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Welcome
welcome to the first (and quite possibly the last - I have the attention span of a gnat) entry in my sparkling new weblog.
I've just got to work (20 minutes late), and I haven't done anything more constructive than check my email. A day of adventure is open ahead of me yawning like the foetid maw of hell. I'll fill you in on the action as it comes.
Coming up next: I think I might go and get myself an orange juice.
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15.7.03 10:17
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Juice
Mission accomplished! Have returned to my desk with a small glass of orange juice. Already I feel its vitamin-C rich goodness suffusing my body, granting me strange new powers, or at the very least staving off the effects of scurvy. More soon!
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15.7.03 10:20
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The Hypothesis
Not long ago I saw an empty cola bottle bouncing down an up escalator. As the bottle bounced down the steps it was also being pushed up by the movement of the mechanism. Although it didn't last too long I did notice that it took a lot longer to get to the bottom than on a conventional staircase. I wondered if it would be possible to get a bottle to fall down an escalator forever, but considered the random nature of its bouncing would make it highly improbable. But then I turned my mind to other things well known for their stair-decending capabilities - slinkys!
So was the slinky experiment born: I would make it my life times work to find the perfect slinky/escaltor combination that would allow a slinky to 'slink' forever, moving down the stairs at the exact rate that the escalator raised it.
Phase one of the experiment was completed last weekend: aquire slinky. Now I face the next stage - finding an escalator empty enough to test it on without looking like a nut.
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15.7.03 11:23
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A sense of impending doom...
Well, I still haven't really done anything (aside from checking my email about a hundred times, and always having an empty inbox) since getting here, and as is usual at this time of day I wonder if I'm gonna get sacked sometime soon. I was going to have a big project that was going to take me like a month to get doen, but now the guy opposite me did it in a few days so I've got nothing to do. I don't mind too much, 'cos it was going to be quite hard, but if I'm not doing anything I do feel a little nervous.
I guess I should think of something to do - show some initiative. But I can't think of anything. Or perhaps I can't be bothered. I'm concerned that I am inveterately lazy. I wondered the other day if laziness might be genetic, and if so whether I could claim a disability benefit because I couldn't work. And I'd get special parking, so I didn't have to walk so far to get to the super market. I liked the idea, but I thought that might also make me rather unpopular. Perhaps I will write to my MP posing as a top genetisist...
I wonder if writing a blog entry looks anything like work to people lookig over my shoulder from far away? I hope so..
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15.7.03 11:56
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Cookies
I just ate a whole packet of maryland choclate chip cookies. I'm sure I should feel some sort of guilt/remorse. Actually just feel full.
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15.7.03 15:01
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home time
Day 2 of my 'blog' and I'm already falling behind in my entries. Perhaps the fact that I can only blog at work is acting as an inhibitant... Tho' I did spend most of the day on the internet anyway, so I guess that excuse won't wash. And now I gotta go, but I promise to do better tomorrow and recap all the gaps. Here's a teaser though: barbecue and McVities chocolate digestives
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16.7.03 18:48
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Tummy Rub
Back at work again (15 minutes late). Breakfast: 3 McVities milk chocolate digestives (left over from yesterday) and a glass of orange juice. Have done no work all day, and it's almost time for lunch. Spent about an hour talking about university (most of us here went to bournemouth), then another half hour mailing a girl also from bournemouth who contacted me out of the blue. I have been offering a lot of sage advice from my 'vast well' of experience. I'm not particularly sure I really helped anyone, but the feeling that I might have done some good is like a warm friendly rub on the tummy. I am so smug.
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17.7.03 12:48
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