The flat is slowly...very slowly...coming together. After a crazy shopping spree of washing machine, chairs, wardrobes and beds, i didn't buy anything for a while just to watch my bank account settle down. but now i'm picking up little bits and bobs here and there. a TV stand which should arrive on Monday which means I'll get my coffee table back ( Read more... )

 I'm not sure if Festivaling is a word but if it means to go to a festival and do festival things then this weekend I was festivaling! :)  A couple of friends popped down to Cornbury near the town of Charlbury and Woodstock in the area of Oxfordshire for a little chilled-out hanging about in a huge park as part of The Wilderness Festival

On Friday, ( Read more... )

*a quick post as i'm at work but bored with writing module outlines!*

today marks the 2nd full week i've been in my new flat and it's been a crazy two weeks. and this is what i've learnt so far: 

• there will be strange noises to get used to, but not all strange noises signal something bad!
• delivery men will never be on time- either they ring you ( Read more... )

i know it's been ages since I last posted and I had thought about deleting my LJ account but it's situations like this that remind me why i've kept it. sometimes i want to share info with people, but not with everyone i know or in some cases 'know' on facebook. So what is happening today ( Read more... )

can i just point out that i'm rubbish at wasting time. i really am. i know most people who are going to read this are going to say- what!?! got time to do nothing, still complain!?!? well i'm not really complaining ( well at least i hope i'm not) it's just that i'm so used to doing something all the time, meeting a deadline, finishing up a paper, ( Read more... )

so, as everyone knows by now, england lost and now i understand that what it means when Bill Shankly said (albeit slightly misquoted) 'Football isn't a matter of life or death, it's much more important than that ( Read more... )

what a crazy few weeks this has been. things in March slowed down considerably after my birthday. i sat around and filled in application forms and waited for my visa to arrive ( Read more... )

it's been such a crazy day today. my emotions have been going up and down. i'm exhausted by it all and it's only 6pm ( Read more... )

this has been making the rounds on the internet today and it's a speech by relatively unknown (well till now) New York Senator Diane Savino speaking about the Marriage Equality Bill which disappointingly did not pass yesterday denying the rights of gay people to get married legally in New York ( Read more... )

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