for what are you pining?

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i currently pine for:
1) gramercy park. the leaves are green, the weeping cherry trees and magnolias are in bloom, the paths are raked, the weeping willows are rustling. it looks like paradise, and it's all locked up unless you happen to live around it and have a key. which brings me to
2) the ancient white high-rise building opposite the park on the east side, with two small knights in armor standing guard on either side of the stairway ramp. maybe a place to raise a passel of pampered yet artistic children while running a successful home-based brass restoration business. and finally
3) 22 gramercy park south. an incongruously short and ratty building, brick painted seafoam green. i can imagine living in one of the apartments, worrying about my enigmatic new husband who may have serious skeletons in the closet and evil designs on my heirloom jewelry.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 April 2004 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

First person to say "the fjords" gets a slap.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 April 2004 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, junk. i didn't even think of that!

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 April 2004 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

A time before mobile ring tones.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 29 April 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Lauren, that was fantastic. Wow, what a picture you just painted.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 29 April 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm so in love with the city right now. it's obscene, truly.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 April 2004 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I hear you loud and clear. I *heart* NY. And that's as twee as it's gonna get.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 30 April 2004 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i miss portland. i miss the corn dogs and elephant ears at saturday market, and eating them on the dirty waterfront. i miss the corner window in our room at the governor hotel, overlooking the small roof garden. i miss dandy warhols jokes. i miss the ratty southeast houses obscured by flowers, gnarly weeds, and tall shrubbery. i miss driving aimlessly around "the couv" and seeing the original burgerville sign shining out into the dismal evening sky like a lighthouse beam. i miss the one or two blocks of third avenue that still sorta look like you'd imagine the "real" portland looked: scuzzy, longshoremanlike, westcoasty, noneuclidean.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 30 April 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

1) true love
2) the butt

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 April 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

the Tina Fey look, "obviously"

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 30 April 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I pine for dying evening light filtered through the banana leaves surrounding your porch, lightening bugs and invisible salamanders showing up close at hand, the tinkle of the bamboo chimes in the near-dead breeze and the Cityplace tower lighting up like a birthday cake or some explosive device right above our heads.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Queens

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 30 April 2004 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

- a darkroom of my vewwwy own.
- new knees
- true love with a girl rocking the Tina Fey look w/ a nice butt

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 30 April 2004 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

: )))))))))))

a lot of stuff I can't get

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 April 2004 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Salt air.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 30 April 2004 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"1) true love
2) the butt"

what he said.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 30 April 2004 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

city of London, 3:00 AM, TV license ads ("You know who you are. So do we."). Good times, bad food

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 April 2004 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

'A time before mobile ring tones'

In fact - a time before mobiles.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Friday, 30 April 2004 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

What Stockholm Cindy said

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 30 April 2004 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.edrugsonline.com/globalcart/html/media/6/prod-images/prod-image-large-zyrtec.gif

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 30 April 2004 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Credibility

― Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 30 April 2004 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

A room of my own.

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The sunshine, going home, being able to buy our own house, going on holiday.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i never thought i'd say this, but: "olympia, washington".

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

clearly i need to go lie down a while

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

! Jess you must take care.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The West. mountains, desert, ocean.
the butt (a particular one)
spinach, onion, and black olive stuffed pizza from Giordano's

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Selfrespect! In any measure at all! Also pining for a time when I'll do more on ILX than post oneline whinges

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

- a bbq with good friends and good music and some 40's.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I share milo's yearning for joints

― penelope_111, Friday, 30 April 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The Pines.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

haha strongo i thot you'd said

1) true love
2) with ott

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

gygax otm

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

enough discipline to start exercising regularly & cooking at home more often....

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this thread was called "FOX what are you pining?" for the past thirty minutes.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

apparently, winona ryder has an apartment in the white building opposite the park. silly bitch.
at this second my heart aches for my long-lost copy of the magnetic fields' get lost.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

A nice relaxed party with friends, just chatting and maybe going out for some food.
A practice space with all the instruments set up where one could get together with one's friends and just make a racket and drink some beer.
My sense of creativity.
Bed.
That crazy pizza I used to get at Superstars in Richmond with mozzarella, fresh spinach, sundried tomato pesto, and artichoke hearts.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

lauren, would you like me to make a copy for you? I once thought I lost my copy, but years later, I found the CD in the case for Perfect Teeth.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

woo! that would be excellent. i suppose i should get around to mailing you that copy of more, huh?

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Travel, really. Specifically Central America and Budapest. US vacation allowances suck. I had 25 days when I worked in London, and someone told me that is only what CEOs get here. Of course, I knew all this before I came here. It just sucks.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

winona is in grammercy? I thinks I need to ask my neighbor for some sugar.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

give it a try. she's very free with the sugar, or so i've heard.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I hear that Brits not only get a shitload of days off but get paid DOUBLE TIME when on vacation. !!!
and if you work odd hours, ie 2nd or 3rd shift you get paid at least 25% more than if you worked 9-5.
is this true?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. And they all have tails.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fjords.. Ow! Who did that?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

they also get free healthcare. CRAZY!!

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The first part is what we call "bollocks", oops. The second part could be true, I don't know.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

well it's true for at least one printing firm in Hull.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha. How completely random.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The getting comparatively loads of vacation is true compared to the US, in that the legal minmum here is 20 days a year, rather than 10(?) in the states.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

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@d@m

Take a short, reasonable paternity leave each year. Bring boss pics of new babies. Explain odd religious cult's requirement to agressively 'go forth and multiply'.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

when you start a new job, you generally have to wait a year before you can take your week of vacation.
my friend has been working for the same place for 5 or 6 years, is upper management, and only just recently was granted a second week of vacation. (though he does have another 5 "personal" days)

work week is 35hrs in UK? or was i misinformed? you don't want to even hear about the horrors of being salaried and working 60hrs a week.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

any job I've had in the past 5 years has had at least 2 weeks of paid vacation at the start, including this one.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

35 hours/week for workers in France.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

There is effectively no legal maximum working week, owing to lovely John Major's lovely opt-out of the EU working time directive. I was working well over 70 hour weeks for a non-trivial chunk of last year.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd say you're fairly lucky, hstencil.

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are you salaried, ricardo? or did you get paid (handsomely) for the overtime?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

not lucky, skilled. ; )

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Salaried.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

ouch.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I always miss the view of the stars I had from my old bedroom window.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Orbital Blue, sex, sun, cheesecake, good health. One of these is imminently solvable, two should be done within a few days. The other couple are dependent upon circumstances (almost) outside of my control.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

haha g--ff i kill you with guns

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

is there any legal minimum of vacation days in the US?

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, none.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Thirty-seven year olds. BECAUSE THERE ARE THIRTY OF THEM OH

― chrisco (chrisco), Sunday, 2 May 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

are you jessica simpson's dad?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 2 May 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

the groovefinder remix of satellite of love by lou reed, it's the record of the summer!!! and I can't find it : (

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 2 May 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

my keys, which are lost in the mail :( i imagine them nestled inside a torn and re-taped envelope, sitting in the bottom corner of an overstuffed cardboard box, phones ringing, and feet quickly moving past it

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

cheer up. are you still pining for bagels? i might be able to help with that, and soon.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

dude

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Orbital Blue, sex, sun, cheesecake, good health - Since Friday I've experienced all four!

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

*counts five in that list, dares to wonder what exactly was combined how*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i am currently pining for the sonar festival in barcelona this june. is that even possible?

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

*Nick realises he cannot count*

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

A full night's sleep, some Devo tickets, some sour salt citric acid crystals with which to drain my ailing dishwasher (General Electric swears it'll work) and this...

http://www.studio-c.co.uk/maliciousdamage/graphics/audio4.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Do they do cover versions of popular Supertramp songs on that? That would rule.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Now if I could read the title of that...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

`Tis this...

http://www.studio-c.co.uk/maliciousdamage/graphics/chaos.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Any Supertramp?

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Not that I'm aware of, but hope springs eternal.

"Could we have kippers for breakfast...."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

A dog. I hanker for a dog.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 3 May 2004 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

specifics are so gauche

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Warm legs, a job, a kitten, fun dancing.

― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.morrissey-solo.com/tour/2004/images/lasvegas/r353021538.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Saltwater taffy.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

London Town (the place I'll always call home), the feel that comes of buying truly essential music and literature almost daily, the JC Chasez album, the Cee-Lo album, Kish Kash, lecherous student girls and the people that light up my life, particularly the wondrous girl with the intuitive soul and the looming finals (and the long-term boyfriend).

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Mustn't forget: Starburst Joosters.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

thai tom

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

less pining more inspecifically whistful .... but Moxie and job security.

― The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

1. "hanging out"-style friends
2. a salve to work against my ever-present insecurity
3. good sushi
4. good cheesecake
5. gift wrap (so I can get my Mother's Day gifting finished)
6. someone to talk to
7. a good night's sleep
8. understanding

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 7 May 2004 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

tombot. my god.

― allyzay, Friday, 7 May 2004 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The FJORDS! HA HA!! D'YOU GET IT? I'M MAD ME! Hey but DON'T MENTION THE WAR! NUDGE NUDGE WINK WINK SAY NO MORE! I DON'T BE-LIEEEEEVE IT! THE MONEY, right, it WAS JUST RESTING IN MY ACCOUNT! IRANU! UVAVU! BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE LET'S ROCK! BOSH BOSH BOSH LOADSAMONEY!! I ACCEPT THAT ON SOME DAYS I WILL BE THE STATUE, AND ON OTHER DAYS I WILL BE THE PIGEON! BEREFT OF LIFE, IT RESTS IN PEACE! SUITS YOU SIR! NICE! MY ARSE!

What do you think about death?

― Pyewacket, Friday, 7 May 2004 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

it is crap you should fit e against it as it is the easy way out someties it seems so conventient but it is so easy you need to fite, that it what i think of death , death is for sucka mcs.

― allyzay, Friday, 7 May 2004 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I am pining for a new goddamn job that doesn't make me feel like a pathetic drone that ran aground five years ago while all his peers advanced like a herd of young, nimble gazells sprinting effortlessly across the vast African plains of vocational fulfillment.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 May 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

I'm pining for a dirty no good scoundrel that broke my heart, yet i still can't stop thinking about him, how fucked up is that?

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Pine-Sol™

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone said 'the pinefox'?

― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

leigh, sounds perfectly normal to me.

I'm pining for the third season of Cheers to come out on DVD
and GTA San Andreas of course.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pining for a nice quiet life after I move into my new house.

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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