Hugely, catastrophically late for the Mixer...

[Kirstini]

I wrote: 
>>>Currently unemployed <snip> Recently acquired excellent skills in 
Microsoft Office (thanks,chaps!). As yet, said skills have not 
increased my desirability in the employment market.>>>

Dave wrote (very sweetly):
>>Oh, bad luck!  I hope it wasn't because of the advice we dished 
out.>>

No, not at all. I am now, because of pesky second 
degree, "overqualified" to be a glorified receptionist. And these 
grapes taste just fine, thanks. 
;)

Dave also wrote:
>>Ah, The Book Group.  I felt a vague sense of duty about that one, 
being as how I'm in HPFGU, and watched an episode.  I just couldn't 
get into it.  It was partly that, at least in that episode, the way 
the characters were behaving seemed to have very little to do with 
the fact that they were reading books together.
I don't know if this one went abroad, but... Anyone spot parallels to 
HPFGU?>>

I wonder if one requires intimate knowledge of the Glaswegian accent 
to enjoy The Book Group. As for parallels to HPfGU, as I recall, the 
characters featured included: one neurotic American 
immigrant/frustrated writer, her sister, a rather more sadistic 
American who slept with people, one post-graduate student writing 
about literature whilst not smacked out of his face (that's a medical 
term, by the way), one bearded artist with social problems, one 
former football casual now sleeping with the team captain, the wife 
of said captain,who was also a professional drama queen and farming 
correspondant for Scottish Television, two gorgeous, sex-crazed 
Scandinavians, and the Scot's Porridge Oats Man in a wheelchair, all 
of whom spent six episodes a series in and out of each other's beds. 
Parallels? Ooh, I feel a new Lifestyle Poll coming on...

Actually, each episode was loosely based around the plot of the book 
they were supposed to be reading that week, and the meetings became 
less discussion groups, and more forums for them to shout at each 
other about the sex had in the previous six days. Perhaps we could 
use this idea to redirect interest to the Chapter Discussions?

Kirstini