Aand, I'm done ( Read more... )

Until recently, I was starting to lose confidence in democracy. Not that I thought it was bad, but I wondered if it was the only way to run a country ( Read more... )

I love the feeling of waking up in the morning and feeling like something epic, historic and life-changing happened the night before ( Read more... )

I spent a couple of hours looking out of a window over a charity canvasser working the entrance to a tube station yesterday. Ok, this was London in the middle of a work day, but I was appalled at how few people gave her the time of day to even make eye contact, let alone speak to her ( Read more... )

A few months ago I wrote a post that concluded something along the lines of ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before? Got a full-time, permanent job. Bought a car. Moved out of my parents. Started to figure out which girls are Just Friends.
2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I think my resolution-- even if I was unaware of it at the time-- was to sort my life ( Read more... )

More of a twitter than a blog:

MMmm. Whisky. And Gin.

I have tickets to see blur in Hyde Park next summer. When is too soon to get ridiculously excited about that?

I often forget that other people's points of view are their affliction, not their death sentence.

I may add more twaddle to this later.

The red cups have arrived at Starbucks! :D ( Read more... )

I think a pasta dinner, half a pint of Ben & Jerry's and a Johnny Walker and coke probably put back all the calories I ran off earlier this evening (and a few extra), but it's such a nice way to finish an evening and generally made me feel better than I have for some time... No regrets there, then.

Even though I would almost certainly vote Democrat if I lived in the States, and even though I thought Obama was the stronger candidate this time round (sorry, Annie), somehow within about 5 minutes of checking Facebook this morning, I was already sick of every wannabe pinko and leftie in the Western world (including some Americans) jumping on a ( Read more... )