It's been a good few days. Yesterday involved teaching riding, going to an absolutely freaking excellent panel, "Palestine and Egypt", getting booked for a gig, booking someone else for a gig, and kissing one hell of an impressive girl. Today I measured my waist at a pleasing 25.75", made £100 before lunch doing something I love, and and am now ( Read more... )

Having a Dad who is even scarier than I am when mad, and who will call my stalkers for me: that is AWESOME. I'm mildly worried my Dad is going to get prank calls back, but one would have to be completely insane to ring back an enormous, furious, booming man with Khomeini-quality Angry Eyebrows who's awesome with handguns and stressed about his ( Read more... )

"My neck is now a dichromic Pollock painting" -NJ

"Life is too short to have self-expectations that make sense ( Read more... )

Usually my hunger rules my life, but in the past few unpleasant weeks I've been perceiving food and hunger in different way. When I start eating food it has no taste and often feels dry and unpalatable. I often take a bite of something only to spit it out. Every day I eat less and I'm aware that it is making it hard to think and work and that I ( Read more... )

ME: I've got someone else's keys in my bra and my python inside my handbag--we're good to go.
DRIVER: This is way more interesting than my usual Friday nights.

ME [typing]: Some things you said last time I saw you really othered me--we can talk next time I see you

RC: Yeah, I figured
ME: Whoops--"bothered". Or...more accurately...Othered in a Lacanian sense, which makes that the most academic Freudian slip ever.

In the past 24 hours I have ( Read more... )

Dear ElJay,

Which pair of earrings do I want?


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I had a most splendid dinner with N last night, during which we ate enough for about eight people. The best quote was:
N: "He gets to herd giraffes at work! In a helicopter! He has it easy."
ME: "Whereas you have to walk around in a bikini with a boa constrictor."
N: "Fair point."