Dance Party Starting SUCCEED
Who needs the relentless negativity of FailBlog when there’s SucceedBlog?!
Reblogged from: succeedblog
Originally posted on: SUCCEED Blog
Watching Soccer Saturday on a normal-sized screen just isn’t going to be the same any more…
its been announced… two Brits have shared the [EuroMillions] jackpot. Bastards…. I’m not bitter that the best I could do was one number and two lucky stars….
Please let it be the guy from my office on our syndicate.
It’s not so much the not having to work ever again that appeals; it’s the not having to work this Monday…
The amount of unsent emails I write is bordering on ridiculous levels. I get on my high horse far too quickly and type out some seriously lengthy paragraphs, and then think to myself: “this person doesn’t want to hear this. Why are you writing to them as if you know them?”
And you know why it is? It’s because I think I do know you. I think I’ve read enough of you over the last couple of years to have an opinion on your life and the way you live it. I won’t criticise, never, but I’ll try to help you in any way I can, even if I’m the wrong side of the Atlantic, the country, or even just London.
But I never send these emails.
I don’t even save them as drafts. I just write the few hundred words, bang them out as if I was some kind of motherfucking agony uncle, and then delete them before anyone can read them. It probably helps me more to write them than it ever will for the potential recipient to receive them.
It’s me working out my demons, putting my thoughts into words and sentences. I’ve not yet faced the situations which these people find themselves in, but it’s as if by giving them advice I’m also preparing myself for the same situations at a future stage in life.
And then I don’t give them that advice, sentiment or opinion. I keep it for myself, I hoard it, I bottle it up.
How can I then judge the worthiness, the practicality, and the effectiveness of this advice? I’m operating on a closed-circuit, feedback loop. I think that by considering these situations, I’m prepared to face them.
But yet I’m not. I’ve got no fucking clue how I’d cope with a marriage, a divorce, a child, a death. I’ve dealt with some of these things in my 25 years on this planet, absolutely, but there’s no way I can even begin to scrape the surface of human experience.
Yes, I’ve had to deal with a parent battling with cancer (and ultimately surviving, thankfully). Yes, death has been an ever-present facet of my life since I was around 18, and I’ve been to more funerals than I would have liked to have been to at this stage in my life, but this is nothing. It’s fuck all.
And yet I find myself wanting to write, to opine. It’s cathartic, it really is. I’m trying to help someone else, but it’s really me whom I’m helping. I’m looking to experience the gamut of human emotions without facing them myself. I’m living my life vicariously, for fuck’s sake.
And I wish I had the balls to send these emails, but I figure that people can sort themselves out, given time and space. And they do, generally, from what I read.
And I know that I can sort myself out when I inevitably come to face these situations, because I know that people have dealt with them before, and that they have come out the other side, positively.
Hope springs eternal, as they say.
Her first baby come out sideways; she didn’t scream or nothin’
Trains, Planes & Automobiles, one of my favourite ever comedies is on E4+1 at the moment.
Randomly, we were talking about this film earlier at work today, saying that it was one of the those true comedies that stood the test of time. We compared it to Shaun Of The Dead, which is probably the 2000s film which will be one of the defining comedies of our era.
I’ve been trying to think of anything else that has made a similar impact in terms of defining a generation, or at least a period of comedies in terms of film-making, and the closest I can get is There’s Something About Mary, which was utter, utter genius,
Any other suggestions?
My day of sport in the pub tomorrow:
12:45 - Football - Paulton v Norwich
14:30 - Rugby Union - England v Australia
17:30 - Football - Wolves v Arsenal
22:00 (approx) - Boxing - David Haye v Valuev
I’ll be spending Sunday recovering…
I spotted these random little figures whilst I was out getting lunch earlier. They’re on a building on Hatton Garden, at the corner of St Cross St, and I wondered what they were.
The plaque to the left of the doorway explains that this building used to be a church, and then became a charity-run school at the end of the 17th century. That lasted until WWII when the interior got bombed to pieces. After the war it was rebuilt and converted to offices, but these figures (clothed in scholarly garb) were replaced as a nod to the building’s previous life.
Incidentally, Hatton Garden is one of those weirdly-numbered streets you find from time to time. Most British streets have odd numbers on one side, and even on the other, both increasing in the same direction. Number 1 is opposite 2, 3 opposite 4, and so on.
This street however, counts from 1 to around 60 on one side, then from 61 (ish) upwards on the other in the reverse direction. Number 11 is opposite 108, for example. One of those little oddities…
I hoped that the McCracken in this story was Big Ernie, but it was not to be.
It’s not just the Tube map (PDF) that can be a bit daunting for anyone coming to London. It’s also a mystery for many how to get from one platform to another whilst changing lines at a particular station.
Some stations are ridiculously easy to interchange at (Earl’s Court, for example), whereas others lead you on a seemingly endless sequence of never-ending corridors, turning left, then right, up, then down, before plonking you on the correct platform (Bank, I’m looking at you).
Whilst seasoned Tube users know the quickest routes within a Tube station from one platform to another, it is very easy to have no real sense of direction, nor an overall picture of how they’re all linked.
This is why I like diagrams such as this one (found via London Reconnections), because you can really see just how compact even the biggest interchange stations are, and start to piece together the station’s layout.
Yes, I’m a Tube geek.
I hope that this is just one show, because it would be the best show ever!
