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susandennisOn some days - fortunately not many - the slightest thing will trip my wire. Today is one of those days.
They are doing construction on the roof. They've been doing it for two weeks and it hasn't bothered me. Today I want to go up there, pop some hard hats off and shoot them all with nail guns.
Two of the writers I'm working with are fucking with me in two different ways. My boss is also trying to make me snap.
Jake is back to his old tricks. He spent a lot of this morning in "his place" but I attempted to eat lunch at the desk. I managed to get some on the keyboard the but the real problem is that now he thinks there will be food here so he's no longer interested in "his place". I have tossed him off the desk onto the floor a half dozen times and put him from the desk onto his towel another half dozen times. He's lucky I don't have that nail gun.
Another 'friend' is sending me IM's in email. There's a place for phone conversations, a place for email and a place for IM. Generally speaking it's better if one uses the tool that is best suited for the task. Where is that fucking nail gun??!!
The list is a lot longer but I just discovered that it's pissing me off the more I focus on each thing so I need to stop and think of England or something.
They are doing construction on the roof. They've been doing it for two weeks and it hasn't bothered me. Today I want to go up there, pop some hard hats off and shoot them all with nail guns.
Two of the writers I'm working with are fucking with me in two different ways. My boss is also trying to make me snap.
Jake is back to his old tricks. He spent a lot of this morning in "his place" but I attempted to eat lunch at the desk. I managed to get some on the keyboard the but the real problem is that now he thinks there will be food here so he's no longer interested in "his place". I have tossed him off the desk onto the floor a half dozen times and put him from the desk onto his towel another half dozen times. He's lucky I don't have that nail gun.
Another 'friend' is sending me IM's in email. There's a place for phone conversations, a place for email and a place for IM. Generally speaking it's better if one uses the tool that is best suited for the task. Where is that fucking nail gun??!!
The list is a lot longer but I just discovered that it's pissing me off the more I focus on each thing so I need to stop and think of England or something.
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Date: 2005-12-12 11:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-13 12:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-13 04:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-12 11:42 pm (UTC)Glad to see I'm not the only one who sometimes has unreasonable days, days when the slightest thing is a personal slight that needs redress god damn it!
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Date: 2005-12-13 12:13 am (UTC)The up side of working at home on your own is that 1) no one really gets nailed by the nail gun and 2) no one (except maybe LJ friends) has to hear how supid, immature, unreasonable and just ridiculous you really can be over the most minor of annoyances.
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Date: 2005-12-13 12:32 am (UTC)Anyway, the "lie back..." thing, it is sort of that, but it was to do with the colonial times when the natives got a bit restless and decided to take it out on the family of the colonial service.
Now that I can spell etymology...
http://www.yaelf.com/questions.shtml
What is the origin of "lie back and think of England"? "close your eyes and think of England"?
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From _Dictionary of Catchphrases_ (1995) by Nigel Rees:
"close your eyes and think of England": traditional advice given to women when confronted with the inevitability of sexual intercourse, or jocular encouragement to either sex about doing anything unpalatable.
The source given for this phrase -- Lady Hillingdon's (or Hillingham's) _Journal_ (1912) is suspect and has not been verified:
'I am happy now that Charles calls on .... '
_Salome Dear, Not With a Porcupine_ (ed. Arthur Marshall, 1982) has it instead that the newly-wed Mrs Stanley Baldwyn was supposed to have declared subsequently: 'I shut my eyes tight and thought of the Empire.'
In 1977, there was play by John Chapman and Anthony Marriott at the Apollo Theatre, London, with the title _Shut Your Eyes and Think of England_.
Sometimes the phrase occurs in the form *lie back and think of England* but this probably comes from confusion with *she should lie back and enjoy it*.
Adrian Room, in _Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable_ (2000), writes:
Alice, Lady Hillingdon (1857-1940) married the 2nd Baron Hillingdon in 1886, but the whereabouts or even existence of her _Journal_ is unknown.
_The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Fifth Edition_ (1999) gives in the "Sayings and slogans" section: Close your eyes and think of England. said to derive from a 1912 entry in the journal of Lady Hillingdon (1857-1940), but the journal has never been traced
(extract from the aue archives, article by "masakim", follow the link to see the complete thread)
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=3CB5DB07.55AFBAD0%40Berlin.DE
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Date: 2005-12-13 12:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-13 02:18 pm (UTC)Hopefully today will be better. You are so right about working at home. Everyone is safer, except maybe Jake.