from college and played half-life 2 for a bit.

Heres where I'm sitting.
I have similar leather furnitures. They's so comfortable.

Heres what I'm eating.
Act II popcorn. A real connaisseur.

In my neck of the woods, it is now 3:47 pm

I woke up at 1:30 pm...I'm not lazy, I just work 3rd shift. :)

I drove my mother to her dentist appointment...she would drive herself, but she's getting the loopy gas, and won't be able to drive herself home...

...but her co-worker is picking her up, because right now I am at school "studying" for my Psych test that I have in about and hour and a half.

Yeah...I should really get to work on that...

*runs*

24 hrs later and I'm still in my chair...eating oreos.....

I spent £348.43 ($623.79 USD) on clothes for a holiday.

i spent the afternoon making a murder mystery for activity day so all the little kiddies can act out bludgeoning each other and using magnifying glasses.

Got to work at noon, having made an executive decision to play 'snooze-tag' with my alarm for two hours.

Didn't want to wake up, depressed, my girlfriend yesterday departed forever back to the US. So, very downinthedumps and contemplative about the nature of existence and so on. I'll allow myself a two-day ration of Jeff Buckley. No more, otherwise I'll get morbid.. (That's the problem with dating exchange students, they eventually have to leave at some point, although fair play for hanging around London a month after term finished!)

So..
Got to work in the gloomiest of moods. Got on the phones, and - given my reduced tolerance for idiocy and foolishness - spent all afternoon sighing and mumbling at secretaries up and down the land, and didn't make one fucking sale. Which may or may not mean no cigs for me this weekend.. Commission is evil.

Wished to go home from 12 to 5. At 5 went home (all hour and a half of hardcore commute from Totteridge to Peckham - ie: northernmost London to southeast London = squillions of miles..). Although it is free. For me, that is, I know the Tube like the back of my hand and I'm just a total fucking samurai with fare-dodging. Been caught couple of times, but you just give a fake name at a real address, can't touch you..

I say 'home', I actually mean my college library, for this is where my only source of (free) internet is available. Home is a 5 min busride away. Although the wait could be anything from 1 to 30 min..

There, I plan to eat. Finally.

I had my last exam yay! :D

i did some ironing, some weeding in the garden and then went to a pig-roast with a couple of hundred other people - great fun (except for the pig) ;)

Here's what I was doing:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/smoog/LifeishardasaPrimaryNET.jpg
Yes that is a beer can at the bottom of the pic. School finished early today due to exams so I was left with the whole afternoon free, a sunny 30°C afternoon at that. And a beach 20 minutes walk away. Now ask yourself - what would you do?

Yes I know I'm gloating. But I hope you can forgive this. :)
My Brad, that's beautiful.

I spent my afternoon outdoors, too, at a company picnic. Had too many hamburgers, watched people hurt themselves in the tug-of-war and get wet in a waterballoon toss, and then it's back to work.

Hmm... I and some friends got on our horses, rode up the mountain and hiked the rest of the way. We came across a boar which I easily outran (while my friends continued up.) near the top, we encountered a large lizard that took umbrage to being disturbed, at the top, we had a small avalanche, grabbed the flag that was placed there and started our climb down.











and seeing that it was late, we stopped the D&D game and went home. :D

Realised that I turn 33 tomorrow.

lol

i smelled a rat when you outran the boar :D

'course you might be very very athletic ;)

Realised that I turn 33 tomorrow.

Happy Birthday for tomorrow Keruvalia!

*hands over a bottle of champagne*

have a great day

I went bowling with ten friends and a horny guide dog.

Realised that I turn 33 tomorrow.
Happy birthday!

I've been sitting about doing nothing except fighting off the pain and numbness that comes with having four teeth surgically removed from your head. *sigh*

Woke up at noon, checked my fav. forums, ate lunch, played Guild Wars, and went back on the forums.

I've been sitting about doing nothing except fighting off the pain and numbness that comes with having four teeth surgically removed from your head. *sigh*

surely they were removed from your head, not mine ;)

aw sweetie! that sounds grim. Hope the pain goes soon

Took the train back home.....chilled.............err......that's it

surely they were removed from your head, not mine ;)

aw sweetie! that sounds grim. Hope the pain goes soon

Hee. Yes, my head indeed. But its probably going to stay around for several days (or at least until I'm allowed to take my next painkiller). Stupid wisdom teeth... damn vestigal body parts.

Here's what I was doing:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/smoog/LifeishardasaPrimaryNET.jpg
Yes that is a beer can at the bottom of the pic. School finished early today due to exams so I was left with the whole afternoon free, a sunny 30°C afternoon at that. And a beach 20 minutes walk away. Now ask yourself - what would you do?

Yes I know I'm gloating. But I hope you can forgive this. :)

BASTARD! NOT FAIR!

I worked this afternoon... am still working (it's 3:31pm here).

BTW, where are you? It looks nice...

Realised that I turn 33 tomorrow.
Happy Birthday for today!

Afternoon??!! Where I am over in NC it's 9:30 in the morning! ;)

Yesterday I transacted some Official Business of a confidential nature during the afternoon (actually I went hiking...the business was later in the evening... :p). You humans have a rather nice planet! :)

Here's what I was doing:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/smoog/LifeishardasaPrimaryNET.jpg
Yes that is a beer can at the bottom of the pic. School finished early today due to exams so I was left with the whole afternoon free, a sunny 30°C afternoon at that. And a beach 20 minutes walk away. Now ask yourself - what would you do?

Yes I know I'm gloating. But I hope you can forgive this. :)
lucky bugger. its raining here, but then this is Britain... :headbang:

its half 2 in the afternoon here, and so far i've sent some journalist some of our pictures for use in some magazine, done some work on a website, and i'm about to analyse and compare some market research data... yay! :headbang:
then get on with a logo thats going to appear on New Covent Garden soups in supermarkets for the next year... better get it right *bites nails*
then finally design some banners for a conference.

and my workload keeps bloody growing... i can't keep up :(




Realised that I turn 33 tomorrow.
happy bday then :)