» Sleepwalking

My sister
(who's a regular lurker here so will probably read this) used to sleep walk a *lot* when we were kids, so, some highlights:

*Sleepwalking down the stairs to my parents bed room (parents have a dormer bungalow) with quilt in tow -- never once tripped over it and it's an open plan stair case.

*Sleepwalking in the hotel room whilst on holiday in Malta but somehow following the route that would take her downstairs in our home, so cue opening door to bathroom and not finding a stair case.

*When we had bunk beds with sofas underneath (MFI number) she manages to climb down from her bunk, come into my room (across the landing) climb up my bunk's ladders and wake me up to ask me something (can't remember what now). My solution? Tell her to go back to bed, so off she goes back to her room, climb back up her bunk and into bed. This was all whilst sleep walking (though eyes were open and were just black)

There's probably more that I can't remember right now. All stopped before she finished junior school.

As for me, I don't sleepwalk but I sometimes (rarely) remember dreams, or more specifically, I'm semi-conscious in the dream and something shall happen and I'll just say in the dream "well this can't be real because that can't happen" and I wake up.
(Thu 23rd Aug 2007, 22:14, More)

» Work Experience

The trick is to work with people you know
Spent my work experience at a IT company where I was mates with many of the staff, including the owners.

Great time, me and a mate from school got in there (both knew the company pretty well, which was a small company but the majority of staff spent all day at various customer sites), there was also this other kid from another school.

We'd heard what *normally* happens to work experience kids there, but our expertise (we were administrating our school network on a day to day basis) and our knowledge of the company meant there was discussions over which one of the staff would get our help on sites everyday.

Turned out that I got to work with the one owner, ended up replacing some of the hardware in a few machines and tinkering with the server in the school we were working at. This was all while I was checking the hot ladies out and being checked out by them(!) (the head of IT put one of his cute 17 yr old first year sixth formers on the spot when he talked across the whole class to me about her interest in me, which he overheard when helping someone else).

The guy from the other school? Well he got their typical work experience job...sorting the various screws into the correct boxes. When he complained the owner just said "Don't do it and I'll write that in my report"

As for the rest of us, well due to timetable constraints at my school we couldn't do more than a week work experience. Of this week the company was shutting down on the Thursday and Friday for a Microshite conference in the NEC....First week of first job and a four day weekend \o/
(Thu 10th May 2007, 11:01, More)

» Strange things you've been paid to do

i second that proudclod
Why bother being a member (tehehe member) of b3ta if you have no bad taste? everyone needs that break from reality....b3ta gives that :)
(Thu 30th Sep 2004, 20:12, More)

» Shoddy Presents

yes, another aunty one...
my parents stopped buying presents altogether for my cousins about 8 years ago. This all happened because one christmas my mother bought my cousins silver money boxes each. My Aunt and Uncle gave my brother and I blue peter style ( think fairy liquid bottles etc) slime pack things from the ghostbusters film, with the paint still wet and bits falling off. They also bought us some plastic toys from poundland, but put them in shoeboxes because "the wrapper broke" :: ahem....sure it did ::....quite glad since it meant more money was spent on our presents by my parents...woohoo! hehehehe.
(Mon 27th Sep 2004, 17:50, More)