tonight, as i was rather hungry for some pudding, i invented my new favourite breakfast ( Read more... )

i think my internet has finally got to the stage in it's tantrums that it is more often working than not, so i think i am safe to say i'll be here a little more regularly. university is all-consuming with it's reading and drinking and dancing and coffee and worrying about having to read paradise lost. my milton-based worry is so extreme that i ( Read more... )

my new flat has the internet. finally. i am a sad, dependent nerd, and i will never leave you for this long again, baby ( Read more... )

i just got facebook. ugh ( Read more... )

i was informed yesterday that the best friends of mine who had previously scoffed at the wealthier kids in my college exchanging presents before going to university wanted in on the gifty action. so i made stationary sets:


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i was noodling about through the Tatty Devine website and i found this awesome necklace. I saw it in Urban Outfitters a couple of months ago and was extremely enamoured, but now my affection is renewed! I love the way you can look through the lenses and they actually work. No more sitting on my 3D-spex halfway through the film at the iMAX any more ( Read more... )

i just realised that US zipcodes are a 5-digit number. that is the number that has been confusing me in the addresses of my overseas pen-people. big clap for me!

today has been a pleasantly busy day! started off by going to town with hannah to post some ebay parcels, and ended up doing a bit of H&M shopping too. and i bought a raconteurs CD. i am still gutted that i missed them at Leeds; this is what drinking cider and backcombing your hair in a tent does - it makes you miss bands that you are in love with ( Read more... )

today i got the final piece of the puzzle! a letter telling me where i'm going to be living in a month. exactly where i wanted to be, in a lovely old listed converted building by the quayside. perfect. and i figured out my budget - i knew students were meant to be poor, but it didn't hit home til now ( Read more... )

i recently (yesterday) came into two pairs of shoes ( Read more... )