[sniffle]

[juliet]

I am Unwell. It feels very much as if someone has poured concrete into my sinuses overnight (well, more than was there yesterday), as a result of which I have that pressurised feeling you get after landing in a plane. Plus an itchy-sore throat and eyes, and sneeziness.

Whinge. I am not a good patient on these occasions.

Hence, I am not taking myself Croydon-wards to bid farewell to jhaelan, but am instead sat on the sofa demanding TEA of dogrando & working on finishing kitty_goth's second Kilimanjaro-sock[0]. I was hoping to watch exciting skiing/boarding in the Winter Olympics, but sadly they are showing sodding rugby instead, grump.

Ooh, no, I can watch very erratic & blurry tiny-screen-on-broadband coverage of the luge from the BBC website, it transpires. Hrm. Luge not terribly interesting really anyway.

BMovie last night was fun; good to see people, as ever, & had some nice conversations, although it is a shame that there are several people I only seem to see when at BMovie & thus in situations which render conversation more difficult (ie eg viz noisyness/crowdedness. IMO more pubs are indicated). Headed off at 2330 for Bangface; unfortunately Kitty & I needed a few minutes to acclimatise once we got there, by the end of which the music had stopped being Fun & instead become Tedious. Boo. It picked up again just as K & I had decided that I was ill & he was knackered & we should head home; we stayed for a few min to dance a bit (had I left without any dancing I would have been sad) before heading nightbus-ward. I am informed that the other Bangfacers stayed rather later, & things stayed More Fun after we left. Oh well - maybe next month (when they have Ceephax!).


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Comments

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I shall be coming to Bangface next month! :D

Sorry to hear you feel like p00p! Get dogrando to make you the POWER DRINK innit! MAN I am at WERK today, not actually working on work as such, but doing bits and bobs for fashsix as I won't have time to get it done during the week because of Real Actual Werk. I'm going to head home via Planet Organic and possibly FOPP in a sec though :)

Feel better soon dude!

[dogrando.livejournal.com]

NOBODY is allowed to go to next month's Bangface (A Face Odyssey arf), because it has Ceefax and μ-ziq and Ove Naxx and Scotch Egg and looks brilliant and I WILL BE ON A SODDING AEROPLANE.

The end.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

But think strategically, rather than tactically - if nobody goes, they might not be able to do one the month after!

[juliet]

Pete has indeed made me POWER DRINK although sadly it does not seem to have helped much. Am scarfing back the water as well in an attempt to foil the concrete pixies.

I just watched Hair & it has a really sad end! Dude!

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I think the concrete pixies must be doing the rounds. When I took my left ear plug out last night, my left ear felt similarly blocked.

[juliet]

CURSE THEM & THEIR LITTLE PIXIE CONCRETE-MIXER.

[andyravensable.livejournal.com]

IMO more pubs are indicated

Seconded. Good to see you, but we shall organise time when we are both free for the drinking of alchohol, the righting of wrongs, and the dispensing of righteousness.

[juliet]

A splendid plan, sir; shall email you when I am no longer hosting the abovementioned concrete pixies...

[sneezes]

[angelmine.livejournal.com]

Poor thing :-( Hope the concrete clears soon, I had similar yuck-ness at the end of this week (cheese rather than concrete though) but it seemed to clear after a few days. Drink more tea!

Lots of lurgified cuddles (they're nicer than they sound, honest!), take care of you sweetie

xxxxx

[juliet]

TEA. I am not sure whether the tea is *actually* helping, but it makes me feel better :-)

Hopefully allotmenting in an hour or so will help as well. Either that or I will become lopsided & fall over.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Bah, I am sorry to hear that you, also, are down with the dreaded ill. I have given up counting how often I'm sick this year as it could just get silly. I'm blaming global warming, personally, and I'm not relying on the odd day of not-illness as I know that the minute I go "you know, I feel ok today", I shall be coughing and sneezing and snivelling within 24 hours.

I always miss BMovie these days, damn clashing events! A birthday party earlier in the evening kinda ruled out my plan to do BMovie early and toddle off to ED around midnight. So, much envies and it's nice to know you were enjoying yourself even if you crashed a bit later.

Hope you will be well enough to enjoy theatre tomorrow!

[juliet]

I've mostly been OK this winter, partly I think because I'm given to taking time off work as soon as the merest suspicion of a sniffle arises & thereby Seeing It Off with a day spent on the sofa going bleurgh. This one snuck up on me whilst I was due at a) college & b) BMovie/Bangface, both of which are rather harder to miss than work :-/

Am considering doing a half day @ work tomorrow; will see how things feel by then. GRUMBLE!

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

That sounds like quite a good idea, though if you are still very eurgh, perhaps it would be better to stick with your usual plan on not going in at all? After all, you don't want to infect others, you would just be doing a public service...I don't know whether to pray not to get sick this week or avoid hubris by not praying or thinking about it at all, since I am firmly not allowed to miss any work at all, other than that which I miss because of transport and which is obviously not my fault.

You're terribly brave to go out in the cold and mess about with nature when sick, I would be falling over just thinking about it!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The rest of Bangface was indeed exceedingly good. I think I sat down maybe twice between the commencement of Fun Happy Hardcore and me leaving at 4.30am. Glowsticks ahoy!

[jhaelan.livejournal.com]

*tips hat*

Thanks for the good wishes ma'am

You missed "Dance, monkey boy, dance!" though!

[juliet]

I shall interrogate Kitty on this topic... unless you care to elaborate?

[jhaelan.livejournal.com]

It needs to be seen to be believed, but Kitty should be able to provide a further demonstration ;)

[jhg.livejournal.com]

What's 'Bangface'?


J

[juliet]

http://www.bangface.co.uk/ (warning: makes noises)

It is a Very Silly Indeed clubnight which describes itself as "NEO-RAVE EXPLOSION OF ACID, JUNGLE, OLD SKOOL RAVE, DRUM & BASS, NU SKOOL, BREAKCORE, TECHNO AND ABSTRACT DANCE". General illegal-warehouse-rave type feeling, except for being actually legal (& Electrowerkz prob isn't actually a warehouse). Highly recommended if you enjoy music that goes BOSH BOSH BOSH a lot & makes you grin & jump up & down in an overexcitable fashion.