time to go home...... run shawnee, run!

Boss lady said I could take personal time, no prob, but I sit here feeling guilty for thinking of it. Why? I don't know. I live the farthest away. It's one of the better times of year for me to go.

So I'm all tense and apprehensive, they just shut down a nearby highway due to a crash involving a patrolman, but we sit here all martyred and sweet and loyal.

I'M not loyal. I just need the nerve to say "eff it."

(It's really no big deal, I do have the time I can take as I want, but that's what I do to myself, fret and worry about what everyone thinks except about what I think.) :(

Agh.

You try to be good; you stock up on clothes one- and even two-sizes-up when the thrift store is having a sale. You congratulate yourself on already having a full collection of size 5 pants for the boy when he gets big enough for them next winter. It's kind of more pairs than he needs, but you figure he'll tear out the knees in at least 2-3 pairs when he's wearing them.

And as you dig back into the closet to neatly store them until that time, you discover another box.

A box that you painstakingly packed, and have held onto for years, from way back when your stepson was that size. It was kind of a lot to save at the time, but you figured, boys tear out the knees of their pants all the time, so you might as well keep them all.

And now you have like 20 fucking pairs of size 5 jeans.

you'll get through them.

it's snowing here now.

bah! that feeling will pass when work is in the rear view mirror!

(that recipe was Awesome by the way!)

And when the crazy butts are in my rear view.

Glad you tried the recipe!!!! :)

Well the snow all but stopped so I stayed at work, and the drive home was just fine. Better than normal, maybe some people left work earlier, I know my friend's college closed early.

Alls well that ends well. I worried for nothing, typical. ;)

ahhh but not to worry means you don't have a care! :cool:

Thank you Lamplighter, that's a very nice thing to say. Those are partly observations based on my time as a member of our authority's Children and Young People's Scrutiny Panel, and as an active Regulation 33 visitor (as part of the local councillor 'Corporate Parenting' responsibility); and partly observations drawn from news analysis around the high profile cases, and the various investigations into the care system provoked by those cases. And yes it was written for the Cellar. My particular level of involvement (elected member) is not one that tends to require a lot of report writing.

heck of a lot of report reading though :P

I no longer sit on that committee, but I did for three years. Funnily enough I'm currently posted at the other end of the scale, as a sitting member of the Adult Health and Social Care Scrutiny Panel.

Bloody League of Gentlemen and their bloody reticent agent(s).
I do not watch daytime TV - even though I am currently unemployed.
Daytime TV is for people with very different tastes and sensibilities to me.

I occasionally listen to the radio in the afternoon (Five Live) and sometimes pick up word of the Gents' doings from there. But how many people who get to listen to the radio in the afternoon can necessarily afford West End theatre prices anyway. I can't - I have to save (or borrow from my long suffering bro and pay back, or look after Grandad and have him tell Mum to treat me).

So it was by accident I found out Mark Gatiss is in Ayckbourn's Seasons Greetings with Catherine Tate and David Troughton (yes, Patrick's son) until March.

And by accident I discovered Reece Shearsmith has taken over Andy Nyman's part in Ghost Stories. And yes, I would see it again just to see Reece. DanaC, if he's still in it next time you come down South we really both have to go - you'd adore it. In fact even if he's not in it, I think it's worth scheduling in.

It just grates that I follow JB far more closely these days, because his website is so detailed and the spin-off message boards so well-modded (no "OMG he is so fit!!!!!!!!" posts) that it's really easy. Following the League used to be a sneaky pleasure, but when you have limited time/ access it's tricky to keep up.

Humph.
Bet I wouldn't even know if they were touring again.

Derren Brown isn't much better.
But at least he has a fairly up to date website.
He's gay too, Dana, don't know if I mentioned :)

Just to wet your whistle, and because he's not on our screens enough right now, here is the devilish Mr Shearsmith

I do love his accent. even when he is being posh for interviews.
Might have to go find some Jeremy Dyson interviews now - he has the sexiest accent out of the four of them (Leeds).

My own inertia is irritating me.

proper lancs accent is my fave. Burnley or Rawtenstall way. Much softer than the manc accent. slightly softer than the Bolton accent, though old style Bolton was lovely, with its soft burr. These days Bolton is veering more to the manc accent, with its harsher, more clipped tones.

Here's a clip of Jane Horrocks. Best example I could find of a Rawtenstall accent:



I also love the Leeds accent. And the Sheffield accent:

Jarvis Cocker, I love the way he speaks (Sheffield accedent):

Rawtenstall: dry ski slope. The memories....

Ahehehe. yah. My cousins lived there for a little while.

Just a hop skip and a jump from sunny Bolton.