Half Eleven On A Tuesday Morning

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Come on, this has to be the bleakest time of the week, the real dark night of the soul.

Unless of course you have any nominations of your own...

― Tom, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

how can it be bleak? i'm reading ILE. anyway 3.30 in winter is worse, when its beginning to get dark already.

― gareth, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

3.30 in Winter is a lovely time. That's when you put Low Birth Weight on the walkman and wallow in the pathetic fallacy.

― Tom, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Half eleven on a Tuesday morning in February, where the weather's filthy and the day didn't bother getting light at all.

― Tim, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

7pm-8pm Monday without multichannel TV. There is nothing on. On BBC1 you have Celebrity Holidy Swapshop with Jilly Goulden and Gloria Hunniford, followed by Nick Ross' "Yes, Crime Happens", narrated by Jamie Theakston and presented in an upbeat jaunty way, because Public Service Broadcasting is FUN. On BBC2 some documentary about macroeconomics in a Cornish fishing village. On Channel 4 there is hard hitting news, but you've probably already hard about it all day. On Radio 1, Dave Pearce's Mix Selector Fag Break. etc. etc.

Come on Clock. The worst is when you confuse what time Eastenders is on and breath a sigh of relief at 7:30. At least then constructing a noose and gallows will see you through to 8.

― Graham, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Give it half an hour and the sun has come out. 12noon on Tuesday - the brightest time of the week.

Sorry, I've been spending much of the morning throwing our religious extremists and therefore have the rare cglow of macho posturing. I rarely get to use my bouncer training don't you know.

― Pete, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Do you throw your extremists by pointing out logical contradictions in their holy texts? Or just throw them off the top of the steps?

― Tim, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Not when you're crazy busy, and no one has asked you to do anything for months, then suddenly 3 things at once have to be finished by the end of the week!

I find 9pm on Sunday night far more devastating. Not enough left of the weekend to really start anything, yet you still clingingly can't let go of your only leisure time.

Of course, now I'm a freelancer, every day is Sunday night. Ah, the long dark weekend evening of the soul.

― Kate the Saint, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

10:15 on a Saturday night And the tap drips under the striplight And I'm sitting in the kitchen sink And the tap drips drip drip drip drip drip drip drip.....

― Trevor, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Five and half hours till ROSWELL hurrah

― mark s, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I just think 8-9pm on most evenings is pretty bleak. Between 11-12.30 today I was messing about with my four track. Recorded a neat song. And sampled REM.

― jel, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I too love the bleak mid winter.

― jel, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I suggested to them quietly that they should leave and that I had seen through their Front Charty organisation and that the International Church of Christ was banned from the campus. I said it in a steely determined way as if to say that if they did not budge I would either go and get big burly security blokes, or start crying. I think the potential embaressment got to them.

― Pete, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That's interesting: what other organisations are banned? Who decides to ban them?

― Tim, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

6 pm on Sunday, when the sky starts getting dark and another long week looms.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

today is the suckiest sucking sucker of a day that i have had for a long time. i am Not A Happy Bunny. and funnily enough, 11.30 was the very apex of the suckiness. how did you know?

― katie, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

8:48 tuesday morning. hopefully today won't be as monumentally shite as yesterday. (it could in no way be.)

― jess, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

uh, 8:56 tuesday morning. stop yer bitchin', ewing.

― fred solinger, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tuesday is the worst, but I nominate 6:30 am, when my body fully realizes that I have to get up at that point for the remainder of the week. Feg!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tuesdays are great as they = cheap film night down at the Showcase cinema.

― DG, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

5.30am on a Tuesday, when you awake from very strange dreams, start thinking about work, tense up, realise you have a hour before you have to get up but you'll never get to sleep and you're completely knackered. And all you can hear is rain.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Agreed on the 5:30 bit. I have only just realised that what I thought was cold sweat on my pillow at half five this morning might have actually been water that leaked in through my semi-skylight window.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Happy Birthday Surprise! We sneaked in and poured evian all over you!!

― mark s, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

We have a list of - for want of a better word - cultish organisations who we are constantly on the look out for. The two big ones mentioned by name have always been Al-Mujheradin and the International Church of Christ (formerly the London Church of Christ). These are the only two we have ever had at SOAS, and often hide under fronts.

― Pete, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i always thought it was 430 am on a tuesday, doesn't get much worse than this...have you been lsitening to the counting crows again?

― Geoff, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Damn you, Ewing! I was already hating my Tuesday morning enough, trudging through Bowling Gift Guide copy, and at 11:30 my computer crashed.

― scott p., Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Born on Half Ten on such a Tuesday morning, bleak or ultrableak?

― Laetitia, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I have nominations. I sa: 3-6 on a Sunday if you are not out down the pubXor or OUT in some way or the other. It's hellish. Time passes slower than someone whot is dead constipated poos. AND ALSO 2.30-3.45 any working weekday. Past lunchtime. Not nearly hometime. Urrghhhh...

― Sarah, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

six years pass...

Any morning time better than any afternoon time?

― the pinefox, Monday, 24 March 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, generally. Though getting home from work before 7.30pm = triumph and therefore joy.

― ljubljana, Monday, 24 March 2008 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link

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