Spotty chavette in Wilkinsons: "We should do something for Halloween, like!"
Friend of spotty chavette: "Yeah, cool. When is that?"

Or, conversely, the bloke in my lecture today who thought Africa was a country. Yes, you're only studying for a Geography degree ( Read more... )

My evening out was hampered by Leeds' 'Santa Soc' playing cheesy Christmas tunes like 'Stay Another Day' and 'The Millennium Prayer' in the union's Old Bar. The Old Bar is probably the most half-arsed union pub I've seen, even worse than UCL's Phineas Bar. It has doubles for £3.30, flickering screens showing Sumo wrestling on Eurosport, and ( Read more... )

It strikes me as inherently unfair that everyone who's gone out to get drunk every night this week is bouncing around and getting ready to go out yet again, while yours truly (who spent a happenin' Friday night reading about post Cold-War geopolitics, wearing a pair of earmuffs to drown out the Tetley Hall musical consensus of Maroon 5) is trying ( Read more... )

This weekend, I officially joined the ranks of the Leeds LGBT. Who, incidentally, are several times nicer than most of the people I've met in the hall. Funny, that ( Read more... )

I'm sure when our Web Design lecturer asked his students for an example of an interesting and entertaining website, and probably expecting something like eBay or Amazon, he didn't really want to be pointed to seemerot.com. Well, it amused me at least ( Read more... )

Anyone? Send me some money until I find a job here ( Read more... )

This afternoon, I'm sitting in the computing cluster, with 'Mis-Shapes' blaring loudly on my iPod, feeling smart because I was the only one who seemed to do any reading for my environmental geography class, and wearing liquid eyeliner that's actually applied correctly. My life is on the up ( Read more... )

That meme everyone's doing:1. Think of a word you would use to describe me ( Read more... )

( That 'are you addicted to LJ' meme that's going around. )

Things Alice doesn't like:

• Kasabian.
  
• The twunt who subscribed me to the Keane mailing list.
  
• The fact that a Coldplay cover version of T.A.T.U's 'All the Things She Said' exists
  
• US governments 'September 11th Security Fee' which turns a £310 plane ticket into a £400 one.
  
• My Hall of Residence who have arbitrarily decided not to cable their residences ( Read more... )