Birthday
As of October 18th, I am now 23. I don't know if I'm just biased towards the month because of that, but it is my favourite. I am collecting pretty autumn leaves and walking quite a lot (also because I no longer have my 30% off student bus pass).
For my birthday I went to Rockabaret with friends (Kola came down from Southampton). We all looked great: I was the bride of frankenstein. The foot-high black wig with white flashes was great, as was the lacy wedding dress thing I constructed from net curtains and other charity shop produce. Unfortunately my prosthetic stitches were a big pile of fail, but oh well, I painted them on instead. Photo:
here.
I will be reprising this outfit at as many halloween events as I can get to, because it's so good! Generally I want to go to lots more halloween things: on the actual night I am still on the look out for somewhere I can go that will play the Monster Mash. No monster mash, no halloween party.
From my family I got bodyshop cosmetics and toiletries, socks, sheet metal cutters that clear 250mm steel plate (oh yes!), a glue gun, jellybeans, a model guitar shaped like an axe, and more money than they can probably afford. From Canis I got a carbon based tshirt and some sculptures he'd modelled and had 3d printed for me: a Sierpinski pyramid - i love my fractals - and a model of www.kittenlabs.co.uk/ac-comic/ which is So Damn Cute and Accurate. Rene kindly gave me the copy of Persepolis I wanted, as well as a personalised card with my life depicted á la persepolis. Scarily accurate.
On Sunday I went to my friend pensive_mary 's and she was kind enough cooked us a roast dinner - then we went to see Screaming Banshee Aircrew supporting The Last Dance. I bought a CD - it was v. good, despite the Underworld stinking. (unwonted mythological accuracy). Yesterday I tried to organise a cocktail night, but noone came, so I felt sorry for myself, finished my cocktails alone, drew on receipts, and then went on a mini-tour of The Head of steam, where old rock soc and rene awaited me, and i was bought cider - then to ULU, where old juggling soc awaited me, and I was bought cider - the to the court, where we juggled at people and drank cocktails, and then to chez claire, where i sucked at Mariokart, footrubs were given and we watched Aladdin on Youtube.
Excitingly, I am getting more commissions to write articles, so that's what I'm doing when I'm not partying. That and working for Take Note and filling in applications for a full time job.
For my birthday I went to Rockabaret with friends (Kola came down from Southampton). We all looked great: I was the bride of frankenstein. The foot-high black wig with white flashes was great, as was the lacy wedding dress thing I constructed from net curtains and other charity shop produce. Unfortunately my prosthetic stitches were a big pile of fail, but oh well, I painted them on instead. Photo:
here.
I will be reprising this outfit at as many halloween events as I can get to, because it's so good! Generally I want to go to lots more halloween things: on the actual night I am still on the look out for somewhere I can go that will play the Monster Mash. No monster mash, no halloween party.
From my family I got bodyshop cosmetics and toiletries, socks, sheet metal cutters that clear 250mm steel plate (oh yes!), a glue gun, jellybeans, a model guitar shaped like an axe, and more money than they can probably afford. From Canis I got a carbon based tshirt and some sculptures he'd modelled and had 3d printed for me: a Sierpinski pyramid - i love my fractals - and a model of www.kittenlabs.co.uk/ac-comic/ which is So Damn Cute and Accurate. Rene kindly gave me the copy of Persepolis I wanted, as well as a personalised card with my life depicted á la persepolis. Scarily accurate.
On Sunday I went to my friend pensive_mary 's and she was kind enough cooked us a roast dinner - then we went to see Screaming Banshee Aircrew supporting The Last Dance. I bought a CD - it was v. good, despite the Underworld stinking. (unwonted mythological accuracy). Yesterday I tried to organise a cocktail night, but noone came, so I felt sorry for myself, finished my cocktails alone, drew on receipts, and then went on a mini-tour of The Head of steam, where old rock soc and rene awaited me, and i was bought cider - then to ULU, where old juggling soc awaited me, and I was bought cider - the to the court, where we juggled at people and drank cocktails, and then to chez claire, where i sucked at Mariokart, footrubs were given and we watched Aladdin on Youtube.
Excitingly, I am getting more commissions to write articles, so that's what I'm doing when I'm not partying. That and working for Take Note and filling in applications for a full time job.