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With your headphones on: Listen to this!

Walk like a big boy

I saw a Mum with her son, he was about 8 years old. He was walking next to her while clinging on to her hand and arm. She shoved him away, release his grip on her hand and said:
"Walk like a big boy"

He whined a little bit but agreed - all I could think was:
"In less than a year he won't ever want to hold you hand again - maybe you should take advantage of the moment?"

I don't know, maybe some people aren't sentimental...

Once more with feeling...

So a while back I wrote about a one sided friendship...

Now I think I have ended up in the same situation with another one of my friends. The question now is: Is it just circumstantial and a coincidence or am I the one who brings it out of people?

Apocalypse Wasp

So I work in an office that has an outer courtyard. You actually have to go outside to get to the kitchen and bathroom areas. We share this office building with 7 other companies, all smallish like the company I work for. So we all have to step into the fresh air before getting to the coffee maker every morning.

Today, our landlord for the building announced that he needs to kill a wasps nest on the courtyard. There will be an hour of wasp killing time with furious wasps darting around the courtyard, when no one will be able to reach the kitchen/bathrooms.

Currently there is a stampede of collecting fresh coffee/top up water bottles/last minute checks - as we all prepare to bunk down for the wasp-ocalypse.

Angry Man

I saw a man on the bus today. Getting extremely angry and upset over the fact that bus has to hold to regulate the service.

He was shouting "Unbelievable - why can't we just drive!!" and then he was making little frustrated noises and threw his head back. Once the bus started moving after a hold of less than 3 minutes he clapped his hands really sarcastically.

Such a sad angry man. All that energy could have been spent in a more productive way. I couldn't help but think:
"How unfulfilling and sad is your life, if you place such anger so misdirected? How do you really feel when you wake up in the morning? What in your life is making you so angry?"

The Sweet Life

A sweet summer song.

Why see the world, when you've got the beach?

You could make it work, work better

Where she goes I don't know, I don't want to know
I don't care I don't see

The habit of forgetfulness

Every single day when I leave the office, I do 2 things before I leave...

I fill up my water bottle with water to take with my on the tube, which gets extremely hot over the summer. Secondly, I visit the ladies before heading back into my office to pick up my bag before leaving.

Every single day I forget my water bottle on the counter in the kitchen.

And every single day I keep thinking to myself, today I must remember it!

An unlikely union

How would have thought that Electro master Mr. Oizo and the very controversial Marilyn Manson would ever do a song together?

Excluding?

Heard on the tube announcement system:

"Ladies and Gentlewomen..."

Power

Having power is both intoxicating and scary

or at least so I have heard

Swedish Summer - Fire Burn

The kind of song that makes me think of forests, wine, stars and the smell of grass and mist in the evening air...

Old dairy entry - 2006

I was reading my old dairy today and I found an entry that was quite full on. It was relating every single line of a song's lyrics with how I felt by underlining it with a sentence of my own... All I can say about it now is: I am glad that this was 2006 and that I no longer feel like that.

Bright Eyes - Black Comedy

Once I gave a look to you but you never gave it back

That is normally how it goes

So here I stand expressionless,

I can not talk about it

but my memory’s intact

Playing like a movie on a loop, again and again in my head.

I guess the past is good for a laugh

If I make a joke about it first, you can't

A comedy so dry and black that it makes my stomach hurt so bad

Oh yes, that's my life

I cried, so two thumbs up we give this one,

The tears forever present

despite it’s predictable ending,

Everything always ends in the same way

The dialogue seemed rushed and wrong

That is me in a panic

but the actors did their best to place some worth on every word,

Everyone lies and says it'll be fine

like coffins dropped into the earth,

In my dreams, you are alive

the saddest song we ever heard, we sang along,

The darkness is so familiar now, isn't it?

we sang: Take this weight away,

Please, let me be able to breathe again

take this weight away...

Sometimes you just can't breathe

It's Too Late

My mind is made up
I am not coming back to you

It's Too Late For Love

Is it Paranoia or Intuition?

A little twinge of doubt - a changed date.

Turns out it was all paranoia...

Clingy or Unappreciated?

I was walking down the street the other day and witnessed some quite strange chemistry between a couple.

They were in their mid 20s walking down the street. He was fairly well dressed and holding a bag in one hand and a cigarette in his half closed fist in the other hand. His girlfriend (?) was walking next to him, wearing white skinny jeans with black knickers that very clearly was shining through the fabric.

She was trying to hold his hand - the hand that he has closed around the cigarette. She keep holding her fingers over the back of his hand. At some moments letting go to another few second later almost trying to prise his fingers off the cigarette in order to entwine their fingers.

Really? He clearly "can't" hold your hand.

The thing is - during the amount of time I was walking behind them on the pavement he would have had the time to smoke the cigarette, stubbed out the cigarette bud and grab hold of her hand. Clearly he was in no hurry to smoke it, so why doesn't he just put it in his pocket and hold his girlfriends hand?

Or maybe he didn't want to hold her hand?

Interviewing New Housemates

As one of our housemates is currently leaving us for greener pastures. We are again going through the process of finding a new housemate. I find it quite hard to get to know someone in a space of a brief meeting. As we know by experience it may take a few months before someone's annoying traits start to creep out.

So we are going through the process and it is just as interesting/hard as ever. What I find interesting is the different priorities that we have, the 4 of us that are left. The following are the key attributes that we look for (I will not say which one is mine) in a new housemate:

#1
Not that bothered as long as they seem nice

#2
As long as they are fit, that's all that matters

#3
They need to stay in the house for an indefinite period, need to seem settled and ready to make our house a home

#4
It can be anyone as long as they do not have loud parties, sing or play an instrument. They need to be Q-U-I-E-T!

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