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One-word meme
These are fun
1. Where is your cell phone? Pocket
2. Describe your boyfriend/girlfriend? Maybe
3. Your hair? Thinning
4. Your mother? Dominating
5. Your father? Easy
6. Your favourite item? Laptop
7. Your dream last night? Cleaning-products (hyphenated; counts as one word)
8. Your favourite drink? Beer
9. Your dream car? Scrapped
10. The room you are in? ( Read more... ) -
Cats
After the phone thing (see last post), I needed something to cheer me up. These worked no end.
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Fuckity fuck
The prospect of scoring tonight (a girl I suspect fancies me has asked me to go to a charity party) spurred me to wash my sheets this morning. BIG MISTAKE! Five minutes into the cycle I noticed a strange rattling in the washing machine. A quick investigation revelled my phone happily bouncing around with my bed-linen. So now I have a summer-fresh ( Read more... ) -
Am I a hard-hearted man?
I know I can be quite sceptical at times, perhaps even cynical. But I always felt I balanced this out with a warm, approachable personality. Lately, I'm not so sure ( Read more... ) -
Losing weight by the pint
I gave blood today, making me a member of a very special club, apparently. Three fucking hours it took, which was quite annoying. But that's ok, because nothing can defeat the smug sense of self-satisfaction that comes from giving away bits of you, except maybe the pain in my arm ( Read more... ) -
Singstar on the PS2
Several versions of this game arrived in our house this Christmas morn, so now the siblings are painfully crooning to contemporary and classic chart hits. This whole thing is a plot against me, isn't it?! -
The unstoppable arseholes
Last week here was particularly remarkable for idiots drawing attention to themselves, even by Irish standards. The latest example of this happened last Friday on The Late Late Show. If you don’t know, the Late Late Show is undoubtedly the most celebrated show in Irish television history. It’s a chat show currently hosted by Pat Kenny, undoubtedly ( Read more... ) -
Because I'm bored.
1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 24 and find line 5.
“A great fire, banked high and red, flamed in the grate..."
2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can, what do you find?
A swivel chair
3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
A very interesting documentary on Ian Flemings' Casino Royale on BBC4
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Fate wants me to be a lawyer
Earlier this year I found myself writing an essay on the ICTY. When I was given the option I thought I would be writing about the war and hostility and political failure to prevent an outbreak that marked the Yugoslavian conflict. Instead I found myself surrounded by law books and court documents and desperately trying to make sense of them. That's ( Read more... )