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Swine Flu.

bob@aberystwyth.com — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:10:50 GMT

Hey World?

It's the flu.

GET OVER IT.

Stupid O'Clock

bob@aberystwyth.com — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:47:00 GMT

I can't sleep.
I disapprove greatly of this.
It has led to me editing my cv several times for different jobs.
But also to thinking how strange and sad it will be to go home and realise the dog won't greet me.
It's getting light outside now.
As soon as it's dawn proper I will be stuck awake all day.
Though it will get trippy and amusing in the afternoon.
Sleep deprivation is highly underrated.
It will also make sorting travel back home much more interesting.
I blame webcomics.
Stupid 5 year backlog.

Swine Flu..

bob@aberystwyth.com — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:15:57 GMT

..is still just FLU for fuck's sake. People die of regular flu too you bunch of reactionary idiots *rages against retards*

Children

bob@aberystwyth.com — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:39:33 GMT

..Should NOT fucking set up goalposts right outside the front room window, noisy little FUCKS.

Capybara

bob@aberystwyth.com — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:46:49 GMT

They please me with their adorability. This is all.

Obama is alright..

bob@aberystwyth.com — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:05:32 GMT

But Prime would be better.

Time..

bob@aberystwyth.com — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:44:10 GMT

How can an unemployed bum like myself have pretty much zero spare time? Between job forms, tech support, appointments.. just Gah!!

Mobile Phone number..

bob@aberystwyth.com — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:57:05 GMT

My phone updated itself and I lost all my numbers. If you think I ought to have yours, poke me.

For Serenity Fans.. you know which Ex Aberites I'm talking about..

bob@aberystwyth.com — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:11:33 GMT

http://www.closertogod.net/main/eggs/serenity.doc

See how quick you can make one.

Yoinked

bob@aberystwyth.com — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:39:50 GMT

Your Social Dysfunction:
Avoidant

You are excessively sensitive to potential rejection, humiliation or shame. You tend to be socially withdrawn, in spite of desire for acceptance from others.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Please note that we aren't, nor do we claim to be, psychologists. This quiz is for fun and entertainment only. Try not to freak out about your results.

Not a Huge surprise there *L* Though I did expect more paranoidness...

Merry Christmas!

bob@aberystwyth.com — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:59:55 GMT

And Bah Humbug to us all!

For... for....

bob@aberystwyth.com — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:34:16 GMT

....for PONY!!!!!!!

Apologies.

bob@aberystwyth.com — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:21:24 GMT

For some reason, the link I put up on my now deleted post linked to something very different than intended.

That was what it was meant to be. I think the site I linked to had some sort of dynamic link changing thing to prevent hotlinks.

Again, my apologies.

Moroseness.

bob@aberystwyth.com — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:01:51 GMT

I was having an excellent day. Then a huge bout of moroseness set in and now I feel lonely, depressed and strangely lamentory. I have no idea why, but I feel the almost unavoidable urge to find someone I know and hug them till things feel alright again.

I fucking hate Mondays. Especially when unemployed.

Free Tibet..

bob@aberystwyth.com — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:34:39 GMT

...wah wah wah.

I love how we invade places like Iraq, Russia invades Georgia, random bombings of Afghanistan.. and yet all the current bitching is about Tibet. Yes, it's sad, but the Dalai Lama has told his followers to consider themselves part of China, the one child law doesn't apply to them.. and considering how Han born dissidents are treated.. things could be worse for them.

A free Tibet would be nice, so would a free Iraq and other trodden on nations.. but on the whole, I think people like Mugabe could be dealt with first.

Starship Troopers: Marauder.

bob@aberystwyth.com — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:30:57 GMT

Oh.

Dear Lord.

WHY.

Stolen from uselessinfomine

bob@aberystwyth.com — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:59:46 GMT

On to the rules:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE, add an strikeout the books you read but didn't like.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read only 6 or less and make them read.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton (Wishes he could underline MORE)
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

Hmm, I've read 45 of the top 100. Disturbing how many I read over a decade ago while at school though. Especially "A Brave New World" when i was about 13.

Mid Season Cliffhanger.

bob@aberystwyth.com — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:36:27 GMT

Battlestar Galactica had it's mid season cliffhanger.

YOU BASTARDS! I CANNOT WAIT THAT LONG!!!!

The time waiting for the next episode will seem longer than the freaking time I spent in prison for God's sake.

Noise.

bob@aberystwyth.com — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:07:37 GMT

Why does other people's music drive me to the brink of insanity?

I can tune out traffic, ignore weather, blank out trains. Hell, I've managed to sleep Literally next to a runway.. but other people's music drives me insane. Especially drum and bass.

I think I either need counselling, or to move away from here and to the country or something. Before I kill someone.

Concentrated LJ Rant.

bob@aberystwyth.com — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:59:02 GMT

Stressed 6/10
Depressed 8/10
Angry 4/10
Hate People 9/10
Hate World 9/10

People need to be considerate or die. Drum and Bass should be outlawed. I should Never have gone to A: Liverpool College and B: Aberystwyth. My mother needs to stop drinking. My family needs to learn to not bicker over Grandad's death. I need to train myself for a career before I piss away the second half of my life as badly as I did the first.

Now to try and sleep without nightmares again. Probability: Slim/Middlin'.

Huzzah, What What!

bob@aberystwyth.com — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:14:26 GMT

As a 1930s husband, I am
Very Superior

Take the test!

For Ian and Hazel..

bob@aberystwyth.com — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:05:47 GMT

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1022443/Pictured-Cheeky-bumble-bee-smiles-camera.html

To all you Lost fans.

bob@aberystwyth.com — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:26:39 GMT

Strange Craving.

bob@aberystwyth.com — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:03:03 GMT

I require Scrabble. Or Monopoly. Or Risk. Preferably with a few beers, Pringles and good friends.

I mean, I Really need it. Weird.

My Grandad.

bob@aberystwyth.com — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:49:40 GMT

He was all manner of awesome.