To say the least I'm truly disappointed

[venta]

Today has been a day of disappointments:

I think God, or the Met Office, or whoever is responsible for these things was having a day off today. On the way to work the sky was an overall grey, with some of the most unconvincing clouds I've ever seen floating at improbable distances in front of it. The lighting was done badly, the clouds were very poorly designed and placed, and the whole effect was just rubbish.

My desk-calendar this year is Latin Phrases, and the cover promises:

"365 Days of Latin Terms of Endearment, Pithy Insights, Obscure Abbreviations & Legal Terms, Proverbs, Concepts, Aphorisms, & Insults of Antiquity"

So far, it's been doing pretty well.

I am, however, somewhat disappointed that today's page tells me the Latin word for "bath tub or wash basin" (labrum). I fairly certain that a bath tub is neither an endearment nor a pithy insight. And I'm not sure that it's any of the other things claimed, either, unless you could possibly argue that washing is a concept.

Someone experimentally called me a bath tub, to see if it worked as an insult, but I'm not really convinced.

Also, I ran out of mint tea bags at work.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'd say...

If I compared you to my bathtub, you'd think it was an insult

But I'm not going to own up to my bathtub being that manky.

Pah!

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Reinstalled PCs; reinstalled browsers; no cookies.

Therefore anonymous posting :(

Re: Pah!

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Not to mention LJ expiring everyone's cookies as part of a vulnerability fix :)

Running out of *beverage of choice* is never a good thing.

[erming.livejournal.com]

You have milder disapointments than me.

A couple of days ago I was strolling back to the station from work and suddenly the bottom half of my trousers went wet. I looked down and I had mud up to the knee on one leg and splashes on the other leg. Attempting to wipe it off just made it worse, so I had a 45 min tube journey like that. To say I was disapointed with the state of the pavement is an understatement.

Still I guess at least it was at the end of the day rather than the beginning.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I have weather-days like that too, the ones when the sky is white all over and there isn't any weather, except the wind, but in Cambridge the wind is a feature of there being ground under your feet. Those are days when somebody forgot to colour in the sky.

If you think Friday was bad...

[stevekane.livejournal.com]

As disappointing as Friday may have been in terms of fake-looking real weather and crap Latin, it is worth mentioning that psychologists in Cardiff have decreed that tomorrow (Monday 23rd January) will be the saddest day of 2006.

Quite how they came to this conclusion is anyone's guess. Maybe they ran out of mint tea bags as well.