bear in the big blue house

what a glorious day it is today! so why am i stuck indoors with nothing to do? grrr. i’ve spent the last four or five hours just curled up on the sofa with the curtains closed watching the news about iraq. i haven’t even started with the big pile of books i need to read/memorise for the exams when i get back… *cries inwardly*

in brighter news, my friend matt rang me up last night to make arrangements about me staying at his uni in london for a few days. it will be a nice break, if anything – i live in the middle of nowhere so i’m climbing the walls, and going to university has just made this a hundred times worse. matt is very lovely but he is also very ugly – seriously. i don’t meant to be (that) cruel. he’s doing a journalism course but even he admits he has ‘a face for radio.’ poor bloke. still, there will be no sympathy lovin’ coming from this end! ugh.

he says we can be in the the ri:se audience on c4, if i want to go (it’s a little-watched breakfast television programme). it might be fun, but we’ll have to rise (ho hum) at 4 a.m. and will probably only be watched by around twenty people – doesn’t bear in the big blue house on channel five supposedly get more viewers? it wouldn’t suprise me. still, if we go i’ll let you know, so you can try and spot me looking tired and no doubt very hungover when they pan the audience.

Angry Beaver

March 21, 2003

You’re gonna be on telly. I kind of like RI:SE on the odd occasion that I’m up early enough to watch it (that would be twice. Ever). Still, you should go and try to sing the praises of your facially challenged friend until he gets a girlfriend. Or lay in bed. It’s up to you.

I watched RI : SE once for about a minute and forgot about it after that. Still its a TV programme which is *something* and its an experience too!

Maybe you’ll get lucky and you’ll go to RI:SE when they have a decent celebrity popping by to plug something or other. I wouldn’t fancy your chances though, not with GM:TV on the other side.

your diary name makes me laugh

TheMoor

I have seen RI:SE but only before the relaunch. Allegedly, it’s now got Mel and Sue and that Ian bloke for the 11 O’Clock show – all good ingredients but good ingriedients don’t make a good dish though. The Big Breakfast was particularly entertaining especially when Kelly Brook crapped up her lines: ‘Rupert Murdoch is a media module’ (moghul) – somebody please tape her mouth up!

Yes, Channel 5 is doing better than Channel 4 on the morning shows. I was on a language course and one of the students was a producer who was on gardening leave with Channel 4 as she had got a new job with Channel 5. Generally, all the best people on 4 are moving to 5! RYN: I don’t know what it’s with Sloane Rangers – it’s kind of a love-hate thing. I’ve grown up with the Sunday Times

RYN (cont): and the sight and feel of pashmina can get me hard. Yet at the same time, I moan about how they do poncy degrees like history of art (which develop what kind of transferable skills?) and then they get plumb jobs in PR and stuff whilst hard workin’ Indian boys do engineering degrees (which involve lots of hard maths, lots of contact hours etc) and then only get stable, averagely paid

jobs.

rebelwithoutaquilt

4am? That’s evil. And you should have just gone out in your garden and lazed about in the sunshine or something.

What is this RI:SE devilry you speak of? I really should watch TV or something.

Curiosita

April 11, 2003

Bear in the Big Blue House is great. My 2-year-old loves it. Still ri:se might be fun too, it’s not something you get to do every day and it beats swimming.