Top stories published by Desiderium Sciendi in November of 2003

Nov 30, 2003

I forgot a bunch of things…

Firstly I got a phone-call from my mum yesterday morning and she could hear thessalian laughing in the background so I put her on the phone {Does the ‘I am so evil’ dance :-) }. Hilarity ensued (at least for me). Then afterward Thess said that she would have to arrange for us to…

Nov 17, 2003

So Weird…

There is food in my fridge… This is so bizarre…

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Nov 12, 2003

Still Flying — A Firefly Fanzine

Finally got the first issue of the fanzine done. A couple of months late but at least it’s out there and not dreadful either.

G’night John-Boy…

Not so hacked off by the end of the day — didn’t want folk to think I went to bed grumbling. :-)

Couple of hours on the phone to Thess helped a lot. ;-)

My Dad is going to loan my enough cash to cover my problems right now. Feel really bad about…

Nov 10, 2003

Questions, questions…

Stolen off thessalian…

1. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.
2. Am I loveable?
3. How long have you known me?
4. When and how did we first meet?
5. What was your first impression?
6. Do you still think that way about me now?
7. If I was an ice cream…

Nov 28, 2003

Okay…

Home again for lunch — still weird…

Looking forward to Buffy game tonight and then hooking up with thessalian. Both our online reportings of excessive soppyness had better be curtailed or people will start to turn up with baseball bats… “Make… It… Stop…!” ;-)

I do love her though… *big happy smile*

Nov 4, 2003

Trying to get on with it…

Took the rats back to Andy and Toos. They had a nice relaxing holiday but Toos was a huge mozzie-magnet and is covered in horrible bites poor thing. I said that with the spots and the rats she looked like a plague victim! ;-)

Suck suck suck

After yesterday’s perkiness of finally getting the fanzine out today continues to mostly suck…

Yeah, I got my car back but I’ve just had to write a totally grovelling letter to my dad begging for more money to borrow as I worked out that leaving the debt on my credit card…

Nov 10, 2003

Pleasent Surprises

Looks like things might not be co-inciding after all. Fireworks in Birmingham is the weekend of the 5th/6th December and hopefully Colchester meal is the weekend after.

Meanwhile…

Nov 3, 2003

Productive! (Not so much)

Well, I sure got lots done today… Really… I didn’t just go out and have a really good time and ignore all the stuff I need to get done… ;-)

Got a call from Chris in the early afternoon with free tickets to see Four at the Store (stand-up radio for Radio Four…

Bizare…

Getting my car back and driving home (2 minutes) from the garage after not being able to drive for a few days is like an actualy physical release. How strange…

A meme stolen (again) off thessalian. Man, I need to find some meme’s of my own…

Nov 27, 2003

Strangeness…

Things are good. I might actually get some stuff done at home tonight since it looks like being the only night I’m going to be in this week!

That is if I recover from the stuff thessalian put in her LJ. :-p

But…

It all turned out great in the long run and I’m really glad I made the effort. :-)

Nov 5, 2003

Oh, I forgot to add…

I’m a member of a community here (fireflyfans) but I can’t work out how you post to them — can someone please hit me with the clue stick…?

Nov 2, 2003

So much to do…

Right… So I didn’t go out on Friday which was a shame but I got a lot of stuff done which was cool.

Spent Saturday with Claire and thessalian generally slobbing out and Sunday doing the whole 7th Sea thing. If you want more details of the weekend I’d read thessalian’s LJ as…

Nov 17, 2003

Long Weekend…

Went to see Neil Gaiman’s reading on Friday night as planned. Couldn’t see much from where we were sitting but he and the artist of Wolves in the Walls certainly sounded interesting. The less said about Jonathon Ross (comparing) the better. Went and kipped at thessalian’s Friday night — partially…

Nov 29, 2003

Life doesn’t get any better than this…

Wandered around Camden this afternoon with thessalian. She was shopping for clothes — shopping for clothes with a woman! and yet I had a good time. This is just highly mysterious… Maybe it was all the great stuff she kept picking out and her saying “what do you…

Nov 10, 2003

This is unusual

I’m posting at 1pm and I’ve actually been up for more than 5 hours. :-)

The guy presiding over the Capita tests thingy is my new hero. A real live Mr Chumley-Warner whose best line was “It is slightly warm in here so if the gentleman wish to loosen their neckties we won’t…

To remember

Never, ever, try to meet anyone by surprise again… Never works…

Snobbery…

sigh

I caught myself thinking “Oh no, I’ve turned into one of those people”…

Having gone overdrawn (big time) on my current account and virtually emptied my savings account I’ve just gone in debt (big time) on my credit card just so I can have enough money to…

Nov 6, 2003

Pass the meme

Meme from thessalian
Your MeMe, should you choose to accept it, is to rank the following movies in order, from COULDN’T LIVE WITHOUT to COULDN’T CARE LESS. To add value to this process, you must also add two movies to the list, and remove two movies from the list, before passing the MeMe on (including…

Did I mention it was the night of Many Updates? :-)

1) Dietary Requirements

a) Give your personal interpretation of the four basic food groups.
— Caffeine, carbohydrates, curry, buscuits / sweets

Nov 22, 2003

Good stuff

Ob Freak out g/f: thessalian and I spent five minutes talking about what our kids would be like! LOL

Also she said that she’s smoking so little since we got together that she might give up sometime soon. Just in case I forget I’m replying on you guys to remind her that she said…

A night of many updates

This birthday-month thing that has been floating around…

Stubborn and hard-hearted. Ambitious and serious. Loves to teach and be taught. Always looking at people’s flaws and weaknesses. Likes to criticize. Hardworking and productive. Smart, neat and organized…

Faith in human nature

Destroyed

I was waiting for thessalian in Fulham Broadway tube station when one of the many people walking past started to drop some money out of his walet. A few people picked up some coins and handed them to him. One well-appointed woman in her 50s bent down to…

Nov 25, 2003

Woo hoo!!

Nov 9, 2003

Excellent weekend

’cause I got to spend most of it hanging out with thessalian. Then again, I may be biased. ;-)

Let’s see… Now show was Thursday… Then it was Buffy game on Friday. Scottish-Dave (not to be confused with non-Scottish Angus) who is now called “new Dave” (with, obviously me…

Nov 12, 2003

Balance…

I’ve got a start date for my new riviting job at the probabtion office (filing, photocopying, faffing about). I told them I was busy next week (as thessalian has a week off work and I was buggered if I was starting that week) so it’ll be a week on Monday.

Nov 5, 2003

Highly Amusing…

So, the lady from Capita phones me up to let me know that I *am* on their books for junior management positions but there’s probably been nothing they can recomend me for in the last 6 months.

With my extensive management background, surely not… :-p

Nov 5, 2003

Is it worth it…

Finished doing the update for the FAQ. Between all the code I worked on and then chucked away and all the updating I must have put tens of hours into something that very very few people will ever see. Ah well, at least I know it’s fairly cool now — and it’s finally done (for now). At least updating…

Nov 19, 2003

The joys of being lazy…

Not much going on but I’ll fill in the gap so it doesn’t end up being a week without updates…

Went and played Buffy last night which was a great laugh as usual even though we seemed to get next-to-nothing done in the game. Our Watcher (Toos’s) Tristan has an…

Nov 4, 2003

Week going slowly…

Well got the AFOD into the post which was something. Took me 10 mins to write all the rubbish they wanted on PC and 90 mins (and writers cramp) to copy it out (looking much worse) onto the form. Why do these people do this? Why can’t they email out an alterable soft-copy — it’s not like that…