I joined a shoegaze band.

I almost typed ‘2009’, such is the haste with which I desire to kiss this year goodbye. It’s been so monumental and confronting and horrible . . . I want to believe it’s just the ‘twenty’ thing and not a hideous taster for the years to come. As I turned twenty on Saturday, I’m now allowed to refer subjectively to this ‘twenty’ thing, though the ( Read more... )

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So I finished at work, for now at least (looks like it's going to be part-time when I get back next year, but I am secretly waiting for a divine intervention in the form of the perfect job offer) and it was a wonderful day and they showered my with leaving presents and money (you ba-utey) and I truly thought "how wonderful", and that they meant it ( Read more... )

I fell in love with a girl on the bus. Notwithstanding my heterosexuality and my relationship status, I do this a lot. It was love at first sight with this one, and I've seen her twice now. Twice in 3 days. She looks like another pretty girl I know named Hannah, but she has soft blonde hair like the sands of heaven that she wears back in a sweet ( Read more... )

Desk calendar says:
"Work spares us from three evils: bordeom, vice and need"- Voltaire.

Speaking as someone who is currently at work, I must say emphatically that Voltaire was wrong on all three counts. Sorry mate.

I wake up sweaty and my waking chases the bees away. I have a lot of thoughts in the next few seconds, disguising themselves as one long thought. First, fear. Then, that there are no bees to be heard anywhere in the room, and that that seems normal. Then that I can feel the intact length of my clammy body against a sheet. My searching hand seizes ( Read more... )

-Six weeks til I leave, wanna start packing now, think I might start heaping some jumpers and socks in a corner ( Read more... )

Oh Sydney-sider ( Read more... )

Avant La Haine (Romain Duris & Joanna Preiss ( Read more... )