After months of neglecting my hair because I've been far too busy with coursework and stress, to the point where the roots were three inches long, I finally dyed it. I didn't trust myself to be able to bleach the roots at that length without missing patches, as it's hard to see what you're doing in detail at the back of your head, so I decided to ( Read more... )

I always knew there was a way to filter LJ better, I just never quite got around to taking the time to figure it out. But as I add more friends I become more uncomfortable about spilling my problems all over the poor souls who couldn't possibly care, and there are people whom I like a lot but who have a tendency of posting a lot of negativity, ( Read more... )

This evening was just lovely. We had a nice dinner and watched the Wireless Mystery Theatre perform, and we didn't argue, and we didn't accidentally say the wrong thing, and we didn't over-react, we just had some really nice coversation and nice food and Glenn looked after me and was lovely. Yay. More days like this please! I feel so refreshed and ( Read more... )

There has been a big hoohah about the British Fantasy Society Awards at Fantasycon (where apparently your imagination fills in the shortcomings of the hotel for another year), as a whole bunch of them went to people closely connected to the Chairman/awards administrator, David Howe. It's a PR disaster. slovobooks, nwhyte and cherylmmorgan have all posted much more eloquently ( Read more... )

In an effort to talk about something less fraught than usual, hello! I have had a crazy idea ( Read more... )

I think the new series of lightening talks and panels on game design and development as part of this year’s Q-Con are going to be really great. It was an inspired notion (of Glenn Davidson’s) to take the next logical step at a games convention and address the idea that attendees might actually want to be a part of the industry they are so keen to ( Read more... )

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From: JENNIFER AGNEW <jennifer.agnew@virgin.net>
Date: 5 June 2011 14:42
Subject: Groupon Lesson @ Lime Park
To: martine@[redacted], lynda.kingston@[redacted], glenn@[redacted]

Thank you for your online booking and getting in touch regarding the Groupon deal. The deal expires on the 11th June, just as our ( Read more... )

I hate my phone.

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Alice set the injured rabbit down in the carpeted passageway. It looked feebly at its watch as she fished the blue pen out from her bodice. Unfolding a crumpled paper, she wrote her hasty words in large unsteady letters, then tied it to the rabbit's tail with a thread torn from her dress.
The thumps and bangs from behind the tiny little door grew ( Read more... )

Okay, this will come over as a little naive to the rest of you so apologies in advance.
I got this cheque from a US mag that I had written for. Never having had to cash a US cheque before I sent it merrily off to my British bank account with Alliance and Leicester. I got a nice little statement today.

Original cheque: $50
Exchange rate: 1.7something
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