tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50363372918670420642024-03-14T19:21:58.797+13:00Bookshop BabylonBeing a complete and truthful record of the experiences of a bookshop worker.Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-54437705424820649942011-11-13T15:05:00.001+13:002011-11-13T15:05:09.376+13:00Ugh. Xmas is here. Let the gender essentialism begin.<div><p>So at the shop of dreams, the xmas stock has started to roll in. And it's really at this time of year (and at mother's day of course) that consumerism likes to, in addition to diminishing our bank balances, remind us that all of us are supposed to be exactly the same all the time always. </p>
<p>Women are either mums or they're five. They will all enjoy cookbooks, novels by Jilly Cooper or little pink-packaged sets of doings to make their own lipgloss or create little models of cupcakes. Presumably so their imaginary tea-party guests don't go hungry.</p>
<p>Men however, all read Lee Child and Tom Clancy novels, possibly a sports book or two, and never cookbooks, unless they have the words 'beer' or 'barbecue' in the title.</p>
<p>Now none of this stock is inherently bad or problematic, it's just totally annoying (and heteronormative) how it's all set underneath 'for him' and 'for her' signs. </p>
<p>(By the way, if you're neither a him or a her, you're not expected to like anything).</p>
<p>Oh, and what d'you mean you don't celebrate xmas? </p>
<p>This rant has no purpose. I have nowhere to go from here. </p>
<p>I feel better now.</p>
<p>If you'll excuse me, I have to go back to pricing lipgloss in the shape of cupcakes and sparkplug keychains.</p>
<p>Just shoot me now.<br>
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</div>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-13699202016862545062011-07-23T18:26:00.000+12:002011-07-23T18:26:07.010+12:00A Song of Ice and FireOkay, so becoming addicted to a looong series of fantasy novels a mere two books into my list is a small snag in my plan to read all of these books by march. But I think I can rise to the challenge.<br />
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I read the first novel (<i>Game of Thrones</i>) in George R.R. Martin's epic series <i>A Song of Ice and Fire </i>because, like so many others, I fell in love with the HBO TV show based on the books. For those of you who are tv watchers, I would highly recommend it, unless you are particularly squeamish or have a problem watching a <i>lot</i> of naked people. Because, I have said elsewhere, it really is tits and guts <i>all the way down</i>. Also there are dragons.<br />
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The books are hefty things, the first one nearly 800 pages, the second slightly longer, but they are so gripping that one barely notices the page numbers fly by. While on a wee holiday, I managed to rip through the second book <i>A Clash of Kings</i> and am at the moment managing to avoid getting straight into part one (yes, there is seriously a two-part book in this series) of book three.<br />
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The series is set in the land of Westoros, centering around the Seven Kingdoms and the families within them. The central family of the novel is House Stark, of Winterfell in the icy north. They become scattered across the Seven Kingdoms and embroiled in a huge war over the Iron Throne. There are so many characters with so many strange names that there is a list in the back of each book, with the families, their sigils, and their geographies to keep them all straight. It's like reading one of those epic Russian novels, except it's entertaining.<br />
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One thing I really like about these books is that there are lots of excellent strong female characters in them. Make no mistake, a <i>lot</i> of awful things happen to women in this series. The dudes in these books seem to really love rape (the covers should have gigantic trigger warnings on them) and the way it is brushed aside can be very off-putting, but there are some truly bad-ass ladies on the side of light (and quite a few who are pretty darn evil too). Lady Catelyn Stark is my favourite (possibly because she shares my name, we'll forgive the misspelling), she takes rich men captive, fights off wildlings and will walk through fire for her children. Queen Cersei Lannister is definitely one of the bad guys. She kills people and lies and cheats. I hate her living guts, but my goodness is she bad-ass. She, like Catelyn Stark, will do anything for her family and for power.<br />
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I would reccomend this series to every fantasy-lover out there, it is truly epic. If you aren't usually a fantasy fan I would suggest having a go at the TV show before reading the series, as it sticks very close to the first novel, taking whole chunks of dialogue straight from the book.<br />
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And now, I continue to fight my own battle, the one to stop me from just reading all of them in one go.Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-89788329794294931102011-06-29T00:59:00.000+12:002011-06-29T00:59:15.198+12:00It Has BegunThat's right, my journey through The Most Epic Booklist Which Is Perpetually Added To (TMEBWIPAT*) has begun.<br />
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I decided to begin with probably the most light-hearted book on my list, <i>Bossypants</i> by Tina Fey.<br />
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I'm about halfway through and I am thoroughly enjoying myself. I don't usually laugh out loud** while reading books, even funny ones. I don't know, I just usually smile, or inwardly laugh hysterically while retaining my normal internet-reading expression.*** But I have spent most of the time spent reading this book laughing like a person who is really very amused. You may be able to tell that some of Tina's writing style has rubbed off on me. Or at least I like to think so.<br />
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She somehow manages to make everything funny, even what I imagine would be a truly hideous experience (fainting after being hit hard in the cervix by a speculum at your first pap smear for example)**** into a charming and funny anecdote, the type of story that you would tell at an afternoon cocktail party.<br />
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So I would highly recommend <i>Bossypants</i> to everyone, but especially 30 Rock/Fey fans, because this book is like reading the memoir of a slightly more well-adjusted Liz Lemon, without the crippling insecurity.<br />
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Also her dad sounds like a BAMF.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">*Don't worry I won't refer to it as this. Much</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">**I said laugh out loud, lol.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">***Which is <a href="http://i1234.photobucket.com/albums/ff404/CaitlinMerriman/tumblr_lkvx3pzFn21qa8vpro1_500.gif">this</a> by the way.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">**** OUCH, basically. </span>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-83399334932380316402011-06-05T00:38:00.000+12:002011-06-05T00:38:24.747+12:00My list of books to read is getting out of control.My books are getting out of control. I need to do some trademe selling to free up some space.<br />
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Added to the list <a href="http://bookshopbabylon.blogspot.com/2011/05/seduced-i-say-seduced.html">below</a>:<br />
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Half of a Yellow Sun/Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<br />
Alias Grace/Margaret Atwood<br />
Briefing for the Descent into Hell/Doris Lessig<br />
Remains of the Day/Kazuo Ishiguro<br />
The Bean Trees/Barbara Kingsolver<br />
The Namesake/Jhumpa Lahiri<br />
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings/Maya Angelou<br />
Small Island/Andrea Levy<br />
White Teeth/Zadie Smith<br />
Brick Lane/Monica Ali<br />
Plugged/Eoin Colfer<br />
Stories/Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantino<br />
O/Anonymous<br />
The Final Testament of the Holy Bible/James FreyCaitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-1009378177663119542011-06-04T17:48:00.000+12:002011-06-04T17:48:54.219+12:00A list of some female writers I loveIn response to <a href="http://jezebel.com/5807943/male-novelist-can-always-spot-female-writers-by-how-much-they-suck">this misogynistic nonsense</a>, and in no particular order (plus these are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head).<br />
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<ul><li>P.D. James</li>
<li>Agatha Christie</li>
<li>Alice Hoffman</li>
<li>Diana Wynne-Jones</li>
<li>Margaret Atwood</li>
<li>A.S. Byatt</li>
<li>Jane Austen</li>
<li>J.K. Rowling</li>
<li>Paulina Simons </li>
<li>Virginia Woolf</li>
<li>Harper Lee</li>
<li>Did I mention Margaret Atwood?</li>
<li>Hilary Mantel</li>
<li>Joyce Carol Oates</li>
<li>Patti Smith</li>
<li>Oh and, I'm sorry, I think I may have forgotten Margaret Atwood. </li>
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And you know what worries me, after having re-read my list? I'm pretty sure they're all white.<br />
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Caitlin fails.<br />
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Note to self: read some female authors who aren't white. Or who aren't Margaret Atwood.Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-40684257105100975862011-05-20T23:36:00.000+12:002011-05-20T23:43:08.501+12:00SEDUCED I say SEDUCEDSHOCKED to learn there is gambling going on in this establishment.<br />
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Very few people will get that joke.<br />
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Anyway, I am yet again apologising for being a bad blogger. I'm actually an excellent blogger, just not here. Mostly <a href="http://ylwomennz.blogspot.com/">here</a> and <a href="http://whenthecurtaincalls.blogspot.com/">here</a>.<br />
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And <a href="http://lasocialista.tumblr.com/">HERE</a>.<br />
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Yes, tumblr has seduced me, with her shiny surfaces, random hipsters and gif parties. So many snippets of wider debates and screencaps created by various fandoms. SO ADDICTIVE.<br />
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What with uni, two jobs and a social life (HA!), I have been finding it difficult to keep this blog going. But I MUST NOT give up. This was my first blog and I would be loath to lose it. So I shall persevere.<br />
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It might change a little, as I seldom feel the need to vent my customer-based frustrations anymore. Maybe I'm growing up, or maybe I'm getting a thicker skin or something.<br />
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I am, however, planning to do some serious reading after exams are over, so I imagine this will become a record of my literary adventures.<br />
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In fact, for your internetting-pleasure (internet can be a verb, right?), here is a list of the books I plan to read, crossposted from my tumblr.<br />
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<i>IN THE VEIN OF BEING ORGANISED</i><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">I have now made a list, similar to <a href="http://lasocialista.tumblr.com/post/4435224738/i-just-made-a-list-of-all-the-albums-on-my-ipod-that-i">this</a> one of all some of the books which I have but have not read, which I plan to read during my 8-month-long hiatus from university. It has 34 books on it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">These are just a selection of what I guess is probably about 200 books which I have but have not read. It could be more than that, I’m just guessing.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I have a problem. I think bibliophilia might be a real thing and I may have it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So here they are, my July 2011-March 2012 challenge, organised by genre.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Fiction</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Everything is Illuminated/Jonathan Safran-Foer</div><div class="MsoNormal">Falling Man/Don DeLillo</div><div class="MsoNormal">Shades of Grey/Jasper Fforde</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Beautiful and Damned/F. Scott Fitzgerald</div><div class="MsoNormal">House of Leaves/Mark Danielewski</div><div class="MsoNormal">A Place of Greater Safety/Hilary Mantel</div><div class="MsoNormal">I Married a Communist/Philip Roth</div><div class="MsoNormal">Day After Night/Anita Diamant</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Graphic Novels</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Howl: The Graphic Novel/Allen Ginsberg and Eric Drooker</div><div class="MsoNormal">V for Vendetta/Alan Moore and David Lloyd</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Women</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism</div><div class="MsoNormal">America’s Women/Gail Collins</div><div class="MsoNormal">Cunt/Inga Muscio</div><div class="MsoNormal">Fat is a Feminist Issue/Susie Orbach</div><div class="MsoNormal">Why Women Should Rule the World/Dee Dee Meyers</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Means of Reproduction/Michelle Goldberg</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Beauty Myth/Naomi Wolf</div><div class="MsoNormal">Bananas, Beaches and Bases/Cynthia Enloe</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>History</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">The King’s Cardinal/Peter Gwyn</div><div class="MsoNormal">Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years/J. Anthony Lukas</div><div class="MsoNormal">Shakespeare/Bill Bryson</div><div class="MsoNormal">Crown and Country/David Starkey</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Politics/Sociology</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Third World America/Ariana Huffington</div><div class="MsoNormal">Same Sex, Different Politics/Gary Mucciaroni</div><div class="MsoNormal">Gaza: Morality, Law and Politics/Raimond Gaita</div><div class="MsoNormal">Race of a Lifetime/John Hellerman and Mark Halpern</div><div class="MsoNormal">Globalization and its Discontents/Joseph Stiglitz</div><div class="MsoNormal">Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals/Ray Moynihan</div><div class="MsoNormal">One State, Two States/Benny Morris</div><div class="MsoNormal">Orientalism/Edward Said</div><div class="MsoNormal">Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies/Gregg Jackson (see <a href="http://lasocialista.tumblr.com/post/3114194397/these-people-know-me-really-well">here</a> for an explanation)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Literary</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br />
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Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks/John Curran<br />
Shakespeare’s Philosophy/Colin McGinn<br />
Talking About Detective Fiction/P.D. James<br />
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Think I can get through these in 8 months?<br />
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Let’s see, shall we?Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-3587976196064903922011-03-06T23:45:00.000+13:002011-03-06T23:45:49.908+13:00This started out as a post where I bitch about customers and turned into one where I bitch about society.SO many idiotic customers today. And I've had a LOT in the last couple of weeks. Things have been a bit topsy-turvy at work, hence the lack of posting here for AAAAGES. I think most people will know what I'm talking about. If not, I'm sorry, I can't post about it directly (MYSTERY).<br />
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Some people seem to have a shocking lack of perspective. Especially when it comes to retail. There is this expectation, one which has been fostered by the 'customer is always right' nonsense which retailers bear a lot of the responsibility for, that somehow, if you're in a shop, everything should be exactly as you want it. Because, as one customer once put to me, "we pay your wages."<br />
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This is clearly wrong. But not just in an 'actually-the-people-who-employ-me-pay-my-wages' sort of way. It smacks of the old 'taxpayer money' idea. That somehow because X pays tax (or <i>deigns</i> to spend money in the shop where I'm employed) they should be able to loudly complain about every tiny thing they don't like. Certainly, taxation needs to be accompanied by some form of democratic representation, but the idea that there is a mythical catalogue of taxpayer funded things that citizens can choose from, is an entirely ridiculous one.<br />
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Consumerism, basically, sucks. And yes, if it didn't exist I might not have my job in a shop. If consumerism didn't exist I might be able to attend university without the need of a job, or if I had one it might be one which actually values me and my skills. Instead of being Employee No. 472247 I'd be me. I could make suggestions to my boss about stock and I'd be listened to. Instead of getting ridiculous directives from slick executives who've probably never stepped into my city, let alone my shop.<br />
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What I'm trying to get at, is maybe instead of thinking of ourselves as 'paying customers' or 'taxpayers' who can behave as badly as we please to the faceless 'employees' because we indirectly remunerate them, we should start thinking of ourselves as valued individuals who have different skills to bring to our communities and different needs to fulfill.<br />
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Is that so freakin' hard?<br />
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And if it is too hard, and we're irrevocably stuck in this nightmare that is consumerist capitalism gone mad, can you at least not yell at me?<br />
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Thanks.Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-68862666975062019302010-12-21T13:13:00.000+13:002010-12-21T13:13:38.793+13:00Crappy Day in the Shop of DreamsYesterday was really awful. No seriously, worst day in ages. So, in order to really show my frustration at all of the hideous customers I had to deal with yesterday, I went looking for a gif. On my search I found so many great things I stopped being annoyed.<br />
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Thank you, internet. Thank you.<br />
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<a href="http://senorgif.memebase.com/2010/12/07/funny-gifs-snuggle-buddies/"><img alt="Snuggle Buddies Gif - Snuggle Buddies" src="http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/snugglebuddiesp1.gif" title="Snuggle Buddies Gif - Snuggle Buddies" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://senorgif.memebase.com/2010/12/20/funny-gifs-cooking-is-hard/"><img alt="Cooking is Hard Gif - Cooking is Hard" src="http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/cookingishardp2.gif" title="Cooking is Hard Gif - Cooking is Hard" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://senorgif.memebase.com/2010/12/19/funny-gifs-bunday-delights/"><img alt="Bunday Delights Gif - Bunday Delights" src="http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/bundaydelightsp2.gif" title="Bunday Delights Gif - Bunday Delights" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://senorgif.memebase.com/2010/12/19/funny-gifs-hey-theres-dancing-santa/"><img alt="Hey Theres Dancing Santa Gif - Hey Theres Dancing Santa" height="235px" src="http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/335b0b94-90af-4c1c-af57-f8aa0f0e6115.gif" title="Hey Theres Dancing Santa Gif - Hey Theres Dancing Santa" width="320px" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://senorgif.memebase.com/2010/12/17/funny-gifs-endless-bir-supply/"><img alt="Endless Bird Supply Gif - Endless Bird Supply" src="http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/endlessducksupplyp1.gif" title="Endless Bird Supply Gif - Endless Bird Supply" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://senorgif.memebase.com/2010/12/16/funny-gifs-living-the-life/"><img alt="Living the Life Gif - Living the Life" src="http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/livingthelifep1.gif" title="Living the Life Gif - Living the Life" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://senorgif.memebase.com/2010/12/13/funny-gifs-dont-honk-at-granny/"><img alt="Dont Honk at Granny Gif - Dont Honk at Granny" src="http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/donthonkatgrannyp1.gif" title="Dont Honk at Granny Gif - Dont Honk at Granny" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://senorgif.memebase.com/2010/12/11/funny-gifs-no-want/"><img alt="NO WANT Gif - NO WANT" src="http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/nowantp1.gif" title="NO WANT Gif - NO WANT" /></a><br />
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Christmas music blasts continuously from tinny mall speakers, reminding you, that Santa Claus Is <i>indeed</i> Coming To Town, so you'd better get those damn presents PERFECT!<br />
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Not one air conditioner actually works, they buckle under the weight of the globally warmed air, so everyone walks around sweltering in the recycled, tepid atmosphere. <br />
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The shops seem to have run out of what you want every single time you step in one. <br />
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We know. <br />
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But think about it for a second. We have to stand, with the music and the heat beating down on us for freakin' hours on end. Our lives do not revolve around you and whatever shit you want to buy for your annoying relations. Our jobs don't even revolve around that. <br />
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BUT we are very appreciative of nice people at this time of year. If I like you, I will help you out a little more than I perhaps would if you piss me off. So, here are some handy tips to make all of our lives easier. <br />
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1. There is a queue. There is always a queue, it's Christmas. Jesus has to queue at Christmas. Don't take it as a personal affront when I point this out to you. No matter how confused you pretend to be, we all know that you are an impatient ass, so get to the back of the queue already. <br />
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2. Shops are not like the Tardis. It is not the mythical Argos of Bill Bailey's dreams (in joke). We cannot stock everything on earth. I'm dreadfully sorry that we don't have the obscure history of the Ukrainian Sewage system you're looking for (this actually happened), but we need room for all of the Dan Brown books. I hate it too, you know. <br />
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3. It is not my fault when other shops fuck up. I am sorry that there is no one manning the calendar club stand, but we cannot sell you something that isn't ours. I cannot change this. In other words, it ain't my problem, lady. <br />
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4. Unless you are Amish, you have been in a shop before. We expect you to have some rudimentary level of knowledge about how things go in a shop. Shops are owned by people, who are sometimes corporations. Corporations run on Capitalism. Capitalism wants your money. It is unlikely, therefore, that Capitalism will let you have stuff cheap. When there is a sale, the discount will not apply to already discounted items. This is not a rip off, as you so often tell me, because it's ALREADY DISCOUNTED. You're already getting it cheaper, so quit freakin' moaning. <br />
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I'm sure I'll think of more tips as the 'primary gifting period' continues, but that'll do for now. <br />
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Please try not to piss me off.Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-25652663325873105762010-12-06T18:47:00.000+13:002010-12-06T18:47:55.231+13:00Overheard at the Bookshop(Me, sitting on the floor, surrounded by about five cartons of lonely planet guides)<br />
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CUSTOMER: "Do you guys sell lonely planet guides?"<br />
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ME: .... (incredulous look)<br />
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CUSTOMER: "Have I walked right past them?"<br />
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Seriously folks, I couldn't make this stuff up.<br />
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<a href="http://s716.photobucket.com/albums/ww163/psychedelicmonk/?action=view&current=w1chskjpg.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://i716.photobucket.com/albums/ww163/psychedelicmonk/w1chskjpg.gif" border="0" alt="kitty kat face palm"></a>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-70422211495449139832010-11-21T17:58:00.000+13:002010-11-21T17:58:40.895+13:00Overheard at the BookshopSome kids (maybe 18ish):<br />
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Kid 1: "Who's Malcolm X?"<br />
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Kid 2: "Oh my god, do you really not know who Malcolm X is!?"<br />
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Kid 1: "No, who is he?"<br />
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Kid 2: "Dude, he was like the guy who started the Reformation."<br />
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Yet another little box of address books and journals which are too tiny to use, so will sit on someone's shelf for half the year before they remember they have it.<br />
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The coffee-table book of 'beautiful pigs' which will go straight to the bottom-right section of the bookshelf, where you store your old school yearbooks and all the endless Anne Geddes books of creepy babies dressed as elves etc.<br />
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The jokey-retro 'I'm a bitch' calendar, the one that you'll put on your desk and forget to rip any pages off, which you will throw out in August, the date still reading 'January 24th.'<br />
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But what really scares me is the fact that this christmas, three biographies have really jumped out at me as clealry having been released for the 'primary gifting period.'<br />
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The Journey by Tony Blair<br />
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Decision Points by George Bush<br />
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Lazarus Rising by John Howard<br />
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Three no doubt ghosted books (apparently The Journey is excrutiatingly badly written) which will attempt to create a mixture of a healthy ability to poke fun at themselves, long mournful chapters about their terrible suffering and tracts of self-pitying crap which tries to justify their actions. Also so far both 'Decision Points' and 'The Journey' cost $75.00.<br />
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That's pretty pricey, so I was thinking that for anyone wanting to read these fine works of political biography *cough*, this might be an idea:<br />
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Sometimes with hilarious consequences. <br />
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If you've never heard it, it's immensely long with many verses, which means that the potential for mix-ups is far greater. <br />
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One of the lines is " Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage into town." Bob, being Bob, slurs the 'r's in carriage so it sounds a little like 'cabbage.' <br />
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Hilarious moment #1. <br />
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Another line is "Lily took her dress off, buried it away." <br />
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So, if you ever hear me sing "Lily took her dress off and took a cabbage into town" that's what I've done.<br />
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It has a nice ring to it though...Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-76560987091608655532010-11-05T22:40:00.000+13:002010-11-05T22:41:35.723+13:00From buzzfeed, the differences between Paris and New York<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0RsF-M1Ix6Y/TNPQ7dmgoII/AAAAAAAAAVc/ToFv-S0OWTE/s1600/enhanced-buzz-22317-1288906066-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="309" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0RsF-M1Ix6Y/TNPQ7dmgoII/AAAAAAAAAVc/ToFv-S0OWTE/s400/enhanced-buzz-22317-1288906066-8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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...cause apparently these are the only ones.Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-23907412888358733152010-11-05T18:55:00.000+13:002010-11-05T18:55:44.181+13:00The smell of freedomI had my last exam today, so summer has officially begun for me and I intend to make the most of it! I'm doing a summer internship in the politics department and of course will be doing the christmas grind at the bookshop, so it's not all fun and games, but I shall have infinitely more time for blogging and I intend to catch up on an awful lot of reading.<br />
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Oh yeah, and THE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS ARE UP. At the westfield malls. ALREADY.<br />
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Just kill me now.Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-33741348821220245462010-11-05T18:10:00.000+13:002010-11-05T18:10:11.850+13:00I AM OFFENDED BECAUSE...: The Fury and the Furiously Busy<div>This may just be my favourite blog. Excellent rage-filled rants about all the mysoginistic, homophobic and fatphobic crap that exists in the world. </div><div><br /></div><a href="http://iamoffendedbecause.blogspot.com/2010/11/fury-and-furiously-busy.html?spref=bl">I AM OFFENDED BECAUSE...: The Fury and the Furiously Busy</a>: "Despite writing a blog about being offended, and therefore living in a state of near-permanant rage, it is not that often that I get really ..."Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-25449333629334000292010-11-03T23:15:00.000+13:002010-11-03T23:15:12.691+13:00OH MY WORDThey've made a movie of F<i>or colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf </i>by Ntozake Shange. LIKE ACTUALLY. This choreopoem was the first thing I ever read for uni and I seriously think it changed my life. The movie is called simply '<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405500/">For Colored Girls</a>' and features, well a whole lot of fabulous African American ladies. <div><br />
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</div><div>In response to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw">this</a>. </div>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-78284623459506052672010-10-31T18:37:00.000+13:002010-10-31T18:38:39.196+13:00My Favourite Fear/Sanity Placards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0RsF-M1Ix6Y/TM0ABqSoSEI/AAAAAAAAASc/KbCxTx_1gSk/s1600/enhanced-buzz-3286-1288476182-13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0RsF-M1Ix6Y/TM0ABqSoSEI/AAAAAAAAASc/KbCxTx_1gSk/s1600/enhanced-buzz-3286-1288476182-13.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>At this particular time the regional legal decision-making body known as NWA has assembled to deliver judgement</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>His excellency Judge Dre has nominated himself as adjudicator in the matter of NWA versus the Police Department of Silverlake, Los Angeles.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>For the prosecution, I present Emcee Ren, A small block of Ice and an easy failing grade in CIE level examinations.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>If everyone would please calm themselves and resume their seats, a small block of Ice will present testimony.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Are you so inclined to speak no falsehood,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>and only truth, lest the lord take your African-American posterior and strike it down?</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Would it please you to tell all assembled the matters you have taken grievance against?</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I am upset with authority.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I am informing you of this knowledge from a place generally considered to be outside standard jurisdiction.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I believe an element of race to be causing these issues.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I am not of the same racial background as my fellow man,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>And the police department of Silverlake, Los Angeles has taken it upon themselves to exercise lawful termination of myself and otherwise within my social strata regardless of cause.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I am not overly pleased with this, I am not, to my knowledge,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The appropriate person who may or may not be engaged in illicit night-time careers, and / or engage in conduct with a person from whom life has emerged, regardless of their symbol of employment within the police department of Silverlake, Los Angeles or their rifle,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>To be violently struck, with intention, only to be held in contempt of civic authority.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I believe this aggressors would react differently should we be placed on equal terms, perhaps upon meeting in a detention centre.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I believe their issue stems largely from my youth,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>which they believe is asynchronous to my possession of symbols of wealth and status.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>An illegal search and seizure was attempted on my automobile,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Stemming from an incorrect belief that everyone of similar appearance to me deals in opiates.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The common approved view of individuals such as myself is that we belong in correctional facilities,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Not expensive automobiles such as I was driving the night the incident occurred, to which my colleague Lorenzo can attest.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Grievous bodily harm might occur if this happens in future,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>At the end of which, clear demarcation of the scene is necessary</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>To identity the event which has occurred at that position.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I believe the injured party will have difficulty with consumption of food and beverage.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I am not sure if Kraft-Ebbing’s late nineteenth century term ‘Homosexual’ is an accurate description of the police department of Silverlake, Los Angeles,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>But law-contrary searches have suggested this to me in intimate detail.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>It is my view that without semiotic markers of violence, these individuals are without sexual congress.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>If by chance the officers present happen to be of mixed race,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The violence inherent in the situation may escalate,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>With expressions of solidarity provided on behalf of the minority attendant.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>A small bock of ice will appear </i></span><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>en masse,</i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Should any person of illicit conduct with a life-giver happen to festoon himself in garments of a cerulean or azure nature.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Purely because of my origin within West Hollywood, these men (with inappropriate night jobs) are afeared of my visage.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I am a young person of coarse African descent on a path set out by generals of old,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>At the end of which I imagine is only more violence.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I see visions of members of the police department of Silverlake, Los Angeles, being struck down before their time.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>So, yes, Judge Dre. I do indeed have an issue with the accused.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I am upset with authority.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I am upset with authority.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I am upset with authority.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I am upset with authority.</i></span></blockquote><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">And </span><a href="http://johnnysnotmyname.tumblr.com/post/1297809892/rap-white-people-like-justin-bieber-esq-infant"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> for this:</span></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>You are perfectly aware that you harbour amorous affection towards me, and I am perfectly aware that you want to express them,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Raise your vocals to a greater height at any moment,and I shall endeavour to be at your side, unquestionably.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I am perfectly aware of my amorous affection for you. It is logical that I believe you to be the beating organ in my chest, then.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I am stalwart in my conviction that we shall not once in our lives part company.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>You never informed me if our amorous nature was public. Woman, cease your games!</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>“My affection for you is simply platonic”. I cannot comprehend that statement!</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>You informed me such: “There is another” and caught my gaze with a stare that tames,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Prima-Affection, Prima-Disappointment!</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>And I expressed myself in these words: Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I say</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In these words: Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I protest</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In these words: Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I say</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I was of the persuasion that you were to become one of my possessions, my beloved possessions.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I say</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In these words: Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I protest</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In these words: Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I say</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I was of the persuasion that you were to become one of my possessions, my beloved possessions.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In your interest, my person would have assailed any task,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>But I am afraid this surpasses comprehension.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I cannot remain stalwart, for you are exheunting such as liquid from a flask,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>No object is unworthy if you wish it, nor any jeweled adornment beyond purchasisation.</i></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I have come undone! Infant Personage bring your love glue gun to me,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>And vigorously assail me until I awake from the phantasmic nightmare</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>My physical location is descending quickly,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I cannot comprehend that the recipient of my first expression of amorous intent will no longer fix me with her glare.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>And I expressed myself in these words: Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I say</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In these words: Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I protest</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In these words: Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I say</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I was of the persuasion that you were to become one of my possessions, my beloved possessions.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>And I expressed myself in these words: Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I say</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In these words: Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I protest</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In these words: Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I say</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I was of the persuasion that you were to become one of my possessions, my beloved possessions.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When I was but a young boy, I had my first expression of amorous intent</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>None in the land held a candle to my dear Infant Personage</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Not one kept us apart whom would reach climax with you beneath them,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>My mind I lost, as if a vice given up for Lent,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I was wakened readily, no need to purchase hot beverages in cafés in Stevenage.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>My internal blood-pressure regulator lost pace,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>It would stumbled upon glimpsing her visage,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In our place of education, during intervals,</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I would like it very much if I could approach her outside that time without fear of mace</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Her wonder was so complete it would baffle a corsage</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>My internal blood-pressure regulator has failed, but I say this despite issues medical:</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I say</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In these words: Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I protest</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In these words: Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I say</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I was of the persuasion that you were to become one of my possessions, my beloved possessions.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I say</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In these words: Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, no</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In these words: Infant Personage, Infant Personage, Infant Personage, I say</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I was of the persuasion that you were to become one of my possessions, my beloved possessions.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I am left bereft</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>(I say, I say, I say)</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>(I say, I say, I say)</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Now I am left bereft</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>(I say, I say, I say)</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>(I say, I say, I say)</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Now I am left bereft</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>(I say, I say, I say)</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>(I say, I say, I say)</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Now I am left bereft, in all understanding</i></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I am left bereft.</i></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Genius. </span></span>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-39849005820420540962010-10-21T23:56:00.000+13:002010-10-21T23:56:34.849+13:00But you're like really pretty?I just took a cab ride with this female driver I've seen around before (I feel so much better in a cab with a female driver. Paranoid, perhaps) and we chatted on the journey, she asked me what I was studying etc. I told her I was doing law and politics at which point she said "but you're really pretty?"<br />
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I got Regina Georged. In a nice way. I think.<br />
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Apparently pretty girls (also, apparently I'm pretty) don't do law and politics. I am reminded of this:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lolnats.co.nz/once-upon-a-time-in-te-atatu"><img border="0" height="312" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0RsF-M1Ix6Y/TLVm6Bz-0uI/AAAAAAAAAJw/Rb4vNFhaYjI/s400/5076122873_e3ae8d13af_b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-74989553827116760592010-10-12T18:40:00.000+13:002010-10-30T18:53:54.673+13:00White-rapping. The craze has begun.Here are a few others which people have posted on Facebook (oh noes! A meme!)<br />
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Gina:<br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">As I take a leisurely stroll through the canyon of the overbearing darkness of the afterlife, I contemplate my mortality and come to the conclusion there’s a vast nothingness...</span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">With lots of vigor force and activity, beautiful looking lady, we're going to hold a gathering as if it's your annual celebration, we're going to commemorate like it's your get together for your natal day, we're going to drink rum slowly as if it's your shindig, and you know we don't give two hoots that there's no annual event to mark with this special occasion.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></blockquote>Tim:<br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I am a stultus of tertiary level education with the common form of exchange on my conscious and unconscious cognative processes?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></blockquote>I'm also thinking we can branch out a little into other types of music...<br />
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<blockquote>The young ladies from the state of California are really rather neat, they tend to wear cut-off denim shorts (similar to those worn by the character of Daisy in the popular television show and film: <i>The Dukes of Hazard) </i>and<i> </i>the top half of a two-piece swimsuit. </blockquote>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036337291867042064.post-9838732664443890152010-10-11T21:12:00.000+13:002010-10-11T21:12:13.690+13:00I love xkcd.It's for nerds who like funny things.<br />
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Exhibit A:<br />
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<a href="http://xkcd.com/798/"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0RsF-M1Ix6Y/TLLGY3I-BuI/AAAAAAAAAJs/ccTfb4uo4nw/s400/adjectives.png" width="389" /></a>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11549136162024002100noreply@blogger.com2