I have passed through "being frustrated" re the internet shenanigans (tl;dr THIS FUCKING INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER ISN'T PROVIDING A SERVICE) and am now into acceptance, where I just deal with the fact that I will never, ever, ever catch up with my online admin or editing and that I am going to use my entire data allowance in ten seconds and Virgin ( Read more... )

(and then I went dancing).

Despite my best efforts to be on time I arrived at Rotherhithe half an hour early, and sat in the sun reading Downriver with some gross protein milkshake and meditating on the difference not only in racial demographics from area to area in London (Rotherhithe, from what little I saw, seemed to be predominantly white and ( Read more... )

Greenwich, Mean Museums, Poor Calorie ManagementYesterday: No gym. Went to fling money at tattooist, who is back in the UK again unexpectedly, and therefore secure further work on m'leg. Then dragged my sartorially laughable self to Greenwich on an ill-conceived but well-executed whim. There follow many images and not a lot of words (save that I ( Read more... )

Saturday ( Read more... )

GymThis "rest day" bullshit Catholicism thing seems to have worked, along with "sleeping like a log"; today's run/row was okay, I did heavier weights for chest press & lats and investigated the leg press (less hassle than the other machines because my legs, having had to lug 18st of me around in the past, are fairly used to effort). Not QUITE ( Read more... )

Ongoing birthday:

posh dinner
posh outfit
gifts minus the bath bomb of SUPREME GLITTER which i am excited to ever be able to use (tomorrow - the 2nd - marks 2 weeks since surgery which means only about 4 weeks until i can HAVE A BATH and hopefully BURN THIS FUCKING BINDER)

Halloween:

went for a walk on hampstead heath. immediately got lost, then ( Read more... )

I'm having a pretty good week so far so I really need to record that before I forget that's what I've been having (no YOU have a terrible short term memory thanks to constant sleep depri--huh ( Read more... )

Revenge is being enacted upon me for my excesses yesterday (excesses in this case being "I walked 10.8 miles in the freezing cold on under 300 calories and then tried to redress this by drinking a gin cocktail, a pint of cider, and eating a lot of battered fish in various forms"). Revenges include ( Read more... )

Blog Posts

Hot Maud-on-Maud ActionToday, internet, I helped my friends make bright red cinnamon-flavoured pancakes of dubious quality (but some of them were shaped like dinosaurs which pretty much means they're perfect), watched some clips from Fantasia, discussed Otherkin and also the Pope's semen in alarming detail while howling with laughter, ( Read more... )

Blog Posts/Fiction

On an ordinary day in the saddest part of the year

I shall have company in a bit and I have nothing to say for myself except "embroidery is hard", but I wrote that story yesterday. So there.


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