Today I met the best Big Issue seller. He was a happy rasta guy with long dreads and a gold front tooth, and he was wearing an orange and yellow checked jacket, yellow trousers, and a tall velvet tophat.
Um...what day is it?
Right.
Sunday I got to work the mental Chinese party again, 12-4am, they insisted that ALL the lights be turned off and the sign we can't switch off had to be covered over, they played ear drum shatteringly loud techno computer game music, and the DJ was dealing many many drugs to them all. Trying to understand an incredibly wasted Chinese person with limited English in a club so loud you can't hear ANYTHING above the bizarre music is very very difficult. Also, 'Fosters', 'vodka', 'tequila' and 'water' all sound exactly the same in those circumstances.
It made it easier that mostly people bought bottles - 10 at a time. We also beat our record, I think last time our highest was 18 bottles or something at a time, this time a guy came over and ordered 44 bottles of Carlsberg. Also, once they had drank all the beer, they started on tequila shots, 20 at a time. And ice lady was back - she just comes over and asks for an ice cube. Over and over again. and if you try to give her a glass of ice, thinking it would save her the bother of keep coming back, she gets annoyed and shouts "NO NO - ONE!"
Also I found I am known as 'coffee lady' by a bunch of them who recognise me from always buying ginseng coffee from their shop.
And, the best bit is that they had a really nice cake again, and none of them ate any because they were all speeding their tits off, so we got to eat it. Or rather, I did. Picking off the fruit and just eating the sponge and cream. mmmm....*drools*
After the Chinese party, I always feel that life can't get much more bizarre. And they always try to prove me wrong by putting a really strange band on the next night. Last time it was a bunch of blokes dressed as hillbillies singing songs about fucking their cousins, this time we had Dinomania
Annoyingly my camera, which is always in my bag, had been removed earlier in a fit of "I'm not carrying all this crap around with me all the time - I never use it anyway", and of course I needed everything I took out at some point that day. So unfortunately I couldn't get any pictures of the fabulous mutantdinosaur freaks.
I've decided to go home on Friday because I'm going a bit mental from boredom and being woken up at 7am after only a couple of hours sleep EVERY BLOODY DAY, and having builders everywhere (actually, only today has it been real builders, generally it's just posh alistairs posh parents faffing about peeling paint off doorframes, but either way it means I get woken up and I have to actually get dressed before I leave my room).
But I get to change my tongue bar tomorrow, and I have my heart set on this little skull and crossbones ball for the end
I have to stop buying crap off ebay, as I have no money and now I won't be at work for ages so I really have no money. I also spent money today, but I mean I need to eat. And read.
On that note I'm off to eat everything in sight.
Um...what day is it?
Right.
Sunday I got to work the mental Chinese party again, 12-4am, they insisted that ALL the lights be turned off and the sign we can't switch off had to be covered over, they played ear drum shatteringly loud techno computer game music, and the DJ was dealing many many drugs to them all. Trying to understand an incredibly wasted Chinese person with limited English in a club so loud you can't hear ANYTHING above the bizarre music is very very difficult. Also, 'Fosters', 'vodka', 'tequila' and 'water' all sound exactly the same in those circumstances.
It made it easier that mostly people bought bottles - 10 at a time. We also beat our record, I think last time our highest was 18 bottles or something at a time, this time a guy came over and ordered 44 bottles of Carlsberg. Also, once they had drank all the beer, they started on tequila shots, 20 at a time. And ice lady was back - she just comes over and asks for an ice cube. Over and over again. and if you try to give her a glass of ice, thinking it would save her the bother of keep coming back, she gets annoyed and shouts "NO NO - ONE!"
Also I found I am known as 'coffee lady' by a bunch of them who recognise me from always buying ginseng coffee from their shop.
And, the best bit is that they had a really nice cake again, and none of them ate any because they were all speeding their tits off, so we got to eat it. Or rather, I did. Picking off the fruit and just eating the sponge and cream. mmmm....*drools*
After the Chinese party, I always feel that life can't get much more bizarre. And they always try to prove me wrong by putting a really strange band on the next night. Last time it was a bunch of blokes dressed as hillbillies singing songs about fucking their cousins, this time we had Dinomania
Annoyingly my camera, which is always in my bag, had been removed earlier in a fit of "I'm not carrying all this crap around with me all the time - I never use it anyway", and of course I needed everything I took out at some point that day. So unfortunately I couldn't get any pictures of the fabulous mutantdinosaur freaks.
I've decided to go home on Friday because I'm going a bit mental from boredom and being woken up at 7am after only a couple of hours sleep EVERY BLOODY DAY, and having builders everywhere (actually, only today has it been real builders, generally it's just posh alistairs posh parents faffing about peeling paint off doorframes, but either way it means I get woken up and I have to actually get dressed before I leave my room).
But I get to change my tongue bar tomorrow, and I have my heart set on this little skull and crossbones ball for the end
I have to stop buying crap off ebay, as I have no money and now I won't be at work for ages so I really have no money. I also spent money today, but I mean I need to eat. And read.
On that note I'm off to eat everything in sight.
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*goes to research pirate cakes* Although, I did get the paperback of Forever Summer by Nigella in the post while I was away. I want to make lots of it.
Strange, I usually bring back that "Winterfresh" TCP gum. Big Red? I will try some.