So earlier this week, the world chose to remind me of the fact that I had a LiveJournal. “World!” I exclaimed, with something akin to horror. “Surely, this cannot be! Why, in that case, it hasn’t been updated since…” And then I realised how frighteningly familiar that sentence was, and had to apologise profusely to the world for being so ditzy and ( Read more... )

This is going to be an uncharacteristically brief post: at first, I thought, 'Do you know what you should do now? Write about everything you've been up to the last couple of weeks, such as naming the turntable Calvin and wandering around London and getting your hair cut for the first time ever...' And then my mother yelled at me to start packing, ( Read more... )

Friday was a grand day. Friday was a day of great beauty. And do you know why? Because last Friday I completed my exams ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, my parents paid me a visit. They stepped through the door of my student accommodation, gave my room a cursory look and said, fondly, “It’s so you.” Which is cunning parent code for: “Good Lord, look at the mess ( Read more... )

…and so am I!

Apart from the living and kicking bit, I am also shocked and dismayed to discover that I haven’t updated this journal for so, so long; doubtlessly, you’ve feared for my well-being! “Where has she gone?” you might have asked yourselves. “Was she really eaten by monstrous mutant cockroaches? Either way, the silence, it is blessed ( Read more... )

My plane is leaving in approximately four hours, and instead of finishing off my packing, I thought to myself: “You know what you need to do? Not panic. And packing and panicking, they are eerily similar words.” So instead of packing, I am taking it easy. Chillin’. Updatin’ the old LJ ( Read more... )

I think I might just be the single most easily distracted person in the world. For months now I’ve intended to update this journal (literally months, I am so ashamed!), but every time I sit down in front of the computer, there will be some interesting book lying about, or the sun will shine just so on the grass, and I will inevitably grab the book ( Read more... )

I am in a strange place right now. Not necessarily a bad place, mind; just a strange place. “What is this place,” you might ask, “and how did you come to end up there? Is it, like, surreal? Are there any melting clocksSadly, the answer to the final question is no, I haven’t seen any melting clocks even though I have kept my eyes open. The answer to ( Read more... )

Listen well, my flock, for this is the story of my life: I spend days hunting for fake leather boots and when I finally find a pair I take them home and give them names and dote on them. “Dear appropriately named shoes,” I purr to them, “from now on, I shall treat you both like shoe royalty. Does anyone want a scrub ( Read more... )

Everyone, I see now that I have been perfectly awful and neglectful of my duties, these duties being “not disappearing for months at a time” and “not being a complete recluse, honestly”. I really am sorry, but you see recently the months have acted like they are all in some kind of cop show. November ambushed me in a dark alley and beat me ( Read more... )