pete and i went to see kate nash on tuesday in birmingham. she was super and whimsical and brilliant and completely the prettiest person in the world. she has a song about an imaginary friend who is a skeleton and it features the lyric "you don't have skin so why do you insist on wearing clothes?". even pete (who the day before said he'd go if ( Read more... )

yet again, i'm still alive. my house in leamington has no internet connection at the moment (2 months and counting) and so i can't really update from there. i'm spending the weekend in folkestone with a serious jetlag as we returned from las vegas friday morning. i want to write more about that, and things in general, when i get more of a chance ( Read more... )

i just watched night of the hunter at cinema club on campus. i was going straight home, but got distracted by the computer room and now i'm writing in lj. it won't be long. i've moved house - the new place is absolutely beautiful and i'm so happy with it. slightly further out of town but it doesn't matter - this week has definitely been a happy ( Read more... )

i saw - and really, really enjoyed - little miss sunshine last night. it is about a family who travel across the u.s in a camper van to take the daughter to the finals of a beauty pageant. i've been reading a fair amount of reviews this morning - some of which seem to take issue with the fact that it seems to routinely check all the boxes that ( Read more... )

...but i do have a house. drove to leamington yesterday, where pete, becky and myself went to see a house on albert street. it is maybe a little further north of the parade than i would like (i think pretty much everyone i know lives south of it, which'll be about 20-25 mins walk away) but the house was really nice and the location wasn't a ( Read more... )

i awoke this morning (12pm, to be exact, so it is on the edge of morning and afternoon) and checked my email. i had received one from rightmove.co.uk - which is a property search engine that investigates several different letting agents. they told me that a new property had been put on their system that fulfills our reasonably idiosyncratic ( Read more... )

...my back tooth stopped throbbing.

...and i don't have anywhere to live. all these things are playing on my mind at the moment. i think perhaps the latter two are connected somehow ( Read more... )

fact 1 - i finished my dissertation. unfortunately i made a mistake in the footnoting, which i noticed after it had been bound. that discovery tarnished the whole experience of finishing the dissertation.

fact 2 - i went to the reading festival, it was really good fun. i spent most of the weekend thinking of phrases to describe things in my ( Read more... )

still to do: finish introduction (written about 400 words of 750-1000), write conclusion (approx 1000), polish the rest of it (esp. digital chapter ( Read more... )