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Mar. 16th, 2009

  • 2:46 PM
pepper: Pepperpot (Tired and headachy)
Note to self: when having an early night because it's work tomorrow, it is then important to not stay awake reading until past 5am. Srsly. That's just stupid. Damn you, Elizabeth Moon, and your fascinating world-building. I now know more about fictitious spaceship technology than I ever thought I'd find interesting.

So... tired... and... undeserving... of... sympathy...

We went out for pizza on Saturday, and had a confusing old time with a voucher.

A: "Oh, just before you ring the bill up, we have this leaflet that says 'Present this for one main meal free when you buy a main and a side'. So, here you go."

Waiter: "Yes?"

A: "Yes. So, that's okay, right? We checked with the waitress before we ordered."

Waiter: "You have a voucher?"

A: "Yes. This."

Waiter: "Yes?"

A: "...Yes."

Waiter: "You have a voucher?"

A: "Yes. Here. This. This is the voucher. This."

Waiter: *takes it* "This?"

A: "Yes."

Ah, there's nothing like having a conversation where both sides just say "yes" at one another for ages. Still, lovely pizza, lovely mozzarella salad, lovely semifreddo and espresso, and they were okay with the voucher/leaflet in the end. And it was in a castle. Sort of a castle. The closest Oxford has to a castle.

Comments

[identity profile] annienau08.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 17th, 2009 05:01 am (UTC)
Oh, God. I'm exactly the same way when it comes to reading. I've reached the point where I don't start reading anything fic related after 8pm and don't read books until the weekend. Otherwise it just messes me up for a couple of days. (Man, the headache I got reading the last Harry Potter book start to finish in eight hours was brutal.)

Also? Your waiter was a bit...dim, wasn't he? At least you got the discount in the end, though.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 17th, 2009 01:55 pm (UTC)
Yes, exactly - I have to be strict with myself like that, too. I love reading books that way, but it doesn't fit in with, you know, work, life, and my body's need for a sensible amount of sleep. :) It's worst when I have several books in a series. Gods, the Angelique series nearly killed me.

Yeah, he wasn't the brightest match in the box... :)

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