Friends with taste!

Subject: Friends with taste!
From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 12:23 PM

I have to tell the world how great my mates are. I'm leaving the corporate ratrace tomorrow to go off to university once more to start my PhD. My friends called me round to their desks today, told me to close my eyes, and handed me...a guitar! Needless to say I'm practically bawling my eyes out with gratitude. They know I've been saving for one. They couldn't have picked a nicer present, and I couldn't have picked nicer friends. I don't want to leave them all now (I'm moving right out of Norn Ireland and off to SW England - Bristol), but they say I have to go now or they'll get the guitar refunded...
Anyway, this is just me telling anyone who'll listen that I'm really going to miss friends like these.

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: black walnut
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 12:29 PM

what gifts ~ the guitar AND the friends! enjoy the journey....

~black walnut

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 12:32 PM

Thanks!
I'm a 3-chord-wonder at present, but I've sworn I'll play every day (and then come back and bore them to death with Stairway to Heaven, hee hee)

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 12:32 PM

Wow, what a deal! You're very lucky to have friends like that.

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 12:36 PM

Yes, they're a class bunch! Now I'm off to take them all for a drink, get sloshed and cry and tell them all how much I love them (they're claiming I'm easily bought....)

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: Mbo
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 12:42 PM

I get by with a little help from my friends!

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: hesperis
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 01:27 PM

I get high with a little help from my friends!

(Actually, I can get high without even taking anything, just because life is so fantastic sometimes!)

Fibula, I know what you mean. Congratulations on your guitar, and those friends of yours are wonderful people.

So, we'll be hearing you at a HearMe when you can play, hmm? {{HINT!}}

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 01:39 PM

WE? When you gonna come over, hesp?

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: hesperis
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 01:53 PM

Oh?
I thought you were coming over here?

sophocleese'll make sure you eat properly, Little Hawk'll commiserate with you about women, flattop'll try to annoy you so just ignore him, Johnny Death'll play you all those just wonderful songs about death on the highway, and I'll - well, I haven't quite decided what to do with you. ::innocent look::

(Music is always good.)

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 02:01 PM

nOW i AM ALL WARM AND FUZZY. eNJOY YOUR STUDIES AND YOUR GUITAR. a TREASURE FOR LIFE. Damn Capslock!!!

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 02:18 PM

Sinsull,

Every damn time you damn poor Capslock, I have to offer an intercessory prayer for the poor guy. Geez, Louise!

*G*

~S~

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 02:21 PM

That is really wonderful, Fibula! Congratulations on going for your PhD and what great friends you have!

All the best,

kat

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: Quincy
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 02:38 PM

Fib,
A cousin of mine from Belfast just finished studying in Britol and he really enjoyed it.
All the very best, keep in touch,
Yvonne

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 03:06 PM

Wonderful story and wonderful friends Fib.......a moment and a thought you will never forget. Thanks for bringing it here. BTW, will you still speak to us when you are Piled Higher and Deeper? Good on ya'........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: sophocleese
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 04:11 PM

Since you obviously have such excellent taste in friends, I wonder why you keep coming here too...Joke joke.

Have a great time doing the PHD (may I ask what you're studying) and enjoy playing your guitar.

sophocleese

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 04:35 PM

Praise,
Maybe if you prayed for improvement of my typing abilities instead, we would both be better off. Did you see my Surplice of Praises offering on groups of animals? I keep waiting for a response.
Sorry. Back to the guitar and PhD thread.

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: CarolC
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 09:36 PM

Congratulations, and best wishes.

Carol

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 10:15 PM

Soph, you have an interesting point. I suppose to have friends of good taste, you must first be a person of good taste.

This goes a long way to explaining my lack of friends with good taste.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: paddymac
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 10:39 PM

Good on ye, Fib. Done that thing twice myself, and would probably do it again it I wasn't still recovering from trying to get two kids thru the process. Some people do it for money, but that's probably the least valid reason to pursue a higher degree. At the end of the road, it's mostly about personal satisfaction and the joy of learning.

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 11:43 AM

(Post pub report...)
No hangover...how did I ever make it through the drinks people kept handing me and emerge with no hangover? Usually I'm being incredibly sick at this stage.
We crawled around a few of the finest Belfast drinking dens. I spent the entire night telling anyone who'd listen "They got me a GUITAR!". I've noticed another worrying thing. Had I been given a guitar 9 or 10 years ago (when I was but a mere 14 or 15) I would have had a different reaction, but when one of my mates said "Now's your chance to become a rock star!" I said "Nah, I'm sticking to folk". He threatened to hit me over the head with said instrument until I promised I'd never sing "Kumbaya" (not a difficult promise to make).

Thanks for the good wishes everyone.
sophocleese - it's a PhD in computer graphics and archaeology, a combination of the careers I've done so far in my short, er, career.

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: Hollowfox
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 03:45 PM

Congratulations, FM! It sounds like a good combination-major. As a changing-of-venue present, I'll pass on a link-laden website that a friend just passed to me: http://og-man.net (someday I'll print out the instructions to blue up the addresses on the 'Cat). It's humbly titled "Every Celtic Thing on the Net"; some of the stuff is silly (more than somewhat), but the history links have potential. May your move be smooth and your classes be interesting. Mary

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: Gypsy
Date: 08 Sep 00 - 12:44 AM

It restores my faith in the bounty of the universe. Many congratulations.

Oh yeah..."Alas poor Capslock, I knew him well...."

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: hesperis
Date: 08 Sep 00 - 02:05 PM

http://og-man.net

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: LR Mole
Date: 08 Sep 00 - 02:54 PM

Why, it's a love song of J. Alfred Capslock.I vote that the E chord is the best to learn first, and none of that barring stuff either. Barre none.

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Sep 00 - 03:20 PM

I got that PhD thingey, but couldn't master that guitar thingey.

Subject: RE: Friends with taste!
From: Gypsy
Date: 08 Sep 00 - 09:41 PM

Nay, 'tis Angus McCapslock, laddie