Cooking The Fat Of The Land
Oct. 11th, 2003 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nfotxnWelp, happy coming out day. I thought I'd try and come out to some of my extended famiyl here in Britian but frankly I don't know them well enough yet... and there's some big soccer game on today. I think I read somewhere that ruining family events (football games here are a family event) is a really bad idea. Anyhow, with that rationalized into oblivion I can go on living a lie. Not really however, I'm out to Dad and I assume he's told everyone. I mean I haven't had a single How Is Your Heterosexuality Today Question yet such as "Any pretty lasses back home?" etc. It's possible that Dad has forgot however so I use simple little reminds in casual conversation. Such as today in the Mark's & Spencers where directly in front of the escalator is the Lingerie dept. positioned such that the models rise up like sexual fantasies as you ascend upwards:
Work is going really well so far. It's really hard work because our store is highly understaffed. So really I do the work of 2-3 people most days which leaves me dead tired when I get home. I spent today restocking the freezers which was a nice workout. I can understand my manager's thinking "Hey, we have a big burly canuck.. stick him in the stock room lifting heavy things!" Which really I don't object to... just so tired.
Treated myself to a Frappucino today and was also treated to a cute young man who kept getting up to hear if the bar was calling in his coffee. Each time his pants would plumber down revealing a rather furry view. My kingdom for one of those camera cell phones. Not that a grainy 640x480 jpeg is necessarily worth it but the ability to look as if you're writing a text or playing Snake while you photograph somebody's ass definitely is.
"That's really erotic, you know if I were into chix"Easy as that. However it's occured to me that fags are more readily and causually mocked in passing conversation here. But Southern Ontario can be stuck up that way. I sustain that it's the Bay Area of Canada.
Work is going really well so far. It's really hard work because our store is highly understaffed. So really I do the work of 2-3 people most days which leaves me dead tired when I get home. I spent today restocking the freezers which was a nice workout. I can understand my manager's thinking "Hey, we have a big burly canuck.. stick him in the stock room lifting heavy things!" Which really I don't object to... just so tired.
Treated myself to a Frappucino today and was also treated to a cute young man who kept getting up to hear if the bar was calling in his coffee. Each time his pants would plumber down revealing a rather furry view. My kingdom for one of those camera cell phones. Not that a grainy 640x480 jpeg is necessarily worth it but the ability to look as if you're writing a text or playing Snake while you photograph somebody's ass definitely is.
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Date: 2003-10-11 09:28 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-10-11 01:38 pm (UTC)That's the first time I think I've heard those questions described that way. I like it.
Yay for random bits of scenery, and coffee bars.
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Date: 2003-10-11 03:56 pm (UTC)*hugz*
Random hairy cracks...
Date: 2003-10-12 03:59 am (UTC)however if I had "a big burly canuck.." the stock room isn't where I'de keep him.
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Date: 2003-10-12 12:13 pm (UTC)Now I'm turning tables down at Marks & Spencer
They don't seem to mind
But then, in another source, I read that they were a department store.
Incidentally, how close are you to Glasgow? There's an amazing music scene there that includes Arab Strap, Mogwai, and, of course, the aforementioned Belle & Sebastian, who I'm going to see in concert next month.
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Date: 2003-10-12 12:17 pm (UTC)Let's also not forget Boards of Canada who are incidently from Scotland.
One annecdotal bit I've noticed here is that people are much more openly musical. People whistle, hum and sing with abandon. I don't remember that so much back home.
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