| A, E and Me |
[Apr. 26th, 2006|07:25 pm] |
He He, love this pic of A, E and me from my birthday celebrations in London. Despite the fact that I was absolutely trashed I still managed to look more sober than the pair of them!!
Had a really cool time. After the amazingness of my 21st last year, I relly wasn't sure what to do for my bday, untill the lovely B suggested that we all go and stay at his flat in the big smoke and party it up Londres stylee!!
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| Viva Espagne! |
[Apr. 25th, 2006|07:26 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | holiday seville | ] |
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| |  sick | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | That random bloody ketchup song | ] |
Back from Seville!
Went with E + A to visit our friend wo has been living there for a year with her uni corse. The weather wasn't amazing, which was a bit of a disappointment - I was so looking forward to relaxing in the sun.
In any case this at least lead to us proving our britishness by going to the beach in the rain, wearing very little clothing and still insisting on paddling in the sea and having races in the sand whilst the Spaniards looked on in horror. My generous appliaction of Johnson's holiday skin meant that I at least have not come back as pale as I left, but my complete disregard for my food intolerances (but tapas tastes so goooooood!) means that I have come back looking around 3 months pregnant. Ah well, the bloating will fade, whereas my memories of freshly baked bread smothered in roasted peppers and olive oil will remain...
So worth it.
Unfortunately have also bought back a nasty cold as a souvineer. Boo! |
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| Been away a v long time |
[Apr. 17th, 2006|12:24 am] |
Oh dear.
I can't believe it's been such a long time since I've been here! I was randomly looking fo a fic that I never finished reading earlier and thought, " I know, I'm sure I've got the author friended in my live journal!". It hen thought "Frickin hell, I have a live journal, and didn't I actually really used to enjoy updating it with my random thoughts on the universe and other such self-satisfying things? In fact, if I had this author friended, I must have had other people whose journals I regularly read, and those who occasionally glanced at mine, and even commented! My oh my, what a world I've been missing!"
And I have been missing. It. (woo for my grammer) I completely realise that the halt of my online life seems to have neatly coincided with me getting a job, and making my first foray into the adult world. In trying to be super-grown-up-me I have very much neglected this whole part of my life, and I really miss it. I remember friends that I made online in may late teens, and they really got me through some difficult times, and I don't know if times got easier for them too, but we all seemed to slowly disband and disappear.
I used to race to get online, first there was the 'hysteria club' - Janet, Jen (sweetie - who I think I still see around in the Buffy communities, but I never know if she'll remember me) Gwen, Sophia, Lis, and so many more - it was all about beer, cheese and spike. We even lead a revolution over one of the big buffy boards by pretending to be B/A - there was a major falling out. It seems so trivial now but at the time it was so controversial. It's kind of like I had my high school experience online - being part of a clique etc. Obviously I have lot's of RL friends, but even they joked at the time that if I had broadband in my dorm room in uni then I'd never step outside apart from to go to classes. Then there was the James Marsters Fashion Squad. We had parties, I made banners, we were the most off topic group on fan forum. We got realy close, then I actually had chance to meet one of them in RL - I completely chickened out. It's so strange, I was completely prepared to travel to LA and stay with her (my parents on the other hand were completely not prepared to let me) but as soon as she was here I just never got round to sorting it. Still feel a bit guilty about that one.
I checked today, and fanforum.com doesn't even seem to be there. Everyone seems to have given up on the unholy community.
So this is a long entry, and this would usually be the bit where I say "I'm back!", or "I'm really going to make an effort to stay in contact this time!", but I've done that too much. So I'm typing now, and I hope to do so again, but I'm busy. But I miss this. |
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| A future in literature? |
[Aug. 6th, 2005|11:08 pm] |
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| | KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope | ] |
Well there goes my plan on funding my retirement by writing really crappy bodice-rippers.
Gakked from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) phendog
MYSTERY! - Who-dunnit? And How? And Why? Your
inquiring mind understands the secret workings
of the villainous murderer and thief. You feel
the need to build a puzzle so complex, and a
villain so unsuspected that you leave the
reader gasping in shock on the last page.
Darryl Hammett and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are
your guides.
What Kind of Novel Should I Write?
brought to you by Quizilla |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 6th, 2005|10:20 pm] |
Ahhh, my beatiful LJ, it has been too long.
Started work last monday and although it's really cool I have been completely cream-crackered. My poor ickle, or not so ickle at the moment actually (but more of that later) ex-student body can't hack the pace of a 9-5. It especially had trouble with the one day that ended up being a 6:45-:7:15. However, I seem to be slowly getting into a routine, to the point that getting up at 8:15 this morning seemed like a lie-in.
My body seems to be swelling at an incredible rate, I'm now 7 pounds heavier than when I came back from univrsity, and a whole 14 pounds heavier than before I went on holiday to cornwall. No idea whats bloody happening, don't really seem to have changed my diet, and if anything I'm exercising more. I can only conclude that this house makes me fat.
So as I sit here with my jeans cutting into my flesh in a rather uncomfortable manner, what has had the biggest impact on me in the last two weeks? A low point is definately that I got a letter from my graduation photographers sayong that their camera broke and I have no graduation photos! Boo! It's not a huge problem though, I just have to go and get them re-taken. The other most exciting thing has to be finally getting my hands on Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince after my mother finally finished it. Kinda had to let her read it first as I pre-ordered if for her for mothers day.
( Here be HPVI spoilers )
The second most exciting thing has definately got to be......... drum roll please.........
BROADBAND!
Broadband broadband broadband! *does dance of the broadband-having, dressed in a natty 'having of the broadband' outfit*
Woooooooo! |
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| Proboscis Genetailiae |
[Jul. 23rd, 2005|12:43 am] |
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| | Songs that I don't know the words to | ] |
I am at a party, and have come to the conclusion that Owen Wilson's nose looks like a Penis. |
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| Scarier and Scarier |
[Jul. 22nd, 2005|04:48 pm] |
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Armed Police in London have shot a man outside Stockwell station. Eyewitnesses report seeing the man, believed to have been one of yesterdays would-be-bombers five times. Police have also surrounded and cordoned off the East London Mosque. Just what's getting to be an ordinary day then. sigh |
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| Mortarboards and Bikinis |
[Jul. 20th, 2005|07:18 pm] |
... not worn at the same time, obviously.
Lots done in the past week, hence the lack of LJ activity.
Last wednesday was my graduation. I was a little worried about what it would be like, the ceremony itself sounded incredibly boring, and also we graduate by school, so only people I knew through the history department would be there. It's quite annoying that you can't graduate on the same day as all of your friends; as other brits know, we don't get a graduation ceremony from High School here (or no one that I've heard of has) so the University graduation ceremony is it. (unless I go crazy and do a masters at any point).
Arrived in Leeds at lunchtime after managing to convince my father that getting to my graduation ceremony on time was mildly more important than washing the car. It was a fabulously sunny day, british weather decided to go crazy recently and actually give us some sunshine. Unfortunately it was just way too hot once had all of my robes on (which were surprisingly fancy, didn't realise that there'd be so much , erm, ruching), which has probably resulted in my graduation photo, which will be displayed on family walls for years to come, being of me at my most 'glowing'. Great.
In anycase, had a really good time. Father bought a jug of Pimms (gotta love guilt) which we consumed on the lawn (union prices though!), the ceremony itself went very quickly (thank god, it was a snoozefest where the professor announcing us looked at everyone in turn and smiled like he was aour bezzie mate. I've never met the bloke! To make things slightly more annoying my dissertation supervisor, whom I wanted to thank for helping me get a 70, looked past me blankly. He is old though, and a litle eccentric; I'm not sure he knew where he was full stop.) and the reception afterwards, although very hot, was a nice chance to catch up with people.
The rents then took me for a slap up meal on the way home. Mmm, just what I needed. Yummy chocolate-mousse flavoured calories.
Then Thurs morn it was off to cornwall with the loopyladies, for, erm, a business trip. A business trip that involved, amongst other things, hopscotch on the beach, loud prounouncements upon levels of sex being had by individuals made in resteraunts and gin and tonic being smuggled into communal gardens in a tonic bottle to avoid looking like alchies.
Bliss. Back now, avec strapmarks, and now have a birthday party, a BBQ and an anniversary party and then I start work on Monday. AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH. |
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| What to say |
[Jul. 8th, 2005|02:39 pm] |
Felt I had to post about what happened here in the UK yesterday, but what to say?
Obviously, I'm fine. I don't live in london. However, I have friends who do. Luckily they are also fine, although obviously shaken. It's not nice to think that the transport system that gets them to work everyday was such an easy target, or how easily this could happen again.
Important days always have a surreal edge to them. Or maybe that's just me. But this one started when I'd been woken up by my mom early due to my degree resuly transcript arriving in the post. I knew my classification already, but I wanted to see what I'd got for my dissertation. A first. Brilliant!
So I was watching Moonlighting reruns on Paramount and my Mom's friend arrived to pick her up and asked if I'd seen any news. At that point no one really knew what the hell was going on. The Underground officials were still reporting that a power surge had taken place. It wasn't untill the bus exploded that it was obvious what was going on. So I tried to contact my friends in London. Luckily they were able to get back to me within an hour or so to tell me they were fine.
Now I'm not a scarily patriotic person, but I'm so proud of the incredibly, well, English way that everything was handled. No fuss. Just get on with it. Gotta love that stiff upper lip. |
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| Crazy-Busy |
[Jul. 1st, 2005|10:48 am] |
I got a 2:1!! Woo! does dance of the having of a degree Huzaah! So pleased, was quite terrified when _mully phoned me to tell me my results, think she was more nervous about getting mine than her own.
Everything feels a bit manic at the moment. Went out for dinner last night with new work peeps, and feel a bit more relaxed about joining later this month now that I've met everyone properly.
So now its a quick trip back up to Leeds to see _mully, back again to see Richard II at Ludlow (out door performance at the castle, really hope the weather's good!), back up again for graduation, then to cornwall for a few days with the loopyladies and then I start work! Not to mention one friend's 21st birthday party tomorrow, and another's request to go visit him in Exeter before I start work. Not quite sure how I'm going to work that one out!
So yeah, my LJ presence may be intermittent for a while.
The father's got the day off work today, may use this valuble time for some DSL campaigning. |
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| Trapped in Dial Up Hell |
[Jun. 21st, 2005|01:15 pm] |
How is it that my parents have not yet managed to rid themselves of the slow-burning hell that is dial-up? I'm telling you, it's almos enough to put me off the net altogether. Not only am I trapped with a 40k connection, but there's only one access point in the house. This means that the thought 'hmmmm, better chck my email' becomes a rather more complex process than it was when I was at uni.
Checking email at Uni
1. Right click on little Msn logo
2. Click on 'my inbox'
Checking email at home
1. Go downstairs, fighting off the pack of dogs who have decided that it's your duty to feed them something everytime they lay eyes on you
2. Open rickety desk which threatens to fall apart upon any contact.
3. Root through my mother's patented 'filing system o' crap' looking for laptop.
4. Carefully place laptop upon desk (for desk related risks, see #2)
5. Locate power adaptor and phone cable amongst 'filing system o' crap' and plug in across the other side of the hallway, switch on lap top.
6. Curse as marauding beasts/dogs decide that they can jump over various cables spanning hallway. They can't.
7. Plug cables back in.
8. Try to dialup.
9. Fail to get ring tone, plug cables back in (see#6)
10. Repeat #6-#9 untill connection is achieved
11. Yay! You may now surf the net at unbearably slow speeds! (barring repetition of #6)
So, um, yeah, that's why I'm not online very often at the moment.
On a more serious note, I'm sitting waiting to hear my degree results, I'm bloody terrified. |
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| AWOL |
[Jun. 13th, 2005|07:09 pm] |
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| | Greenday - When September Ends | ] |
Sorry for going AWOL for a bit, have been in the process of 'the big move'. Yes, I have left my own lovely house in Leeds where I could stay out all night and drink to my heart's content and moved back in with the parents. Where I can stay out all night and drink to my heart's content, but I have to fight my mother for the Gin.
So that's it. University's over. Can't believe that three years could go so quickly, and now I'm onto the next step, whatever that may be!
Anyway, I'll try to catch up with my Flist. Hope I haven't missed anything crazily exciting. |
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| Hmmm.... Alcohol... |
[May. 27th, 2005|03:29 am] |
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Went drinking with _mully and the other housemate tonight. Have just returned, so apologise for any crazy drunken typing/typos etc.
Went to a bar for cocktails (nice jug of Sex on the Beach. How classy are we?) then on to a club where we drank and reminisced. Can't believe I'm not going to live with these people forever, nevermind beliveing that I won't live with them after next week. Three years at university is a big part of your life, you know? These ladies have shaped it for me.
Anyhoo, on a lighter note, snagged from phendog
P... Phosphorous
You scored 43 Mass, 44 Electronegativity, 37 Metal, and 10 Radioactivity! |
| You're high energy... really high. Unfortunately, you don't always put your energy to calm constructive use and sometimes let it all out in intense bursts. If your energy can be harnessed however, you will produce truly great things. I suggest you take up a job that runs you ragged... like opening and closing a Sodium-Potassium pump. Socially you ought to hang with a crowd that is even more social than you. If you don't, well... all those people who spontaneously combusted throughout history... you guessed it, phosphorous people who didn't have enough to occupy themselves. When picking friends make sure most of them rated high on the electronegativity scale... Chlorines, Oxygens and whatnot. |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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You scored higher than 65% on Mass |
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You scored higher than 84% on Electroneg |
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You scored higher than 17% on Metal |
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You scored higher than 40% on Radioactivity |
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| Fun funnity fun fun! |
[May. 23rd, 2005|11:54 pm] |
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| | Radio 2 - I don't care if it's aimed at people in their 40s! | ] |
All finished!
University done with!
So tired! |
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| Bored now... |
[May. 19th, 2005|11:02 pm] |
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| | Calling it Quits - Aimee Mann | ] |
Utterly utterly bored of revision, and I realise how tedious it must be to read my repeated moaning and whining on the subject. Multiply that tedium by 100 and you might get something approaching how I'm feeling at the moment.
So, I'm stopping now. I've shoved 'Alexander the Great and Divinity' to one side and have given its place on my desk to a chocolate muffin and a large glass of diet coke. Now I just need a really good fic. Anyone got any recs? A non WIP would be preferable, as I'm already trying to keep up with several of those. I'd just like to immerse myself in something 'till I'm tired enough to take myself to bed.
Off to trawl through the fic archives... |
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| A three hour history exam... |
[May. 17th, 2005|09:23 pm] |
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| | Rodeohead - Hard and Phirm | ] |
...will give you nothing but a numb bum and a crippled hand.
Oh yeah, and hopefully a degree.
Worryingly I seem to have become addicted to OkCupid quizzes, which I must recommend as my second favourite form of procrastination next to trawling the web fueling my new Unholy obsession. Check out ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) unholymovie and join the revolution! Seriously, this is worth looking into, even if only because it involves Nick Brendon and regular outings into the Whedonverse are 100% guaranteed to help you stay sane and achieve a fulfilling life. Or something like that.
More importantly, I'm promised that as soon as _mully has finished her work there will be gin. Woo! |
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| Wow |
[May. 16th, 2005|05:07 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  excited | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Cornershop - Brim Full of Asha | ] |
There's a Bad Movies channel on satellite TV now, only showing films with 1 star or less. I can't wait to get home, Me loves me som bad movies. |
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