so lou veto'd last night.

mike is a guy who i met for about like 10mins on friday night. he's a friend of lou's crush-object andy b. he has a gig tonight (first one in front of the record label reps) and he was basically trying to guarentee a good crowd by asking EVERYONE to go! so in no way was it something special to me.

but lou said she might go to the gig tonight and i said that i was consideringing it too after dinner with yas. after some further conversation on the subject (lou - "mike is cute", me "yeah, yup mike is cute") and knowing i'm basically on the prowl, she veto'd him. i asked her why. i pointed out without good reason she can't do that. she steadfastly veto'd me.

i mean i've not even hit on him. he's not hit on me. there's been no flirting. there's been nothing more then an observation that he's cute.

JEEZUS why not?

remember jay the hot barman? on our sole date aaaaages ago he mentioned that one of his friends made a barely biographical biopic of his 'life'. so i checked it out and the last episode (iii) had him arranging a date with a girl. this came out shortly after our date.
so episode iv has just come out. and it's a lot darker then the previous episodes (which just portray him as a bit of a depresive ally mcbeal character - this one has full on krazy medication and possible self-harm - as i said it's so loosely based on his life ... i hope!) and the date in the episode? it's nothing like our date, she looks nothing like me, etc but she is called ...juliette (correct spelling and everything) wtf?!

anyway if you wanted to check it out -

i think i'd like the power to teleport.

i could sleep in knowing it'll take me a fraction of a second to get to work rather then 20mins (without getting rained on or windswept!)

and to know i could cover long distances in no time at all without having to pay bus, tube, cab, train or airfares! i go to my parents for the weekend knowing i'm not gonna miss any awesome nights out in brighton (i could just pop back, party then pop back to beckenham). i could pop over and have a coffee and a gossip with macramedildo .

yesterday i got offered a free trip to london through work as a 'well done' for achieving a call quality goal.
train tickets paid, 2 nights in the jumeirah carlton tower, a surprise activity, slap up meal and then a free day on sunday.

i turned it down as my friend sarah was due to be visiting brighton for the weekend. so i text her to check the plans. turns out she never booked and hotel!! grrrrrrrrr!

i am bad at being angry at people even when they deserve it. i irrationally think that if i show my anger, even if it's deserved, they will hate me and i will feel bad about it. this is why i am a doormat. i don't want to upset anyone so i'll let people get away with all sorts of rubbish (it's usually unintentional stuff - nothing really vindictive)

except someone else dropped out so now I am going after all! squeee!

oh well michael mcintyre on sunday. maybe i'll go and check out that new vintage warehouse in town on sat.

have a lot of things to do:
*  take mince out of the freezer
*  buy electricity
*  find michael mcintyre tickets  print tickets at work tomorrow
*  blag for sam's rockin' christmas stocking
*  tidy my pigsty of a room
*  do some laundry
*  relax
*  obtain gunpowder
*  plot treason
*  take a relaxing bath

lon what do you mean if?!  me and my friends are very politcally incorrect!  so no i wouldn't speak up in that sense because i'd probably be peeing myself laughing.  but we pick our audiece.  luckily everyone knows my sense of humour so i haven't mortally offended anyone (yet!)

that said i'm not at all racist.  i actually think making racist jokes makes me less so.  it kinda brings to the forefront that yes there are differences between the races (variety being the spice of life, etc) so i guess i'm more open to it.

but if i heard someone make an actual genuinly racist comment it would really depend on my relationship.  if i didn't know them at all then i'd leave it up to the person it offended to make a serious complaint.  i don't like confrontation really.  if i knew them i might make a comment.  but really i think everyone's welcome to thier beliefs.  if you want to be racist, be racist.  just don't act on it.  don't opine in front of people it will offend.  don't try to pedal your outdated views (yep I'm lookin' at you nick griffin)

as for homophobia; well i live in brighton (uk mecca of gaydom) well i just love them kooky bumbandits!  ;-)

so what is new with me?

not much really.  back at work and similatiously have come down with a stinking cold.  might take tomorrow off as I feel ok in the morning and then towards the end of my shift just feel like death!

birthday plans are in place - it's really just an extension of regular friday night drinks but some of my uni girls are coming up :-)  will prob go dancing afterward - FUNK!

hmmm other news?  remember jay the hot barman?  one date, despite his insistance in wanting a second date it never materialised due to his life being all about the dramz and then he went away to uni.  well he's back having quit uni after 1 year and is now working in a pub around the corner from my flat.  and he's facebook re-friended me.  hmmmmm.  he's still pretty :-S

i am a naughty naughty person ... but this is hella funny!


l-r:  bootsy, andy b = david furnish, elton john

am hugely dehydrated.  i always am.  i never drink enough water but i feel just awful for it today.

going to the gym, and then to undo my good work by eating crap!

need to tidy.  can't be arsed.  sun is shining.  will do it tonight.

spending the afternoon with andy tomorrow.  bit confused about our friendship

centre parcs was good.  was great to hang out with emma n' andy and sonia n' pete. 

our chalet was very nice - 3 bedrooms, all ensuite, private sauna.  we girls spent a goodly amount of time in there.  we tried a vodka sauna wit the boys - don't bother; it smelt like potatos, didn't get us drunk, although we all woke up feeling a little bit hangover-y!
so we played in the pool a lot (late night outdoor swimming in october, flumes, waves, hijinx etc.) and drank, and bowled, and drank, and did archery, and drank, and almost died (10m trunk, 1m2 platform, 3 other grown adults - not fun!)

but you can tell centre parcs is an american thing - it advertises it'self as close to nature, etc but the village itself is franchised to within an inch of it's life.  3 starbucks?  really?!  i mean i love a hazelnut hotchocolate but it's not really necessary!

we drove back on friday and when i got back i pretty much headed straigh out for lou's bday drinks in a half-arsed jedi costume.  the usual crowd, the usual banter (and oh god, thanks to jason's big gay gossip-y mouth everyone knows I've had 'sex' with the new guy - louis - fuckin' great!)

so lou was hammered.  in her own words the 12th shot is the last one she remembers!  Boot's helped me look after her.  We all came home in a cab - dropped lou home and headed round the corner for pizza before returning to basically morph into her parents and tell her off "eat some pizza, drink the water, don't get under the duvet on the sofa" and sending her to bed before we both promptly dozed off on the sofa ourselves.

And yes he stayed over, because lou was not sober enough to warn me off he slept in my bed.  i know the score with me, it was kinda sexy-platonic.  that's ok, right?

today I'm cutting out pictures of robert pattinson, stewie from family guy, anjelica houston, christina ricci, amongst others, in the name of work!

and it's my last day in this office until 19oct!!!  hurrah!  But so much to do before I can leave!

I will be at center parcs (caravan club for the middle classes!) 05-09oct.  the only single person in the party with two couples *rolls eyes*.  nah should be good fun.

on the evening of 09oct is lou's bday drinks with the usual friday night drinks gang (ie. lou's workmates!) with the probably addition of one person.  more on this below.

after that i'm completely free.  might head back to my parents for a few days to hang with my cousin.  she's moved in while she attends rada.

so i expect I won't be online as of sunday night until at least 10oct.  and q possibly after that either online all the fuckin' time. or sporadically.

it's official; louis will be joining lou's department.  so he may very well be joining us at the pub.  in fact i think he and lou's eternal crush object andy will get on like a house on fire.  this is one thing I didn't really want.  i've been doing so well snubbing him.  i haven't gone to a single tlm gig (even the one when he had an eye infection and had to wear a patch like a pirate!)  we all know i rarely have any control over my heart.

but tonight's friday night will be spent with my actually work colleagues and promises to be a messy one!

gosh our mirror is dirty!  but ...
Whaddya think? AWESOME! Uh, ok i guess WTF do you look like? Another questionable choice!

he is sad and miserable because of unrequited love.
everyone knows he fancies her, including her
she has failing kidneys,
and a boyfriend who has offered her one of him
he feels she needs to know he loves her.  poor girls got enough on her plate.
it is true that women have a greater emotional muturity then men.

boots came for dinner.  he was quiet and subdued.  lou told me, after he left, that he is very sad and depressed at the moment and has burst into tears several times with her. 

i don't know what this is about.  it's for him and his friends but i hate for anyone to be sad and i just want to give him a big hug even though he wouldn't want it.

poor boots.

Had a pretty good weekend.

Friday was pure hell.  I picked up an enquiry at 8am, handed over to me from the nights team.  i didn't leave the office till 8pm and i was working solidly on it the whole time.  the man was a nightmare, chopping and changing the itinerary.

Saturday i was working again but got out early and got to relax for a few hours before going to the pub with Lou and her workmates.  lots of tuaca and sailor jerrys.  Boots and Rory came back to the flat with us at about 2am to watch dvds (the inbetweeners) and eat pizza.  Lou promptly, in her drunken state, tipped Boots' entire pint into his lap.  I mean he wasn't just damp, he was drenched!  So he spent until the following lunchtime lounging about the flat in ladies pyjamas (mine!)  Thinking about it in the sober light of day it would have made much more sense for me to give him the (M&S mens) pyjamas i was wearing.  But then we wouldn't be being teased about cross-dressing at work!  and where is the fun in that?!

jfyi - he slept on the sofa.  rory left about 4am.

although i dumped his kinda-useless ass, I do really get on with him so it was nice to hang out with him platonically.  or so i thought.  the following morning we watched 2 more films and he was really flirty (despite the fact his chance to get any had passed) like he would not break eye-contact.

Rory is a guy that Lou has suggested matching me up with.  He is fun and sweet and incredibly dorky.  I like him a lot but i don't think we clicked. 

We have a new rule in the flat though.  After Lou punked out on going on a date with a guy who seemed really nice, apart from his reggae appreciation we've now decided that the other person must veto a date and it has to be for a really good reason.  we're only obligated to go on one date.  and we have our get-out clause if required.  every girl has this in place before going on a date.  boys seem to be in the dark about it - tim was really surprised when he found out about the call i fielded halfway through our first date!
for us, i get a call about 1hr/1hr 30mins in to the date
"oh you forgot your keys?!"  
"jo and jackson have the spare keys.  give them a try" - it's going well
"oh i guess i'll have to come and let you in.  what a shame" - this guy is a freak!

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discussed my becoming a senior in my one-to-one with my team leader.  she said she was really happy i'd applied for it, however; i have to have evidence that this was something i wanted to do on my development plan for min 6months.  but lou's going to mention it to one of the managers anyway.  and if we get no where this time, there's always next.