Archive for January, 2008

Just got an email from the BUPA 10,000 organisers. It reads thus:
Dear Soupy,
Thank you for entering for the 2008 BUPA London 10,000 race. In order to optimise the race, we are inviting you to give us your predicted race completion time. It’s a simple process – all you need to do is click on the [...]


Get your minds out of the gutter!!!!
The photo above is of the two health supplements I take in the morning now. The large one on the left is cranberry extract (the iPod Nano is there to give you an idea of just how huge it is!!!). I started taking this recently, almost in desperation. Research [...]


Those people who lean against the poles in train carriages.
Do they really need to lean against the pole to be held up or would they just flop jellylike to the floor without them? Do they do it just to annoy the rest of us, who cannot hold onto the pole with their entire body pressed [...]


heard it

29Jan08

I hate my boss
I hate my job
I hate that nothing ever materialises
I hate that I am in the shit because someone else couldn’t deliver
I hate that they got away with it
I hate that they pay me fuck all
I hate that I am always tired
I hate that I am unmotivated
I hate that I dream up ways [...]


“Is that gap behind you housing a hole in the floor or is there some other reason you can’t move back into it and let people onto the train?!”
Muttered by Soupy at approximately 8.46am on getting into a (not particularly packed) carriage on the eastbound District line at Victoria this morning. Although the train was [...]


I didn’t tell the whole story about my weekend when I blogged on Sunday.
In fact, I missed out a rather massive happening.
Saturday morning, I came around at the crack of dawn with my pounding head and upset bladder overriding sleep. I don’t know why I did it, but I texted The Mechanic to wail about [...]


I just managed to drop the ends of my hair into my cup of tea.
Not. Having. A. Very. Good. Day.
And I need a haircut. I think that when your hair is so long that it falls into your drink without you noticing, it’s time for some serious chopping.


Just a quicky to let you know that I am up and running again after the storm blew the computer up.  Our friend Ian is going to build me  NEW ONE and I’m having a flat screen and a new keyboard as well, and a memory stick thingy!   Oh how exciting!!  the old computer was [...]


truman show

27Jan08

Sometimes I think you could easily be forgiven for thinking that the world revolves around you, that everything that has ever happened in history around the world has been all about your coming.
Life is subjective. My life is different from yours because it is unique to me; yours is unique to you. I couldn’t ape [...]


i ate this

25Jan08

Now I feel sick.