Archive for July, 2003

Fatal Insomnia

Monday, July 21st, 2003

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I had such high hopes for last night. Sleep-wise, I mean. I collapsed into bed in a state of sheer exhaustion and was still laying there wondering why I was wide awake but dog tired at half past three […]

Time to sleep

Sunday, July 20th, 2003

So here I am at the far end of a busy weekend that has been work work work since Friday night. All I have to do now is tonight’s slot on Through the Night and then I can flop into bed until morning. I’m hoping I’ll sleep right through but I’ve been having trouble dropping […]

Random links

Thursday, July 17th, 2003

Some random links that have been sitting around on my hard drive waiting to be used…
The world’s cutest cat
Books from Amazon:
1. How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?
2. Knitting With Dog Hair: Better a Sweater from a Dog You Know and Love Than from a Sheep You’ll […]

Who is to blame?

Wednesday, July 16th, 2003

I did 300 sit-ups at the gym this evening, which is a personal record.
Elsewhere in the world, the media seems to have gone potty over this stupid 12-year old girl who chatted to a 31-year old ex-marine online. She told him she was 19, and he apparently believed her, which makes me wonder whether he […]

Of days gone by

Monday, July 14th, 2003

There’s only so many times you can write about how hot it is, and how you spend your lunchtime sunbathing in Soho square, but it is truly idyllic at the moment. So hot it’s like being on holiday and it’s only going to get hotter. Tomorrow it will break records, and the day after that […]

Fox and Hounds

Sunday, July 13th, 2003

I never seem to write entries on this thing on a Saturday night, which is why I’m sitting here, Sunday evening, with my headphones turned on and plugged into the ISDN so I can hear what’s going on in the LBC studios while I wait to do my slot, trying to remember what went on […]

Hot, fizzy, open

Friday, July 11th, 2003

The man in the red pants (see 2001, 2002, 2003) accidentally slipped out of his red pants today. Ugh. Sideways through a leg hole in the middle of the park. I’d just finished eating, which is a blessing.
Poor guy. He didn’t notice for a little while, but when he did he tucked himself back in […]

Just like Radio 4

Thursday, July 10th, 2003

What’s the worst thing that could happen during a job interview? Perhaps a fire alarm.
Fortunately I was the interviewer rather than the interviewee, but if it was me sitting there waiting to answer an hour of questions about myself I can’t imagine I’d have been too happy at the prospect of clambering down five floors […]

Stony Silence

Thursday, July 10th, 2003

From Metro:
an academic said yesterday that looters should be shot to deter raiding of Iraq’s achaeological treasures. Prof Elizabeth Stone’s appeal came as it emerged the national museum in Baghdad had lost about ten per cent of its artefacts. ‘I would like to see helicopters shooting bullets so people know there is a real price […]

Poo

Wednesday, July 9th, 2003

Has there been an explosion at the sewage plant?
Chelmsford smells awful tonight.