Due To A Combination Of Circumstances...
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magicaddict...I'm looking for a little clarification.
Said circumstances are that I have never lived in a house where both 1) I was liable for the gas bill, and 2) I had gas-fired central heating. How much would those who have say that it adds to a typical winter gas bill after 'reasonable' use? Just looking for a ballpark figure - no prizes will be given for the closest guess to what it turns out to be.
My UM title is probably the worst I have ever received. To be fair, I've only ever received seven, but it's still the worst, and its a good deal worse than the vast majority of other titles that have been seen throughout the competition.
However...
I'm not saying that it plays perfectly into my hands, but I could have had a lot more trouble coming up with inspiration that I did.
There was a certain idea I had wanted to write about for quite some time, and can incorporate the title into without it being blindingly obvious. The trade off with getting to write something I have vague notions of already is the fact hat it looks like it's going to be very, very long. The longest ever UM entry was just over ten thousand words - I don't think I'm going to do that, but it's most likely going to be the thick end of seven or eight at least. Done the research, now writing the thing. I have until Tuesday at 5pm - much earlier if I want it to be read by a large number of people.
Claiming benefits drives you up the wall, as I'm sure anyone else who has done so will attest as well. It is now just over four weeks since the date of my claim, and they've just got their act together with the statements I need to sign before they send them off to the council. Then it'll only take another two weeks, or so they say. That'll be over six - I'm going to be owed a small fortune in JSA and housing benefit that I'd really rather prefer to have been paid in easy weekly or monthly installments. I am now fully aware of why most government agencies maintain an abuse line that profane or violently agressive callers can be transferred to. They are that fucking annoying that you want to fucking beat them to death with a fucking wrench.
I managed not to commit any crucial faux pas on Wednesday morning at the Inland Revenue, so they might, maybe, with a bit of luck and a fair breeze, furnish me with a job some time next week. I can but hope. It would sort everything out nicely.
It may be possible to create a perfectly acceptable and deeply plotted TL LARP by locking a chunk of characters in a room and leaving them there, possibly with a single butter knife to make things interesting. This is a testament to how much people have been talking IC and how deeply they have got into their characters. In fact, it may not even need the butter knife - leave it long enough and there'll be enough tearing apart with bear hands going on that weaponry will become entirely surplus to requirements.
I could really use Kieran getting a move on and marking my chapter so I can properly write the rest of the PhD. It's a pain in the ass to write something, then have him come back to say "this, that and these need to be changed", and you realise that they need to be changed on everything else as well. Any time on Monday would be good.
Right. I'm heading off to give the Job Centre more paperwork, then retiring to UEH and our newly functioning central heating to do a cheap lunch and write UM, since anything PhD-related clearly isn't going to happen any time soon.
Said circumstances are that I have never lived in a house where both 1) I was liable for the gas bill, and 2) I had gas-fired central heating. How much would those who have say that it adds to a typical winter gas bill after 'reasonable' use? Just looking for a ballpark figure - no prizes will be given for the closest guess to what it turns out to be.
My UM title is probably the worst I have ever received. To be fair, I've only ever received seven, but it's still the worst, and its a good deal worse than the vast majority of other titles that have been seen throughout the competition.
However...
I'm not saying that it plays perfectly into my hands, but I could have had a lot more trouble coming up with inspiration that I did.
There was a certain idea I had wanted to write about for quite some time, and can incorporate the title into without it being blindingly obvious. The trade off with getting to write something I have vague notions of already is the fact hat it looks like it's going to be very, very long. The longest ever UM entry was just over ten thousand words - I don't think I'm going to do that, but it's most likely going to be the thick end of seven or eight at least. Done the research, now writing the thing. I have until Tuesday at 5pm - much earlier if I want it to be read by a large number of people.
Claiming benefits drives you up the wall, as I'm sure anyone else who has done so will attest as well. It is now just over four weeks since the date of my claim, and they've just got their act together with the statements I need to sign before they send them off to the council. Then it'll only take another two weeks, or so they say. That'll be over six - I'm going to be owed a small fortune in JSA and housing benefit that I'd really rather prefer to have been paid in easy weekly or monthly installments. I am now fully aware of why most government agencies maintain an abuse line that profane or violently agressive callers can be transferred to. They are that fucking annoying that you want to fucking beat them to death with a fucking wrench.
I managed not to commit any crucial faux pas on Wednesday morning at the Inland Revenue, so they might, maybe, with a bit of luck and a fair breeze, furnish me with a job some time next week. I can but hope. It would sort everything out nicely.
It may be possible to create a perfectly acceptable and deeply plotted TL LARP by locking a chunk of characters in a room and leaving them there, possibly with a single butter knife to make things interesting. This is a testament to how much people have been talking IC and how deeply they have got into their characters. In fact, it may not even need the butter knife - leave it long enough and there'll be enough tearing apart with bear hands going on that weaponry will become entirely surplus to requirements.
I could really use Kieran getting a move on and marking my chapter so I can properly write the rest of the PhD. It's a pain in the ass to write something, then have him come back to say "this, that and these need to be changed", and you realise that they need to be changed on everything else as well. Any time on Monday would be good.
Right. I'm heading off to give the Job Centre more paperwork, then retiring to UEH and our newly functioning central heating to do a cheap lunch and write UM, since anything PhD-related clearly isn't going to happen any time soon.
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Date: 2006-11-03 02:20 pm (UTC)It depends on house size, and whether or not anyone in the house works/mongs from home, but I would say that a ballpark range of £150-350 for a winter quarter is about right.
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Date: 2006-11-08 11:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-03 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-08 11:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-03 02:31 pm (UTC)Having paid gas bills by a monthly fixed direct debit, I can't really offer any prices. However on the basis that not having a gas heating bill, meant you had an electric one (seems like a reasonable conclusion?) the increase in the gas bill should be less than the savings on the electricity bill.
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Date: 2006-11-08 11:11 am (UTC)No-one is sure precisely what Calton Walk is heated by. There are no radiators - only vent in the floor that hot air occasionally comes out of, or not, on an arbitrary basis. Either way, I don't remember separately paying an electricity bill during my entire tenency, so they must have been covered by the landlord. Ergo, I wouldn't be able to tell if the cost has been supplanted, superceded or any other long piece of vocabulary to designate a change by comparison.