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Friday, April 30, 2004

Five years ago today, on April 30th, 1999, a nail bomb went off in the Amdiral Duncan pub, in London's Old Compton Street, the gay district. The bomb killed three people: a pregnant woman and two men.
The killer had already placed two bombs before that, aimed at the black and asian community.
He was sentenced to 6 life sentences in 2000.
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fitness

As I was cycling back home this noon (after much aggravation and discovering I've got to change health insurances as well... sigh), I was overtaken by three people. Two adolescents and one middle aged man.

It's official. I have no fitness whatsoever.
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angst

God I love this show!
Since I'm not sleeping too well lately (though this show might be the cause) I've dug out my old Queer as Folk UK tapes again. I forgot just how good and heartbreaking this series was. And how much I love Vince and Stuart.

Vince: You're supposed to ask if I love him

Stuart: You can't. You can't even respect him. He loves Vince Tyler, so that makes him stupid. The moment he said it, it all just died.

Vince: No. it's nothing like that... ... ... ...
Me... though.... I can't be the best shag he's ever had, he's Australian. I don't even know if I'm a good kisser. How do do you know if you're a good kisser?

Stuart: (smugly) you just know

Vince: fuck off. ... It's not as if I've ever done anything.

Stuart: You've done nothing Vince. You go to work. You have a drink. You sit and watch cheap science fiction. Small world. What's there that's so impressive about that. What is there to love.

Vince: ... yeah

Stuart: ...it was good enough for me...


Makes me reach for my hankie that does...
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not the hair!

Well, that's it, my hair's gonna be ruined.
It's raining and I'm continuining my "get a stamp, get unemployment benefits" quest.
If you hear about an explosion in the west of the country, it'll probably be me. Spontaneous human combustion or something. So if I never return: I've loved you all very much.
Aargh.
ready to brave the idiocy.
One two three... Go.
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Thursday, April 29, 2004

Ebay

I found my ex-wife's wedding dress in the attic when I moved. She took the $4000 engagement ring but left the dress. I was actually going to have a dress burning party when the divorce became final, but my sister talked me out of it. She said, "That’s such a gorgeous dress. Some lucky girl would be glad to have it. You should sell it on EBay. At least get something back for it." So, this is what I’m doing. I’m selling it hoping to get enough money for maybe a couple of Mariners tickets and some beer.

See how this lovely man poses in his ex-wife's wedding dress. And read how he tells all about his reasons for wanting to part with it. Hilarious.
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tot tien tellen

"En binnenlands nieuws. In I. is een werkloze gek geworden. Ze heeft een bom geknutseld en die laten afgaan onder de kantoren van alle werklozen-instanties in de stad. Niemand werd gewond. Haar bom-makers vaardigheden bleken immers even gesofisticeerd als haar werk-vinden vaardigheden."

Ik word GEK.
ACV vorige week= "keer in de loop van mei nog maar een keer terug, met een ingevuld formulier"
VDAB maandag="ja, je kan de dag na het verlopen van je termijn komen en dan vullen we dat in" (dag na het verlopen van de termijn = 30 april)
De moeder="ja, heb je de auto nodig? Nee? Ja, je hebt em toch nodig hoor. Ik heb gebeld naar de werklozenkas in R. en je moet alles gaan regelen vandaag want maandag moet je stempelen".
WHAT THE FUCK?
Maar ik kan niet naar de werklozenkas of naar het ACV om "alles te regelen", want ik moet een stempeltje van de VDAB. En dat stempeltje kan ik naar hun zeggen ten vroegste morgen krijgen.
Ik krijg er iets van!
Waarom zeggen ze allemaal iets anders!!
Iemand een infuus valium aub?!
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004

And in a change from our regular schedule...
Another round of Henman-bashing! Wahey!
Tiger Tim in action
In honour of... well, me finding this foto on www.gay.com.
And for the perverts who once found my blog through googling "Tim Henman slash", get help! There's no excuse for it.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004

The Office

BRENT: So, happier now? No looking back.

TIM: Well, I am still eventually gonna go back to uni and do a psychology degree, but yeah.

BRENT: No point, no point, no point. No point.
Sure: 18, 19, go to university, get it out of your system, you know. Waste time mucking around, getting drunk, getting up at midday —

TIM: Having casual sex.

"no point". I couldn't have said it better. :)
No seriously. The office is perfect cringe-television. David Brent (photo) trying "not to be racist" by telling the only black employee how his favourite actor is Denzel Washington. Leaving a woman in a wheelchair on the stairs during a fire drill, because they can't be bothered carring her downstairs. Talking to her like you would to a 5-year-old.
Hilarious, but also very very embarrassing.
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Northern Ireland

All's not well in Ulster...
A survey released through the Youthnet group this January found that nearly a third of young lesbian and gay people in Northern Ireland have attempted suicide because of ongoing persecution and bullying, with as many as 50% saying they suffered some sort of bullying because of their sexuality.
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Monday, April 26, 2004

Telefoon

Merlina: "het is bijna mijn verjaardag eh"

Haar verjaardag is in september...

Soms lijkt ze nog maar 6.


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stamp

Went to my old secondary school to get a stamp.
I needed a stamp on my unemployment form.
The event was less traumatic than I thought it would be. Granted, walking those same old halls was a bit of a trip down memory lane. Hearing voices through open windows was another one. Things used to be a lot simpler then. Or were they? Perhaps it just seems that way, looking back on it. I know I never thought life to be simple, and definitely not when I was in school.
I'm probably just a bitter old lady.
But the secretaries were friendly to me. I can't remember if they were friendly back then as well. Is it the general unease with which I remember school that made it seem as if this was a surprise or were they not-very-nice? Perhaps I was just a whining brat back then...
Or perhaps they were nice and I just melted a negative image of the school in with them.
Sorry in that case.
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march

500.000 to 800.000 women marched in Washington today to protect the right to a choice and keep abortion legal.
Now that's a whole lot of women Bush pissed off!

On another note, a bill is being processed in Michigan which gives doctors and healthcare workers the right to refuse treatment to patients on the basis of moral, ethical or religious grounds. In other words, the right to refuse treatment of gay/lesbian/bisexual patients or anyone with a lifestyle/religious beliefs you don't agree with.
I'm not joking.
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Sunday, April 25, 2004

Adderengebroed

Wel Jong Niet Hetero, de overkoepelende organisatie van holebi-jongeren in Vlaanderen, dient maandag twee klachten in bij Het Centrum Voor Gelijkheid van Kansen en Racismebestrijding. Eén tegen de uitgevers en auteurs van een boek "de Weg van de Moslim" (waarin zou verkondigd worden dat men homo's van het dak moet gooien... discriminatie tegen lesbiennes lijkt me) en één tegen good old Kardinaal Joos en de beweging Sacerdos uit Overijse die een speech van hem aankondigt met de onderstaande tekst:

Er is nogal wat te doen geweest rond de uitspraken van deze nieuwe Kardinaal. Uitspraken over condooms, over de democratie, over de homo's.

Men kan zich natuurlijk storen aan de manier waarop het gezegd wordt, maar wat te zeggen van hoe het er soms aan toegaat in ons parlement ! En als er op TV wordt gevloekt en geketterd en als de Paus belachelijk wordt gemaakt, dan hoort men geen enkel verontwaardigd protest : dat kan en mag allemaal.

Trouwens, als men de Bijbel openslaat vindt men daar nog veel sterkere uitspraken. Heeft Johannes de Doper het niet over 'adderengebroed'? En leest men daar niet over witgekalkte graven? En spreekt Jezus niet over de molensteen die aan de hals moet gebonden worden van hen die ergernis geven?
En als uw hand u hindert, hak ze af en als uw oog u tot zonde brengt, ruk het uit? Neen, Kardinaal Joos staat blijkbaar niet ver af van de bijbelse taal. Moet men trouwens vandaag de boodschap niet verkondigen in krasse bewoordingen om nog gehoord te worden ?

Terecht schrijft Jos Vranckx in de Gazet van Antwerpen dat men zich misschien kan storen aan 5 % van wat de Kardinaal zegt, maar dat hij voor 95% gelijk heeft.

Natuurlijk kan men blijven preken dat we lief voor elkaar moeten zijn, maar dat liedje wordt al lang niet meer beluisterd. Heeft de kardinaal geen gelijk als hij stelt dat onze perverse maatschappij perverse vruchten voortbrengt, zoals zij die tot homo's en lesbiennes werden gemaakt door deze maatschappij ? Adderengebroed ! En heeft de Kardinaal geen gelijk als het gaat over de condooms? Een parlementslid van Spirit wil condoomautomaten verplichten in de scholen. Het gaat om de gezondheid van de kinderen, stelt hij. Inderdaad, het aantal aidsgevallen stijgt in ons land. Dus: meer condooms!? Welke school zou zich immers verzetten tegen een campagne wanneer er een luizenplaag heerst, zegt hij.
Neen, daar moet men zich niet tegen verzetten, maar men moet zich afvragen of die luizenplaag niet te wijten is aan een gebrek aan hygiëne. En daar moet iets aan gedaan worden. Ook de aidsbesmetting moet ons doen vragen stellen over de westerse levenswijze. Niet door condooms, maar door opvoeding tot zuiverheid. Dàt zegt de kardinaal. En hij heeft gelijk.
Ook als hij stelt dat jongeren van 18 snotneuzen zijn als die gaan stemmen, dan komt dat voor velen hard over. Maar zegt hij niet wederom de waarheid!?

Wij zijn blij dat Kardinaal Joos zal spreken op onze Mariaviering van 2 mei a.s.
Wij heten hem en u allen van harte welkom.


Allez, we weten het, we zijn van hart welkom. Let's go.
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Friday, April 23, 2004

I miss her

I've not seen her since Sunday, and I know that's a pathetically short amount of time for some, but I can't help it.
I miss her angry glare when I wake her up, her bitching about me watching TV when she wants to sleep. I even miss her pushing Elmo in my face, shouting "well? well?" whenever I've said something she considers offensive.
I miss the way she pulls my arm around her when we're watching TV, I miss the awful crisps she eats, the way she pounces on me and I miss her giggling.
(she giggles, but don't tell anyone)
I'm picking her up from the station in half an hour. Can't wait.
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ridicule is nothing to be scared of

nicked from what looks to be a Polish site:
Prince Charming
Prince Charming
Ridicule is nothing to be scared of
Don't you ever, don't you ever
Stop being dandy, showing me you're handsome
Don't you ever, don't you ever
Lower yourself, forgetting all your standards
Don't you ever, don't you ever
Lower yourself, forgetting all your standards

just so you know...
Yes, La Pigleta is doing the dance routine and is pepping herself up with this marvelously camp song. And I look gorgeous, if I may say so myself.
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Thursday, April 22, 2004

Zinspelen
1. Neem het dichtstbijzijnde boek.
2. Open het boek op pagina 23.
3. Vind de vijfde zin.
4. Neem deze zin over op je blog, samen met deze instructies.

Men tracht ook een antwoord te vinden op de vraag waarom sommige vrouwen zo gevoelig zijn voor schommelingen in de hormoonhuishouding terwijl anderen er schijnbaar geen moeite mee hebben.
Vrouwen, Humeuren en Hormonen. Myriam Van Moffaert en Marleen Finoulst.

Via Hullabaloo
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aanvraag om wachtuitkeringen - bewijs van studies

La Pigleta is naar het ACV geweest en heeft daar bovenstaand formuliertje opgehaald. En wat voor één. Een kapotgefotokopieerd ouwbollig papiertje, waar het zwart én het wit in de loop der jaren grijs geworden zijn. Daarmee mag ik naar mijn ouwe school hollen (kijk ik écht naar uit) en naar de VDAB ("ah, goeiedag, u heb ik nog niet gezien mevrouw Pigleta"... "euh, nee ik zoek jobs via de site" "aaaah, komt u maar es vaker langs, kunnen we u hélpen" "grmbl") en dan kan ik een uitkering aanvragen. Een uitkering van de grandioze som van 300-en-iets euro per maand.
Da's dan alvast meer dan ik nu heb natuurlijk, en als ik meer wil moet ik maar naar de fabriek. Daar kan ik inkomen.
"En u hebt dus nog NIET gewerkt?"
Nee, godverdomme, zou ik hier anders staan?
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Human Rights

an academic hitOn the news just now they were interviewing a human rights professor. They showed her standing in front of her book cabinet.
And which book cover did I recognise in between all the others? None other than Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
I wonder if she's a slasher....
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004

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Racisten

Het is officieel, het Vlaams Blok heeft racistische vzw's.
Kan iemand me vertellen welke vzw's?
Heel volwassen dat ze de zaal uitgelopen zijn, maar ik had ook niets beter verwacht van hen.
Ik herinner me nog een breed grijnzende Frank Vanhecke toen de rechter zich de vorige keer onbevoegd verklaarde. Nu grijnst ie waarschijnlijk niet meer zo breed. Ha!

Zal het iets veranderen? Nee. Ik denk het niet. Maar het is altijd wel leuk om zien, elke keer hun laagje vernis een beetje afgekrabd wordt.
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I need to move out

For my own sanity.
Whining about how I need to apply for benifits NOW, what I have to do and how they'll divide my income. Apparently my "rent" has gone up again and I have to clean the house tomorrow "since my mum can't".
I just might break something tonight.

If only for the fact that they've made me listen to fucking LimpBizkit... that's unforgivable.
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the search goes on

Out of curiosity, I entered the search term "psychologist" in the VDAB "Get a job!" site. It came up with 16 hits.
16 hits for ALL OF FLANDERS.
piglet moves to Wilrijk
None of which I am applicable for.
Ever since they changed their search terms, I now have to look in "sociale dienstverlening en gezondheidszorg" (social services and healthcare), at least I think I should look there, this gives me 395 jobs in West-Flanders. Unfortunately that includes jobs for "concrete worker" and "operater sawing machine". Eh?
Oh well, at least in a few month's time I'll have unemployment benifits and then I can apply for jobs as a domestic helper. Going grocery shopping for the elderly. Worth five years of university, that. But it beats sitting at home.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004

wisdom

ouchMy wisdom teeth have been peaking out (or trying to) for a few years now, and I can see (at least in my lower set of teeth) them making their way up. Unfortunately sometimes they insist on hurting a little. Like now. My gums don't want to give up their rightful place in my mouth and the new teeth don't want to budge either.
Result: pain. Difficulty chewing. General patheticness.
Rather disturbingly I now have the impression that my other teeth have moved as well, my upper and lower teeth don't seem to fit into each other anymore.
But I am NOT going to see a dentist.
No.
Not me.
No dentist.
Not that I'm scared or anything (ahem), I just don't do dentists.
Ever since I ran away from one when I was 7 (after seeing The Little Shop of Horrors, I might add), we've never been good friends.
So bring on the Panadol and I'll grin and bear it.
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Monday, April 19, 2004

Hullabaloo in Turban Shock!

You might have always wondered about the ethnic origins of Ba(b)loo. Secret visitor of sunbeds, or just the radiation of the colour factory? Thanks to an illustrious fellow-blogger, we now find out that our very own Baloo is in fact Native American (though why he wears a turban is still a mystery).

Lover Atari refused to comment on Ba(b)loo's friendship with "Johnny" and the "special band" he has with his monkey Pampa. He did claim however "he had no idea Ba(b)loo took care of elephants, but it explains a few things".
Piglet will keep you posted on new developments.
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dreams

I had a horrible dream.
I dreamt I was going back to secondary school, to my old school to be exact, in order to get better job prospects. I was going to take my 6th year again.
The curriculum encompassed things such as Danish, Greek (modern), Polish and some other stuff that might be handy for my Eurovision Obsession, and that would be good for getting a job as well (yes, because the Danish community in Belgium is in need of psychologists)
I kept thinking "damn... I'll have to do those horrid 100 days again"...

At least I didn't dream about flying or falling.

And when I wake up, I find out I'll have to become a member of a union (the christian one, according to the mother, because then you don't have to wait 3 days for your unemployment fortune), she's already phoned them (eh??) and I'll have to go back to my old school (prophetic dream! prophetic dream!) to get a paper signed that I did indeed do six years of secondary school.
How logical.
What the fuck is my diploma for then?
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Sunday, April 18, 2004

echt gebeurd

- Dana Winner die tijdens Eurosong, live on stage, het publiek toespreekt met haar eigen onvergetelijke woorden: "hebben jullie al een kippenmoment gehad"?
- Nicole & Hugo die prachtige simultane danspasjes uitvoeren, tot extase van het publiek
- Dana International die ofwel haar tekst vergeet, ofwel besluit een instrumentale pauze in te lassen in "Diva".
- Hetero's. in het publiek.
- Marcen Vanthilt met een onvergetelijke versie van "A Ba Ni Bi", helaas ook een onvergetelijke outfit
- Barbara Dex die nu meer succes heeft met haar "hit" "iemand als jij" dan in 1993.
- Atari die aan het Eurosongen geslagen is.
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Saturday, April 17, 2004

Exclusief!

Wenst u een Hullabaloo avatar?
Een foto van De Man voor op msn? Voor de vele countless Nerd-fora waar U lid van bent?
Look no further!
Hier een paar grote versies van bestaande avatars, voor beter kijkplezier.






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Friday, April 16, 2004

Peaceful and calm

Piglet was truly El Sympathica on the roads this evening.
Despite the fact that every fuckin' idiot seemed to have been on the roads at the exact same time as she, she refrained from killing anyone. She was her pleasant, gorgeous (cos don't believe those god awful photos baloo put online, it's all been photoshopped to make me look uglier) self.
EXCEPT FROM WHEN GRANDAD THOUGHT IT NECESSARY TO DRIVE 50 WHERE YOU CAN DRIVE 70, YOU STUPID IDIOT! OH AND LET'S NOT INDICATE WHERE WE'RE GOING AS WE'RE LEAVING A ROUNDABOUT SHALL WE, THAT'S FOR WUSSIES. AND I HAVE A GREAT IDEA, LET'S GET OUT OF A PARKING SPACE WITHOUT PAYING ATTENTION TO TRAFFIC.
AAAAAAARGH.

But at least I let someone from a parking space get on the road while we were waiting for a red light.
The poor bloke's gratitude radiated off his face.
aaaah.

PS: baloo.... I'll get you back for that.... muhahahahahaaaa
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Thursday, April 15, 2004

breekpunt

Ze zeggen wel es dat 18 maanden een breekpunt is in een relatie.
Nu moet ik zeggen, ik heb het moeilijk vandaag.
Mijn schattie doet enthousiast mee met... Puzzeltijd. Een vtm-sms-belspelletje.

Ze is eng.
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idiots

What a disgrace.
Bush has really outdone himself this time. And who writes his speeches? I heard him say "the most longest" on the news just now... "the most longest". That would cost you grades if you wrote that in an secondary school English paper!
And of course, Tony "I used to be a social democrat but now I'm an American Republican" Blair turned 180° and now deems Sharon's annexation "a jolly good idea". While a few months ago he was very much against it.
Eh?
Care to explain this to me Tony?

Let's see how many suicide bombers will cross the border tonight... and how many retaliations will follow and so on and so on and so on.

I must say I was a bit surprised by the lack of objective reporting this afternoon on the TV1-news. I heard sweetie Wim say something among the lines of "what on earth are Sharon and Bush on about now?" Yes, very objective reporting. Not that I don't agree, but still.

And while we're on the subject of foreign politics... what are they going to do about the many hostages in Iraq? Let them die...? There's no way they can give in to their demands. I was completely shocked by their killing of an Italian yesterday. The hostages must be taken randomly, since Italy did not send any combat forces during the war.
Not that terrorists ever need an excuse.

Dammit.
I feel like I'm in a Looney Tunes cartoon, just waiting for the While E Coyote's dynamite to explode.
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apology

To all the people watching "Taking Lives" in the Kinepolis in Kortrijk yesterday.
I was that nutter who shrieked in the middle of the movie, jumped a metre high and nearly ended up on her girlfriend's lap.
I do apologise. But I hope you had a good laugh on my account anyway.
I know I did.

And the Film Reviewer of Humo is a right bastard. If you're thinking about going to see the movie, don't read his review. He tells you who the killer is. Just like that. Thanks a lot. Jerk.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Maria Merlina

Frans' cave thingieWhilst she was painting the town red yesterday, Her Holiness has not decreased.

You already know of the shrine that exists in the Piglet residence for Maria Merlina.
And of her Muslim equivalent.

Now my infamous neighbour Frans has also acknowledged her holiness. He built a cave thingie in his front garden, especially for our Holy Lady Maria Merlina. As can be seen next to the text.
Bless him.
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attention

If anyone would happen to run into me today, please note that I don't look my usual gorgeous self.
Yes, the weather's getting better, kids are running around excitedly, slappers are looking for the shortest miniskirts there are, and Miss Piglet here has the stuffy head-running nose syndrome.
As usual.
I was woken up about five times last night, looking for nose sprays, nursing a killer headache, sneezing all over the blankets and all over myself, coughing myself awake.
So yes, I am aware of the fact that my eyes are hidden between two swollen eyelids, that I ooze from every orifice I have, that my nose is red and that I sound like someone who's lived on a diet of whiskey and cigarettes for years. If you'll see me next week, hopefully I'll be looking sexier then.
I thank you for your attention and wish you a pleasant day.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Absolutely Fabulous

Found the series 3 DVD for only 11.99 in FreeRecordShop.
I don't know whether to be happy I got it so cheaply or devastated at the sacrilege of selling it for so little money!

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Scary buggers

dublinersYou see these scary buggers?
They're big idols of my parents. "Big idols" in the sense that they've got this one CD and plenty of old tapes, and used to play it as part of the soundtrack to my childhood. This along with other scaryness such as Nana Mouscouri, Harry Belafonte, Michel Sardou and Louis Neefs.
They're The Dubliners.
My parents apparently put the CD in the car stereo and I've been listening to it while driving the Mother around.
Scary how much of it I can sing along to.
Even scarier is the fact I kept the CD in my room in Ghent for a while....
All together now... it's no nay never... (thump thump thump thump)... no nay never no moooooore
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Monday, April 12, 2004

Lynne


I'm a fan of 24. Even of the second series.
But I do have one question. When Lynne fell down the stairs and was rushed to hospital nearly comatose.... what the hell happened to her?
No one ever mentioned her again.
No one asked how she was doing.
And I'm sure she wasn't dead when they loaded her in the ambulance....

Weirdness.
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Go ellen!

goran
It's your birthday
we're gonna party like it's your birthday
we're gonna sip coca light like it's your birthday
and we don't even give a fuck cos it's your birthday!!

Ik dacht eerst aan een leuke Tim Henman foto, maar toen herinnerde ik me je andere grote liefde. Dus is het maar Goran geworden.
Happy birthday. Kusssssssssssss!
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Sunday, April 11, 2004

tired

Piglet is tired.
A day of Efteling can do that to people (full report will follow at sweetie's site the moment I can remember how to log in to WS_FTP. Ahem). We had to get up at 7 on a Saturday morning, oh pathos.
Of course afterwards we were so hyped (from lack of sleep), we decided not to end the day there. I had to go to Kristina's (who lives in Ghent) birthday party, with people I'd not seen since we graduated as fully-fledged unemployed beings. I was a bit scared I'd be the only one there without a job, and would feel miserable, but I had a good time. She's a sweetie. Then Melissa wanted to go to this party in Ghent. Add to that Baloo and Atari's puppydog eyes and the fact I had to give them something back after their putting up with me for the day, and you can guess the rest...
Asked the parents for carkeys. Drove on the motorway for the first time (aaaaargh scary!). Drove around Ghent with Atari and Baloo on the backseat (without them bursting into laughter or terrified shrieks) and managed a truly heroic parking stunt. If I may say so myself.

So now, as my age dictates, I'm dead. I've got a killer headache (must be from the cola I drank), my eyes are half closed and far far away in their sockets, I'm feeling pretty much useless and I can't articulate.
The price one has to pay for a good time once one is over 20!

Then again, on another note, seeing as it's Easter, I can eat the easter egg Madscot sent me 3 weeks ago!
Happy Easter!
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Friday, April 09, 2004

viva la diva

I took part in a very simple competition (easy crossworld puzzle) that you could win tickets for Eurosong Live on Stage for. You've guessed it, a night of Eurovision fun, with performances by many a big Eurovision diva. Kinda like the GLB eurovision. Only bigger. I suppose.
There is one problem though... it's the same night as Ellen's birthday drinks....

Oh, and there is the problem of how to get there as well, but that's not as serious as the first one.
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Thursday, April 08, 2004

De vrolijke avonturen van Piglet en Merlina

Gisteren met Merlina in de auto geluisterd naar de Afrekening vd Jaren 90 (Zonder Roos Vanacker!).
Lekker depressief geworden bij het horen van Radiohead en The Smashing Pumpkins, net als toen. Ik voelde de zelfhaat weer opzetten.
Toen ze bij het nummer 2 aangekomen waren, waren Merlina en ik net aangekomen aan mijn oma's. We wilden echter heel graag weten wie er op 1 stond. Pigi is dus maar op een parkinkje gereden en voor een open garagepoort gestopt, om daar nog wat verder te luisteren. Terwijl Merlina en Pigi vrolijk aan het headbangen waren op The Offspring zagen we dat er een mevrouw in die garage rondliep en ons nogal vreemd bekeek. Pigi is dus maar gedraaid (zonder een muur te raken) en heeft de auto een paar meter verder geplaceerd, nog steeds binnen het zicht van die mervrouw, om verder te headbangen.
Hotel Lounge stond op 1.
Toen waren we klaar om bij oma binnen te gaan.
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Wednesday, April 07, 2004

Doctor Unheimlich has diagnosed me with
Pigletwildebeest's Lurgy
Cause:falling over
Symptoms:embarrassing noises, mildly dry mouth, bladder pain, purple skin
Cure:drink more cola
Enter your name, for your own diagnosis:
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musings

Melissa's indulging in her New-found Lois & Clark tv must-see obsession, so I've finally been able to get behind the computer. Yep, she hogs it. But she does so in a mightily cute way.
I've been sleeping badly lately, worrying. You see, I'm an excellent off-putter and procrastinator (oooh big words, yet they mean the same thing). I know I should do things, I think about doing them, but I end up not doing them. Then it comes back to haunt me when I try to get to sleep at night. Lately it's been about not getting on with the translation work (I've got a really bad tape at the moment and it's very annoying) and not job-hunting to the degree I used to.
I suppose there are extenuating circumstances, my grandad dying, getting my driver's license. I've also become much more selective in my job hunting which is good and cheaper on stamps I suppose. Yet lately I've not done anything at all. I've got the "what's the bloody point" attitude. Anyway, I don't want to bitch about it. I've been promising myself I'll go looking for some volunteer social work soon, to at least give me some self esteem back, and I'm off to the VDAB site right now...
Oooh, and I've got to add "in possession of a driver's license" to my CV. Oh the excitement! They'll be lining up for me now!
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Tuesday, April 06, 2004

Opmerking

Webloggers (m/v) zijn de grootste dramaqueens die er bestaan.
Nog groter dan die individuen die hun dagen slijten op diverse fora op het net.
Waarvan hier een voorbeeld:

quote="xxxx©"/
:cry: :cry: you forgot and I dont have that channels :cry: :cry:

(over of iemand een bepaald interview gezien had)

Moesten we nu es die gigantische stok die in ons gat zit eruit halen en bloggen over onze leuke ergernissen in het dagdagelijkse leven, of over andere dingen die we al dan niet leuk vinden. Bloggen over wat we haten aan elkaar is ook maar triestig.

La Pigleta dankt u.
En beledigt ondertussen dimi's nektapijt, bart vandammes en kips melkgedrink, baloo's nieuwe schoenen, atari's moeder, merlina's superman-obsessie, bruno's bril, cecils mini-gsm, pannies haar, Huugs zwembroek en wouts werk. Want zij valt natuurlijk buiten haar eigen opmerkingen.
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How dare she!

You might know Merlina. She's been staying here for a while now, we get along fine. But today, she did the unthinkable. She pushed over a full (!) glass of my finest Aldi-River sparkling water. Right over my desk! Endangering my vdab-job vacancies, my scissors and pen!
Of course I threw her out of the house and out of my life.
This kind of behaviour cannot be tolerated, it's borderline terrorism!
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Monday, April 05, 2004

shoppingcenters

I drove Sweetie to her internship today, for her evaluation, picked her up again and then we went sock- and knickers-shopping in the shopping center. Dear god. The dregs of humanity had come crawling from under their rocks to spend the afternoon there. Young mothers (and I mean, young), snot-nosed children, people who would get shot by the Fuckfashion employees and masses and masses of teenage girls and boys. Each one more obnoxious than the other. We waved through buggies, prams and old people with gigantic handbags and then fought our way through the rush hour traffic.

I didn't really mind all that much.
Must be coming down with something.
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Saturday, April 03, 2004

Mamma Medea (2)

Medea:
Lijkt onze liefde dan zo vergezocht
Dat gij erover spreekt noch ermee pocht?

Jason
Medea... waarom doe je zo? Dat agressieve. Waarom ben je zo onzeker? Goed, ik ben misschien niet zo stormachtig in mijn... Gevoelsuitingen, zeg maar. Dat is bij ons nu eenmaal niet zo het gebruik. En zelf zit ik nog minder zo in elkaar. Ik ben meer het type van ... Nou, ja... Met de beide benen op de grond. Doe gewoon, dat is al gek genoeg. Maar daarom gaat, wat ik voel, toch niet minder diep? Snap je?

kutboek van die kutschrijver, p57
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Pigi Leert Autorijden, deel 568

Ik weet echt wel wat dit bord wil zeggen. Kruispunt met voorrang van rechts. Zie je wel.
Helaas was ik de praktijk hiervan daarnet eventjes vergeten. Ik had niet goed gezien dat er iemand van rechts kwam en was zelf doorgereden. Helaas was de persoon die van rechts kwam een macho van middelbare leeftijd met sigaret in de mondhoek. Hij stopte ook niet, want "hij had voorrang". Inderdaad. Resultaat? Piglet stond midden een kruispunt stil terwijl de auto van rechts (en zijn opvolger) zich in het zielige doorgangetje wrongen dat Piglet voor hen had vrijgelaten.
Oeps.
Toen Piglet weer door kon rijden wou een auto die uit een parkeerplaats kwam, zich nog voor haar wurmen (wou vast niet achter zo'n zondagsrijdster rijden). Met een prachtig staaltje verkeersagressie gaf ze meer gas en bleef ze voor hem.

Bijna de auto van papa en mama een mooie buil bezorgd.
Bijna Merlina betrokken in een auto-ongeval.
En dat allemaal omdat Pigi geen reflexen heeft om over naar huis te spreken.

Zo getuige ook het volgende voorbeeld van een paar weken geleden. Pigi wil links inslaan en ziet dat er een fietser rechtdoor op het fietspad gaat. Ze twijfelt, "kan ik nog door, kan ik niet meer door", zich zenuwachtig makend in de rij auto's achter haar, maar blijft rijden. Ze kijkt de fietser verschrikt aan terwijl die met een boze blik moet stoppen. In de regen.
Sorry fietser.

Ik heb (nog?) niet altijd de tegenwoordigheid van geest om ook daadwerkelijk te stoppen als ik weet dat ik moet stoppen.
Op andere momenten sta ik soms vijf minuten te wachten om me op een voorrangsweg te begeven omdat ik de auto's die 800 meter van het kruispunt rijden niet wil "hinderen" als ik op de weg kom.
Zucht.
Ik begin me af te vragen of ze me wel terecht dat rijbewijs gegeven hebben.
En hoelang het zal duren voor de pimpmobile door mijn toedoen een blutsje zal hebben.
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Friday, April 02, 2004

PJs

I put on my old, butch blue "save the trees" pyjamas last night.
They're too big for me, about 7 years old (or more) and the shorts look like basketball shorts. When Melissa puts them on she drowns in them.
They're my early spring/autumn pyjamas. The kind I wear when it's too warm for my full length silky-winter pyjamas but too cool for my mid-spring white pyjamas and way too cool for my sexy summer "Betty Boop" PJs.
But it does mean I woke up this morning feeling like it was a nice spring day. Not even the rain bothers me now.
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Thursday, April 01, 2004

Do you like my new look?
It's very classical don't you think...


My body is usually a very interesting canvas of bruises. My legs, my arms and now two ribs on my back. The funniest thing is that I hardly ever remember where exactly I got the bruises from. Did someone punch me? Did I run into something? Get slapped with a handbag? Do I lead a sporty life (a real sport of course) and is that where I get them?
Who knows, I sure as hell can't remember!
So it is with anticipation that I stand in front of the mirror each morning and discover the latest batch of bruises.

Oh, and to the person who gave me the ones on my ribs... Thanks a lot. You try finding a comfortable position to sleep with those... I blame the church chairs personally. Are they intentionally designed to be bloody uncomfortable?
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vdab(2)

Ik heb een tweede werkaanbieding gekregen van de vdab. Per post.
Deze vacature stond ook op de VDAB databank, dus ik had ze al gezien en besloten er niet op te reageren. Om de heel simpele reden dat het voor een graduaat orthopedagogiek is.
Lieve vdab mensen. Een (ortho)pedagoog is geen psycholoog en vice versa. De job die u me opstuurde omvatte het "helpen in de ADL behoeften, budgettering, blablblabla van personen met een motorische handicap".
Ik ken daar niets van. Het heeft geen zin dat ik daarvoor solliciteer, ze zoeken iemand die daar ten eerste wel iets van kent en ten tweede geen licentiaat is.

Ik zou het allemaal niet zo erg vinden, ware het niet dat ik na hun vorige misser een lange brief teruggestuurd heb met de eerlijke reden waarom ik niet op de aanbieding zou ingaan. Haarfijn uitgelegd dat ik iets zoek in de psychische hulpverlening of welzijnssector. Vriendelijk gebleven en hen bedankt.
Nu doe ik gewoon alsof ik er wel op reageer.
Ze snappen het duidelijk toch niet.
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