People. It's the August bank holiday. And I just put a hoodie and woolly socks on in my flat because I'm cold.

I read this quote in a book by Jenny Colgan last week. I felt it was relevant to many of your interests, f-list.

Please let me clear this up once and for all: 'Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to ( Read more... )

My BBF from my school days just sent me an email with the following in it:

I always imagine you sat at home eating chocolate watching something sci-fi-y in your pyjamas with your hamsters running around your feet...

This is so hilariously, unbelievably accurate that I may have to make it my profile description for everything ever.

So I was supposed to be in Cornwall for a few days right now. And I'm not. Because my job suddenly got stupidly busy and being such a small team, we couldn't afford to be a person down. I really have tried not to sulk too much about this, as it's hardly anybody's fault (and the work load is insane - we had four deaths today. FOUR. In one day ( Read more... )

It appears my (not six months old) laptop is experiencing some kind of hard drive failure. There are not enough swear words in the world to contain how I feel about this, especially as my attempts to do backups are failing for no apparent reason. I'm also irritated that now I have lost all my userpics, I do not have an adequate icon to express my ( Read more... )

Boo to colds. My nose is sore, my body is achy and I have that fun cotton wool feeling in my head. Which is actually rather liberating - I'm thinking all sorts of funny thoughts.

One of those X-Files random comments again: Am I the only person that watches Pusher, starts thinking of Derren Brown and freaks out much? He basically actually does ( Read more... )

...and I'm getting coffee. And it's not even for me!

Never thought I'd see the day that Friends accurately put my life into one quote. Not that I actually want to get married, or get pregnant, or even get promoted. But still ( Read more... )

I ask for no forgiveness father, for I have not sinned.
I did not ask for the life I was given, but it was given none the less.
And in it, I did my best.

And that, Ladies and Gentleman, would be the first time LOST has said something that actually touched me. This is a momentous occasion.

( More LOST musings - spoilers may be ahead (though only if your behind where we are in the UK, which is virtually impossible) )

What haunts is not the memory of sea
not trees that won't grow on these islands' rocks
not the birds or leaves or mountains
what haunts is a heartbeat that goes deeper
than pulsing thought. ^Merle Collins - 'Visit to the Faroe Islands ( Read more... )