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| 10:25am 15/05/2008 |
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Oh lord. I managed to put my bank card into the ticket barrier at Marylebone station this morning, and someone had to open the machine and get it out.
My horoscope in the Metro said "anything technological that can go wrong probably will." It seems they were right!
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| X-FM phone-in discussion this am... |
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| 10:40am 14/05/2008 |
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I was listening to X-FM this morning, and they were having a phone-in all about bands where another band member is considerably more attractive than the lead singer. This got me thinking... Why is it that it's usually the lead singers who are the sexiest member of a band? Is it that people who sing are naturally more gorgeous (as a singer I'd quite like to believe this... ;)), or is it just the way bands are marketed - are lead singers generally photographed (and airbrushed?) more, and encouraged to dress up while the others dress down?!
Hmmm.... *thinks* |
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| Setting the precedent... |
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| 10:25am 14/05/2008 |
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Charlotte stood in the hallway of her house, her arm bruised and bleeding from a botched blood test, and about half a stone of cat shit oozing from under her shoe. It wasn't even 8am, and it looked like it was already shaping up to be a brilliant day... |
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| Food porn |
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| 04:01pm 13/05/2008 |
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My waistline is doomed. I just discovered a health food shop round the corner from the office absolutely CRAMMED with vegan food. I am thrilled, truly thrilled, to have found vegan parmesan again, after months of searching in vain... Luscious cheesy vegan spag bol for dinner methinks... |
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| 04:36pm 09/05/2008 |
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Which of your lovely faces can I expect to see at Sedition tonight? |
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| Now THIS... |
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| 11:08am 09/05/2008 |
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... Looks like the perfect thing to reward myself with after spending Saturday daytime finally doing some more of my journalism course!
www.feelinggloomy.com
Who's in? |
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| 11:43am 03/05/2008 |
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Oh, and how come this Boris joke is still going round? I mean, it was funny last night when they put it on TV, but it's wearing a bit thin now. We all know he's not really London Mayor. I mean, that would be fucking ridiculous, wouldn't it? |
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| Random items discovered during attempt at tidying room... |
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| 11:37am 03/05/2008 |
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* 1 tube of toothpaste, Best Before End June 2004
* 1 piece of GCSE Spanish coursework
* 1 miniature of foul-smelling liquer. Lableless, origins unknown
* 1 Korn album, origins also unknown
* About 40 back copies of the London Paper
* 1 crust of bread
And a host of other unmentionables...
I think I need some fresh air. *gulp* |
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| 11:44am 28/04/2008 |
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Oh hubris - my fatal flaw!! I felt so good, tucking into that big hot vindaloo while the pussies around me ate their biriyanis... I felt like a god compared to them!!
I don't feel so brilliant now. The wall of the office toilet is getting really boring to stare at, and my stomach feels like a washing machine. A washing machine on fire.
But guess what I fancy for lunch... Yes, I am a twisted masochist. *grins* (If anyone fancies joining me and works anywhere near Baker Street/Oxford Street/anywhere near that area, give us a yell...). |
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| 12:35pm 25/04/2008 |
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Why oh why does the weather forecast for Saturday, when I will be lying in a darkened room recovering from Antichrist, have to be loadsa sun, and the weather forecast for Sunday, when I will be in Victoria Park at Rock Against Racism, have to be rain!? This blatant lack of a big fat benevolent God irritates me. |
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| Antichrist... |
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| 04:17pm 21/04/2008 |
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Yay or nay? Extremely strapped for cash so don't wanna go if it's not worth the money...
Who else is going? What's it like? |
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| Four weddings and a funeral |
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| 01:58pm 20/04/2008 |
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Unfortunately Ali dragged us to the wrong station, and we managed to be fifteen minutes late to Heather's wedding yesterday. Trying to creep in at the back and not be noticed is a bit difficult when one of you has a shocking pink fringe and stilettos on, and the other is wearing huge Swears and has a head of large pink dreadlocks... I could've died.
That aside, it was a charming day. The bride's dress was so gorgeous - it was a kind of irridescent pearly pink. Beautiful. We all drank too much, cried at the speeches, and danced to Abba... As is only right and proper.
So far this year I've been to two weddings and a funeral, and I have two more weddings coming up... That's four weddings and a funeral! |
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| Erg. Stuff 'n' randomness. |
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| 11:57am 17/04/2008 |
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I hate having to go to work when I'm reading a really good book! Almost missed my stop on the tube I was so absorbed. Has anyone else read A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers? I've only just started it, after being bullied into getting it for my friend's book group on Monday, but I can already tell I'll be finishing most of it in one sitting.
Oh, and someone's filled in that chart I posted about last night with an almost completely different set of characteristics to those I used to describe myself (save for one which we both chose). So interesting to see how we perceive our inner self, and what we project to others, and to observe the gulf which sometimes exists between concepts of self and persona. I particularly find ideas of introversion and extroversion interesting. I am a very contemplative person, often lost in my own thoughts, and I place a lot of importance on exploration of my inner world. However, I am also undeniably a real party animal - I enjoy and actively seek out the company of others on a regular basis. So which am I? Aren't most of us something of a combination of the two? Isn't it incredibly reductive to assume we're all one or the other? |
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| My Wednesday evening |
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| 10:27am 10/04/2008 |
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Yesterday evening saw me heading off to the National Gallery late opening after work. Not been for a while, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Absolutely lapped up the room full of paintings of Venice, then spent a long time in front of Louis-Leopold Boilly's 'A Girl At A Window', which I'd never seen before - link to it here: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/features/science/img/telescope_400.jpg. I didn't get to spend much time in there as I had arranged to meet friends to go to cinema, but I am planning a return visit next week. It's ridiculous how long it's been since I last went there.
The cinema trip was somewhat interesting. Only I would manage to drag my friends out to see The Golden Compass at the Prince Charles cinema, and find out when we got there that I'd got the wrong night and an entirely, and I mean entirely, different film was showing instead. Yes, folks - rather than the Golden Compass, the film showing at 9pm was a rather bleak-looking, arty film in Turkish and German with English subtitles called Auf de anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven). My companions seemed less than impressed, and I must admit to having felt a little apprehensive myself, but we trundled into the cinema nevertheless... And, oh, what a happy accident! It was absolutely wonderful. It was about the craziness of the butterfly effect, it was about all those excruciating near misses in life that we usually don't even know about, it was - just go and see it. It's on every Weds evening for a while I think. |
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| And as a vegan I can't even blame nocturnal cheese munching... |
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| 01:20pm 09/04/2008 |
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I had a dream last night in which everyone thought Britney Spears had died. However, it eventually turned out it was a clever advertising campaign by a band called Britney Spears Is Dead... |
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| 08:30am 08/04/2008 |
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I am so, so tired of people assuming that bi = inherently unfaithful.
What utter f*cking tosh. |
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| 04:56pm 07/04/2008 |
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The PDF of my magazine is finally up. Visit g3mag.co.uk and knock yerselves out! :p |
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