Miss Cellaneous

Oh, Gmail ads. Occasionally, you are amusing. This is not the case today.

FatLoss4Idiots.com - I lost 9 lbs. in 11 days, just by following these 10 simple rules.

I can deal with tiny virtual robots wrongfully thinking I was either fat or wanted to lose weight -- they are most likely used to all these thinspiration images & shots of America's/Germany's/Azerbeijan's Next Top Models on the web -- but that they consider me stupid is food for thought. Unpalatable food for thought.

The reason I saw this? I've been been tinkering with my CV for the last two hours; thanks to the4ts the Londoner looking over it. & :-)

Speaking of life & lessons learned, and hush, I know that's an awkward segue, thassalia is reviving the What I've Learned From TV meme.

( My answers )

::rifles through sock drawer in ever-growing frustration::

So many socks, so few possible matches.

(Story of my life.)

Ah, there truly is nothing quite like coming home into your own apartment to find that the heating is broken and the night announced to be -4°C.

ETA: Fixed! Yay! Can go to store for food now. & :-)

Monday late afternoon. The phone rings.

exbossnotlisa: There you are! Can you come in and help with a tiny bit of research? Hugely important project! For our Federal State! Just two hours of your spare time, please?
monanotlisa: *suspicious*
monanotlisa: Okay. But not today! I'll be there at 9 am tomorrow morning.

Tuesday early evening. Mona leaves the office at 7:05 pm.

Thus the subject line.

I went straight to the wine store down the street( ... )

1. Crazy!Neighbour is being too true to his nickname again: Another prolonged attack of hysterical laughter. Last night, I had to call him again at 2:19am because all windows of his were open, and the tv was booming at full volume. I thought trolls were confined to the online realms?

2. Searching for "CV" on my hard-drive yields 74 documents. I guess it is possible that I need to delete a few old versions.

mamanotlisa: Oh, don't you worry about your Exam grade -- you have such a great CV!
monanotlisa: Which is not at all like saying, But she has such a nice personality!

My female neighbour came by earlier this afternoon and asked me if I wanted to join her for a little stroll across the main street of our quarter: big local festival. I pondered this for a moment (yes, I ponder, mmkay?), then decided oh, why not; what could possibly happen in an hour or so?

And the rest, as they say, is history. Of caipirinha and daiquiri and 70-year-olds dancing in the street to a live-band playing Satisfaction. ( Evidence. )

( You couldn't make a conversation like this up if you tried )

Yet more announcements (hey, the last post was fannish/ficcish!). Came back a short while ago, read the latest news, and am still severely unamused...but am also still writing exams. So, the short AHAHAH! version:

I won't be be leaving LJ. Not for the time being, anyway.

Why? Or, why not?

( 5 Good Reasons to Stay -- for me, anyway; YMWASV * )

ETA: fandom_counts members: 26118 (as of 5:35 GMT+1) Stand up and be counted!

One of the neighbours stole my newspaper. AGAIN. If I didn't know that the police have better things to do than running from door to door questioning neighbours and playing a few rounds of Good Cop/Bad Cop until the thief breaks down for a tearful confession....

*disgruntled*

Addendum to the Fun Matching Test ( under the cut )

Left work at just before 8pm today and wasn't home till 9pm -- oy, kangeiko, you're not the only one working 11 hours a day. ( Blather )

If your choice of most interesting things since your last post is between the fact you made crème brulée and got a (dripping!) paper cut from a 100-page stack on your desk, then maybe -- just maybe -- you should cut back on work a little.