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.

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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.