Gill is just staring at me. Just sitting there and staring at me. Directly at me. Not at my fingers or anything like that. No. Just staring straight into my eyes. Now he's yawned at me. I think it's to show me how large his teeth are ( Read more... )

Well, as you may or may not know, I'm now a captioner. I spend eight hours a day watching mostly game shows and soapies and typing down every damn word that's said ( Read more... )

Do me a favour, hey ( Read more... )

oh god am I sore. Sore sore sore ( Read more... )

It's raining outside. A steady steady fall of rain. I'm inside - and cold. No heating in my apartment, but there is a toasty warm sleepy cat on my lap. I need a shower - I was skating for three or four hours today, and I feel all sweatsticky. A shower will make me both warm and clean - but it just feels like a lot of effort to go to right now ( Read more... )

In derby, when you're wearing the pivot panty and you're lined up on the pivot line, waiting for the whistle to start, every other blocker who is not a pivot has to have their hips behind yours ( Read more... )

My cat is amazing. I swear, he does standing jumps a metre high to catch in mid-air the bottlecaps I throw for him to fetch. He also talks a lot to me, and has become terribly fussy about what he eats. I should never have introduced him to the concept of fresh meat ( Read more... )

What is it about 4am and still being awake and crafting while listening to alternative rock hits of the 90s ( Read more... )

I went to training yesterday - left the house at 9am, got back around 6. Sometime during then, there was a fire in apartment #7. That's a fun thing to come home to. The smell of burnt and melted plastic and household goods, and a couple of blokes peering in the electricity meter/fuse box while a third bloke is erecting security fencing to block off ( Read more... )

I have a confession to make. Once I make it, I will be either reviled as a tasteless consumer of common entertainments, or I will be embraced by other people who have long kept such feelings buried deep in their souls ( Read more... )