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MEEEERRRRRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!
hope everyone is having a lovely day, as befits such a lovely flist. I am full of roasted root vegetables, basking in a warm post-doctor who glow and cuddling a george harrison CD. life is excellent.
now, here's a meme, stolen from pretty much everyone.
01. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
saw dpt. went to germany. worked in a real lab. took a load of blood. rode a train without a ticket. still feeling a bit bad about that. turned into a genuine vegetarian.
02. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Don't think I had one, and er, possibly not. but I shall just try, as ever, to live by the example set down by mrs. doasyouwouldbedoneby, who rather assaulted my senses a long long time ago.
03. Did someone close to you give birth?
physically, yes. and it was pretty hideous, and I will be attempting to subvert the system to get a c section should I ever be impregnated.
04. Did anyone close to you die?
nope.
05. What countries did you visit?
Germany! and that's it.
06. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Sobriety? oh, no, I know: money. A job.
07. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
er. er. er. aw shit. I mean, I've had some lovely times, but I probably didn't know what the date was at the time. I'm going to go with thesis writing weekend, where mchugh and I stayed up for two and a half days and wrote at least 40,000 words between us. Rock and motherlicken' roll. We also did some dreadfully improper things with uv hoods, glow sticks and dance music. the guilt from that will certainly remained etched upon my memory for life.
08. What was your biggest achievement(s) of the year?
got a degree. wrote a thesis.
09. What was your biggest failure(s)?
thesis was a bit rubbish, really :D
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
That I can't think of anything suggests not. Although I'm sure I did something horrendous to a nerve. My gp (twat) insisted that I had a bursitis and gave me a goddamn steroid injection. I was like "Dude. I think there might be a nerve involved. In that MY LEG HAS A MASSIVE NUMB PATCH. NUUUUMB. NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMB." but hey. what can you do. I suppose I also did some minor ankle ligament damage falling over repeatedly when pissed on gin. Have issues with heels now. Really, the gin-soaked life is not all the romance I imagined. Then again, that was an excellent evening. Spoke a lot of french. Well. Drunk french.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
plane ticket to berlin baaaby. also an oxfam cardigan that is the love of my life.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
ahhh, all those lovely fourth years who passed their finals - first time!! a rare achievement for my ridiculously intelligent but lazy friends, who usually spend their summers revising for resits. they manned up for finals though, and they were all happy in the end. love love love.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
whoever ordered the police to batter the shit out of the climate camp environmentalists at kingsnorth. er. most politicians? most businessmen and women? the fuckers who put up bus prices to london, thus preventing me from skipping off to the last hurrah?!?! oh sob sob sob
14. Where did most of your money go?
cardigans. hairdye. humous. I've got my priorities right. also travelling, I suppose.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
BSc Berlin trip of joy! Going to see DPT. Wandering around Hare Row in London, falling in love with all the people before me who'd daubed Legs 11 lyrics on the wall.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you
- happier or sadder? sadder
- thinner or fatter? 'bout the same, which translates to plump, but heeey 'tis the season
- richer or poorer? mega poor. mega mega mega poor. stupidly poor.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
everything? revision, fun, listening to music, dancing, walking around parks and streets and learning the tube map and sipping cider in the sun. Just not sitting about feeling miserable.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
stupid dieting. But at the same time, I wish I hadn't eradicated all the evidence of stupid dieting by eating my weight in peshwari naan of late.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
avec ma mere et mon siblings. We all hate home and having to be there, eh?
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
hell yes. Just not with a lovely romantic person.
23. How many one-night stands?
ha! nul pointes!
24. What was your favorite TV program?
awww. gavin and stacey, just for the simpicity and charm and love and LARRY LAMB. I want him to adopt me. but also jonathon meades
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I've lost patience with people from last year, but I'm not sure I'm passionate enough about them to hate their breathing guts.
26. What was the best book you read?
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Ha, this year was the first year I properly sat down with some beatles CDs and listened to them. In fact, can I change an answer up there? My greatest achievement of the year was listening to the beatles!
28. What did you want and get?
my ears pierced!!! sadly for me, the little bastards got so infected I had to get antibiotics. coooccccckkksssss
29. What did you want and not get?
a tattoo!! goddamn. money too low, plus just general indecision. of what to get, I mean. definitely getting one some day!!
30. Favorite film of this year?
Er. Er. ffs, probably the dark knight, just 'cos I haven't seen many films this year. On my 2008 to see list are persepolis, hunger and slumdog millionaire. plus loads more I can't think of. plus HSM3, because I am terrible and fancy the tits off troy bolton.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I revised for my exams, like a good little student, but I slowly got tanked on beers as the day progressed. I was 22.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
being happier, perhaps? Oooh no money worries. Then I'd be great.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Twat! Twat! Twat! Something like that. Twat with a cardigan! Twat with a cardigan and a really great hat.
34. What kept you sane?
I think I've been transferring my general life worries to my fringe. so I think my poor fringe may have kept me sane this year. Also impromptu trips to the beach to go paddling throughout the year. gin may have also helped.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
mmmf. sexual carl barat, of course!
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
ahhh. 42 days. kingsnorth climate camp. anti-abortionists. all the usual shite about the traditional family unit being the best thing in the world or we shall all degenerate into asbo yobs. the pope made me seethe rather furiously yesterday with his startlingly un-intelligent attempts at academic work. fuuucccckkkkkk oooffffffffff. the usual subjugation of women. the usual halt of scientific progress by sensationalist media and politicians who haven't a fucking clue about what they are debating. human rights abuses in china all in the name of the olympics. free tibet! the british government continually fucking me off over british ghurkas and the chagos islands. and seriously one of these days I'm going to bloody stop sitting about being all miserable and angry and stuck in aberdeen and actually do something useful with my life.
37. Who do you miss?
only yesterday I was musing on where the hell orlando bloom has got to. But I really don't think I miss him all that much.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
aaaahhhhh AAAAALLLLLL OF THEM! from the boners in the lab to the nursing students in berlin who gave me a mug of jeigermeister, the lovely lovely people on my gp placement, all the dudes in my new ward group, everyone at DPT in Edinburgh but particularly madam_ray - thanks for being so lovely
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
peeeeople loooove peeeeople! I learnt the value of being unassuming. listen and be kind, and then who gives a fuck what happens next.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make
but also, as per usual:
I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me
and now I'm off to watch king lear. TOO EXCITED FOR WORDS. going to have to rethink the whole people love people part, though. mmmf.
hope everyone is having a lovely day, as befits such a lovely flist. I am full of roasted root vegetables, basking in a warm post-doctor who glow and cuddling a george harrison CD. life is excellent.
now, here's a meme, stolen from pretty much everyone.
01. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
saw dpt. went to germany. worked in a real lab. took a load of blood. rode a train without a ticket. still feeling a bit bad about that. turned into a genuine vegetarian.
02. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Don't think I had one, and er, possibly not. but I shall just try, as ever, to live by the example set down by mrs. doasyouwouldbedoneby, who rather assaulted my senses a long long time ago.
03. Did someone close to you give birth?
physically, yes. and it was pretty hideous, and I will be attempting to subvert the system to get a c section should I ever be impregnated.
04. Did anyone close to you die?
nope.
05. What countries did you visit?
Germany! and that's it.
06. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Sobriety? oh, no, I know: money. A job.
07. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
er. er. er. aw shit. I mean, I've had some lovely times, but I probably didn't know what the date was at the time. I'm going to go with thesis writing weekend, where mchugh and I stayed up for two and a half days and wrote at least 40,000 words between us. Rock and motherlicken' roll. We also did some dreadfully improper things with uv hoods, glow sticks and dance music. the guilt from that will certainly remained etched upon my memory for life.
08. What was your biggest achievement(s) of the year?
got a degree. wrote a thesis.
09. What was your biggest failure(s)?
thesis was a bit rubbish, really :D
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
That I can't think of anything suggests not. Although I'm sure I did something horrendous to a nerve. My gp (twat) insisted that I had a bursitis and gave me a goddamn steroid injection. I was like "Dude. I think there might be a nerve involved. In that MY LEG HAS A MASSIVE NUMB PATCH. NUUUUMB. NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMB." but hey. what can you do. I suppose I also did some minor ankle ligament damage falling over repeatedly when pissed on gin. Have issues with heels now. Really, the gin-soaked life is not all the romance I imagined. Then again, that was an excellent evening. Spoke a lot of french. Well. Drunk french.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
plane ticket to berlin baaaby. also an oxfam cardigan that is the love of my life.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
ahhh, all those lovely fourth years who passed their finals - first time!! a rare achievement for my ridiculously intelligent but lazy friends, who usually spend their summers revising for resits. they manned up for finals though, and they were all happy in the end. love love love.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
whoever ordered the police to batter the shit out of the climate camp environmentalists at kingsnorth. er. most politicians? most businessmen and women? the fuckers who put up bus prices to london, thus preventing me from skipping off to the last hurrah?!?! oh sob sob sob
14. Where did most of your money go?
cardigans. hairdye. humous. I've got my priorities right. also travelling, I suppose.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
BSc Berlin trip of joy! Going to see DPT. Wandering around Hare Row in London, falling in love with all the people before me who'd daubed Legs 11 lyrics on the wall.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you
- happier or sadder? sadder
- thinner or fatter? 'bout the same, which translates to plump, but heeey 'tis the season
- richer or poorer? mega poor. mega mega mega poor. stupidly poor.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
everything? revision, fun, listening to music, dancing, walking around parks and streets and learning the tube map and sipping cider in the sun. Just not sitting about feeling miserable.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
stupid dieting. But at the same time, I wish I hadn't eradicated all the evidence of stupid dieting by eating my weight in peshwari naan of late.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
avec ma mere et mon siblings. We all hate home and having to be there, eh?
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
hell yes. Just not with a lovely romantic person.
23. How many one-night stands?
ha! nul pointes!
24. What was your favorite TV program?
awww. gavin and stacey, just for the simpicity and charm and love and LARRY LAMB. I want him to adopt me. but also jonathon meades
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I've lost patience with people from last year, but I'm not sure I'm passionate enough about them to hate their breathing guts.
26. What was the best book you read?
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Ha, this year was the first year I properly sat down with some beatles CDs and listened to them. In fact, can I change an answer up there? My greatest achievement of the year was listening to the beatles!
28. What did you want and get?
my ears pierced!!! sadly for me, the little bastards got so infected I had to get antibiotics. coooccccckkksssss
29. What did you want and not get?
a tattoo!! goddamn. money too low, plus just general indecision. of what to get, I mean. definitely getting one some day!!
30. Favorite film of this year?
Er. Er. ffs, probably the dark knight, just 'cos I haven't seen many films this year. On my 2008 to see list are persepolis, hunger and slumdog millionaire. plus loads more I can't think of. plus HSM3, because I am terrible and fancy the tits off troy bolton.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I revised for my exams, like a good little student, but I slowly got tanked on beers as the day progressed. I was 22.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
being happier, perhaps? Oooh no money worries. Then I'd be great.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Twat! Twat! Twat! Something like that. Twat with a cardigan! Twat with a cardigan and a really great hat.
34. What kept you sane?
I think I've been transferring my general life worries to my fringe. so I think my poor fringe may have kept me sane this year. Also impromptu trips to the beach to go paddling throughout the year. gin may have also helped.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
mmmf. sexual carl barat, of course!
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
ahhh. 42 days. kingsnorth climate camp. anti-abortionists. all the usual shite about the traditional family unit being the best thing in the world or we shall all degenerate into asbo yobs. the pope made me seethe rather furiously yesterday with his startlingly un-intelligent attempts at academic work. fuuucccckkkkkk oooffffffffff. the usual subjugation of women. the usual halt of scientific progress by sensationalist media and politicians who haven't a fucking clue about what they are debating. human rights abuses in china all in the name of the olympics. free tibet! the british government continually fucking me off over british ghurkas and the chagos islands. and seriously one of these days I'm going to bloody stop sitting about being all miserable and angry and stuck in aberdeen and actually do something useful with my life.
37. Who do you miss?
only yesterday I was musing on where the hell orlando bloom has got to. But I really don't think I miss him all that much.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
aaaahhhhh AAAAALLLLLL OF THEM! from the boners in the lab to the nursing students in berlin who gave me a mug of jeigermeister, the lovely lovely people on my gp placement, all the dudes in my new ward group, everyone at DPT in Edinburgh but particularly madam_ray - thanks for being so lovely
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
peeeeople loooove peeeeople! I learnt the value of being unassuming. listen and be kind, and then who gives a fuck what happens next.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make
but also, as per usual:
I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me
and now I'm off to watch king lear. TOO EXCITED FOR WORDS. going to have to rethink the whole people love people part, though. mmmf.