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:: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 ::

GO HERE my new home
:: Emily 12:13 PM [+] ::
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I've decamped! my new blog can be found HERE!

Come visit me soon!
:: Emily 12:10 PM [+] ::
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Oh! It's been too long -- too long... So much to talk about, but not..just..yet. Today is not the day to spill so many beans. Anyway, this story really tickled me -- A Japanese crew from Chukyo TV were filming a news piece in Rome about how to avoid being pickpocketed when they were distracted by a gang of feral children.

The cheeky imps used cardboard boxes to distract the journalists while they filched their wallets, although quite how the boxes distracted them so much I can't imagine! Perhaps the children were leaping in and out of them while screaming SURPRISE! Or, maybe they forced the camera crew to put the boxes over the heads and feet, and whilst they were temporarily encumbered their pockets got pinched... Wallop! Bang goes their petty cash and post shoot drinking and girls fund.

Or so you might think....

But no! You're not thinking about the fact that there is at least one trained journalist amongst the crew, trained to sniff out the right people at the right time. The crew managed to track down the naughty little pickpockets and persuaded them to hand the cash back-- I'm guessing a threat to tell their mothers may have done the trick-- and voila! Drinks all round boys!




:: Emily 10:25 PM [+] ::
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Now then... this is interesting... The US just won a match against Portugal in the World Cup. The US have routinely ignored the sport of Football - or as they would say "Soccer", generally because they were the underdogs, and as we all know - If they ain't winning they don't want to know! I'm going to be verrrrry interested to see how much more coverage they'll give the World Cup now.
:: Emily 3:54 AM [+] ::
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I use way too many exclamation points!
:: Emily 4:34 AM [+] ::
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OOH! I'm so excited!! I'm going on a "school trip" with a bunch of burning man freaks to Alton Towers -- Britain's answer to Disneyland... God only knows what trouble we're going to get into!

I wonder if they'll have any Penis Trees there?


:: Emily 4:33 AM [+] ::
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According to the fabulous online news source Scientists in Brazil attempted to clone a cow, but instead they cloned an ox!
The acamedicians at the University of San Paolo responsible for the cloning project made the mistake of letting an ox stay in the next field to their test subject.

Ms.CloneCow sitting in her meadow just oozing potential maternal love.... Mr Ox b'stard is feeling a little horny... who cares if it's a different species! What the Hella! He jumps over the fence, has his wicked way with Ms. CloneCow -- Voila X months later a Cox!

Shortly after her naughty liaison Ms. CloneCow was artificially inseminated by the clone..... but alas! it was too late!


:: Emily 2:39 PM [+] ::
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I'm standing on the edge of a major life change. For the first time in my life, I'll shortly be moving into a house sharing with three guys. I've done the sharing thing before of course, once with a lover, once with a husband and once with a psycho girl (model/actress/movie director/writer/waitress), but never with three guys.

It's promising to be a fun experience, and as my relationship with all three men is like that of brother/sister, there shouldn't be any of those pesky romantic complications to deal with. Also, I'm totally involved with this from the ground up -- in fact, the location of this (as yet unfound) house will be pretty much my decision, as the guys want to make sure that I, as a woman, will feel comfortable.

The truly amazing thing is that the values of the places we are looking at (and can afford to be in) are nudging half a million pounds! And that's the low end of the market! In London you can rent a house from around £350 a week, but some places are renting for as much as £6,000 a week! For that you can get a five bed house next to the Ritz.
:: Emily 10:08 AM [+] ::
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Last night I just found it impossible to get to sleep, so after an extended im conversation with kaila, I finally decided that I'd just get into bed and watch a bit of television. However it being nearly four in the morning there was very little to watch apart from an educational program on learning Italian, another one on learning Spanish, something they call night pages (basically just photographs of upcoming shows accompanied by elevator music) and BBC News 24. Even though I would have been interested in watching something a little light and fluffy, I ended up watching the good old Beeb instead and settled down for a bit of world news.

Of course the main coverage was about the Israel/Palestine conflict but then came a segment on the new OBL video.... I was very confused in a sleep deprived way, who on earth was OBL and why were the BBC broadcasting a press conference from the White House on his new video release! It took a while for me to realise that they were talking about Osama Bin Laden. I'm guessing that this is a common abbreviation in the US for "He who's name must not be spoken" but I swear I've never heard him referenced this way in the UK before. I immediately started to fret about all the other OBL's out there who must be really pissed off about the abbreviation.... much in the same way that I haven't been able to comfortably use my own initials since Spielberg's alien weepy (E.T.)

To the following non-terrorist OBL's I offer my sympathy --

All the librarians and staff at the Online Burma Library and the Oregon BRDF Library

Chicago Financiers OBL Financial

US Military owned Otter Brook Lakea.k.a. OBL

Tony Keveany, Director of Berkeley Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory also known as OBL

Something I can't quite figure out which seems to involve a baseball team calledOBL

Everyone in the U.S. Government department, The Office of Business Liaison

All Online Banking Lawyers

And the musical combo One Black Lung


:: Emily 6:19 AM [+] ::
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