Fun. are streaming their new album for free on their website, and it is AMAZING. And that's not just because it's the first album I've actually sat and listened to in order for like, weeks. His voice is really nice and different, and that's what I'm liking at the moment. Different. Not the carbon copy stuff that's filling up the radio stations; ( Read more... )

Did some cooking today, in what feels like the first time in years. I mean, it wasn't - I've cooked like, loads of stuff recently (probably), but this was the first 'big' cooking project. Following a brand new recipe, not knowing whether it'd turn out delicious or downright awful. Anyway, Fabulous Baker Brothers Baked Beans are, in a word, ( Read more... )

Not a great day - I mean, placement was okay, but it's just felt like a crappy day. I was still pissed off about something that's, thankfully, all sorted now; I overslept; I wasn't quite sure what I was supposed to be doing, and I thought it was Friday, which it wasn't. And then I got a slightly scary text from uni that, in the context of what ( Read more... )

Currently sat in bed with a wheat bag on my shoulders. My work chair's not adjusted properly, it seems, and I am paying for it WITH MY SPINE. It hurts :( Today, I was mostly scoring and folding leaflets. Got 50 done in just under an hour and a half; 50 more to do tomorrow. All the black gloss particles from the paper kept going all over my hands, ( Read more... )

Getting really peed off about the washing machine at the moment - it's been chewing up all our clothes for ages now (partly because Mum tries to fit two loads of washing into the machine at once, like that kid from Outnumbered), but now I've just discovered that my favourite Beatles top is full of bleach-splattered machine-chewed holes. Great. Now ( Read more... )

The Future Of Us - Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler

Review: It’s 1996, and the internet is just emerging. When [insert name of forgettable female lead] receives a CD-ROM with AOL on it, she just can’t wait to install it on her computer and join the World Wide Web. Except something (what, we the readers never find out) happens, and Facebook appears on [ ( Read more... )

The office building where I am doing my placement is near a park, and me being me (and not having had a proper walk in a few days, even though I walked round the big shopping centre twice last night), I decided to walk to the park on my lunch hour, sit on a bench and eat my lunch. Okay, so it wasn't really walking, but it was being outside in ( Read more... )

My six week Work Placement started today. I was terrified yesterday, and this morning when we got stuck in a horrible traffic jam on the way there. But it's actually been a lot of fun. Well, more interesting than fun, I think. As it was my first day, I had a mini-tour of the building, then I pretty much just got on with the work set for me. There's ( Read more... )

Everything Beautiful - Simmone Howell

Review: Funny, charming and just a little bit tear-jerker-y, Simmone Howell’s Everything Beautiful is a wonderful coming-of-age story that takes everything you thought you knew about Young Adult literature and turns it on its head.

Riley Rose, the main character, is a larger than life tearaway who, after an ( Read more... )

The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern

Summary: Le Cirque des Rêves arrives without warning: a sprawling collection of perfect black-and-white striped tents that simply appear on fields and enclosures in London, Paris, Boston. Each tent encases an act made from the stuff of dreams: a contortionist who can fold her body into impossible spaces; ( Read more... )