Ladycroft's Journal

10/15/2009 09:57 #50020

air supply - live in doha
Category: about doha

then....

now....

They are doing sound check right now. They actually sound pretty good for being old fogies!

I guess it's nice to have your office next to one of doha's only concert venues..not that they ever get much music around here. It's free and relaxing while I work :)

tinypliny - 10/15/09 21:33
So how were they? I am hunting for their songs on last.fm and all the ones they have up there are live versions that sound so disastrously out-of-tune! It scares me to think what their live concerts must be like. I just heard two of their live songs and I am devastated. I don't think I want to damage my memories of them anymore by listening to live tuneless croaking!

tinypliny - 10/15/09 10:36
WOwiE! I love "Goodbye" and all their random songs!

10/14/2009 13:36 #50012

he got me flowers!!
Category: potpourri

A big giant bunch of em!

You are amazing (e:Rory)!

metalpeter - 10/14/09 19:58
That was very nice of him. I really like those blueones a lot. Being a guy I'm more of a liking flowers that are growing as opposed to in a vase. But those blue ones make be reconsider that a bit.

mrmike - 10/14/09 18:38
well done, ypung man, well done

lauren - 10/14/09 15:31
LOVE the colors! very well done :)

libertad - 10/14/09 13:38
Those are nice.

10/12/2009 12:29 #49991

wedding FYI
Category: wedding plans

If you're attending the wedding, just wanted to make sure ya'll know that costumes are welcomed at the reception!!! There will be a few young people present so no hookers please :)

Get excited!

Oh and a shout out to (e:Metalpeter) - you really are one of the most sincere and genuine guys I've had the pleasure of knowing.

ladycroft - 10/14/09 04:53
hahaha - then we could have a guess the true couple contest with the bar downstairs :)

leetee - 10/14/09 00:06
uhm... so, if, say for example, (e:uncutsaniflush) and i decided to be a bride and groom this haloween you would be cool with that? ;o)

metalpeter - 10/12/09 19:59
First of all Thanks. Second of all that sounds like past tense so I hope I'm not getting murdered at the reception, HA. In Terms of Costumes at the Reception I may wear one, it is at the Pearl St. if I remember correctly not sure where that room is. But catching a Bus in one might be a drag so I may pass. Ok kids so no stripper out fit ok, HA. On a side note If I do have a costume I'm sure it will be the same one I wear to the (e:strip) party on Friday night. It has been mentioned on Facebook but not here yet, I think.

tinypliny - 10/12/09 12:37
Once again, sorry about the whole trip home. I really wanted to attend... :(

10/08/2009 13:02 #49964

trifecta
Category: potpourri

I've been sick for a few days now. Multiple symptoms which actually feel like 3 distinct illnesses that just happen to be at the same time. The trifecta of sick. I mean, if I had to get sick, at least let it be now BEFORE we get to USA for the wedding!

Rory has been away in Turkey all week so I'm looking forward to his return this evening :)

That's all.

mrmike - 10/09/09 13:17
repost that link

metalpeter - 10/08/09 18:53
Hope you get better soon. You make a good point about being sick now though. That reminds me I have to revisit the weeding site also.

libertad - 10/08/09 13:21
Hope you feel better soon!

09/27/2009 03:49 #49863

culture clash
Category: potpourri

Finally getting to take my Eid break this week! Technically we were out of the office last week but I was still on duty. I had a doozie of a call Friday night. It almost makes me laugh because it sounds so rediculous to us as westerners, to say I had to show up and spend 2.5 hours investigating and interviewing students who decided to mix gender in one of the apartments. Over here it's such a serious offense and people are freaked out about getting deported. I'm thinking, then was it actually worth risking deportation just to hang out? I mean yes, it blows big fat goats that we can't be 'who we are' over here - but we are guests of another country, and like it or not we need to abide by their laws. I guess I traded regular alcohol infractions for major cultural clashes. At least (I don't THINK) Qatar does not participate in stoning women for 'tainting' themselves by being the presence of guys without a chaperon. Having grown up with freedom it makes it hard to enforce things like this, I almost feel like a brainwashed Nazi. This is one of the hardest parts of being an expat - when your core values are judged and infringed upon on a regular basis by a school of thought that you simply cannot identify with.

SO...got lots of wedding stuff done while Rory was also off last week. Namely settling the ceremony. I think we found the right words that 'sound like us', and the music as well. Not traditional, but not so far off it would scare the older generations. :)

lilho - 09/30/09 01:59
i don't think i could live like that. actually, i know i couldn't. i would go insane. i admire you though, the stories you have to tell...

metalpeter - 09/27/09 12:06
I'm a bit crazy as you know in some ways. I think I'm now more looking forward to seeing how things come out then the weeding itself.

In Terms of the Job thing, I don't have any advice at all. But what you are saying doesn't sound crazy. Now I never lived in the dorms but when I was in school I thought that dorms where separated by gender or sex. I thought integrated dorms was a pretty new thing (I'm sure all schools do thing a little differently). I thought some schools have rules about like no boys after like a certain time but not sure (again never dormed). But the point you make is very good and very true that you have to follow some else's rules. Now I do have an odd question With you being a women I assume that you can only go to women's rooms by your self? If you went to a man's you would need a Champorne?