My favorite place for weekly doses of "BAAAAAAW!"-cutesplosions and goaties and sheepies and coveting of ethically farmed knitting supplies is starting up a magazine!

First, just lookit these little darlin's. Look at them! **squee's forever**

Okay now that you are all pumped up with adorabability, and excited about wool and yarn and craftythings, ( Read more... )

Lots of stuff trying to all jam into the same 6 days.

Getting my first in-person look at the Bank of Ideas tomorry with an activity that looks fairly straightforward and relaxed and groovy. Apparently the City of London police force considers them terrorists now, so, yanno, CAN'T BE TOO CAREFUL NOWADAYS. 8 ( Read more... )

In the five hours I worked today at the Galley, there was a grand total of six customers 8| My favorite newbie, Freddie, has stopped working for the owners. Not sure why, but I think it may be his studies. But a sweet new-new newbie, whom I shall call Fluttershy, was in today with me and Nana O. and Gaga, so it was a pleasant afternoon of catch-up ( Read more... )

So like most people with eyes and ears in the city, I've been watching from afar the Occupy London movement. I don't know if this applies to most people, but over the weeks I've slowly gone from jaded skepticism to hopeful sympathy. Some days, when Kodiak is giving me shit for having a chronic cough and I start to totally dissociate from my ( Read more... )

New pairs of glasses are coming in about a week's time - turns out the mild astigmatism I'd totally forgotten I had has gotten a bit wonkier, and my eyes have gone and switched prescriptions on me. So there's the culprit behind the tension headache that sent me to the emergency room for my first taste of British national healthcare on Friday ( Read more... )

It's Monday, and that means time to call my old NHS practice, register at a new one, and complete the process of letting Camden Council know that, o hay guyz, im in ur borough. You charge me council tax whynot (students live residence-tax free, however, I am no longer a student). Sigh.

Yesterday was an uneventful evening at The Galley, except for ( Read more... )

Had a needlessly blah night last night, what with the moon-cycle putting my midsection firmly in the "bloaty & discontented" corner from mid-afternoon onwards, and feeling a stranger in the house that I live in, and generally looping back to "Oh god how am I gonna make it out the other end of this month?" every five minutes and wanting lots of ( Read more... )

My digital camera has just taken its 3200th photo, over the course of about five years of ownership. That's positively ancient by digital standards, but I dunno, I think it does a pretty spiffy job for a model that was new in 2003:


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Earned my employee t-shirt today :3 After a slightly embarrassing three tries at the recipes memory test, I finally came out with only 3 minor goofs. Nana O. has decided that my color should be red. Dunno how I feel about that - the color works for me, but it also makes me a Red Shirt <.< As long as I take home a few tips before I die in an ill- ( Read more... )

A few months ago I signed up with a couple of online survey sites. One of them offers from a handful of change up to a few pounds for every survey you qualify for and complete, and the other offers points that you can redeem for gift vouchers to restaurants, stores, &tc. So far the vouchers one has proven the fastest and easiest pay-off, as I just ( Read more... )