WHO is the horse murderer?

I've learnt, in my infreqent listening to The Archers this evening that a horse was shot yesterday.

We must find out if it was Ed.

Or a cricket player of some sort.

Have to teach tomorrow. I hope I get that job (Contract and 14000 a year's better)

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August 31, 2003 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment 

What the fuck?

are those horrible adverts? huh? looks like i am going to have to get paid hosting after all.

oh i think i may have got that job.

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interview

I have an interview today for 'Sales Forcast Analyst' — a position which may cause me some trouble, as I have fibbed a little about my suitability for the job.

They've seen my CV, so it's hardly my fault now, is it?
Thing is, I'm meant to be an advanced user on Access. I wouldn't even say I'm competent. I know databases… but not access, and our version is in Spanish, so it'll take me weeks to learn.
The other thing is that the job demands 'native french, with english'
I have 'native english, with a little french'.

I'm gonna fry.

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August 27, 2003 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment 

happiness

i am working towards a new general outlook on life which will seem contrary to my previous feelings, but which is I think more mature. And fits in better with enjoying life like other people seem to.

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euurgh I hope I don't have to do anything like work in a call centre.
pls keep your fingers crossed that I get a contract at my english school!

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flowering youth

our marijuana plant is now 1.3 m tall and has started its flowering stage.
conservative estimate on harvest is around 400g of good quality weed, though that could improve to 1kg
(incidentally, this weed is not for sale. it can be frozen, and should last us a year).

:-)

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Camino a Perdición

Road to Perdition, Tom Hank's film made me fall asleep last night. 0

I've an interview on Monday, for a position in a call centre. I know, it's not what I want… But some kind of McJob is ideal for me. Teaching is ok, but if they won't give me a contract, I can't just hang around waiting for work. So maybe I'll be providing tech support or something: I asked them if I'd be selling anything and they said no. BUT… They could just be lying.

listening to: Blonde On Blonde — 'but she said, "Your debutante just knows what you need, but I know what you want." '

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August 23, 2003 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment 

There goes the sun…

We had a great weekend in 'El Castell', the village where my uncle and aunt live. No sailing, unfortunately… but I have offered to help, should he ever do the trans-Atlantic voyage!

Since May, there has been no rain to speak of here. Yesterday at about 7am, we were woken by a deafening crack of thunder. The rains have come! So it's not too humid anymore.

Should get my DVD's of The Office and Alan Partridge this week!! It's all good.

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Long weekend

Well, we're off for a relaxing long weekend with my uncle Marc in Castellon, 2 hrs south of here.
He's got a pool.

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August 14, 2003 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment 

Super Furry Animals

All that stuff I said about it being disappointing was wrong. It's a bit of a slow grower, but Phantom Power, out in July is probably their second best (after the unbeatable Radiator).
I'd recommend it. It gets a healthy and robust binary score of: 1
Super Furry Animals website: www.phantom-power.com

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Bloody rich kids

As part of the ongoing season of seeing films that came out a long time ago, for the first time, we watched Traffic last night. I take it that there are tribes in the Amazon rainforest who have yet to master basic tv manufacture who saw it before us, but we've seen it now.
Score:    1
Didn't like bits of the script. Interested to see Hollywood's lasting campaign against African Americans is still in full swing. Otherwise, a good adventure thriller.

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Intelligence

Why is it that private corporations get told things by government departments about 'threats'… while citizens are told nothing. Doesn't this sound odd? If they're that worried, then surely we have some sort of interest in knowing too.

Guardian Unlimited: BA suspends Saudi flights

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August 13, 2003 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment 

popbitch thief

Craig David "wants to be an owl" because "wisdom is king."
This may be the funniest thing I have ever read.

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Politics

It's interesting how ones politics change so rapidly at a young age.
This time last year, I was a member of the Socialist Workers' Party, a revolutionary Marxist party in the UK.
Now, I don't think I'd ever be a member of any political group again.

Have I succumbed to the indifference I used to loathe in others? Or perhaps I'm becoming a Tory even faster than Modbury Lucy's fat bastard of a father/Conservative activist prophesied?

Of course, I don't think the solution lies in either of those directions. After lots of discussion, both with myself and with Joe and Gareth, my intelligent friends, I have started to grasp something important about politics: its meaninglessness.

That's not to say that I'm not interested in who runs the country, or what they do with public money or any of that. More that I'm disillusioned with Politics with a capital 'P'. Understand? No, I thought not.

When you realise the futility of life, and the futility of attempting to change things, what do you do? I think Joe would advocate suicide as an acceptable cure for all unhappiness; but does the recognition of ones own uselessness necessarily make one unhappy? I suppose it normally does, but that's not the same thing. The solution is to stop worrying about that sort of thing and enjoy your life like people who don't think do. Why be doomed to Andromeda status? Drink and forget, reproduce and spend, swim and smoke: that's what I'd like to be able to do.

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websites

Most of these are pretty old hat, but it doesn't stop them being worth a look.

Afterlife Telegrams
Campaign for Digital Rights
In Defence of Global Capitalism
Computers and sexuality

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