I miss you all. Working ten hour days at the moment and am absolutely exhausted, but there's sunshine in England and I start an MA in two weeks (alongside my full-time high-stress job) and I can't wait.

Actually updating my blog now (as of today), come and see me: http://regencyroses.

I haven't written here in a long time. I love my little LiveJournal with all its history, but I also feel that I tend to use it most when I'm frustrated with things and I'd like to get out of that angsty teenage pattern ( Read more... )

These days, the writing occupies a space in my head where it never quite goes away. It's always been like this really, and in some ways it's a pain, because I can have such a busy day, be so productive, and yet not be satisfied because one more day has gone by without words on the page ( Read more... )

Jessika Williams from Interlochen was just on Doctor Who. How weird is that?

So everyone I went to Interlochen with is having children.

Does this scare anyone else?

Just now, I woke up thinking about things, in particular an Agatha Christie play I read once called The Hollow. I had a big fat collection of her plays that I read just as voraciously as any of her novels during my Agatha Christie phase. That phase began when at twelve years old I decided to volunteer in a nursing home reading to old people, and ( Read more... )

I've just applied for a job as a publishing assistant at a children's book publisher in Somerset. I would love that job. Otherwise, the plan is to stay at NHS Direct until they get rid of me, or find a different job in the NHS I think if that doesn't seem viable ( Read more... )

Life is busy, very busy ( Read more... )

I am thinking about writing which is almost as good as writing but not quite. (Or not at all really, but I'm trying to make myself feel better ( Read more... )

I miss LiveJournal ( Read more... )