Today my relatives from the USA came to Bristol with my grandparents. We went to the park this evening to tire the children (Elizabeth, 7 and Bella, 4) out, and because it was such a beautiful warm evening. I went on the swings and swung and swung higher and higher and if you tilt your head back at just the right angle and just the right time you ( Read more... )

I was thinking about this today, for some reason.

And if it snowed and snow covered the drive ( Read more... )

Roaming 'round your house, wasting your time ( Read more... )

So, I'm home. Packing was one of the most hideous things ever, more than partly because it was just so hot, though I managed it all in the end and we even managed to fit all my things in Oz's car AND close the doors ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think I will miss living here - I like my view and the convenience of being on campus. It will be a shock to the system moving back in at home where the 6 square feet of floorspace I have here will not even be all my own.

At other times, I can't wait to move out and away from the shitty shitty people that live here.

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The lights flash over the bodies, packed close tonight but not moving any less energetically. It's dark but at the same time bright and the colours dance across a thousand faces turned upwards.

Turn it up, turn it upThe music is little more than a sound and a vibration coming in waves through the air, bypassing the senses and rushing straight to ( Read more... )

The meaning of the word serendipity:
Waking up at 7:30 for an 8:15 lecture, deciding I can't be bothered to go because it's raining and I don't want to, going back to bed for an hour, getting up. going to my 9:15 to discover that the lecturer never turned up to the 8:15.

The meaning of the wordkarmaBeing woken up an hour before I had to get up ( Read more... )

Today started at midnight, watching TV in Matt's room. I went to bed for a few hours then got up for my 8:15 with the dudiest lecturer ever, who is Scottish, hates 8:15s as much as us and says things like "Well this is a great reaction, it goes this great shimmery blue colour, quite special. And it's stereospecific, I mean it's great that it's a ( Read more... )

The one fabulous night of the year where 99% of Bath University dons a toga and swamps the down ( Read more... )

Loads of people have been writing this recently, so to keep my sanity please excuse this minirant ( Read more... )