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Monday, April 26th, 2010
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10:09 am
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A lib-dem/tory coalition? Really? Really?
Maybe I should listen to my dad and vote green after all.
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| Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
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1:53 pm - Well, this is depressing
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| Monday, March 8th, 2010
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9:29 am
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Last chance to decide! Do I cut my hair to just below my chin or keep it long and just have a trim? Do I really want to cut off a good 8 inches of hair? What if it looks shit? And I won't be able to hide behind my hair any more...
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| Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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2:50 pm
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I've had the Killing Moon by Echo and the Bunnymen in my head for 2 days now. Please stop!
I've decided I want a part time extra job for a few months to try and sort out my finances (and afford to go to Egypt!). If anyone knows of anything 8-12 hrs a week evenings/weekends, drop me a line.
Customer service or admin, or I can do a bit of book-keeping/accounts at a pinch. Or gardening. But maybe not gardening in the evenings... Or whatever. Really I want one of those jobs where you sit at home in front of the TV sticking things to cards but I don't know how to get one. Or to just sit on a till for 4 hrs a couple of nights a week...
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| Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
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8:42 pm
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Finally finished my 2 weeks of continuous working, made it through the Christmas party, and to manchester and back at the weekend. Altho after over 7 hours driving up the A1 I have decided to never let Reuben navigate me anywhere again. Was good to see Chris, I totally love him, 22 years old or no. I'm hoping he gets a mapping job in cornwall by the sea so I can go and visit him and freeload...
Hits of the near Future Christmas yesterday, parents back today and I have spent the day making mince pies and chocolate cupcakes for everyone at work and cleaning and cleaning and cleaning, not mention a pointless 3 hr round trip to Edgware community hospital to see the psycological therapies person. My case is confusing enough that she had to go and consult her supervisor about what to do. So I am on the waiting list for 1:1 CBT, only a year... and I somehow need to find time to make christmas crackers for our accounts christmas party on friday since I am too cheap to buy everyone proper presents.
Anyway, I might as well do the end of year thing coz I'll probably have forgotten everything by next year.
( that obligatory 2009 meme )
Roll on Christmas, if only for 3 lie-ins in a row. Hallelujah!
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| Monday, December 14th, 2009
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12:19 pm
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| Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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3:47 pm
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Yesterday I woke up and wondered why they were playing Robbie Williams on radio 6. Then I realised it was De La Soul.
Said to Substitute Counting Boy (three-quarter length trouser man) that I wanted to hear synths. So today I have been treated to a chronological representation of the evolution of the synth... he is also going to make me an 80's synth pop CD called 'synthtopia'. Put that in your pipe and smoke it ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) p_dan_tic.
I quite like La Roux. I really don't want to. But I do. (It sounds like Prince tho).
Day 6 of 12 days in a row. Only 6 more days to go!
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| Thursday, November 26th, 2009
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11:02 am
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If anyone wants 15% off books this weekend there is a nice voucher here. And you can pop into Borders over the road to pick over the carcass and possibly get Chris Evans' autobiography or the new Jordan book at a 75% discount...
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| Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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12:39 pm
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born
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| Thursday, October 8th, 2009
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12:55 pm
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I will be in bar 55 in camden on sunday from 4pm for chilled-out birthday drinks. Got no credit to text everyone and not feeling über enthusiastic about it altho the sun is shining and I am in a far better mood today, but would be cool to see people.
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| Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
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3:42 pm
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pour encourager les autres (and to cheer me up), here are some things I feel lacking in my life of a birthday hint type flavour:
cakes from the hummingbird bakery
body shop vitamin E face cream
body shop almond intensive hand cream (the one that comes in a pot not a tube)
some random cds of good bands
lush bath balls
random cake decorating stuff
a book by neal stephenson
the new hillary mantel ('tis a hardback)
pants
a daisy-shaped cake pan (one can be found here)
a super-duper food processor
love
glitter
a non-hideous key-ring
trainers
earrings
Please note people who do not bring me a birthday present will continue to receive love nonetheless.
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| Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
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12:34 pm - 3 things that annoyed me this morning:
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Switched on the radio, they were playing the new placebo song. Listened for a bit, thinking 'actually, this is ok'. Then I thought about it and realised that this is their 6th album and they are still pumping out exactly the same tunes they started with, but without any of the edgy, angsty feeling that made them good. As Shawn Keaveny put it 'the never-ending whine'. Exactly.
Then he played toploader.
Then the news that apparently 'all women should be taking folic acid' because there has been an increase in spina bifida in scotland. Note, not 'if you are likely in any way shape or form to have a baby you should take folic acid', no, it's 'all women' because we cannot be trusted to know our own minds about our sneaky, sneaky bodies, and clearly adding it to breakfast cereals and bread without asking us isn't working, so never mind if it might give you cancer, better start taking it just in case or you will be a Bad Woman.
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| Friday, August 28th, 2009
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2:34 pm
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Mmmmmm delicious vegan lunch from delicious veggie cafe.... except... there are gherkins in my potatoes!!!
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| Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
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3:27 pm
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optical express just sent me an email, in the guise of '10 top tips for looking good', what is actually a thinly-veiled advert for cosmetic surgery. Words can not express how irate this makes me.
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| Thursday, August 20th, 2009
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6:56 pm
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suppose I should write a bit about Sziget...
Budapest was hot hot hot and sticky despite everyone claiming it was going to rain. Not my ideal weather for a festival since about 25 degrees is the top of my comfort zone and I get grumpy when I'm hot. Hits included Lily Allen (somewhat surprisingly), Prodigy (natch), and Manics (they played little baby nothing ♥). Saw quite a cool French folksy musician called Emily Loiseau who I suspect is the next Madeleine Peyroux. Also stumbled upon a Hungarian outfit called Heaven Street Seven who were good enough to make me miss the end of the Offspring. Maximo park were kind of limp, Placebo mainly played their new album which was a bit of a let down (& nothing off the first album) and neither of the 2 bands I saw on the metal stage (Satyricon & Deathstars)impressed me much. So much for the music.
Andy and Mel reminded me slightly of my parents, Andy the easy going but obtuse dad, Mel the nagging yet consistently right mother - guess that makes me the sulking teenager throwing a strop and making my parents hold my stuff while I run off to do stupid things? sounds worryingly accurate! Definitely good holidaying companions tho, and was cool too see Chris as well, if only to have someone to jump about down the front at gigs with :-)
Not sure how I feel about going to such a big festival and not camping. Have decided I pretty much don't like big festivals, all too commercial and hard to get close enough to see any of the bands and just inescapable people everywhere. And the mess, and the toilets. Feel like I missed out by not camping though, even though we didn't have any limit on when we needed to leave I feel like if I had been camping I would have wandered around more after the bands seeing random stuff and talking to random people. And drunk more. And the heat and the fact that towards the end I was getting ill made me feel a bit tired and lame the whole time.
This makes it sound like I didn't have a very good time, which is in fact not the truth, was definitely worth it for the manics alone! Also enjoyed wandering round Budapest, I feel like there's a lot more there that I haven't seen and would definietly be up for going back. I'll add it to my long long list of future trips...
Looking forward to my Paris/Venice trip now, not quite sure how I managed to swing quite so much travelling this year, especially with my finances in their current state! Looks like I'll be going to Paris by myself but tbh I'm not too phased by that, hopefully I can meet some people in the hostel and it at least allows me a lot more freedom to do what i want to do. That said if anyone wants to come don't think eurostar has gone up too much as yet - 9th september-16th september!
Off to the theatre tonight, by myself after the debacle I had with the last lot of tickets. It's some kind of Spanish theatre company reworking the story of red riding hood in the same series as the Macbeth thing so we will see how it pans out.
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| Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
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10:35 pm
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It was so much easier to do laundry when all my clothes were black :-(
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| Thursday, July 30th, 2009
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3:11 pm
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you know when you go to the pub with a friend, and you just sit there drinking and chatting and getting drunker and drunker until you don't really know what you are talking about any more, but it is the best idea ever, anyway, and then when you leave you have to sort of hold on to each other to stand up and laugh a lot and they are your favourite person in the whole world and the whole journey home is a bit hazy and you spend the whole of the next day too tired and feeling a bit ill?
That, that is what I want to do right now.
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| Monday, July 27th, 2009
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8:37 pm
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| Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
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1:55 pm
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Two requests:
Firstly, I need someone to cut my hair because it looks like crap, I am poor and also have a mild phobia of hairdressers. Otherwise I might have to resort to doing it myself...
Secondly, I need someone with a largeish car to help me move some stuff back to my parent's, since my mother has decided that 2 weeks before I move is a great time to take a 2 week holiday with the car in scotland. Could ask Mr Stew but he's away for the next week and only has a nissan micra which I doubt very much is going to fit my mattress in it.
I wish people would realise that when they consistently don't reply to my messages, don't trouble to hide the fact that they can't be bothered to see me, or arrange to do things and then cancel at the last minute, this makes me think I must be a horrible person. It takes so little effort to not make me feel like crap, so get some sodding empathy, k?
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| Monday, July 20th, 2009
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7:50 pm
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Back from Latitude, it really really rocked and I saw so much random shit I never expected to see. ( cut for rambling )
Probably won't go back to the flat tonight. Ben will probably glare at me, and in my head it has already stopped being home.
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