I seem to have finally become the boho/yuppie media smart-arse I was probably always destined to become, and I love it. In the past 2 months I have written a press release for my mates' band, got slaughtered with the guys from Sales and then toddled over to a movie screening with a Q&A with the Director, my social life is buzzin', I have started ( Read more... )

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST

"This time my mother, realizing I was no longer an amateur, omitted the bananas ( Read more... )

The more news I come across, the more statistics I see - we are fucked. We've poisoned the planet past tipping point and no one anywhere in power seems willing or able to make the drastic changes we need to cut our losses and stop fucking it up any worse.

At work I keep coming across stories about people mining landfill to recycle the plastic, power ( Read more... )

Anyone familiar with these? A 9-type personality/behaviour system/description, which seems to make a hell of a lot of sense. I might be doing an article on it at some point, but for now I'm just fascinated to read up.

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I am so very seven.

I bought a load of lemsip and cough sweets yesterday but they've all gone walkies. This is unfair

Someday I would like to be a surrogate mother - purely so I can say "it's not what it looks like" when I bump into people I know while I'm heavily pregnant ( Read more... )

Is so far good. More on that when I'm more awake.

But today - someone in my office (and we write American news for American news channels) didn't know that New York City and New York State are two separate things.

Oy.

Made by the obligatory smart-arse fifteen year-old from the 'States, but it's pretty damn good. Also: his costume is brilliant - how'd he knock one up so fast?

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According to two different sets of scales: I've lost 6lbs in the last 3 weeks (without even really trying - I think just living a little further out of the way has been good for me  = lots of walking). However, according to my tapemeasure: I have lost nothing in centimetres ( Read more... )

I'm trying to slim down on possessions. However, a few things I reckon various gamers and peers would like, rather than just giving them away to charity shops. Would anyone be interested in:

A rare Gogol Bordello t-shirt - black with white print of an old-fashioned gypsy caravan, Eugene + old circus font lettering. I did rip the collar out of it ' ( Read more... )