Weekend stuff...
Nov. 3rd, 2003 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Back to work and straight back into a huge heap of things to do. Every area of my life seems incredibly busy at the moment, so I think I'm going to be setting aside Wednesday as a "chill in the country" day:
Anyway, due to business, weekend events in list form:
Must run - have to go and give blood.
Anyway, due to business, weekend events in list form:
- Friday: Hallowe'en dinner with friends. A lot of which was spent listening to Rich obsessively ramble about the Goths down the road from him
- Saturday: went to Weylands Smithy and took some photos. Needed the walk to clear my head after the previous night. Saw two ace dogs - a baby dalmation and a big white shapeless pooch.
- Saturday: went to the Ashmolean Museum and pottered around Oxford for an hour or two.
- SAturday evening - increased my webpace, put up a new homepage and copied over all my photos - still a lot of work to do there!
- Sunday morning: sorted out some family crap *sigh*
- Sunday afternoon: watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Scary!
- Sunday evening: ate some decent home-cooked food, had a bath, then watched TV in bed with some wine. Fell asleep around 10:30, didn't wake up until 7:30. Lots of confused dreams about running around a beach.
Must run - have to go and give blood.
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Date: 2003-11-03 08:22 am (UTC)Mental note: call ISP and ask them why the heck can't I FTP my web page up. That's getting annoying...
and one last note.... give blood = *shudder*. I don't approve of giving blood on spiritual grounds (which means I'll never give or take blood, but everyone else is free to).
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Date: 2003-11-03 01:58 pm (UTC)Either way it would be an odd sensation, although I think that the real house was in Wisconsin.
Mental note: call ISP and ask them why the heck can't I FTP my web page up. That's getting annoying
Blegh. I just had to hassle mine to get my space back - it seemed to have disappeared at some point on Sunday. Let me know when you get yours uploaded.
I don't approve of giving blood on spiritual grounds
Why not? I was just wondering :)
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Date: 2003-11-03 03:03 pm (UTC)I'm not sure where it is, but I would expect it in Texas, and not just because of the movies name. We actually had the guy in the clocktower with a rifle (UT - Austin), the cheerleader murder, the woman who drowns her own kids, etc...
Let me know when you get yours uploaded.
I'll put a link on my journal. First issue won't be much since I'm really rusty and need to get back into HTML.
Why not?
Because blood is the thing that keeps us alive. I feel that my very soul courses through my blood, and that by voluntarily releasing my blood I'll lose part of my soul. I know, kinda psychotic. I just never felt like the same person since the last time I let blood be taken out of me (not that I had a choice, if I didn't let them they would have strapped me down and taken it).
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Date: 2003-11-04 04:59 am (UTC)Nah - Leatherface is loosely based on Ed Gein, and he came from Wisconsin. You guys in Texas have a lot of creepy stuff going on. Don't think I'll be going to TX any time soon :P Although, our last UK serial killer came from about 20 miles up the road from me. Used to park my car in his road :/
I see where you're coming from with the blood thing - it's not particularly psychotic. I don't really feel that my blood is that important to me. I guess maybe that's because I lose it quite regularly. But like you, I'm not really bothered what anyone else does with their blood :)
Do they force you into medical treatment in the states? I don't think they can do that here, unless you've been sectioned.
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Date: 2003-11-04 05:17 am (UTC)Considering the public view of Bush in the UK (according to US media anyway) I was expecting a joke about Bush coming from Texas following this line... (Personally I'm sick of the anti-Bush sentiment because I've agreed with most of his decisions. Hell, we had the right to declare war on Iraq at anytime since it was part of the Gulf War peace treaty that Saddam would step down after 5 years IIRC. That being said, things will get BAD if he is re-elected because he wants to take everyone on at once and we need to stabalize and withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq before he decides to invade N Korea or Iran which would be bad for the world. Okay, enough political commentary).
Do they force you into medical treatment in the states?
On the most part no. At the time I was 12 years old and my mom had forced me into a mental health facility because the doctors convinced I was depressed and suicidal. NOTE: The facility was shut down for insurance fraud 3 years later. I was not depressed or suicidal. I just don't like spending time with my family.
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Date: 2003-11-04 06:28 am (UTC)Heh. I think most ppl in the UK (like most in the US) are fairly apolitical, and probably don't have a view on Bush at all. The US media mostly interact with the UK media, one would think, and the UK media has a fairly left-wing bias. Personally, I don't really like the guy as I'm fairly left-wing myself, but then I'm not living in America and don't really know anything about your political system *shrug*
At the time I was 12 years old and my mom had forced me into a mental health facility because the doctors convinced I was depressed and suicidal.
Whoa - that's pretty harsh, and I'm sorry. I was a fairly fucked-up child myself - like you, I just can't stand my family - but luckily my parents were too generally self-absorbed to really notice. Plus, over here we have a National Health Service, which means it's a bit overstretched and you have to be really ill to get sectioned.