So, I should be reading Antony and Cleopatra for my next lecture. I'm thirty pages in, and IT'S SO BORING. I don't understand what is going on, I can't keep up with the characters and I have no interest in the story whatsoever.

I've also got to read Angela Carter's Nights At The Circus. I was aprehensive at first, since I found The Bloody Chamber, ( Read more... )

Baked another loaf of sourdough this morning, so the house smells all bready and wonderful. I'm really liking this bread making hobby - I get to really take my anger out on the dough for about 20 minutes (four angry songs like The Used or The Blackout or, if my iPod decides to be a prat, the Comic Relief version of Islands In The Stream...), then I ( Read more... )

Fun. are streaming their new album for free on their website, and it is AMAZING. And that's not just because it's the first album I've actually sat and listened to in order for like, weeks. His voice is really nice and different, and that's what I'm liking at the moment. Different. Not the carbon copy stuff that's filling up the radio stations; ( Read more... )

Did some cooking today, in what feels like the first time in years. I mean, it wasn't - I've cooked like, loads of stuff recently (probably), but this was the first 'big' cooking project. Following a brand new recipe, not knowing whether it'd turn out delicious or downright awful. Anyway, Fabulous Baker Brothers Baked Beans are, in a word, ( Read more... )

Not a great day - I mean, placement was okay, but it's just felt like a crappy day. I was still pissed off about something that's, thankfully, all sorted now; I overslept; I wasn't quite sure what I was supposed to be doing, and I thought it was Friday, which it wasn't. And then I got a slightly scary text from uni that, in the context of what ( Read more... )

Currently sat in bed with a wheat bag on my shoulders. My work chair's not adjusted properly, it seems, and I am paying for it WITH MY SPINE. It hurts :( Today, I was mostly scoring and folding leaflets. Got 50 done in just under an hour and a half; 50 more to do tomorrow. All the black gloss particles from the paper kept going all over my hands, ( Read more... )

It's been a busy old month, this December. I'm glad there's only one December a year, and that it's only at the end of the year, because otherwise I doubt I'd be able to cope!

In the past week - counting that as Christmas Eve to now - I think I've had one proper, normal, regular meal. Otherwise, it's been snacks and parties and humongous Christmas ( Read more... )

Getting my cooking done for Bonfire Night today. Made a chilli, which is bubbling away on the hob (I ran out of chilli powder, and in my hunt to find more I poured a whole tub of mixed herbs in the toaster. Oops. So now that's unplugged...). Made mushroom soup too, which I was very wary about. It's a Slimming World recipe, and my experience in the ( Read more... )

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Today I had a jacket potato for lunch, because there was no pasta or chilli or salad made up. I know, this is the best story ever, right?

So, anyway. I had a jacket potato. But I didn't know what to put on it, because I really didn't fancy cheddar or beans or cottage cheese or whatever else you put on jacket potatos. I like those italian BLT ( Read more... )