Ugh, so I just accepted a Facebook request from somebody I was friends with in high school; she moved away when we were 18 and we only kept in contact for a few months, and haven't seen each other since. I had a vague memory of having been FB friends before at some point and couldn't remember her having done anything egregious, so I assumed she'd ( Read more... )

Last week, my beloved salmon_man sidled up to me and said, "What are you doing next Wednesday night? Because I'm taking you out. Early birthday pressie. Very early." And I went, oooh!, and she offered to tell me what we'd be doing, and I said I'd wait to find out. And then I was VERY, VERY GOOD and refrained from checking the local arts listings to ( Read more... )

So, I have a wolfrider89 staying overnight, and we are having So Much Freaking Fun. This afternoon we pretty much bought Boots out of sparkly, funky nail polishes, and then spent forever squeeing at each other over all the geeky fangirly shit in Forbidden Planet. Moomintroll tote bags! Game of Thrones mugs! Stormtrooper and Darth Vader ice cube trays! ( Read more... )

Just got back from seeing Nickelback at the NIA, and OMG THEY ROCKED. RAWWWWKED, I TELL YOU. Played every single one of my favourites, and the whole place was bouncing and singing along. This, this is why live music will never die. Happy, happy, happy ( Read more... )

... because crafty bitches like me snoop round your stalls, buy next to nothing -- and then steal all your best ideas, go home, and make ALL THE CUTE THINGS ourselves ...


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Happy, happy, happy! Going with salmon_man and friend, and wolfrider89 is coming down from Leeds to join us for the gig and staying at mine! YAY ( Read more... )

Happily, the hassles I had the morning of the con got resolved, and I managed to book into my hotel early so I didn't have to drag my suitcase around with me all afternoon. And when I went down to reception to order a taxi to the con, I found a pair of Mishamigos doing likewise, so we shared - and then hung out in the registration line, and ( Read more... )

So, I bought a Kindle at last; gave in to temptation and excess Nectar points. I've had it for about 12 waking hours now, and there are 272 items on it (and there would be many more if everyone mirrored the good stuff to AO3). Mostly pornalicious fic, schmoop fic, and classic novels. All free, except I treated myself to one of obstinatrix's published works ( Read more... )

I kinda suck at organizing myself, which is weird because I'm SUPAH-organized at work. So I was waiting for the discounted rooms for Asylum 8 to go up, and then I forgot to check the website for a couple of weeks, and I've gone and missed the window and all the discount rooms are gone, goddamnit. And, in fact, so are all the standard rooms. ( Read more... )

I've just got back to my desk from a training session on Cross Cultural Awareness, during which our facilitator (a Punjabi-English guy) went on at length about the importance of understanding cultural difference, and how it was on the dominant culture to understand and adapt to the cultural norms of foreigners in our midst, because we have the ( Read more... )