Pointless Pursuits
Example: sitting in front of a PC for a couple of hours painstakingly compiling favoured tracks from CDs to be burnt onto another CD, then having this process fail abortively about four-fifths of the way through.
Example: hanging a load of laundry on the washing line, then watching as it starts to rain within five minutes, taking the laundry off the line and hanging it out on a rack inside, then watching as it stops raining within five seconds.
Example: updating one's web-log.
Uncle types and their leisure-suit wives,
Helping out amongst the disabled,
From the flats and the maisonettes,
They're reminding us there's things to be done,
But you and me all we want to be is lazy ...
Suede, 'Lazy'
Somehow got myself into a bad mood about halfway through yesterday afternoon. This was around the time I last updated, and it shows through in the final paragraph. Have since had a few gratifyingly anxious messages from people asking whether they're the ones whose mannerisms I find annoying. Amazingly, none of them were. Fortunately, since there was no apparent reason for my bad mood, it faded away within a few hours. Might have been something to do with watching The Killer which is the finest depiction of platonic love between males ever brought to the silver screen, and also charmingly melodramatic in between awesome gunfights, and The Dentist, which, although undeniably complete crap (and definitely very dodgy in places) was a fine recommendation for eliminating everyone in this world who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Probably wouldn't leave behind many of the people I know, but then that might not be any great loss. Dentists have a very high suicide rate it's rumoured. As do anaesthetists. I hypothesise for the sake of my own amusement that their condition derives from some kind of lack of certain nutrients due to excessive hygiene, which would be ironic. I did love watching Corbin Bernsen running around insanely muttering 'decay' like a white-coated Claudius. Maybe people should stop saying 'going postal' and start saying 'going dental'.
Example: sitting in front of a PC for a couple of hours painstakingly compiling favoured tracks from CDs to be burnt onto another CD, then having this process fail abortively about four-fifths of the way through.
Example: hanging a load of laundry on the washing line, then watching as it starts to rain within five minutes, taking the laundry off the line and hanging it out on a rack inside, then watching as it stops raining within five seconds.
Example: updating one's web-log.
Uncle types and their leisure-suit wives,
Helping out amongst the disabled,
From the flats and the maisonettes,
They're reminding us there's things to be done,
But you and me all we want to be is lazy ...
Suede, 'Lazy'
Somehow got myself into a bad mood about halfway through yesterday afternoon. This was around the time I last updated, and it shows through in the final paragraph. Have since had a few gratifyingly anxious messages from people asking whether they're the ones whose mannerisms I find annoying. Amazingly, none of them were. Fortunately, since there was no apparent reason for my bad mood, it faded away within a few hours. Might have been something to do with watching The Killer which is the finest depiction of platonic love between males ever brought to the silver screen, and also charmingly melodramatic in between awesome gunfights, and The Dentist, which, although undeniably complete crap (and definitely very dodgy in places) was a fine recommendation for eliminating everyone in this world who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Probably wouldn't leave behind many of the people I know, but then that might not be any great loss. Dentists have a very high suicide rate it's rumoured. As do anaesthetists. I hypothesise for the sake of my own amusement that their condition derives from some kind of lack of certain nutrients due to excessive hygiene, which would be ironic. I did love watching Corbin Bernsen running around insanely muttering 'decay' like a white-coated Claudius. Maybe people should stop saying 'going postal' and start saying 'going dental'.
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