In today's Broken Britain news: I just told a boy not to ring all my neighbours' buzzers for no reason; he threw a bottle of blackberry pop at my head. I'm quite sticky, though the rage has subsided.

Hello livejournal, a question: has anyone ever bought a new battery for an ibook or similar from ebay? They all seem to come from Hong Kong. At 1/3 the price of those from the Apple Store is this wise, or nay?

THANX.

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I am quite excited about this now - Goldsmiths' very own one-day Ladyfest, next Friday. Gina Birch! Angela McRobbie! Wet Dog! ArtWorkshopsTalksTheatreMusicCraftEtc! Hurray.


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Um, I have a job interview tomorrow - please does anyone have any advice to help me not want to cry and shake and blush and generally be incoherent even though in reality I am amazing and can clearly do the job, which I don't even want that much but the money's a bit nicer? Please? Thank you...

Flippin' eck I can't decide what to learn (again). I am generally Bored, so I need something regular to do other than work. I think I will go for an undergraduate level short course at Birkbeck starting in January. Oh but which? I decided upon Understanding Social Policy but now I think Regenerating London, which is 10 weeks. And then I might do ( Read more... )

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Why is that when I am getting dressed to go out and attempting to look something approaching vaguely gay I end up in a leopardprint miniskirt, black boob tube* and pearls? I hate the world (/lesbians).

[*I look less slutty than this sounds, honest]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2155893,00.html

I feel absolutely awful today. Yesterday kept going wrong. One of my goldfish has died which isn't heartbreaking, but a shame. Later we saw a mouse run under my bed (a not-much-off-the-floor futon) and then I found droppings which were not fresh, centimetres from where my head sleeps. I'm not that scared of mice, having suffered indestructible rats ( Read more... )