"What an odd-sized explosion."

[clo_again]

It's windy enough to blow the house away tonight. Kinda wishing I'd bought The Wizard of Oz when I thought about it the other day; it'd either be appropriate for the weather, or a guidebook for what to expect when the house does blow away.

I wish the Wizard of Oz episode of Scrubs would come on now. It'd be one of those awesomely weird coincidences.

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Today I stuffed about six hundred envelopes. I was starting to climb the walls, until I went to pick up the last three boxes of questionnaires (better than the *five* my boss freaked me out by promising) and found that they'd all been printed without addresses. Which, since they're all matched to student by barcode, rendered them useless and made me guilt-free over asking for the rest of the week off (to be here if the guys doing the bathroom need anything while the 'rents are at work, I'm not just lazy - okay, not only just lazy). The other two girls can finish up the boxes when they get reprinted; if I see another envelope in the next week, I will scream.

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Why could I get tickets from Lancaster to London for £20 but the cheapest I can get from here - at least an hour *closer* - is £41? That is illogical. We are most displeased.

Though- I just checked the same days, same times, for the weekend *before* Easter... and it's £17.20. Uh, kindoftrouble...

Seriously, not amused British transport system. Go and move to FAILSWORTH.

(One of the questionnaries I enveloped today was going to an actual place called Failsworth. It made all those six hundred envelopes worth it.)

Bah. Stupid train fares. -_-

Comments

[kindoftrouble.livejournal.com]

That just makes ZERO sense. *kicks trains* Like, what? You can come whenever you want though. :) Aka whenever is cheapest.

LMAO Failsworth. There are so many things I should send there. I want to write to someone there just to send something to Failsworth.

[clo.livejournal.com]

It is ridiculous! I even tried Wednesday-Tuesday to completely miss the holiday days and it was still £41. I knew it was crazily overpriced because it was £17 over the weekend back in November. So I think any other weekend will be the same; except, apparently, the weekend that's best for us. Sigh. Is there any other time that would be good for you? It's all the same to me, jobless and destitute. ;-)

I did think that I would love to move there, just to get to say "FAILSWORTH" when I get asked where I live. :D It's in Sussex somewhere I think. Sometime in the distant future it'll probably be populated entirely be internet peoples who've moved there to laugh at the name.

*uses the boy kissage icon in approval of your awesome one* :D

[kindoftrouble.livejournal.com]

*rolls eyes at train companies* You are stupid and annoying, please go away now. I just went to thetrainline.com to check prices on other days and hey, it's not loading. Shocking, I know. And now it's saying there aren't any trains that weekend. Riiiiight. Did I mention I hate public transport sometimes? I do. I will check on other weekends.

you totally should. Then I can send you stuff! Like clay. Clay belongs in Failsworth.

Mmm. Boykissing.

[clo.livejournal.com]

It's ridiculous. Crazed monkeys must come up with their pricing system. It looks like... trains in the morning are much more expensive than ones that get me there in the evening; a direct train that gets in at 13:40 costs £40, while a direct one that arrives 18:21 costs £8:60. How does that big a difference make any sense? So to get there for a reasonable time Wednesday, I'd have to come down Tuesday... or come down the previous Friday and go home Thursday morning. Or something. It should not be this complicated. >_< How long can I bug you for? ;)

I would laugh everytime I had to write my address. Part of me - probably the part that's still a student - really wants to nick the road sign.

Mmmm indeed. We should have a boykissing DVD marathon when I visit.

[kindoftrouble.livejournal.com]

If you get there in the evening, that's ok though, actually, it's probably better for me because I don't trust you to use the Underground without getting lost. ;) So like, Wednesday evening to Thursday morning would be ok. I am tired. Just book stuff and we'll work it out. But over Easter is best, because I will have time off anyway. And so will you if you are working by then.

Oh, we should have that marathon. I'm surprised we haven't already, to be honest.

[clo.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was hopping on and off the Underground easy by the end of that week in November. :) Andrea kept abandoning me for lectures so I had to find things to do.

*blinks* Wait, so...I'm confused. Not Tuesday evening so we're not rushing/dragging stuff for the theatre on Wednesday, until... until sometime? Anything including Easter weekend is insanely expensive too, so is that the only extra time off you'll have or is there more? And I'm tired too, so I'm probably going to leave this until the weekend when I have time to work it out. >_< Why did I have nothing to do all summer and suddenly I have too many things to remember?

Me too. It's a very 'us' sort of marathon. There'll be Torchwood... lots of Torchwood. Mmmm. *goes to inspect DVDs*

Alas! No more paid LJ means no more boy!kissage icon. The woe.

[kindoftrouble.livejournal.com]

:P You might not have remembered your newfound and useful knowledge though. We should totally go to the science museum! It will be awesome. I love that place.

I have no idea. My brain hurts so much today. I think we should discuss more when we are not brain dead because... well, it would make more sense.

So very us marathon. Mmmm, Torchwood... mmm... James Marsters and John Barrowman...

[kindoftrouble.livejournal.com]

I also meant to say, we should go to the theatre to see something, and, if you came on the Wednesday and went back on... some day... (I didn't look that far) it is cheaper.

[clo.livejournal.com]

YAY! Theatre! (See above for getting there for Wednesday but I just had to squee over going theatrewards. :) )

[kindoftrouble.livejournal.com]

Theatre woohoo! I want to see Joseph. Is that shallow of me?

[rionaleonhart]

I've just looked it up, and it's around Manchester. Which makes me sad, because if it were in Sussex I could visit. On the positive side, it would be fairly easy to set a Life on Mars fic in Failsworth?

[clo.livejournal.com]

If it's in Manchester I could visit and take pictures of the road signs to post. Or I could send you a postcard from there to get the Failsworth postmark. ^_^

Life in Mars fic set in Failsworth would be awesome. Life in Mars crack!fic set in Failsworth would be hilarious. It's like a crack!fic place name with the added benefit of being real.

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

I think it's because you've got to go across and then down rather than just a straight diagonal line. I think it also tends to be more expensive if you have changes. Not that that makes train prices make any more sense.

My "favourite" interesting train pricing story involves my tickets to London being about £40 on the British Rail/Network Rail/whatever the main one is called website, but £16 if I booked them on the Midland Mainline website, so you might want to go to the website of the carrier company to see if it's cheaper.

[clo.livejournal.com]

It also seems to vary hugely between morning and evening, even when there's no changes. Bizarre system.

It'll be Virgin trains for me, so I'll definitely check that. Thanks. :)

[jesse-kips.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I live near Failsworth! If you've got anything to send there, I'd be happy to help. :)

[clo.livejournal.com]

Hah that's awesome! When I get my ass in gear to visit you sometime, we should have a failworthy trip to Failsworth. :D Just to mock and take pictures of road signs to mock some more later.

[jesse-kips.livejournal.com]

I'm up for that! It would give me something exciting to show you, at least. And, ha, having lived near it for so long, I didn't realise it was a funny name until you pointed it out! I'm on the ball.