Monday, Aug. 24, 2009 - 22:35

MY day at work was kinda frustrating in some ways - there were a load of things that went wrong, some incompetancies in the staff, some staff coming in late after having been at 'V' over the weekend (bit naughty that) and leaving the office understaffed, and the gloomy weather didn't help.

MILKSHAKE is nice, isn't it? I like the chocolate brownie Frijj the bestest - the one with Chief Wiggum on the bottle. I used to like banana flavour too, but.. I am now allergic to banana so would be best not taking the risk.

BRINGS me out in a smile when I hear Liverpool going in two-nil down to Villa in tonights game, it does :-) Actually, despite my natural desire to see underdogs triumph over top four incumbents, I'd like to see Liverpool or Arsenal win the Premiership this year, as opposed to Chelsea or Man United.

ALL the apple pies that there were in my flat half an hour ago are now in my stomach. Actually I suppose one could argue that they are still in my flat, as they are in me, and I am in my flat, but.. y'know what I mean.

THE first game (I think) in the Carling Cup second round finished with Sunderland easing past Norwich by a score of 4-1. The Canaries had a man sent off late on. In the morrow, Middlesbrough play Nottingham Forest in their (that is to say, Middlesbrough's) opening match of the competition.

BOYS against men, it looks like, at Anfield. Gerrard has given away a penalty and Ashley Young has put it away to put Villa 3-1 up away from home.

TO summarise, it's not been that good a start of the season for the two big Merseyside clubs, with only three points from a possible fifteen. London teams are doing a lot better, with Spurs, Chelsea and Arsenal all holding 100% records!

THE worst thing I was reading about on Wikipedia today was about the brutal murder of Keith Blakelock. The details about how the PC was hacked to death by a mob of balaclava's rioters, chilling it was to read. Makes you think about the whole psychology of crowds and all that - the book I was reading at Christmas (which spoke at length about the Stamford Prison Experiment) had similar conclusions.

YARD long sausages are difficult to swallow. But you knew that already, I'm sure.

AND you already know a lot about Etruscan pottery, I'll vouch.

THEY'RE banging on the walls again. They're telling me I should fly away with them. The window is open and the night is cool. I'm not wearing shoes, but I don't think I'll need them if I am flying.

LIKE cheese? Like peas? You'll love new 'cheesy peas' :-)

IT'S a shame but waking this morning it was almost dark as I left for work. The nights are drawing in, and the summer is almost gone. What have I done with the summer? Fuck a doodle all - which was a similar thing to how little vacation I managed to organise last year (but for different reasons, I guess).

BETTER judgement today might have prevented me e-mailing one of my bosses to tell her that the lab manager had been sacked having been found in the walk-in fridge wearing nothing but swimming trunks having been intimate with a pot of yoghurt. Put like that it does seem a very odd statement to make, but it was in context, I admit. That said, I feel a bit icky about having represented myself in such an odd light as to make up such a thing.

THAN is quite a difficult word to start a paragraph with, I'm sure you'd agree. It's a linking word isn't it - a preposition? I recall the children's books I had with all the little detectives and spies for all the parts of the English language. Prepositions were red coated with dark glasses, and there was something to do with a haunted castle and Inspector Pronoun. A little searching shows that I'm talking about 'Word Detective' by Heather Amery.

YOURS truly is getting a bit tired now, and only had four hours sleep last night, so he's off to bed. If not to sleep right away, but to wind right down to that suitably relaxed and ready frame of mind.