If you would rather follow me on dreamwidth, I am at innerbrat; everything the ends up here always also ends up there ( Read more... )

At some point along the way i picked up some sort of snobbish aversion to blogging about my real life, as if a day to day journal of my activities had no place in a Real Blog. This is, I am perfectly aware, absurd. Particularly as it is the personal events and journalling I like so much in the blogs I choose to read. I have some strange ideas, don’ ( Read more... )

As a follow-up to this postPeople, if you work in retail, and someone phones up to find out if you stock a certain product, tell the truth ( Read more... )

One of the things that hinders me in being a good educator - something I've not quite worked out how to overcome - is that I tend to expect a certain level of basic competence/thoughtfulness/education in everybody I meet. Being as full of my own education and knowledge as I am, this assumption does prevent me of being ridiculously patronising to ( Read more... )

I have SO MANY spoons today. And I've done a lot that I can't just put into Twitter. So:

- Izzy and I made coffee cupcakes with mocha icing and they look gorgeous. We're so good at this baking cakes milarkey ( Read more... )

Viv Groskop asks if good feminists bake cupcakes? Linked to by moviegrrl, I was so shocked by the title, that my first reaction was to say oh sod off, I can bake if I want to, and went to read the article all worked up to hate it, and ready to pass all sorts of judgements on Groskop ( Read more... )

As an undergraduate, I was particularly OCD with regards to my lecture notes and all the papers and book chapters I collected while making those notes. To the extent that I now have about a dozen colour code lever arch files filled with notes taken on everything from Foramnifera to human socioevolution, all cluttering up my parents' house ( Read more... )

In the Photography request post, many people asked for photos I can't really take on a weekend (and I don't carry my camera offhand, so will do so this weekend) but 
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Does anyone have a vacuum cleaner going spare? Mine has finally decided to give up the ghost.

(Fuck.)

I already had a list of things I really need to buy myself when my budget stretches to more than 'food and bills'. It had previously consisted of 'shoes that don't have holes in', but has now stretched to a wireless router, because our wireless network is completely shot apparently, and a DVD player. the router's not a big deal, I guess, because we ( Read more... )