One of the people I follow on Twitter is Jonathan Carroll.  Awesome writer, love how he blogs and tweets.  Oh, the language we have these days.  ;-)

He posted the following quote today:

"If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses." Hanif Kureishi

That really spoke to me.  Trying to do ( Read more... )

For the past while, I have all alone been bemoaning my lard-ass state, when, haply, I thought on the summer walking challenge we did at Sick Kids when I worked there ( Read more... )

Because the convention is going to be held in Brighton, I've visited quite a bit.  Next time I'm down, I'm going to drag the boys to The Mock Turtle.  It looks like a classic 1940s British tea room, complete with homemade cakes and scones.  Yummy yum yum.  That said, I weighed myself for the first time in 6 months yesterday and it was shocking.  ( Read more... )

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To ( Read more... )

Okay, so remember when I lived in the old factory loft?  It was next door to a building containing multiple sets, used by just about everyone shooting a film in the city ( Read more... )

. . . the world could have ended, I wouldn't know.  My allergies kicked into high gear on Monday, creating sinus-havoc from which I'm just starting to emerge.  And today, no one that I called or emailed communicated back.  It's like they  have a life, or something . . . ;-)

Hope you're all well out there.

I start my new job on Monday!

I went back to the charity shop, and it was waiting for me.  Sometimes, life gives me what I want.


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Hey all - so it's been a bit tense Chez Me.  The contract that I've been working on since July (and job I've been at since last January) officially ends on 10th March.  Maternity leave cover, so it was inevitable.  I've been applying for jobs since the end of January ( Read more... )

My horrorscope today:

Aquarius (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19)

Think back on the greatest moments of your life. Those exhilarating sensations were preceded by a period of time when, out of frustration, you nearly turned back. You are now at such a critical point.

Considering where I am at the moment, it better be friggin' sensational!!

After the second round of Let's Dance for Comic Relief, we see a trend - you can get through to the final if you have a man dressed as a woman doing an Eighties classic:

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