Occasional musings from a Left-coast Canadian ExPat in Oxford.
If only my inconveniences and distractions were as small as keeping a couple of dimwitted wannabe thieves out of my house while I’m alone at Christmas time by rigging up potentially dangerous but ultimately amusing booby traps using toys and household items.
I wish.
Instead, I’ll just adopt the scream and try not to kill anyone who interrupts me for the rest of the afternoon.
Continue reading “Macauley Moment”
This training room is still damn cold. They dangled hope in front of our faces by saying that “there are now three heating complaints for the [bigass] building – so I guess we’ll have someone come in to fix it.” But we are not fooled! And it is still not fixed. What we are is … Continue reading Ice Princess
Oh yah, and another thing… Why on earth do I have to get sick now, when I have no boyfriend to whine to, and come over and make me tea and rub my feet, and grab me in inappropriate places so I can pretend it pisses me off but secretly love how he loves me … Continue reading Addendum
This entry title is a “note to self.” I was asleep before 11pm. There’s no good reason why I couldn’t have gotten up at 6:30 and out of the house by 7:30. But no. Stupid “flex time” bit me in the ass again. I was up at 7:45 and didn’t get out of the house … Continue reading WAKE THE FUCK UP
The office is freezing. The coffee burnt my tongue, and it tastes like ass (extra annoying considering it’s not free). My pants are falling down, because the belt I bought is too big. I’m waiting for work to arrive via courier – until it does, I get to do exciting things like stuff envelopes. I … Continue reading Guten Morgen
Don’t you hate it when you have your sights set on something – and someone else totally fucks it up? I booked a hair appointment for this afternoon, and I was really looking forward to it. My hair is already a bit overdue for a cut & colour – and I DO NOT want to … Continue reading Flopsy
Have you ever noticed that all of the “good ideas” seem to have vanished? Instead of new and innovating products, we are seeing the old and tired junk of yesteryear trumped up with fancy new names. A few examples: They used to be referred to as hotel shower caps, now they’re Saran Quck Covers. Once … Continue reading Blatently Obvious