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40 Days of Bitches
2008-02-08 10:17:00 I’ve missed the official start of Lent, but I thought it would be a good challenge to give up something for 40 days once again. (What they don’t tell you is that it’s around 42½ days, or something like that, because Sundays don’t count.) So I got to thinking this morning; what could I give up ... More About: Personal , Days , Bitches
The Shapes Have Arrived
2008-02-07 22:59:00 After three and a half weeks, the good news is that the package of polystyrene shapes has arrived from the US. Thank goodness for that - I might have had to get rough! The bad news is, I made an error in determining which parts I needed. I’ve now got a whole load of parts that ... More About: Shapes , Crafts
Manipulative Language: “Need”
2008-01-31 13:20:00 Today I’ve added a new category for my posts here on DREWspective: language. I think it’s important enough to warrant having its own category. Language —here in the UK at least—is something that people either piss on or use as a manipulative tool. Some people either deliberately misspell words they don’t even know the meaning of, or ...
RIP Jeremy Beadle
2008-01-31 10:03:00 I did a double-take when I read someone’s copy of a tabloid newspaper on the train to work. It’s been a while since I last saw Jeremy Beadle on television, but he was truly an icon. For those who don’t know, he was famous for pulling practical jokes on people, most notably on his own TV ...
Other People
2008-01-30 15:11:00 As someone who has had ongoing problems with social interaction, depression, employment, discrimination and a whole load of other stuff I can’t be bothered to name right now, I probably don’t have any right to tell people what to do, say or think. But I do know one thing: to be happy in life, you must ... More About: People
More Weird-Ass Dreams
2008-01-28 15:16:00 Every once in a while, for no apparent reason, I have very strange dreams. Now I know that everybody has at least one, and they spend a good amount of time trying to figure out what they mean. But ain’t nobody’s weird dreams weirder than mine. I’ve already written about a strange-ass dream I had a while ... More About: Weird , Dreams
One Part Praise, Nine Parts Criticism
2008-01-25 14:10:00 I’ve had two permanent jobs in two years, all of which lasted for less than 12 months. That’s when I decided to move into freelancing, but unfortunately it didn’t work out. So now I’m back to the predictable grind, which—in this position, anyway—I’m beginning to hate. I tell you this because there’s a reason why I’ve ... More About: Praise , Part , Criticism , Parts
NIKE iD
2008-01-22 10:57:00 Last year during a job interview, I made a prediction that there would be greater demand for customisation, or individualism in consumer products. People would be fed up of buying prepackaged, catch-all consumer products, and might even go as far as turning to scrapbooking and crafts to fill their needs. Well, since I made that prediction, ... More About: Nike
Unreliable Pockets
2008-01-19 15:40:00 I’ve just come back from a quick trip to Hobbycraft, where I bought just a couple of things for a small project. I’m still waiting for my damn foam shapes to arrive, so in the meantime I thought I’d keep myself busy. It was clearly raining outside, yet they gave me a paper bag for the ... More About: Crafts
Chadwarden on Girl Who Slept With 50 Men
2008-01-18 11:24:00 Following a top story in newspapers last week, about a girl who had supposedly slept with 50 different men before she turned 18. I found out eventually that the girl had actually waited until she was 16, which is the UK’s age of consent. (An impossible feat for most of our young girls these days, regardless ... More About: Promotion , Girl
Personal Update - 2008.01.17
2008-01-17 17:16:00 Today it feels a lot like Friday. I wish it were Friday, but I’ve had to convince myself it’s Thursday. I’ve been late to work once this week, and have left my work keys at home twice, so I can’t afford any more fuck-ups. Tomorrow, so I’ve been informed, there’s a sale on at one of ... More About: Personal , Update , 2008
Plants ?n Shit
2008-01-14 13:42:00 So yesterday I headed back to Pets at Home to claim the plant that the nice staff person forgot to put in my bag. As mentioned in my last post, I thought it would be a good test of their customer service, which up until now wasn’t anything to talk out loud about. So I approached ... More About: Plants , Shit , Interaction
chibiModels Project - update
2008-01-13 11:15:00 I’ve been in negotiations with a US company that sells various three-dimensional foam shapes. Unfortunately their online shop is designed so that customers must reside in the US, so I sent an e-mail asking whether they’d ship to the UK. Luckily they did. The communication process was painfully slow, and one of the items in their catalogue ... More About: Project , Update
Pet Anxiety
2008-01-13 10:57:00 Anxiety on two levels. Last week I’d bought two goldfish, yet to be named. I’d decided to buy another two—much smaller ones—just yesterday; their names are Snipes and Tiger. The first hit of anxiety occured on Friday, when I was looking for information on goldfish. A couple of places insisted that goldfish have at least 10 gallons ... More About: Anxiety , Interaction
You Are Valuable
More articles from this author:2008-01-09 00:50:00 Amber, a good friend of mine from Canada, said something very profound earlier: that I have nothing to be upset over. The conversation made me think: why am I so down on myself most of the time? Why do people get down on themselves? My answer is that even I, a person who disagrees a lot with ... 1, 2 |
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