...say hello to the charming people i know are reading this for... well, good question! it can't be anything you don't already know.

this is so fucking true and apt right now, and not just about madeleine mccann, either. thank god for some bloody common sense in this weirdly morbidly fascinated world we now inhabit. if i could count the number of times i've just wanted to slap some overemoters... well i'd be very good at maths by now.

unlike what seems like every other person who's done it, i was actually given a pretty good list of careers. in all your faces!!

1.

Special Effects Technician
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eek eek eek we are gonna make an offer for a house tomorrow morning, it is soooooooo lovely but i can't quite bring myself to dare to be excited yet because we still might not get it. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhh the suspense!! and we still need to sublet a nice single if anyone's interested...

http://oxford.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2149517&l=30e3c&id=36803432

i am rubbish at LJ linkness so you'll just have to copy and paste.

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! yes, i am still on a total high from my latest ink. it was quite a palava getting it done (woke up this morning to a text from thomas there saying he couldn't do it today, went in to reschedule and his boss didn't know he wasn't coming in ( Read more... )

bloody housemates are like bloody buses or some such hyperbolic misquotation. basically, after lots of emails from various just-not-quite-suitable people ("shimmying up trees, philosophy and running" does not in my view constitute a complete flatmate self-description) i've just got two messages in the last two days that are potentially good. one ( Read more... )

went into town today, witnessed eimear's book-selling greatness and trawled round tattoo shops. it's soooooo annoying, because wednesday is a jour férier, i can't get my new one till bloody next week :o( well, not anywhere decent, anyway - the one round the back/side of agora near the rock shop said they could do me today at five, but the guy was ( Read more... )

i've decided. i'm going to get another tattoo.
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well, it looks as if we'll be going to heidi's next weekend. it coincides with george and andrew's first civil partnership anniversary, appropriately enough, so hopefully most of the gang will be there. i'm intrigued to see the beehives, of which there are now fifteen since heidi decided she has some sort of spiritual connection with bees ( ( Read more... )