As I was having a brief 'I'm off to the shop, do you want anything' conversation today, I was again reminded that pretty much no one I know can keep biscuits in the house. I've only started to notice this in the past year or so, but it turns out that even my slimmest and least food-obssessed friends become absolutely haunted by a single packet of ( Read more... )

Hanging about LJ looking at Orphiel's interesting post. Then I found myself having an LJ-type thought while having a wee (as they so often are ( Read more... )

I was journeying across town though the park on my way home this Saturday evening. Imagine my surprise to find that it really is filled with groups of lurking yoofs! I thought that was just a myth ( Read more... )

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This film has a strange effect on me. Cake... so beautiful.

As usual, I was at the gym and it made me think of something I want to post about. These days I'm at the whizzy grown-up gym, rather than the down-at-heel university gym. So rather than classes, which I probably prefer and might go back to, I'm on the crazy arsed machines. And the machines have always freaked me out, particularly the aerobic ones; ( Read more... )

I blame Ewan for my recent interest in stupid quizzes:

Your result for The Attachment Style Test...
The Free Agent

14% Anxiety Over Abandonment and 22% Avoidance Of Intimacy


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This is something cool:


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I've had a camera on my phone for a little while, and the full potential of having a camera you carry around all the time and have to hand and ready to pounce is only slowly dawning on me. I think it's one of those things that does.... create new conditions of possibility. Mean you can live life and be a person in a slightly different way ( Read more... )

Had hoped as I was posting yesterday about the Hide and Seek festival, that it would filter into my consciousness and I'd realise that not only did I think it would be cool to go, I actually could go, and would get my arse in gear to do it.

Then I noticed that it's the same weekend as my Big Conference, so there's no way I can ( Read more... )

Picked up as a comment on this forum: about Starbucks logo

Prostitutes...coffee...as far as I'm concerned, the two have always been synonymous anyways. We, as a "civilized" society need to quit endorsing the sex trade with our purchase of coffee. What do you think is gonna happen with everyone running around, all hoppped up on caffeine. ( Read more... )