For the last two or three years, I haven't been entirely sorry to see the old year end and be replaced by the new one. This time round, I think I shall be perfectly glad to see the year come to an end. In fairness, the first five months of the year had their good moments; unfortunately they were fairly comprehensively outweighed by what happened to ( Read more... )

if you haven't been following my exciting life on facebook and/or didn't see me in the flesh at die maschine, you quite possibly don't know that after several years i finally decided to get my hair chopped off. from memory, the last time i even got a trim was some time in 2005 and the last time i actually had it short was probably 2003, so this ( Read more... )

i'm home. fully ten days after i was originally supposed to be freed, after weeks of physio, one plaster cast, several hospital meals whose edibility was debatable at best, one nervous breakdown and more pills than i wish to contemplate, i'm home ( Read more... )

there was a meme on LJ the other day where someone would give you five words that remind them of you and you would have to explain them. i am belatedly responding to it now.

words variously picked by hexyhex, lillim, sithmagician. ( here be words! )

been moved again ( Read more... )

firstly thanks to everyone for the kind words and thoughts ( Read more... )

I really should get up early in the morning to do stuff more often. Thus far today I've had a meeting with Centrelink's job capacity assessor in the city (probably getting shifted-and hopefully not shafted-onto something called vocational rehabilitation, which may be better for me than the Jobfind thing), had a good morning's CD shopping after that ( Read more... )

I don't know, I had a really long post that took me about two or three days to write, looking back at the development of the whole year month by month... now I don't really want to post it. So let's just sum up the year in shorter order. ( Although it's still fairly long as it is... )

The Xmas haul:

Four t-shirts (2 white, 2 black)
Four polo shirts (2 white, 2 black)
Three pairs of pyjamas
Several pairs of socks
Two pairs of jeans (black)
Three Stanley Kubrick DVDs from the new reissue series (2001, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining)
One Love is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 CD box set ( Read more... )