Der Himmel über Berlin

No Bloscars for me... Anyone with advice? Everything's connected properly, didn't change any setting or anything...very frustrated indeed.

Aha! Those feeling of unfulfillment have been temporarily banished.

Their conqueror? A little piece of paper that tells me I am registered for a new German course, starting at the end of March, three hours thrice weekly, running until June.

No, it's not a well-paid translation job, or a lucrative teaching position. But who needs money when one can have a head full of grammar?

So nittygritty is off all this week. The other German member of the Support Team, Blaubeerina, is part time and isn't in yet.

Leaving me and Philippe in charge of all Support.

And the phone just rang.

We looked at each other. Both unwilling to answer.

Looked around. Everyone else is making their own phone calls, or speaks less German than us.

So if the phone rings again, I have to answer it. AND SPEAK GERMAN ON THE PHONE.

I forgot to put that one on my list of phobias. I get incredibly nervous when speaking to someone I don't know on the phone. Add in language difficulties, and I am a blibbering wreck.

Blaubeerina will be in in an hour. I'll be hiding in the toilet til then.

Oh, and if any of you bastards decides to call the Support number to freak me out, I WILL DELETE YOUR SADISTIC ASS.

1. I have thought about almost nothing else but this for the past three days.

2. Now that I’m writing it, I can hardly think of the million things I though of

3. I can touch type (kinda) on my computer in blog HQ but not on my laptop at home

4. Until today, I was disappointed at the lack of hot females in my gym

5. I only joined the gym to get into shape for my assault on Mont Blanc in September

6. I am a little overweight, and I never cared until recently

7. In fact, I have developed a quite shocking amount of insecurities since a certain break-up

8. Which depresses me

9. Which means I need to break out of this vicious circle

10. I think I am handsome, but I don’t know if I actually am

11. In general, I think I entertain people more than they entertain me

12. The Blue Brothers soundtrack has just come on again, that’s very strange

13. When I was a kid, I was a decent goalkeeper. When I say decent, I mean that I was always the first-choice goalkeeper for park kickarounds. Never could have made it with even the shittest of teams, even though I like to think I would have

14.I bought a washing machine this week, and it doesn’t work

15. I wasn’t particularly surprised at that. I think that this apartment is cursed. My life has just got shitter and shitter since the day I moved in here

16. I have three calendars hanging up in my apartment, and another that I just can’t find a space for

17. When I went to the Tatra Mountians in southern Poland last summer, the feeling that I got when I saw them for the first time was exactly the same feeling I get when I’m in love

18. There’s a card on my desk from my mother that she sent me at Christmas. It has a picture of a monkey in a Santa hat on the front with the caption “ Son, there’s only one of you…” Inside it continues “…but that’s OK because one is about all we can handle”

19. I bought a big bag of compost yesterday. At the weekend I’m going to finally repot my plants and sow some tomatoes and chillis.

20. I am finding it hard not to write utterly depressing things

21. Before I lost my virginity, on at least two separate occasions I brought a girl home with me without realising she wanted to sleep with me

22. I won’t mind very much if I die on Mont Blanc, as long as it is on the way down

23. My plants are called Bruno and Sidney

24. I am in the process of making one of the biggest decisions of my life so far

25. I am often afraid of seeming terribly melodramatic in front of people who are older and wiser than me

26. I don’t really care, I think that the pain I feel is more than anyone else in the world has ever felt

27. I got a new phone less than a year ago, and it constantly bothers me that the screen is already all scratched

28. I told one lie in my last 100, because I wanted it to be true

29. I am only person in my direct family that can carry on my family name. This is due to extreme terminal bachelorhood amongst the males on my father’s side

30. I think one or more of them may be/may have been gay, but could not come out because they would have been ostracised completely

31. I despite cucumber with all the power of hate in my body, and if I am served them in a restaurant, I cannot eat until someone has taken them off my plate

32. I don’t like cats, and they don’t like me

33. I sometimes wonder which of my parents would survive better without the other

34. They day one of them dies will put everything in my (currently) silly little mind into perspective

35. I expect people to understand exactly what I am thinking, and get frustrated when they don’t

36. I often have to hold myself back from shoving people who walk slowly on the footpath out of my way

38. The last person I had sex with told me it was the worst sex of her life

39. The person before that told me it was the best

40. I believe both of them, because the same was true for me in both circumstances and I told them so

41. I have never had a one-night stand and I probably never will

42. I am fiercely loyal to my family and friends, and I expect the same in return

43. I’m hungry and should eat something before I go to teach in half an hour. I’ll get to fifty first.

44. I wrote something here and deleted it again as I don’t want anyone to know it

45.Cooking stresses me out. I don’t multitask well.

46. I didn’t know what the phrase ‘to give head’ meant until recently

47. I didn’t make it to fifty before going to class

48. When I was a kid, the family dog used to have an enormous humping problem. In my innocence, I thought he was hugging me, and told everyone that our dog was so smart that he could hug

49. Every month since its inception, my blog has increased in pageviews. I am very flattered by that

50. I don’t think anything I write here is boring

51. It genuinely bothered me to hear people apologising for how boring their 100s were, as I found all of them fascinating

52. I once injured myself really badly during sex

53. I used to be an altar boy

54. I went to an all-boys Catholic school

55. I didn’t notice girls until I was 17, mostly because the only ones I knew were my sister and my mother

56. I once beat a German singing a German song in Playstation SingStar, and was very proud of myself

57. I cry more than any other male I know, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing

58. I had to go to mass every Sunday until I was 17. Now I only go on Christmas Day, just to see if anything has changed. It never does

59. I hate that Ireland was so backwards up until about fifteen years ago, and I blame the Catholic Church for it

60. I used to be very patriotic, now I think I prefer to consider myself ‘European’ rather than ‘Irish’

61. That said, if anyone started dissing Ireland without having solid reasons to back themselves up, I would defend it very strongly

62. I am stinkingly jealous of children who are brought up bilingual

63. I have never been skiiing

64. I hate walking barefoot, especially if the floor isn’t clean

65. I really don’t like feet in general

66. The sound of someone biting their nails makes my skin crawl

67. There are two people in the world who have promised me that they will call me if they are ever about to commit suicide

68. My left leg is slightly longer than my right

69. Mmm, yes please

70. I don’t know my parents very well at all, they rarely talk about their lives before my sister and I arrived. I know I will regret not asking them more when they are gone, but I am afraid to

71. I think I revolted against the lack of openness – I tell everyone just about everything about me, whether they want to hear it or not

72. I once met Damien Rice, and he was a fucking asshole

73. I saw Damien Rice’s tour bus driver fall and break his ankle

74. All of my grandparents bar one died before I was born. The other died shortly afterwards. My sister assures me she was not a pleasant person, and I believe her

75. Despite that, my mother is the most wonderful person I know

76. I’m in a much better mood today that I was yesterday, and I think that is visible – 1-47 were yesterday, 48-100 today.

77. Once, while making dinner with my sister, she told me to make sure not to break any wineglasses, as they belonged to her roommate. Ten seconds later, I accidentally smashed one

78. When she said it, I told her not to tell me fucking stupid things like that, of course I wasn’t going to break one

79. I swear a lot. A lot. In front of everyone. Parents, bosses, students, everyone. Makes it hard for me to tell kids to stop swearing, since they probably learned it from me in the first place

80. I have enormous problems with authority. Every job in Ireland involved me getting sacked, walking out or having frequent arguments. I find Germans to be much more respectful employers, they definitely don't ego trip in positions of power like Irish people do

81. I hate people telling me what to do

82. I spent four months working as a gardener and it was wonderful. The job ended when my boss started shouting at me because he was in a bad mood, I started shouting back. He started smashing his own machinery in rage and his mother had to hold him back from throwing stones at me as I was walking away.

83. I have been both a video store guy and a music store guy

84. There is only one secret in the world that I care enough about to keep

85. It’s not that I gossip, most people’s secrets seem trivial to me and I forget that I shouldn’t tell anyone

86. If I don’t understand a film or a book, I think anyone who does is a fucking lying wanker who is trying to seem more intelligent than they actually are

87. I don’t like it when people are better at something than me, unless I have no interest in it

88. I think my hair looks just as good short as long

89. I had headlice three years ago, and a few times as a child. They only move into clean heads

90. I shower every day, sometimes twice but I often smell bad. I don’t really mind

91. Someone wrote that they love the smell of freshly blown-out candles, and it reminded me that I do too

92. People often think I’m gay. I’m not

93. I have never cheated on a partner, and never will. No one has ever cheated on me either

94. I once made out with a girl when her boyfriend was in the next room, and didn’t feel bad about it at all

95. My favourite saying is “The only mistake you can make is one you don’t learn from”

96. My likes and dislikes are very extreme. I am far more likely to describe something as ‘the best thing in the world ever’ rather than pretty good. This freaks people out

97. I am kinda sad that I am nearly finished, and I think I probably shouldn’t waste this one on saying that but I am going to

98. I only watch TV for football (bloody hell, is that the first time I mentioned football? Unbelievable!)

99. I can be amazingly tight at times, but I love giving presents to people and often spend stupid amounts of money on them

100. My parents told me that I used to eat worms when I was really small, but I don’t believe them

Phew. That was fun.

There is a guy in my apartment as I write, trying to fix my washing machine that I bought four days ago. It blew the fuse the first time I used it.

In the twenty minutes that he has been here, he has managed to:

-make me believe I don't speak German
-refuse to speak slower or more clearly or remove his stupid Berlin accent
-flood my bathroom
-convince me that the plug in my bathroom was at fault
-make me carry the fucking heavy bastard machine into the kitchen to prove himself right
-tear a hole in my kitchen lino
-flood my kitchen
-blow the fuse in the kitchen
-ask me, with a look of utter confusion on his face, 'so what could the problem be?'

He's on the phone now, presumably calling Batman or Superman or someone for help.

Updates to follow. Unless I murder him and throw his body out on the roof through the hole that is still in my ceiling.

This apartment is definitely cursed.

1. What was the last thing you cooked?
Scrambled eggs with sundried tomatoes and toast, this morning for breakfast

2. What was the last thing you tried on?
You mean before purchasing? Hmm, tricky, I hate clothes shopping. Probably something in Dunnes Stores when home in Ireland over Xmas.

3. What was the last thing you purchased on credit?
Nothing. I hate being in debt and would rather do without something than buying on credit.

4. What was the last thing you put a postage stamp on?
I wish I could say 'my ass' or something interesting, but I imagine it was the letter to my landlord telling him what a twat he is just before Christmas.

5. What was the last thing you took a photo of?
The Grand Hotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary, Czech Rep last weekend. Casino Royale was filmed there. The photo came out like shit so I'm not going to post it.

Tagged by Nick.

I. You have to look up page 123 in the nearest book to you.
II. Look for the fifth sentence.
III. Then post the three sentences that follow the fifth sentence
IV. Tag five people to do the same.

My nearest book is a combination of Poor Folk and The Gambler by Dostoyevsky. (Really glad that that one was just slightly closer to me than a big book of football statistics

Also, you have depressed my spirits with your fears for the future. Daily I pray to God on your behalf. Ah, how I pray to Him!...Likewise, have you any wollen stockings to wear, and warm clothes generally?

I tag Soy, Sally, Landers, sweetladyjane and dafter.

You know where.

1. I am drinking while doing this, and therefore might be more blunt than I would like
2. Every beer that I have drunk so far tonight has been opened by a table tennis paddle
3. I checked the third form for the verb 'to drink' before I wrote the above sentence, as I wasn't sure if it was 'drank' or 'drunk'
4. I could do that as I have a lot of grammar books scattered around my living room
5. My living room has a large stain on the roof caused by water damage
6. As does my hallway
7. As does my kitchen
8. As does the room where my roommate lives, as well as a hole, which has existed since early December 2007
9. I haven't paid rent for January because of this, and I won't until it is fixed, which is very much against German law and may result in my eviction
10. I don't really care, as this apartment depresses me
11. I have always wanted to live alone, but as soon as I did, I wanted a roommate
12. I am currently listening to the Blues Brothers soundtrack, and I like it
13. I bought the DVD of Blue Brothers while in Finland two years ago
14. I am obsessed with Finland, and really want to learn Finnish even though it is one of the world's most complicated languages
15. I really enjoy speaking and learning other languages
16. I speak English (native), German (advanced), Italian (once advanced, now intermediate at best) and Irish (in some ways like a native language, but so utterly lacking in vocabulary that it can really only be described as elementary)
17. I hate it when people ask me what languages I speak, I always feel like I am boasting
18. Despite this, I am actually rather arrogant, even though my arrogance is always boundaried by the realism of what I have achieved and what I can achieve
19. This makes people think I am actually deeply insecure, which isn't true
20. I also hate it when people ask me why I moved to Berlin, because I had no real reason
21. I have lived here for over two years
22. For the first year, I barely spoke a word of German
23. I can't drive
24. I decided to leave Berlin in October 2006 and handed in my notice to BCUK, but then I fell wildly in love for the first time in my life and decided to stay for her
25. I lied to everyone, including her, and said I was staying to learn German
26. I learned German, and she broke my heart almost exactly a year later
27. I'm 24, but she was my first relationship that lasted more than a couple of months
28. My first ever girlfriend was from Berlin and I was with her when I lived in Galway
29. I broke her heart
30. She is now one of my very best friends
31. I can't swim
32. I lost my virginity when I was 21, and at the time thought I never would
33. I studied Law and Italian in university
34. I have four uncles, three aunts and fourteen cousins
35. I was very happy to be finished with university, and never considered staying on for further studies like all of my classmates did
36. Of all the people I met at university, there are only two that I care about
37. The walk along the river Corrib, where Landers and Brad and Row met the girl who tried to commit suicide, is one of my very favourite places in the whole world
38. When people exclaim 'Jesus!' or 'God!', I usually respond by saying 'It's OK, you can call me Stephen'
39. I always introduce myself as Stephen, but some people call me Stephen, Steve, Stevie or Stevo. I don't really mind any of them
40. My dad's cousin wanted to call me Emanuel
41. I think Manu would be a fucking cool nickname
42. When I burned Coldplay - Parachutes on to my laptop many years ago, track ten 'Everything's not Lost' didn't work for some reason. I just downloaded it, and it is wonderful.
43. I am often afraid that everyone on BCUK thinks I say what I say because it is my job and not because I genuinely like just about everyone I meet here and because blogging is very important to me
44. I am amazingly blunt and very often hurt the feelings of people I care very deeply about because of this
45. I think I would have already left Berlin were it not for my job with BCUK
46. I am also a teacher, but I feel that my personality makes up for my significant lack of teaching ability
47. I really want to work as translator, I think that my amazing pedanticism and awe of correct grammar makes me rather good at it
48. I am currently translating the websites of local football clubs for free, in the hope that it will lead to bigger fish
49. I have never been outside of Europe
50. I only go places in order to visit friends or to climb mountains
51. I think that far too many people go on holidays solely to be able to say 'I went to X place'
52. I hate the verb 'to travel'
53. I hate the fact that people say things like 'I did Pompeii' instead of saying 'I visited the incredibly archaeologically and historically important site of Pompeii and made no fucking effort to appreciate anything it had to offer, with my fucking stupid interrail ticket that makes me spend twenty minutes in as many different cities as possible over the space of three weeks.'
54. I really believe that there is no point in visiting somewhere unless you are going to stay there for quite some time, or that you know someone resident there who can show you the spirit of the place in some way
55. The three most important people in my life are my mother, my father and my sister
56. I call my parents by their first names, and people think that is strange
57. Long before I went to school, my uncle taught me to read and write
58. One of my earliest memories is him being frustrated with my inability to form the number '2'
59. He died in 2001, and it was the most traumatic moment of my life to date
60. I was something of a child prodigy until I was about 14, when arrogance set in
61. I have absolutely no ambition whatsoever, and when asked where I will be in X years, I have found that raising and toasting my beer is the best answer
62. My favourite film of all time is Jurassic Park
63. My favourite book of all time is Frankenstein
64. I have never seen a Frankenstein movie, as I don't want to ruin the joy that the book gave me
65. I am finding this exercise enormously enjoyable
66. Most people don't think I have an Irish accent except for middle aged Irish people. This is because I pronounce my THs very clearly (hey, I'm a teacher), but I do not inflect every sentences upwards in the American question way, and I do not pepper every sentence with the word 'like'. So even though my Berlin friends think my sister has an impenetrably Irish accent, my parents and their contemopraries think mine is more genuine, and I agree with them
67. Even though my ex was an utter slob, I enjoyed cleaning up after her. I found turning an incredibly cluttered room into something resembling order very fulfilling
68. I am utterly obsessed with football, and find it very hard to believe that I haven't mentioned it til now
69. Is my favourite sexual position
70. My favourite football team is Sampdoria, from Genoa in Italy
71. I learned Italian and moved to Genoa for a year to support them, and really enjoyed how much respect I got from Samp fans for that
72. I moved to Italy when I was 19, and I really wish I had appreciated it as much as I would now
73. All my life, my friends have been significantly older than me. Now I find myself hanging out with people that are younger than me, and it freaks me out slightly, especially since they are way cooler than I was at their age.
74. I absolutely hate being single at the moment, and tie my feelings of self worth up with the females I fleetingly date and end up being crushed when something I really didn't give a shit about ends
75. I hate the fact that my sister will be away from home this Christmas. I want to spend Christmas with her in India, but I don't want my parents to spend Christmas without either of us. I think I will stay with them.
76. Every single member of my extended family apart from my parents and sister think I am terribly weird for the way I live my life
77. I collect football jerseys
78. Whenver I go to Ireland or the UK, I never wear my jerseys as I know what it means to wear a football jersey as daily clothing
79. My best friend is gay, and many people mistakenly believe that we are a couple
80. The sound of a banjo makes me inexplicably happy
81. I haven't been to a dentist in five years
82. When I was still in nappies, a wasp got into my nappy and stung me on the ass
83. My mother always laughed about that, until one day a wasp got into her bra and took revenge
84. I have never spent overnight in a hospital apart from when I was born. Everyone thought I was going to die, and according to my dad, I was a 'little fart'
85. When I was twelve, my sister kicked a basketball at me. As a goalkeeper, I felt obliged to save it. It cracked my right wrist. One of my profile tags explains what happened as a result
86. In Berlin, almost everyone is a musician, artist, writer or something. I am none of the above, I am simply a guy who wants to live here. I feel that most of them like to try to make me feel small because of that. Most of them fail miserably.
87. Even though I complain about working with children, I really enjoy it.
88. On Facebook, on the 'Compare Friends' crap, I am currently #18 Happiest. I think that is pretty low and I am upset by it. I think people perceive me as being unhappier than I actually am because of the fact that I have a particularly self-depricating sense of humour.
89. If I were a professional footballer, I would play my whole career with Sampdoria
90. I often have dreams about the above, as well as scoring World Cup-winning goals for Ireland
91. I can't play any musical instruments
92. I hate it when people look down upon my football obsession, because it is usually the most passionless and boring people who do it
93. I love soup, especially goulash soup
94. I love hoovering, I find it incredibly relaxing
95. The misuse of 's makes me incredibly angry
96. I have a large mole on the back of my neck that I feel would be invaluable in identifying my body should I ever be decapitated
97. The idea of dying upsets me, unless it were to happen on a mountain
98. I have already chosen my funeral music
99. I have instructed many of my friends that I want 'Best Before', not 'Died On' on my headstone. I have not told my parents of this. I will let them fight it out themselves, as I will be dead and giggling.
100. This took me three hours, and I enjoyed every minute of it. Highly recommended. Excuse all typos and grammatical errors, I am tired and slightly drunk.

Good night!

What five things are you grateful for today and why?

In no particular order...
1. I am grateful that I finally have internet at home.
Because it is opening up a world of potential new employment (as I plan to get lots of translation work), lots of new music (er...mostly legal) and streaming football (erm...also legal. Maybe.)

2. I am grateful that I will be spending the weekend in rural Czech Rep.
Because sometimes I feel extraordinarily frustrated and lonely in this city. Love it, but nice to leave it too. Oh and did I mention the disgracefully cheap and mind-achingly delicious Czech beer?

3. I am grateful that my colleague Micha brought very tasty cakes to work.
Need I say more?

4. I am grateful that Champions League football is starting next week.
Because I have missed it terribly.

5. I am grateful that my parents booked flights over to visit me in April.
Because I miss them too and I can neither afford the money nor the time to go home at the moment.

So three fucking months ago, I ordered internet for my new apartment. I was promised that it would take a maximum of six weeks until I was online.

Three fucking months and one fucking week I waited, with weekly calls to their hotline (all made by nittygritty since I possess neither the required decorum to deal with such fucking cretinous oiks, nor sufficient confidence in my language abilitly). Fobbed off consistently.

Until last weekend. They finally had pulled their thumb sufficiently far out of their cavernous anal cavity to get things done. The technician would be coming any time bewteen 8 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon. I should be present between those times. Irrelevant that some of us have to actually fucking work. So I arranged for a buddy to cover me in the afternoon, as I have to teach.

So what time did the fucker come? Ten to fucking eight, when I was still fucking asleep. Where was this super efficiency for the last fucking THIRTEEN WEEKS, ya fucks?

But never mind. He carried out the three-minute process and fucked off. I hooked up all the cables. The relevant lights blinked satisfyingly. Moments away from my first blog post from my new apartment, I thought.

Popped in the installation CD. Installing. But wait! An error massage! Of course! What could it be? Technical difficulties? The internet has been deleted? The fucking world is fucking ending?

No.

The installation could not be completed because my operating system is in English.

Yes. A German internet provider, based in one of Europe's largest states, whose population consists of enormous volumes of citizens from all over the globe, probably most of whom have an occasional need to use the internet, does not allow you to install the software if your computer isn't German.

Deep breath. The help line only costs 14c per minute. I have €3 credit left. Definitely should be enough. Let's make the call.

My call is important to them. It will be answered soon.

"Hello? Hello, yes, I have a problem. Your CD won't inst.....BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP"

Of course it fucking cost €1 per minute from a mobile phone! Of fucking course it does! FUCK YOU FUCKERS! And of course you wouldn't fucking tell me that!

Deep breath. I need more credit. Down to Aldi.

€15 credit please.

We don't have any.

Deeper breath.

Gathered up my computer (resisting the urge to smash every single thing in the room into tiny tiny tiny pieces, then jump out the window, screaming maniacally all the way down to the sweet sweet relief of the cold grey concrete far below) and headed into to blog HQ.

Make the call, nittygritty.

She did. Apparently now my filthy nasty foreign computer can accept the nice German internet. As soon as I get home that is.

*snarls*
*seethes*
*growls*

According to The Phobia List.

- Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
- Agoraphobia- Fear of being in crowded public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place.
- Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single. (only if it's forever...)
- Aphenphosmphobia- Fear of being touched. (by people I don't know)
- Bathophobia- Fear of depth. (water, presumably)
- Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women. (being intimidated is the same as being afraid, right?)
- Claustrophobia- Fear of confined spaces.
- Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture. (let's count fear and disdain as the same)
- Macrophobia- Fear of long waits.
- Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.
- Soteriophobia - Fear of dependence on others.

Interestingly, my biggest fear of all isn't there - the fear of cotton wool. *shudders*

Other marvellous fears that I luckily don't have:
- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
- Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms. (pretty all-encompassing...)
- Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
- Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body.
- Neophobia- Fear of anything new.
- Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother.
- Optophobia- Fear of opening one's eyes.
- Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything.

So, anyone else good some good ones to share?

..just how long a hangover can last.

I was sick of it yesterday, I am definitely sick of it today.

*feels sorry for self*

1. What would be the contents of your perfect pie?
Not sure, it would have to be something very meaty though. At the moment I have a bit of a craving for goulash soup. So maybe a goulash pie. If such a thing exits. And if it doesn't, it should.

2. Lift your eyes from the screen - what's the first thing you see and how did it get there?
My colleague nittygritty. I think the process of her getting to that position started about 28 years ago with her conception.

3. What, if anything, would you like to get rid of in your life and why?
The memories of my ex.

4. If you were building your own house what one room would you include that you don't have now?
Before reading AJ's entry, I would have said nothing. But now I want a room with a pool table.

5. When you were little people asked "what do you want to be when you grow up?" Does your answer then match what you do now?
As a child, I was as unmotivated and lazy as I am now, and therefore never really had any strong opinions on what I wanted to be. Professional football player, of course, but never anything realistic. I did think pilot briefly. But anyway, what the hell am I now? I don't even know. I'm a language slut, I suppose. I'm not really answering this question though, am I? Let's just say 'kinda'.

...but I am pooping my pants with excitement over the new BCUK Groups.

Should be online quite soon.

*changes pants*

*poops them again*

So I thought I'd share some more of my childhood with you. My very first obsession was Thomas the Tank Engine. To this day I still love trains...
When I showed this to nittygritty, she asked if it was the Ringo Starr...

And then I grew out of it, and started watching Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. Which, to be perfectly honest, I'm frankly rather embarrassed about. It's just...really American - brash, loud and quite obnoxious. Watching this doesn't bring back as many happy memories as Thomas does, but here goes anyway.

Anyone fancy sharing some YouTube memories?