Watch this for your Monday dose of bittersweet poignancy.

Health update: Still not feeling quite myself. It's like when your computer keeps popping up 'error' messages that don't make sense or refer to any particular error. I'm functioning, but some kind of error is going on.

So, I quit my job. I am now unemployed, with very little savings to support me. Consider this a declaration of bankruptcy ( Read more... )

Belinda Emmett dies of cancer aged 32. Poor Rove, they seemed so happy.

You know how life is usually a series of happy events with a few bad ones slipped in between? Mine seems to be the opposite at the moment. Yesterday, after freaking out for most of Thursday night, I got to uni really early to do some last minute cramming before the 'alternative ( Read more... )

I am feeling very bitter right now.

I had had such a good day until I got to work. My tutorials were interesting and entertaining (especially the part where my tutor failed the game he was demonstrating), and I had a very nice (and amazingly productive) lunch with bookwormmel in Lygon Street. Then I got to work.

( It was all downhill from there )

Today is my grandparents' FIFTIETH Wedding Anniversary! For two people that I was pretty certain in my youth hated each other, they sure have stuck together a long time. Congratulations to them ( Read more... )

New shopping laws: If you pay for a purchase under ten dollars with a fifty or hundred dollar bill, the cashier reserves the right to punch you in the face repeatedly.

Bah, the bookshop sold out of one of my textbooks. I hate when that happens! In other news, I am spending money faster than I am making it at the moment, and the scary thing is, I don't even care! In fact, I'd quit my job tomorrow if I wasn't acutely aware that my parents would freak at the prospect of voluntary unemployment. They are of the "put ( Read more... )