In conversation with my dad and an ex Hell's Angel in the pub, I remembered a thing that's probably never happened to any of you ( Read more... )

Targ has just bought me a paid account. Can someone tell me how you make your own comments thingy on your page? Does that make sense? Damn: you can tell I haven't been teaching for a while...

Don't approache the keyboard of your boyfriend's computer with a big pot of red hair dye in your hand. It will only end in disaster.

Perhaps this is God's way of punishing me for being vain?

LOOK OUT!
ïòðpurple_emma is a radioactive squirrel!!
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I have long wanted to make a goth guess who, and think that with the time I have off work, there could be no better way to profit my time. Don't talk to me of schemes of work. Don't talk to me of marking overdue essays.

Instead: send/give/donate me 4 identical passport photos so that I can make this fantastic work of art.

Please?

just idly entertaining Alex with tales of blood and surgery when the door bell rings.

Targ, being my run around boy, answers it and returns bearing an arm full of flowers.

Thank you Lyssa and Paul.

You guys rock!

For those of you who haven't heardthey failed to kill me on the operating table and I am now at home, driving the poor Targ loony. I will be the first in the world to admit to being a bad patient, but is there anyone who can do it properly? I mean, just lie there and wait for things to appear for them? Am I just impatient ( Read more... )

This small (ish) piece of purple fun is going into hospital for an operation tomorrow. I am currently on soup, leading to clear liquid diet tomorrow, with hard core nil by mouth Thursday. It looks like I may be in for 5-7 days, so if any of you fancy phoning or visiting, I'm on the Protheroe Smith Ward at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (floor 3) at ( Read more... )

As I am sitting in school, freezing my nuts off in the unheated hell that is my office,, waiting for a child that patently is not going to turn up, I thought I'd reminisce about the holiday I just had.

( warning. Some serious holiday smugness )

Managed to drag my sorry ass out of bed and into work only half an hour late. I really resent having to work in the holidays, but I suppose that is the price of having responsibility ( Read more... )