Author Topic: Workshop Booze Up VII - New Year, Same Plague, Same Booze Up, Deja Vu  (Read 150568 times)

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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - Welcome to the Twenties!
« Reply #465 on: January 27, 2020, 10:48:34 AM »
And the university computer system failed to register me so I couldn't do the exam, so I've gone home and hid under a blanket feeling pretty wretched instead :( Not the best of weeks.
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - Welcome to the Twenties!
« Reply #466 on: January 27, 2020, 12:43:07 PM »
Oh no! Very annoying  :(

Are you able to re-register, or sit it at another time?

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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - Welcome to the Twenties!
« Reply #467 on: January 27, 2020, 01:47:24 PM »
Yeah, second sitting is in a month so it's not world-ending. Just really really miserable at a time when I desperately need to not have so much stuff hanging over my head.  :(
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - Welcome to the Twenties!
« Reply #468 on: February 01, 2020, 02:21:13 AM »
Urgh the worst to get worked up for nothing D:
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - Welcome to the Twenties!
« Reply #469 on: February 02, 2020, 12:49:14 PM »
I'm just knackered now. Still got this exam yet to come, got to start marking final projects and also get on with writing next semester's course which I have no idea about. And I broke a plate today, and I still don't have a working washing machine.

I'm trying to write a bit today, my writing group is doing an anthology again and I'm trying to do a short story for that but I'm feeling pretty uninspired.
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - Welcome to the Twenties!
« Reply #470 on: February 04, 2020, 05:06:50 PM »
A logical premise my brain assembled today:

Axiom: Friendship is magic
Axiom 2: Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic
Conclusion: Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from friendship.
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - Welcome to the Twenties!
« Reply #471 on: February 07, 2020, 08:36:28 PM »
I have a new washing machine! It is capable of washing clothes! Huzzah!*


EDIT: I realise I should really say that I presume it's capable of washing clothes, based on its now proven ability to wash other similar fabric items. I have however only done bedsheets so far so who knows, it may object to clothes in unexpected ways when I try that.
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - Welcome to the Twenties!
« Reply #472 on: February 08, 2020, 11:48:22 PM »
Yay! Happy laundry processing!

Meanwhile, I have found a new time-sink, in the shape of a Thomas Cook European railway timetable from 1989. I am finding it all too fascinating to compare the rail networks and services of 31 years ago with the current ones. A great deal has changed, mostly for the better - rail services have become faster and more frequent in many parts of Europe. Even the timetable book itself now shows more routes, more trains and more stations.
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - Welcome to the Twenties!
« Reply #473 on: February 19, 2020, 12:59:42 AM »
I like trains.

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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - Welcome to the Twenties!
« Reply #474 on: February 19, 2020, 03:49:40 AM »
Speaking of trains, I think I'm going to visit Bratislava next month. :D
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - Welcome to the Twenties!
« Reply #475 on: February 19, 2020, 12:35:14 PM »
Are you still coming to Canada sometime in the future Wolfman? ;D

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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - Welcome to the Twenties!
« Reply #476 on: February 20, 2020, 09:35:14 PM »
That was the initial plan.

I will try to squeeze in a visit on my third or fourth year, but it also depends on available funding at the time.
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - Welcome to the Twenties!
« Reply #477 on: February 20, 2020, 10:51:49 PM »
I'm signed off work ill this week. Feeling very very tired more than anything.
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - Welcome to the Twenties!
« Reply #478 on: February 25, 2020, 12:40:44 AM »
Watching some classic eps of Unsolved Mysteries. The soundtrack... Robert Stack's voice... still scares the armadillo out of me. It's funny reading the comments that so many others are also traumatized from watching this as kids. We can't help but feel like a murderer, ghost, or alien is right behind us while watching. :')


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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - Welcome to the Twenties!
« Reply #479 on: February 25, 2020, 10:57:08 PM »
Mm, not a programme w have in the UK, but I definitely get the thing of there being bonus chills from a soundtrack that really affected you as a kid.

(Like for me, pretty much no show opening will ever get more dramatic than Gerry Anderson's Stingray, largely due to nostalgia bonus).
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