Best spelling mistake (Malapropism?) ever, spotted in the window of a temping agency:

intermidiot (for intermediate)

And the sad fact is, temping agencies really are just looking for interim idiots.

I went on a little holiday to visit my sister in Cumbria. Wow. You think you know the country in which you live and then you go to Cumbria, where even doing something simplistic like seeing a movie (Four Christmases: I enjoyed it!) becomes a hysterically bizarre experience. (Short version: part of the movie theatre was located in a church building ( Read more... )

I have such a bizarre memory. I remember very little of my childhood -- like, I remember my house and my school and (some of) my friends, but most of it's fuzzy montage-style memories. Yet I can recall, almost verbatim, conversations I've had, dating back yeears. Here's a tip: never try and tell me an anecdote (no matter how charming and amusing) ( Read more... )

I'm usually really good at the Hey! It's That Guy game (that's a valuable life skill, right?), but I totally failed to realize that Charlie from Privileged = Zach from The O.C.. OMG ( Read more... )

I love biiirds ( Read more... )

About five years ago, when everybody had money and stuff, some suits decided to make Bristol a "shopping destination" (mmm, consumerism!). Cue: years and years and years of Bristol being snarled-up and annoying as the construction work progressed sloooowly on this shopping centre. Now that we're in a recession (worst timing ever!), it's finally ( Read more... )

At school, my friend Rachel used to spend most of her time scrawling shit-talk about people across her exercise books. I didn't have a problem with the shit-talk -- most of 'em deserved it -- but I did object to the fact that she endlessly wrote about hores ( Read more... )

Today, I am so sick of October-in-August that I am, by wearing a skirt, going to will the weather into being warmer than the BBC forecast tells me it's gonna be. Let's see how that works out ( Read more... )

My thoughts upon reading this article in the Guardian: dude, you're totally way into Swimmer slash right now, aren't you? ... It kinda makes me want to read some, too. Anyone got any Olympics-related fic recs? >_ ( Read more... )

I don't really go in for "event TV", but I unashamedly love The X Factor. For one thing, it's fantastically emotionally manipulative. I must have cried 3 times during tonight's episode. I don't even remember why! Ahhh, synthetic emotion. ;)

Anyway, it got me thinking about ( dreams. )