I finished the corset yesteday morning shortly after 7am, was laced into it and went to work. Unsurprisingly, it was very comfortable. Equally unsurprisingly, I was asked how welll I could breather quite a bit. Just wore a red scoop necked knit top underneath it, which was a nice contrast with the blue and my black skirt with ruffles down the ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of calling the two degrees of connections/it's a small world after all/Wellington moments bl9_knt moments, since most of mine seem to involve him and I've had two in the past three days. There was his father consulting at my work on Wednesday and then there was today. I was chatting to one of my workmates about Newtown stores, mentioned I ( Read more... )

I've been accused of being obsessive about books before. I suppose I can see how things can be construed that way and sometimes I even care. However, when it comes to purchasing the correct, hard-to-find edition of a fairly common book over trademe and that book is in the best condition of the three of them and it completes two sets (trilogy and ( Read more... )

I've been accused of being obsessive about books before. I suppose I can see how things can be construed that way and sometimes I even care. However, when it comes to purchasing the correct, hard-to-find edition of a fairly common book over trademe and that book is in the best condition of the three of them and it completes two sets (trilogy and ( Read more... )

Went to a New Year's party at atomicsusan's place last night. It was lots of fun, but I crashed out around 1am - the stairs were remarkably comfortable to doze on - and walked home, counting snails. Twenty-four from their place to mine, and sixteen of those before I reached Pembroke Rd ( Read more... )

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Somehow, I've managed to get to uni by 9am this morning. Normally, this would be a good thing, since this week I have Myth three days out of five, but I don't have it today. I don't start until ten! So instead of just crawling out of bed now, to feed the cat, have breakfast, shower and wash my hair, I'm sitting here at the university computers ( Read more... )

I'm talking with maudlinrose and cohr at the moment. It's nice to be talking to both at once. I am also avoiding doing readings for my history essay, which I will get down to at some stage ( Read more... )

Parks are fun. Paul and I must've spent upwards of an hour playing on the one in the Botannical Gardens yesterday, especially on the flying fox. The flying fox was very safe (and probably the most dangerous item of equipment on the grounds ( Read more... )