See how I didn't watch the Formula 1 qualifying and thus didn't jinx McLaren like last time?

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Having fannish geek friends really is fabulous. Nothing beats brunch, cowriting a HP fic that we both know will never get finished, and talking about everything from marmite to NaNoWriMo.

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FYI, I'm on both GreatestJournal and InsaneJournal as ( Read more... )

Went up from Malacca to Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. Flew back to Birmingham airport... *looks at calender* yesterday. Ish. Am now back, albeit with a deep hatred of Birmingham airport for having the most bloody finicky, superior, troublesome immigration people I've ever had the displeasure of meeting ( Read more... )

Need to be out of house in less than twenty minutes.

STILL PACKING.

Will probably not be around for at best, a few days, at worst, over a fortnight.

*waves goodbye*

Going off for two weeks to visit family in Malaysia tomorrow. Should be packing now. *procrastinates by watching football and reading Doc Who meta*

England U21 football team, incidentally, must've broken some sort of record for epic penalty shootouts, and also, SO MUCH LOVE. This is one of those cases where the result is just irrelevant. They were ( Read more... )

*flails* I have to do The Thing tomorrow. The Thing that involves public speaking and the possibility of me knowing very little and screwing it up entirely. Which I suppose isn't the end of the world, really, in the long term. But I just have to get through it.

And then I have to get through the Variation on The Thing next Friday. But then, then I ( Read more... )

Hey, look, I'm on the BBC!

Well. The footie chant I submitted got picked for the BBC Sports Quotes of the Week page.

"Where's your statue gone?"
Sung by Wolves fans to Southampton fans after Saints were forced to pull down an embarasssingly out of proportion tribute to Ted Bates. (Joey, UK).
My team, Wolves, lost six nil - our worst defeat this ( Read more... )

I'm on hold.

I've been on hold so long I've been starting to forget that I'm on hold.

On the plus, when I finally get through this hold purgatory, they say they're going send round a guy to fix it for free.

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Here, have some poetry. I'm told it's national poetry month at the moment. Admittedly, not in my country, but what the hell.

Eve Argues ( Read more... )

Apparently, there are vending machines in Bergen, Norway that sell cameras and umbrellas. In the same vending machine, and all ( Read more... )

1. I really need to get off my ass (so to speak) and make myself a new layout. Heroes fandom has managed to reawaken my graphics muses from their long hibernation ( Read more... )