I noticed at the mcdonalds drive in window that they had signs that say "this restaurant operates a one sauce per meal policy" and i thought it was funny that they'd rather spend money printing up signs and looking like jackasses than give people extra sauce if they want.
Then i got home and see they've given me three pots of sauce, and i didn't even ask.
And the real kicker is that i ate all my fries on the way home before i even found the sauce.
Friday, May 28, 2004
Thursday, May 20, 2004
Local Radio
While driving home from... well i'd like to say "while driving home from taking pictures of the sunset", but "while driving home from having my battery run out after 2 minutes" is a more accurate sentence. Anyway, while driving home, I was listening to the radio, and... you know what, there's just no way to introduce this.
"Tonight on metro radio our phone-in topic is shaving rash."
I need to fix my car cd player.
"Tonight on metro radio our phone-in topic is shaving rash."
I need to fix my car cd player.
Monday, May 10, 2004
Rambling
Some of us are cave-dwellers, some of us live in houses, some of us like to be loose footed
>_< it's looking like going away this summer isn't going to be as difficult financially as i'd thought... possibly.
The trouble is that as soon as i start browsing lonelyplanet.com or youthtravel.com i get urges to skip work tomorrow, buy a backpack, and make it to the airport by nightfall.
Unfortunately, the wait is a must. Or atleast, it's the sensible option.
It looks like the company i'm working for currently want to keep me till the end of June, and while i'm in no way oblidged to stay there, it is good money and it makes sense to keep them happy and keep the opportunity of part time work once i start university.
So, i'm planning to leave around early/mid July. I guess i'm planning to go for a month, but that does give me a buffer of a couple of extra weeks if.. well, if something comes up.
I have to be back by the beginning of September as one of my high school friends is getting married on the 4th.
And if nothing else atleast I'll be tanned on the wedding photos.
Now i just have to decide where I actually want to go. Interrailing in Europe is high on my options list now, and it seems like it's not that uncommon for women my age to do that alone and not run into too many problems as long as you're sensible. I'm just worried that maybe I'd be too shy to talk to people in hostels, and end up lonely and to scared to do stuff on my own. Honestly though, there has to be a point where you just give yourself a kick up the ass and say "hey" to a friendly looking fellow loner. I think i'd be okay... but it's just a risk to consider.
Then there's possibility of somewhere more far afield. I feel a bit silly considering more exotic places, as I have no idea what i'd actually do if i found myself in one of them. In europe i imagine i would be able to find my way around as it's much more culturally close to england than, say, Nepal (which is apparently too hot and dusty in July anyway - although you can survive on $15 a day, including accomodation)
I've considered more organised things, like "teach abroad" or group tours/bus tours that kind of thing but i'm not sure that's what i want to do really.
However, suggestions are greatfully received and I am open to all and any ideas. Really. I've got a month, some but not much cash, I want to see some stuff, and take some photos. Where should I go? : )
>_< it's looking like going away this summer isn't going to be as difficult financially as i'd thought... possibly.
The trouble is that as soon as i start browsing lonelyplanet.com or youthtravel.com i get urges to skip work tomorrow, buy a backpack, and make it to the airport by nightfall.
Unfortunately, the wait is a must. Or atleast, it's the sensible option.
It looks like the company i'm working for currently want to keep me till the end of June, and while i'm in no way oblidged to stay there, it is good money and it makes sense to keep them happy and keep the opportunity of part time work once i start university.
So, i'm planning to leave around early/mid July. I guess i'm planning to go for a month, but that does give me a buffer of a couple of extra weeks if.. well, if something comes up.
I have to be back by the beginning of September as one of my high school friends is getting married on the 4th.
And if nothing else atleast I'll be tanned on the wedding photos.
Now i just have to decide where I actually want to go. Interrailing in Europe is high on my options list now, and it seems like it's not that uncommon for women my age to do that alone and not run into too many problems as long as you're sensible. I'm just worried that maybe I'd be too shy to talk to people in hostels, and end up lonely and to scared to do stuff on my own. Honestly though, there has to be a point where you just give yourself a kick up the ass and say "hey" to a friendly looking fellow loner. I think i'd be okay... but it's just a risk to consider.
Then there's possibility of somewhere more far afield. I feel a bit silly considering more exotic places, as I have no idea what i'd actually do if i found myself in one of them. In europe i imagine i would be able to find my way around as it's much more culturally close to england than, say, Nepal (which is apparently too hot and dusty in July anyway - although you can survive on $15 a day, including accomodation)
I've considered more organised things, like "teach abroad" or group tours/bus tours that kind of thing but i'm not sure that's what i want to do really.
However, suggestions are greatfully received and I am open to all and any ideas. Really. I've got a month, some but not much cash, I want to see some stuff, and take some photos. Where should I go? : )
Sunday, May 09, 2004
Grab a book game
Grab A Book Game
Instructions:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
"This might be a mixture of scrapbook and diary containing written or sketched ideas for future pictures, plus quotes and work by other photographers, writers or artists which you want to remember (add quotes of your own)."
Instructions:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
"This might be a mixture of scrapbook and diary containing written or sketched ideas for future pictures, plus quotes and work by other photographers, writers or artists which you want to remember (add quotes of your own)."
Monday, May 03, 2004
Angst about art
oh geez. i feel so randomly upset or pissed off or something and i don't know why. hormones hitting me i guess.
i have this big frown on my face and no inclination to arrange my face any other way.
AND i lost all my bookmarks.
geez.
Now, i've been meaning to write about this for a while, and i'm in a particularly bitchy mood so it's probably gonna come out a lot horrible-er than i meant it to be really but screw it.
As some of you may know, I live in a house with six people (including myself) and four of us get along great. The other two... we don't really talk to. It's okay though, we just kinda ignore each other and quietly bitch about how they keep turning the heating down because they "can't afford it", but they can afford to get curry delivered four times a week.
Anyway, that's all just background, I wanted to bitch about something else. Now one of them is a guy who I will call G. And the other is a girl, H. They're both studying Art at university. G's actually a fully trained chef, but after getting that qualification, went back to uni to study Architechture, and then quit that after a year to study Art. I don't really think he has any idea of what he's gonna do with an art degree, but it's apparently fun.
Well, I'm just gonna come out and say it... any art i've ever seen either of these two create completely sucks. Now, I'm not usually one to mock the artistic endeavours of others, but seriously, you'll see where i'm coming from. You know in pre-school, when you used to do paintings like dump loads of paint on one half of a sheet of paper, then fold it over and smush it together, then unfold and it looks like a butterfly? That's the kind of thing G does.
He did that thing where you colour a sheet of paper all different colours, then draw over it with black wax crayon and scratch some of the wax crayon off so the colour shows through.
He's not shown us anything new for a while, as we've kind of all completely stopped talking to them, but last i heard... his art teachers fucking LOVED the crap he was coming out with!
I don't know, maybe I'm completely missing something incredibly insightful about his work, but to hear him talk about it he even admits himself that he's just fucking around.
It's really none of my business, but it pisses me off that he's fucking around in an art course and complaining about how his parents won't give him any money (big surprise when he's like 25 and they've already paid him through two courses). I'm all for modern art when it's genuine, but it's a little grating to watch this guy make crap and have his teachers fawn over him for it.
As for H, i can't really comment since i've never seen anything she's finished. All i know is that she knits a lot and there is currently a baking tray in our kitchen with a layer of tin foil, then a layer of cling film, then a sheet of pink knitting painted with furniture polish.
comments
What the hell is Curry?
Grimtooth | Email | 05.03.04 - 9:25 pm | #
what the hell??? You don't get CURRY in america???
Jaymee | 05.03.04 - 9:29 pm | #
We get curry in America. It's just that Grim doesn't get curry where he's at.
Art teachers do that kind of shit. Take it from someone with experience. You could take the time a paint the most beautiful portrait anyone has ever seen and just be ok to the art teachers but if you draw a doll's head impaled on a fork in feces, then you're fucking brilliant. On the whole, art teachers are douches.
MaestroCalhoun | Email | 05.04.04 - 7:20 am | #
Those who can't teach, so chances are good these art teachers are bad
dolly | 05.04.04 - 10:44 am | #
My wife taught her students to do that crayon thing. She teaches Grade 6. I bet next thing your roomy brings home is a paper snowflake.
Taz | Email | Homepage | 05.04.04 - 2:58 pm | #
mmmmm, curry, it's hard to get good curry here in the states, and even then it's scarce. Curry is about the best food you brits have. I had curry on the flight to london and it was the best thing I age the whole trip. Maybe I should have eaten at more pubs or something.
shiva | 05.04.04 - 6:59 pm | #
I spent a week working next door to an Indian restaurant once. They cooked Currie all day long. It was all you could smell, and it would coat your throat and tongue, so I spent the whole day thirsty as hell, no matter how much water I drank.
Scarlette | Email | 05.08.04 - 12:51 am | #
Well, NOW I know why you got all heated up with the 'What is art?' thread... :D
Kz | Email | Homepage | 05.08.04 - 4:12 pm | #
i have this big frown on my face and no inclination to arrange my face any other way.
AND i lost all my bookmarks.
geez.
Now, i've been meaning to write about this for a while, and i'm in a particularly bitchy mood so it's probably gonna come out a lot horrible-er than i meant it to be really but screw it.
As some of you may know, I live in a house with six people (including myself) and four of us get along great. The other two... we don't really talk to. It's okay though, we just kinda ignore each other and quietly bitch about how they keep turning the heating down because they "can't afford it", but they can afford to get curry delivered four times a week.
Anyway, that's all just background, I wanted to bitch about something else. Now one of them is a guy who I will call G. And the other is a girl, H. They're both studying Art at university. G's actually a fully trained chef, but after getting that qualification, went back to uni to study Architechture, and then quit that after a year to study Art. I don't really think he has any idea of what he's gonna do with an art degree, but it's apparently fun.
Well, I'm just gonna come out and say it... any art i've ever seen either of these two create completely sucks. Now, I'm not usually one to mock the artistic endeavours of others, but seriously, you'll see where i'm coming from. You know in pre-school, when you used to do paintings like dump loads of paint on one half of a sheet of paper, then fold it over and smush it together, then unfold and it looks like a butterfly? That's the kind of thing G does.
He did that thing where you colour a sheet of paper all different colours, then draw over it with black wax crayon and scratch some of the wax crayon off so the colour shows through.
He's not shown us anything new for a while, as we've kind of all completely stopped talking to them, but last i heard... his art teachers fucking LOVED the crap he was coming out with!
I don't know, maybe I'm completely missing something incredibly insightful about his work, but to hear him talk about it he even admits himself that he's just fucking around.
It's really none of my business, but it pisses me off that he's fucking around in an art course and complaining about how his parents won't give him any money (big surprise when he's like 25 and they've already paid him through two courses). I'm all for modern art when it's genuine, but it's a little grating to watch this guy make crap and have his teachers fawn over him for it.
As for H, i can't really comment since i've never seen anything she's finished. All i know is that she knits a lot and there is currently a baking tray in our kitchen with a layer of tin foil, then a layer of cling film, then a sheet of pink knitting painted with furniture polish.
comments
What the hell is Curry?
Grimtooth | Email | 05.03.04 - 9:25 pm | #
what the hell??? You don't get CURRY in america???
Jaymee | 05.03.04 - 9:29 pm | #
We get curry in America. It's just that Grim doesn't get curry where he's at.
Art teachers do that kind of shit. Take it from someone with experience. You could take the time a paint the most beautiful portrait anyone has ever seen and just be ok to the art teachers but if you draw a doll's head impaled on a fork in feces, then you're fucking brilliant. On the whole, art teachers are douches.
MaestroCalhoun | Email | 05.04.04 - 7:20 am | #
Those who can't teach, so chances are good these art teachers are bad
dolly | 05.04.04 - 10:44 am | #
My wife taught her students to do that crayon thing. She teaches Grade 6. I bet next thing your roomy brings home is a paper snowflake.
Taz | Email | Homepage | 05.04.04 - 2:58 pm | #
mmmmm, curry, it's hard to get good curry here in the states, and even then it's scarce. Curry is about the best food you brits have. I had curry on the flight to london and it was the best thing I age the whole trip. Maybe I should have eaten at more pubs or something.
shiva | 05.04.04 - 6:59 pm | #
I spent a week working next door to an Indian restaurant once. They cooked Currie all day long. It was all you could smell, and it would coat your throat and tongue, so I spent the whole day thirsty as hell, no matter how much water I drank.
Scarlette | Email | 05.08.04 - 12:51 am | #
Well, NOW I know why you got all heated up with the 'What is art?' thread... :D
Kz | Email | Homepage | 05.08.04 - 4:12 pm | #
Saturday, May 01, 2004
Blog Links
just alphabetised all my blog links
am i missing anyone?
comments
You're missing Puff but his isn't really working yet.
dolly | 05.02.04 - 10:15 am | #
no...
heather | Homepage | 05.02.04 - 5:40 pm | #
meee
Sliq has me linked though, and you linked him so I guess its all good.
Scarlette | Email | 05.08.04 - 12:53 am | #
am i missing anyone?
comments
You're missing Puff but his isn't really working yet.
dolly | 05.02.04 - 10:15 am | #
no...
heather | Homepage | 05.02.04 - 5:40 pm | #
meee
Sliq has me linked though, and you linked him so I guess its all good.
Scarlette | Email | 05.08.04 - 12:53 am | #
Birthday Photos
Photos from my birthday, they're in a funny number order cause that's just the way i scanned them, but i tried to link them kind of in cronological order
Two
Becca, me and Marc at the restaurant
One
Nice and sober, think this is while we were still at the restaurant
Eight
Marc and Christine
Four
Anna and me
Five
Marc and Christine
Six
Christine, me and Anna's head :D
Nine
Anna doing some sort of bunny rabbit impression
Seven
Me doing the bunny rabbit thing, no idea who that guy is, didn't know he was there at the time
Ten
Random oh so crappy disposible camera quality photo of me
Three
Photo taken to finish off the film, sitting on this couch in a club at about 2 am. I forgot to smile cause i was concentrating on trying not to shoot straight over our heads or down our tops or something
Comments
Number five is just screaming for a photoshopping. Looks like it was a lot of fun, see turning ** isn't so bad
dolly | 05.02.04 - 10:17 am | #
Such pretty little english roses! How do you guys manage that while drunk off your asses? Happy b-day, jae!
Cyn | Homepage | 05.02.04 - 10:25 am | #
It's that tongue again!
PC / CP | 05.03.04 - 8:28 am | #
yeah but it looks like it's coming out of my nose.
Jaymee | 05.03.04 - 1:12 pm | #
Two
Becca, me and Marc at the restaurant
One
Nice and sober, think this is while we were still at the restaurant
Eight
Marc and Christine
Four
Anna and me
Five
Marc and Christine
Six
Christine, me and Anna's head :D
Nine
Anna doing some sort of bunny rabbit impression
Seven
Me doing the bunny rabbit thing, no idea who that guy is, didn't know he was there at the time
Ten
Random oh so crappy disposible camera quality photo of me
Three
Photo taken to finish off the film, sitting on this couch in a club at about 2 am. I forgot to smile cause i was concentrating on trying not to shoot straight over our heads or down our tops or something
Comments
Number five is just screaming for a photoshopping. Looks like it was a lot of fun, see turning ** isn't so bad
dolly | 05.02.04 - 10:17 am | #
Such pretty little english roses! How do you guys manage that while drunk off your asses? Happy b-day, jae!
Cyn | Homepage | 05.02.04 - 10:25 am | #
It's that tongue again!
PC / CP | 05.03.04 - 8:28 am | #
yeah but it looks like it's coming out of my nose.
Jaymee | 05.03.04 - 1:12 pm | #
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