My theme for the day is Being a Responsible Adult. Look at me deciding to not buy Pokemon Alpha Sapphire until after my Big Deadline at university! Look at me booking a doctor's appointment at the contraceptive clinic to get my coil checked! Look at me sitting down to do homework for tomorrow's class, even though I'm not taking it for credit ( Read more... )

Issues:
xoJane: Fat kids and formerly fat kids are at significant risk of eating disorders, yet are more likely to go undiagnosed and untreated. Something that I only really thought about based on the experience of a friend, but it should seem obvious once you think about it.

Slate.com: How would American media report on the Government shutdown if ( Read more... )

Oh man, I have a doozy of a First World Problem today. See, Pokemon X and Y are due to be released worldwide on 12th October, i.e. tomorrow. In an attempt to get it as early as possible, I ordered the download version of Pokemon X even though I prefer physical cartridges. I thought "It'll probably be available at 11pm on Friday night since Nintendo ( Read more... )

I am in the Science 2 Reading Room at the British Library. A man who is older than me is browsing Facebook on his laptop while searching for academic papers on a library computer. He just clicked on some drawings of Snorlax...

...I was SO tempted to lean over and growl "SNOR... LAX?" in his ear, but I thought it would be freaky :D

This evening, I am a refugee from my own study. Our neighbours are having a loud music + bonfire party, so I can't actually BREATHE in my study, let alone concentrate to work. Bah.

Some friends from PokeCharms have found that there is a me sprite in Pokemon Black & White! I am quite amused. Her shoes are wrong, but otherwise, that's me ( Read more... )

I have reached a stage of ARGH with my work, so I'm going to post all of the links I have cluttering up my "working" Firefox profile :)

From epi_lj: Hollywood's Racism Exposed ... by Lego. Interesting.

From skibbley: New bisexual IKEA ad airs in Austria. It's amusing... apart from continuing to propagate the "bisexuals are cheaters"/"can't be monogamous" ( Read more... )

Haven't written anything here in ages. This is because I successfully achieved my goal of spending the Easter long weekend doing nothing but sleeping and playing Pokemon :)

Oh, there was some other stuff. Went shopping for trousers, my least favourite thing ever, and achieved 5 pairs that fit - including the first pair of jeans I've owned in ( Read more... )

I have a mystery to solve. On 23rd August, someone in Canada whose name I don't recognise sent me a "Pocket Monica Jump-Jupm Chess". It appears to be a Chinese fake Pokemon rip-off version of Ludo. Notice the name, uh, "Pocket Monica" instead of Pocket Monsters, and the fantastic spelling involved in Jump-Jupm Chess. I get WHY this person sent it ( Read more... )

Crazy cute Japanese custom vehicles. I kinda want ALL OF THEM. I'm not even sure who the green character is, but I want him!

The side of the Pikachu car is here, in case you were wondering.

Courtesy of Database from #pokecharms: Pokémon Menstrual Pad, Yours for Eight Bucks. The comments are particularly amusing... well, if you know about Pokemon, anyway.

In other news, I am rather behind with reading livejournal and hopelessly behind with posting to livejournal. I'm mostly okay, no need to worry - just still very jetlagged. Can't get ( Read more... )