In my last job, I had a pass for free, unlimited travel on any ATW service.
However, NR doesn't operate any trains, so we don't get squat. I can't even hitch a ride to work on a tamper or the measurement train.
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| Author: | metalangel [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 15:06 ] |
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In my last job, I had a pass for free, unlimited travel on any ATW service. However, NR doesn't operate any trains, so we don't get squat. I can't even hitch a ride to work on a tamper or the measurement train.
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| Author: | DBSnappa [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 15:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: From Bed to Desk |
BikNorton wrote: AceAceBaby wrote: Snoozing the alarm is the worst thing ever for ending up tired and needing too much sleep, I found. Either up at first beep, or a proper lie in is best. I used to fool myself that the extra snooze sleeps was helping but it wasn't. Totally, but I'm usually physically incapable of getting out of bed the first time or two. Hell, I'm quite often still asleep - I once tried putting the alarm at the other end of the room. I'd still end up oversleeping by semi-consciously getting up, turning it off, and going back to bed. I'm not that bad these days, but I don't get used to a 'normal' sleep phase.I actually feel like crying at the moment, I'm so physically and mentally drained. Stay away from the Liverpool-bound M62 between 4 and 5, people. Put a mousetrap on top of the alarm. That'll get you up. |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 15:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: From Bed to Desk |
MetalAngel wrote: However, NR doesn't operate any trains, so we don't get squat. I can't even hitch a ride to work on a tamper or the measurement train. There's a measurement train? Does that do what you'd expect? |
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| Author: | ElephantBanjoGnome [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 15:38 ] |
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Measure your penis size? |
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| Author: | metalangel [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 15:48 ] |
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It's not as exciting as it sounds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Ra ... ment_Train |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 15:50 ] |
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MetalAngel wrote: But is a "messing car"? That sounds filthy. Is it for the workmen's breaks? |
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| Author: | metalangel [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 15:54 ] |
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The consensus in here is that it's for the breaks of the train crew. The train does run continuously, so all guys on board will be need to be fed. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 15:57 ] |
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So "Mess car" then, really. How dull. I was expecting some sort of rolling orgy factory. |
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| Author: | metalangel [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 16:00 ] |
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They're actually experimenting on the International Space Station to see if rolling orgies are better made in zero gravity. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 16:01 ] |
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That's one unlucky russian bloke up there, then. |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 16:03 ] |
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Rolling stock hmm. |
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| Author: | sinister agent [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 19:35 ] |
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Craster wrote: Mr Chris wrote: I have now arrive at the point where I can function quite happily on four hours sleep, which is, frankly, fucking terrifying. That can't be good for you. 's done me alright for the last 12 years. Apparently Napoleon did it for much of his life, and throughout at least some of his succesful military campaigns. BikNorton wrote: AceAceBaby wrote: Snoozing the alarm is the worst thing ever for ending up tired and needing too much sleep, I found. Either up at first beep, or a proper lie in is best. I used to fool myself that the extra snooze sleeps was helping but it wasn't. Totally, but I'm usually physically incapable of getting out of bed the first time or two. Hell, I'm quite often still asleep - I once tried putting the alarm at the other end of the room. I'd still end up oversleeping by semi-consciously getting up, turning it off, and going back to bed. I'm not that bad these days, but I don't get used to a 'normal' sleep phase.I actually feel like crying at the moment, I'm so physically and mentally drained. Stay away from the Liverpool-bound M62 between 4 and 5, people. Yeah, I found this years ago - I rapidly develop immunity to alarm clocks, and quite often switch them off without even waking up once they go off - my arm finds them and I stay 98% asleep. Some of the time, when I eventually do wake up, I'll have a vague dream-sodden memory of possibly hearing the alarm. I tried all sorts of tricks, too, including stashing a second alarm inside my pillowcase. After a while the same thing happened - I learned how to find it and switch it off almost instantly without even waking. Ideally I'd get new alarm clocks and cycle them, but that's impractical at the moment, so I just settle for a bunch of alarms and reminders on my phone. |
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| Author: | Malabelm [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 19:39 ] |
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sinister agent wrote: I tried all sorts of tricks, too, including stashing a second alarm inside my pillowcase. After a while the same thing happened - I learned how to find it and switch it off almost instantly without even waking. Ideally I'd get new alarm clocks and cycle them, but that's impractical at the moment, so I just settle for a bunch of alarms and reminders on my phone. I leave mine on my desk, which means getting out of bed if I want to switch it off. Great for when I really need waking, but a nightmare when I forget to turn the alarm off on Bank Holidays. |
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| Author: | sinister agent [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 19:50 ] |
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nynfortoo wrote: sinister agent wrote: I tried all sorts of tricks, too, including stashing a second alarm inside my pillowcase. After a while the same thing happened - I learned how to find it and switch it off almost instantly without even waking. Ideally I'd get new alarm clocks and cycle them, but that's impractical at the moment, so I just settle for a bunch of alarms and reminders on my phone. I leave mine on my desk, which means getting out of bed if I want to switch it off. Great for when I really need waking, but a nightmare when I forget to turn the alarm off on Bank Holidays. Tried it. I just sleep through it then, usually. Lately I've been putting it on the floor so I have to lurch about. Seems to help a bit. |
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| Author: | Pod [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 22:53 ] |
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I never had this problem at uni. Even though my work is, if anything, laxer on my start/leave time. I had to be in for both by 9am or 10am, yet this whole "making sure I get the train" thing is a pain in the farmer. The buses at uni were, quite literally and scientifically accurately, once every 5 seconds. Now I have to make sure I get something at a specific time, even if the journey is only 4 minutes. I think the morning "stay-in-bed-for-as-long-as-possible" drowsyness is purely end-point-expectancy based psychologicalness. |
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| Author: | Dudley [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 22:56 ] |
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If it's 4 minutes why not just walk? |
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| Author: | Pod [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 23:02 ] |
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Dudley wrote: If it's 4 minutes why not just walk? It's a 10 minute walk to the train station. And the train goes at like, 50mph. I walk at about 3. So it's an hours walk? Probably a bit less. I could bike it but; screw that. I don't wanna die. ffs: I just tried to provide you a map, but this internet connection is so shocknig I couldn't navigate google maps properly. Basically: Watford Junction to King's Langely. Walkable? |
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| Author: | Dudley [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 23:06 ] |
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Not really I suppose. Seems daft though. Waiting around and basing your life over a 4 minute train ride. I'd still bike. |
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| Author: | Pod [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 23:12 ] |
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It does indeed. I just don't fancy biking it from where I am. Especially down the fatter road. I have enough trouble crossing it as a pedestrian on the way to work after getting out the train station. I wouldn't fancy cycling down the damn thing. |
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| Author: | Steve [ Wed Sep 03, 2008 23:24 ] |
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Two examples for this. 8 months ago I started at 9am. During term times my average journey time was 35 mins as I have to go past 3 schools. This is for a 3.3 mile journey. Just a bit too far to walk to make up the difference but a huge annoyance to drive. It got to the point where I was getting in for 8:15 just so I didn't sit in traffic for 25 minutes. With no flexi I might add. Now I get in at 7:30 I have managed to get up at 7:17 and still make it on time. The journey at that time in the morning is so predictable that I know the exact point I am going to be late - 7:21. |
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| Author: | Zio [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:55 ] |
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Pod wrote: Dudley wrote: If it's 4 minutes why not just walk? It's a 10 minute walk to the train station. And the train goes at like, 50mph. I walk at about 3. So it's an hours walk? Probably a bit less. I could bike it but; screw that. I don't wanna die. ffs: I just tried to provide you a map, but this internet connection is so shocknig I couldn't navigate google maps properly. Basically: Watford Junction to King's Langely. Walkable? No. There's two busses that go between Watford Junction and King's Langley too IIRC (the 500 and the 322), but they're pretty shonky too. I used to have to do that journey to and from college, plus I occasionally used to have to work in the Watford branch of Gamestation whilst I worked for that company. |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:05 ] |
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Steve wrote: Two examples for this. 8 months ago I started at 9am. During term times my average journey time was 35 mins as I have to go past 3 schools. This is for a 3.3 mile journey. Just a bit too far to walk to make up the difference but a huge annoyance to drive. Bike? Not being funny but it sounds like the answer to the problem. It'd take you well less than 20 minutes. |
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| Author: | AceAceBaby [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:11 ] |
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My (none hilarious internet joke) guess is that someone who has to go past three schools during term time, has three children, and a bike isn't going to help much. |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:14 ] |
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AceAceBaby wrote: My (none hilarious internet joke) guess is that someone who has to go past three schools during term time, has three children, and a bike isn't going to help much. Unless the children also had bikes, right? Oh except, NOES TEH PEDOLFILES! |
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| Author: | Dudley [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:15 ] |
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Unless they're some kind of display team. |
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| Author: | AceAceBaby [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:17 ] |
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If you lived on a lake, it'd be OH NO TEH PEDALOS. But even so, I'm just guessing. I think I cycled to school as a kid, but not when I was really young, and it was all 30mph village roads, nothing with much of any traffic to worry about. |
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| Author: | Steve [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:21 ] |
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Kalmar: I would bike. But I have no-where to store a bike in my flat. I used to bike a little further than that but then they stopped people using the storage cupboard in my block. Then after a week of leaving my bike chained up outside it went missing. |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:24 ] |
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Steve wrote: Kalmar: I would bike. But I have no-where to store a bike in my flat. I used to bike a little further than that but then they stopped people using the storage cupboard in my block. Then after a week of leaving my bike chained up outside it went missing. Jesus  What a country eh? Kill the people who won't let you store the bike under your flat through the face, that's the only answer. |
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| Author: | Steve [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:27 ] |
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AceAce: Nah no kids. But a river and a train track bisect my little town. There is literally only one route to get to my workplace and that is over the bridge. The journey thereafter has three schools on it. (edit) Kalmar: Yeah tell me about it. I was pretty pissed. |
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| Author: | Steve [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:32 ] |
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To see what I mean go to google maps and type in "kings heath industrial estate" Then zoom out a little. |
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| Author: | AceAceBaby [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:42 ] |
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Steve, I propose you get a helicopter. You can park it on the roof of the flats! |
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| Author: | Steve [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:42 ] |
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Ace: Indeed, if only life were like a less violent GTA. I could get a chopper as a reward for finding hidden things around the area. It would re-spawn too. |
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| Author: | ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:44 ] |
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Bit of a crap start for me. Such was my desire for sleep is that I got up, got dressed, then went back to bed and dozed for almost an hour, eventually getting the 9.24 train before stumbling in at 10. |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:45 ] |
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Compromise, get a pedalo and tie it up on the river, hopefully there's a railway footbridge too.. CG: furiously dozy |
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| Author: | AceAceBaby [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:48 ] |
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That's what playing EVE until 2am does to you. |
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| Author: | ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:48 ] |
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Amusingly I didn't play EVE at all last night. The gf popped round, and then I was reading until late. |
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| Author: | Derek The Halls [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:32 ] |
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On sundays I'm up at 5:40 and out the door by 6. Normally I'm up at 7 and at work by 9. |
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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:38 ] |
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Bed-three steps-desk. |
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| Author: | Plissken [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:52 ] |
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Working from home for yourself is fun. Only traffic to worry about is a jacknifed cat in the hallway. The office parties are a bit dull though, I had to tell myself off for photocopying my own arse. |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 13:25 ] |
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Plissken wrote: Working from home for yourself is fun. Only traffic to worry about is a jacknifed cat in the hallway. The office parties are a bit dull though, I had to tell myself off for photocopying my own arse. 
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| Author: | The Rev Owen [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 13:26 ] |
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I worked from home for a while. Hated it. Never really stopped being at work. |
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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 13:28 ] |
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I'm the other way around. *Goes to put 360 on* |
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| Author: | ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 13:29 ] |
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I'd love to work from home permenantly. Unfortunately a good portion of my work requires me to be at an internal no-access-from-the-outside terminal at the moment, which is a bit of a fag. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 14:01 ] |
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Alarm goes off at 7:00 Alarm goes off at 7:20 Alarm goes off at 7:40 Alarm goes off at 7:45 I normally get up at the 7:40 one, as it allows me to dwadle for a bit longer. I then shower, dress, and sit on the internet for a few minutes, before leaving at around 8:15-20 to walk the ten minutes down the hill to the train station. 10-15 minutes on the train, and then a 15-20 minute walk, and I'm at my desk for 9(ish). It's manageable, but I am very much not a morning person. I preferred University, where my second year alarm schedule was generally: Alarm goes off at 8:00 Alarm goes off at 8:20 Alarm goes off at 9:00 Alarm goes off at 10:00 Alarm goes off at 11:00 I finally figure that I've missed three lectures already so I may as well miss all of them, and turn off the alarm clock. I had a wonderful time, though I did have to repeat the year. 
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| Author: | ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 14:03 ] |
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I remember those days, of missing all the lectures not because I was hungover, or busy, or doing anything important, merely because I was fucking lazy and shiftless. Awesome times never to be repeated until I win the lottery or something. |
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| Author: | Shin [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 14:19 ] |
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Updated work times now -_-; This is mine: Alarm at 8:00am Alarm at 8:15am Alarm at 8:30am* Leave my flat for 5 to 9** and get a lift with Jo (usually am late as I have no concept of time) Get to work at 9:10am Do work at Multiprint & Embroidery and finish at 5:00pm (hopefully!) Get home for 5:20pm-feed cats, check mail, annoy neighbour and see if I want to eat 6:30pm Start work on new designs for the shop next year, artwork e.t.c and finish about 8:00pm (I have to lock myself in the bedroom as the cats keep eating my blue tak!) Go to bed between 12:30 and 2:00am :/ *If I don't wake after this time the kitten tries to claw my eyes open to feed him, the other two never did this, damn men! **I shower EVERY morning without fail WHEREVER I am! It's like an OCD thing so this is an amazing time-scale to work round I feel |
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| Author: | Zio [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 15:00 ] |
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ComicalGnomes wrote: I remember those days, of missing all the lectures not because I was hungover, or busy, or doing anything important, merely because I was fucking lazy and shiftless. Awesome times never to be repeated until I win the lottery or something. 
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| Author: | Tmuk [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 16:04 ] |
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Wake up at 7, pace around outside the bathroom trying to hold the wee in as flatmate infringes on MY bathroom time again. Breakfast and cuppa at 7.15, followed by much lolling around and TV watching. Begin selecting clothes, putting clothes on at 7.45. Leave flat at 8.15, 35 minute walk to work. Pop into Tesco at 8.50 for a bit more grub. Work at 9. I can't do all that rushing about/ arriving at your desk 5 minutes before getting out of bed thing, I need a leisurely start. |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 16:06 ] |
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Fonzy wrote: Begin selecting clothes, putting clothes on at 7.45.
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| Author: | Tmuk [ Thu Sep 04, 2008 16:13 ] |
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kalmar wrote: Fonzy wrote: Begin selecting clothes, putting clothes on at 7.45. I should have elaborated - begin selecting least smelly/ creased clothes from floor. |
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