LOL as a full stop

When did lol become punctuation? It's a ridiculous phrase that materialised on MSN chat when one teenager said to another something they deemed to be funny, how to respond? How would they put their approval into type? The acronym for "Laugh Out Loud" regardless of whether they had or not. In reality it meant, "oh, that was a joke-I should respond in the expected manner." And it was fine used this way, it served a purpose teenagers telling other teenagers that they had made a funny. Then they had to explain what it meant to aunties and older relatives who thought it was cool to be 'down wit da kids' and started using it as well, then it snuck in to spoken language-mostly by the group that first coined it, I'd hear them at the bus stop "Hey that guy over there has a silly moustache!" "lol" or "When I saw Kristina trip on the stair in front of Jason I lolled." Again it actually had a meaning and was irritating but acceptable. With the increasing popularity of social networking sights and texting meant trying to get something said in as few characters as possible and we saw lol become a good way to get the last word, as far as I can see there is no real response to lol apart from maybe the ever more ridiculous acronyms that followed rotflol pmsl rotfpmslolstc-see where this is going? It seemed that soon we would all be talking in letters with different accents or combinations to mean different things. It was becoming a non-responsive response, it meant nothing or at best "I can think of nothing to type here but I need to make my presence felt so-lol"

Now it's just getting stupid beyond belief, I've seen people that I know and care for declare to the world via their status update that they are "off to bed after a brilliant night lol" why laugh? why not just say goodnight-or not, as the person is indicating that they are tired and are going to bed there's no need to tell everyone I'm sure they'ed work it out when you didn't lol their next status update? Or even better "bought broccoli lol" I mean WTF? sorry, what the fuck? Really? Why 'laugh out loud' buying fucking broccoli? These people must be hilarious to watch wandering round Tesco putting vegetables into their trolley laughing at it then taking their phone out of their pocket to tell the world about every item they have purchased and that they found it so funny that the staff in their local supermarket have probably given them an amusing nick name?

When did lol become the new full stop? It seems to have gone under my radar and I don't understand the hilarity of the world. It's just stupid and people that use it incessantly should be shot. There, I've said it. It feels good to get that lot off of my chest.

Night bloggazzzzz lol

I know there have been alot of pictures recently, I worked out how to send pictures directly to my blog with Mark's phone. Then I told him about it and he reset it so that they went straight to his blog instead :( but on the upside of that I've decided to get a blackberry when I'm due an upgrade which is sometime in July-so not long to wait! Any advice would be gratefully accepted about which are good handsets/tariffs. Anyway, those pictures below are a mish-mash of pictures that I liked on his phone-except the health and safety pictures, I always knew that I wanted them on here that's why I was a little late for work that morning. I'll annotate them at some point.

The picture above is the result of a 'what colour is your personality' test which I completed because of a conversation I had with my new colleages about how accurate they are and I couldn't join in fully because although I know that my aura is mostly green and yellow (a fact that recieved sniggers and rolling eyes) I had no idea what colour my personality was. Well now I do. It's green, like my aura. I don't much like the interpretation, but in a round about way it's true. But then I could find a bit that's true for every personaility colour. Hey-ho, now it's back to searching for venues, dresses Etc. and trying to find a polite way to say 'I don't actually like you therefor you're not invited.' wish me luck!

Health & Safety

Destination anywhere

Jade will not be attending work today

As she was unceremoniously 'let go' with 5 hours notice. It wasn't a shock, I knew they would do that to me. I was surprised by the amount of people that found out through the grape vine and came to see me to say goodbye and one person in particular said it was "really shabby" the way I was treated-you know who you are and thank you <3.

That all happened a few weeks ago now, I had a week off a week as a TA in a primary school (I want to get back into education)then half term, then a virus and now a suspected kidney infection. It's a bloody joke. I've been given antibiotics anti-inflammatories and pain killers. Strangely, my upper left side of my back spasms in acute pain every so often-esp when I lay down, sleeping last night was impossible, I'm determined to stay awake today so that I can get a decent kip tonight between the pain killers and exhaustion the spasms can fuck right off.

Well, I've had enough of doing responsible things today. I've been to the quacks, got my prescriptions (and started taking the pills) called my agencies (teaching personnel are incompetent they've lost my passport and are now dodging my calls) updated my CV and applied for a number of positions on Reed, even tailoring a cover letter for a few of them. So now I'm going to make the banana pancakes that I've been craving since hearing Jack Johnson on an advert earlier in the week.

But as I now have a dongle and some spare time on my hands (& once I'm better, something interesting to write about) There should be something a bit more worth while reading on here soon.

On reflection

Busy kitchen