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i've been out of town...had no access to the internet...i'd like to hear about the GOOD stuff you guys have been doing...

the best thing that happened to me this week was coming back to town and regaining access to the internet ;)

― Megan P, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Watching the Bjork Royal Opera House dvd which is now MINE!! ALL MINE!!! MWAH ha ha!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Blimey it's only Tuesday! All sorts of good could be coming.

Settling on a honeymoon destination was nice. Doing an interview with some really friendly ppl at the BBC World Service. Winning the League Cup in LMA Manager.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

It actually being not freezing cold for band practice last night, meaning our drummer was not in a shitty mood, meaning we played well and had fun.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

well - I got an extra 15p off the price of my newspaper because the woman in the newsagents misread the coupon

that's about it so far

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

If the week started Sunday, then the best thing so far is that when I bought a NNCK CD at their show Sunday, the guy selling 'em gave me back too much change (which I didn't realize until I got home). Kinda sucks for the band, though. The second best thing is that I'm not dead.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

A friend has just given me a copy of the new Echoboy album. That's nice, but I'll give you a proper answer on Sunday.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Rah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Finishing 95 percent of my Intro to Law take-home midterm, and realizing I probably will pass it.

― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh and fuck me I'm forgetting stuff: I got a buncha CDs and some cash in the mail for free yesterday! And my old car insurance company refunded me like $90!

Life's been good to me so far...

― hstencil, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

i bought a ticket to go to NYC again:)

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

The best thing is turning out to be the most confusing thing, but that's always the way it is, isn't it? I requited my crush. Now I bet *he's* going to get all weird on me...

― kate, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, I won the European Cup on FIFA 2002! Yay me!

and I had a good idea yesterday for what I will do for the ilxor 20 things thing.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

and today at around 4:45 I learned to stop worrying and like Andrew WK! His new song, "We Want Fun" is the greatest wall of noise/Ramones/Kiss type song I've heard in ages, and the "kicking your legs in the air" dance is awesome.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

? How in the world could you NOT have liked Andrew WK, Jel? He seems tailor-made for ya! Not me, though. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:42 (twenty-three years ago)

i saw a beenie man video

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Parking ticket.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

(It's been a shit week.)

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

i played with cornelius! (ok i actually just touched their distortion pedal for a second)

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm glad you put in that extra info Minna! What would dan have said?

(yeah, Ned, I never liked Party Hard, I must have been going through a serious phase when that one was out)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Joe Millionaire finally ended.

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

haha jel i think he still has ample ammunition

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I made too much money walking up and down a street for a few hours on Sunday. God, I hope this isn't the best thing that happens to me all week.

No, it wasn't Santa Monica Blvd. It was for a TV commercial.

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

best thing for me so far: managing to make a really nice photoshop montage-style graphic for my portfolio, and if it actually helps in getting me a new job then bonus

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I found out I might have whooping cough!

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

If that's the best thing, don't share the worst.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

No, no. It explains the horrible but not life-destroying cough I've had since, um, since before the tour (coughing much lately, Ned?). It's not fatal, it's just annoying, and it sounds like I have some decadant 19th Century disease! "Whoop, whoop!"

I go to the doctor this afternoon to confirm, but a coworker has been diagnosed and I have all the classic symptoms and so, frankly, I'm excited. I am not crazy! I have an actual sickness! Yay!

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Well that's good. :-) A bit of coughing here and there, yes, but nothing much.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

School closed due to ice!! YAY!!!!

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I got my new and improved credit score from Trans Union. Going to buy a new car tomorrow!

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll let you know when it happens.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

If we mean the last seven days, I had a great evening with some of my best friends on Saturday. If you mean this still-young new week, nothing yet (though I've been performing pretty well at work again, I think) - but then I have a date tomorrow, so things might pick up.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

nothing at all.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm feeeling too overwhlemed with absolutely nothing to answer this question.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know. Nothing bad has happened yet, that's all I'm happy about.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Stevo from Jackass in real life; I played five-a-side football; I had a couple of moments of realisation that I really shouldn't worry so much, and life is actually quite good :)

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 22:46 (twenty-three years ago)

an accidental kiss

― Divya Noguchi (divya), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

i didn't get hit by a car

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:37 (twenty-three years ago)

2nd day of school cancelled due to ice storm!!!

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I did some pull ups!

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Its a bit early in the week innit? I have a potential new flatmate coming to see the place today. Hopefully this will work out well, because I'm almost at the point of eating cat food I'm that broke.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I did some pull ups!

This decade's Susan Powter or whatever her name was?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I might be flying to Australia early next week! (Sydney + Tasmania, if I go)

Yay, last minute travel.

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 06:04 (twenty-three years ago)

How can you come all the way here and eschew Melbourne! *sniff*

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 06:18 (twenty-three years ago)

speaking of melbourne, i just caught the train from there to sydney after a fantastic afternoon. i've been hanging out with this fashion designer guy for a bit and he gave me one of his shirts that normally cost like 150 bucks at genki/fat as a melbourne parting gift. which was a nice consolation for missing the cornelius gig.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 06:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I got a £50 reward cheque for 'retaining' a customer's dodgy credit card.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Sonic Youth - in Japan.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 08:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I posted this on an ILM thread yesterday, but what the hell - when I'm happy I want people to know about it :-)

* * * *

I met for the first time a great and special human being about whose music I'd enthused on CoM (though we'd been emailing/'phoning each other for a while), and...well, we got on more than somewhat; it was a cathartic evening, we poured out our problems to each other openly and unreservedly. Happens that she's moving to London this weekend, and she wants us to be mates, wants to hang out with me, get drunk with me, go to gigs with me (and possibly DO gigs with me, but that's another story!), etc.
In other words, exactly what I've wanted for the last 18 months - a really good friend who's close at hand. And all because I wrote about her on my weblog.

And to think, if I'd done anything stupid last summer, I would have missed all of this...

* * * *

In other words, the best week of my life for nearly two years.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 08:10 (twenty-three years ago)

go marcello!!

my life this week is currently absolute ruin, thanks to thesis, but will be much improved on friday. i live for weekends.

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 08:17 (twenty-three years ago)

that's awesome Marcello.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 08:19 (twenty-three years ago)

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actually the best thing that happened to me this week is really that my band did some recording and so far its been killer... (i say so far cos vocal overdubs are a fucking bitch). mostly i'm looking forward to doing backwards guitar solos!!!!!!!!!

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 27 February 2003 07:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Gf got a job in Ipswich, hence imminent move back to Colchester from Guildford, bought a pair of Mordaunt-Short 906's which I'm running in at the moment and appear to be rather good.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Thursday, 27 February 2003 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Setting foot inside a recording studio for the first time in 15 or 16 years. Where have all the cylinders gone?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 February 2003 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

finally fixed a time to see my phd supervisor and discuss my work (or lack thereof), having realised that not seeing him because i wasn't working was a bad idea, cos seeing him might actually make me do some work. anyway, we looked at where i was stuck and it turned out that i wasn't being stupid *but* on the other hand i can get round the difficultly.

so now i feel way more positive about my phd and maths in general, and i can probably finish writing up my first paper in the next week. result!

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 27 February 2003 12:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Like every other week: being with my boyfriend. :-)

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 27 February 2003 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Going to the local hospital for an appointment with a consultant. YAY!

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 27 February 2003 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

it took me a while to remember, i'm embarrassed to say, but i had num num sushi in the company of my lovely girlfriend and got drunk on too much sake.

and i had chips with curry sauce yesterday.

ace

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 27 February 2003 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Played a really fun show last night with some very friendly and exciting bands. I will see them again tonight cuz my bf is opening this time. Hurrah!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 27 February 2003 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Payday today! Late night shopping frenzy later on!

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 27 February 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

okay today's is WAY better. i got into williams and colgate! how much does that rock! two of my top four colleges. and colgate's got great financial aid. i'm excited.

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 27 February 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

congrats maria, uh oh, williams, look out for spencer!

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 27 February 2003 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I joined a band.

PH34R the consequences.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 28 February 2003 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)

My week picked up on Wednesday, I won a copy of Original Pirate Material and got this (awful) 2002 summary thing printed in an Irish magazine which will remain nameless. I read the summary again and it's ridiculous, I thank my friend in it towards the end. I had OPM already but it was a cd-r and I lost it. Also the other choices were Flaming Lips, QOTSA and something else I was scared of.

Also on Wednesday I recieved Andy K's disco mix cd in the post and I listened to it in the shower, then I got out of the shower and realised I knew and really liked Dirty Talk by Klein and MBO so I played that a few times and danced for a while which left me tired enough to actually sleep properly for the first time in ages.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

My PC which has been playing up is fixed so I can burn Cd's again, huzzah. I've been downloading loads of goodies from Slsk before it goes belly up.

Got the plans for the extension to our house this morning. Looks pretty good. Downside is my record buying's going to be curtailed in the next few months.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Now *I'm* going on concorde!!!!!!!!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 28 February 2003 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Now *I'm* going on concorde!!!!!!!!

Is that such a good idea? I mean bit's keep falling off it.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 1 March 2003 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

last test this semester,

a 3 day Vacation!!!

― rex jr., Saturday, 1 March 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm up for it Billy- I won't get another chance 'cos they'll be out of service in a year or so.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Saturday, 1 March 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi all. I'm new here, just thought I'd take the opportunity to congratulate everyone on their good news/good times, esp. Marcello - makes all the effort worthwhile, doesn't it? Hope the date went well Martin!

― Nathan Webb (Nathan Webb), Saturday, 1 March 2003 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

mine just went sour! Felix cancelled. major : ((((((((((, i was so looking forward to it. : ( once more for good measure. I'm still going out but it won't be the same, I'd never seen him.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 1 March 2003 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

It did go well, thanks Nathan - and welcome. I like her. Only problem is she's a bit busy at the moment (I'm 99% sure it's real!) so I'm not sure when I will get to see her next.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 1 March 2003 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I got an ISSN for my scrappy wee art booklet thingy!

the first four digits are two less than the last four in my new phone number at my lovely new house and the next four are the name of a Chris Knox song I like! Oh how I like getting in with nice ordering systems.

― haloist, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 04:48 (twenty-three years ago)

this instead

― haloist, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 04:49 (twenty-three years ago)

My car is now back out of the shop and it wasn't as expensive as theoriginal estimate - by more than $100.00. And a distant relative sent me a large check - apparently to make-up for having forgotten Christmas and birthdays for years. So Ihave to decide whether to use the money to pay off some medical bills or buy some new books. Probably a bit of both.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 05:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I got some yummy grapes on the way to work this morning. It's been a slow week so far...

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 08:24 (twenty-three years ago)

The prefered foods for my pet tortoise are, in order: fresh dandelions, "turtle grass" (some weird scallion-lookin weed the Cambodian market sometimes has), tortoise chow. If I can't score any of those, I usually get her cabbage to tide her over. A few days ago, while peeling off some cabbage leaves to throw in her pen, it suddenly dawned on me that I *love* cabbage, and I never get to eat it! So I cooked up some of the cabbage I had for the reptile, and ate it up. I'm so smart. (Sadly, this is not the first time this has happened with me & pet food.)

― Dave Fischer, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 08:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I got my ticket for the Celtic v Liverpool game, and my ticket for the CIS Cup Final. And my Belle and Sebastian tickets. And I won a Scalextric set, though I may have mentioned that somewhere else already.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw The Beatrice Arthur Special last night. I think I may be scarred for life, but whatever. Also, I splurged and got the new issue of East Village Inky.

The best thing was supposed to happen today, but maybe it will happen tomorrow.

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Jesus, that's great news, Marcello.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

hmm, vv quiet week so far for me, but i did manage to find 30 grand ish (possibly more) we should be claiming at work that we weren't because of our cocking useless student records system, which made the principal happy when she came in to see us.

in terms of last seven days, friday nite in the pub was tops, as was going to see jackass on saturday.

reading this thread has made me happy :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

i got a postcard in the mail from a friend of mine. :-)

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

another best thing that happened to me this week is that my old best friend from oamaru e-mailed me and said she's gonna come down to dunedin and see my band play on the 21st. i couldn't be happier!

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 6 March 2003 01:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I passed my Pedogagy and Professional Responsibilty exam with a 265 out of 300 score.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Thursday, 6 March 2003 08:01 (twenty-three years ago)

congrats!

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 6 March 2003 08:05 (twenty-three years ago)

i was just approached by random anonymous gay boys, who told me in no uncertain terms that i have "great style". i could do nought but beam back at them.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

and whats more, our dumm gig at the crown got cancelled, only to be replaced by a better gig at the cellars bar with iso12 and the futurians, among others. YAY!

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 04:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I managed to freak out Dang on the "Roll Up The Rim..." thread, and I applied for a new job that pays 65% more than the one I have now, and I'm qualified for it! It feels good to be qualified.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 05:51 (twenty-three years ago)

This week... in fact, people on here being nice to me about my being bummed out. Most people are quite nasty about it. Thanks. Really.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I got to come home again.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I might move soon. The weather is finally spring-like. I'm feeling less anxiety about my job. Hopefully I'll get to hang out with a very cool person tonight, but if not that's cool too.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 18 March 2003 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

SXSW was a lot of fun.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

this *week*? hmmm, let's see. the best thing that happned to me this week was a small medical breakthrough. the second best thing was that someone appreciated me. for the first time in like ten years. it was nice to be appreciated.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 28 February 2004 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

What really sucks is that I got a letter from the government about that job that I applied for that I was so excited about - 6 MONTHS AFTER I APPLIED FOR IT so I didn't go for the test and interviews. FUCK. I could be snowmobiling in the arctic RIGHT NOW.

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 8 January 2005 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Couldn't you contact them re: the extremely large delay in receiving the notification letter, Bryan? Maybe they could inform you of furture test and interview dates and times or something that you might be able to get into... ?

Best thing for me last week: A co-worker of mine is retiring at the end of January and I found out the replacement who'll be coming in next week to train for her job will be a female ABOUT THE SAME AGE I AM!!! This is super-exciting for me because I work in an office filled with women in their 40s - 60s and I NEVER really get to chatting with any of them because I can't relate to them or their lives. I might be able to gain a work friend now!!

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i went to target.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

All I had to do was show up for the test but the test day was 3 days after I started my last job in the middle of the work day. If I'd known how that job was gonna turn out I would've gone for sure but at the time it didn't seem like such a good idea. Very sad.

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

A review of mine actually appeared in Entertainment Weekly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

chris was finally able to move to new york.

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

cool! on both counts!

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

chris was finally able to move to new york.

`Tis about time! Hooray for love!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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