After months of telling everyone I know that 'I do no work all day', we've moved into a communal office and all of a sudden my workload has tripled. The upshot of this is that I now get no time at all for pottering about on the web - the lack of internet in my flat and the near-constant presence of my boss over my left shoulder means that I'm ( Read more... )

From Ana and my ( flist )

So. We spent most of yesterday sans electricity ( Read more... )

Went on the Dixons website intending to buy a cheap printer but, er, may possibly have ended up buying printer, cartridges, USB thingy, 3-year warranty and an iTrip. Also just went mad on iTunes and bought A Weekend in the City by Bloc Party and some other stuff. Er...

( Mr May's mighty column )

Oh, I know, I've been dreadful again. The social whirl that is my life just won't give me a spare moment to spend a decent amount of time on LJ. Which can only be a good thing in the sense that it gets me out of the house, etc. (Unfortunately, it's also had dire consequences for my woefully neglected fics, a number of which are languishing at the ( Read more... )

This morning I suffered a moment of terrible realisation. I picked up the Observer Music Monthly supplement and then sloped back off to bed with a cup of tea, looking forward to reading what promised to be a 'Teen Issue'. They'd done the usual gimmick of handing the writing/interviewing/editing duties to a load of 13-18 year-olds - an attempt at ( Read more... )

First things first: I've had no internet since getting back home from Liverpool. Which is good in that it means I have a lot of lovely reading to catch up on this afternoon, but bad in that I haven't commented on anything for an absolute age. I really am dreadfully sorry *eyes flist warily*

( Of broadband, fake tans, fic frustration, Maximo Park, THE SEASIDE and Regina Spektor )

Ok, so I've been going cold-turkey with lj for the duration of the exam period, and thus far I've not been doing too shabbily. I've steered clear of getting bogged down in fic reading, and strenuously avoided writing more of the J/J Series That Threatens To Eat My Life. Except, except... There are so many fics I want to read and so much of my f' ( Read more... )