"I've been suffering from insomnia recently. Every day - every twenty-four hours, more or less! - night falls, and with it come the dark and the cold and the terrors. Other people miss out on it, and they're lucky ( Read more... )

I have read a lot of books recently, which pleases me no end. I read a sympathetic history of the Peasants' Revolt, which I really enjoyed and have lent to my mum. I read Truth by Terry Pratchett, which was disappointing in that it recycled old jokes from his other books. I read The Dice Man, lent to me by aster13, which was delicious and very enjoyable ( Read more... )

Possibly the most ick-making thing in the world...

Vinci Rankings

I have returned to 12th! This pleases me.

All: well.

First buy your chicken soup and leave in cupboard for emergencies. Next, purchase cheap Polish bread from 24-hour supermarket and put in freezer to prevent mould. Upon waking late at night and in need of food, open can of chicken soup and pour into pot. Heat at whatever the highest temperature your hob can manage is. Turn on your other hob, again ( Read more... )

The time is 3.30am and I've just had probably my most productive several hours in months. I've washed, tidied, uploaded, burned, made, everything. This followed a daytime period of several hours in which I lay on my bed and giggled at demotivational posters ( Read more... )

I watched my DVD of the film The Counterfeiters tonight. It's a very good film that I watched when it came out a the cinema, and then bought on DVD upon seeing it in Zavvi's closing-down sale. It occurred to me at the end that part of the reason why I like it may be because of a sense of guilty empathy. Throughout the film, we have seen the Jews in ( Read more... )

I am ripping my CDs to my hard drive - a pleasant process, letting me listen to my favourite tracks while I do it - in preparation for making some "mix CDs" to take on the 12th. This is where you come in: you could leave me to my own devices and trust to my excellent taste in music ... or you could put in some specific requests from my collection ( Read more... )

On the Tube today from Euston to Highbury, I sat opposite what appeared to be a 20-something man and a 40-something woman who were huddled close together and murmuring to each other. That's odd, I thought; looked down - yes, they were holding hands - in fact he was caressing her hand with his. I wondered what I thought of it. Though I try to be ( Read more... )

It is a truth universally acknowledged that I am a really, really crap dater. Tonight, however, was perhaps my greatest achievement to date. I can only do justice to the events in two distinct sections ( Read more... )