Thanks a lot = Thanks slut
I left the register at Woolworths in the city in a bit of a hurry, with a rushed “thanks a lot!” thrown out behind me as I jumped onto the escalators, hoping I hadn’t missed my bus. I realised after I’d said it that the speedy way I’d said it made the sentence sound like “Thanks slut!” which is pretty funny, but not very nice. Particularly because I have no idea about the cashiers status in the “town bike” stakes. So anyway, I’m going to make an effort from now on to remember not to say that.
Tomorrow is Christian’s first day of work at his new job. Congratulations Christian, and good luck! Hopefully he’ll keep his blog updated with all his hilarious stories about venture capitalist funding and selling non-quantifiable, non-tangible future-beneficial assets. I’m sure it’ll be a barrel of laughs. A barrel! Does anyone remember those barrels of monkeys? And inside they had plastic monkeys and you could hang them from things, and join them onto one another by their tail & arms & legs (I think)? What was the point?
I wish I had a turtle. The turtles at Underwater World were cute, in the way that brown-coloured things floating in the water can be cute. Sometimes they’d move a little bit, then it was all action until the momentum they’d built up with one gentle flipper twitch came to an end and they again became brown inanimate floaty things.
The links are all broken in my harblz pages because I haven’t gotten around to fixing them up yet.
What’s going on this week?
Ruth is back from overseas for a little bit. I’m curious to see whether or not she’s taken on the British accent, and if so, which regional dialect?
What else? hmmm I just got a missed call on my phone from “no number”. I really should have answered it because who has this number? only the people that i sent it to. So, if it was you calling, call back and I’ll answer. Only for the next five – ten minutes though, because after that I want to go to sleep. TIRED!
I got sunburnt going swimming with Christian at the pool in their complex today. It’s a really nice pool – big, and always the right temperature. Well, maybe not first thing in the morning, but if you go just after lunch (perfect time for swimming!) then it’s awesome. Apart from it being during the hottest time of the day and sunburn being a distinct possibility, especially if you’re blessed/cursed with a ghostly complexion such as mine.
We watched Rise of Hitler today. Robert Carlyle played the role too well – he was terrifying. Things that I didn’t know about Hitler included that he was the product of his father fornicating with his niece (his father’s niece, not Adolf’s niece). That goes a fair way to explaining his warped view of the world, and his insane behaviour. It seems that Hitler’s initial rise through the military ranks (which put him in a good position later on) was not due to any particular skill or bravery on his part, but merely his ability not to die where others perished. That’s certainly something to be proud of. He seemed always just to be in the right place at the right time. Germany was depressed and looking for someone to blame, someone to take out their frustration on after the Treaty of Versailles, and here was Hitler giving everyone someone they could lay all the blame on, something they could do – by trampling all over another race to bring themselves a bit higher up. Almost as effective as trying to improve the economy by printing more money.
Anyway, tired tired tired and it’s going to be a big week this week :S
