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I survived hurricane bawbag. Had a near miss when a chimney pot was blown off the roof of a building and shattered in front of my feet, also, a pizza box made an undignified impression on my face, but...
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I've been working full time hours in the lead up to Xmas. I go to work when it's dark out and come home when it is dark out, after spending all day in a dark building. The extra income is much needed,...
View ArticleAre we not all, in some way, looking for our comorants?
I Want My Comorant Back! Starring Stephen Maturin. LOVE! I'm not sure if you have to be familiar with I Want My Hat Back to find this amusing, but I suspect it works regardless... comments
View ArticleDecisions, decisions...
It turns out a return ticket is actually cheaper than a one way! Having return airfare makes me feel infinitely better about leaving Scotland. It's one thing to say that I'll be back, but in my heart...
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I'm going to see Master and Commander at the Filmhouse this afternoon. It's showing in conjunction with the Admiral Cochrane exhibition at museum (which is very good, by the by). I've bullied my friend...
View ArticleThe Day Zero Project
When I made L. go to the cinema with me to see Master and Commander, I somehow forgot that she gets faint at the sight (and in some cases even the idea) of blood. Ooops. Thankfully I am not yet fired...
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1. Watched the entire first season of Downton Abbey.(7 episodes, so admittedly not quite the same time commitment that watching the entire first season of Man from UNCLE would have been, but still...
View ArticleThe fannish year that was...
Your main fandom of the year?I'm still going steady with Man from UNCLE. Your favorite film you watched this year? To be honest, I can't think of any noteworthy films that I've watched this year.Your...
View ArticleDownton Abbey Picspam
I know you all thought I was watching this show for the realistic plots. Actually, I'm just in it for the hats...( Massive Hat Picspam! ) comments
View ArticleNew Year! New Niece! New Hat!
Packing...UGH. I need to get my final boxes packed and weighed tonight so that Fed Ex can come take them away on Wednesday. In order to do this I need to make sure all my remaining possessions fit in...
View ArticleNoted...
I didn't think it was possible for any character to get tied up and/or knocked unconscious more often than Illya Kuryakin, but somehow Tintin manages it. comments
View ArticleMille sabords!
I have possibly found a place to live... The landlord needs to hurry up and answer my email. It's been four hours already and I am getting impatient! (There is also this whole thing where the site was...
View ArticleTogether they fight crime!
Awww...devoted dogs for the win!My mother vetoed the flat that I wanted on the grounds that it's in an area where people get stabbed quite often... but would I get stabbed if I had a devoted bull...
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Shhhh! Did you hear that? That silence is the sound of me being in a house by myself for the first time in about a month and a half. IT IS MADE OF BLISS. comments
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Happy May Day!I'm all moved into my new flat. I absolutely love it. It's not perfect - it gets a lot of noise at all hours of the night from the bar across the street, and unfortunately someone once...
View ArticleHappy Friday!
I got a haircut last night. I don't know why I always feel the need to announce this publicly. Maybe because none of the Engineers noticed? Maybe because of all the years I wore my hair long? Getting a...
View ArticleThere's badfic and then there is P.D. James...
I managed to read 70 pages of Death comes to Pemberley before giving up. It is dire. comments
View ArticlePatience, I need to learn it...
On the weekend I started a container garden on my awesome fire escape/balcony. It has been, what, three full days now? I am having a really hard time not doing a Miles Vorkosigan on those seeds (aka,...
View ArticleThe sense of an ending
I don't think there is anyone reading this who won't have heard already, but I want to say something about the death of periwinkle27. I feel so sad when I think of her passing, a sadness that seems a...
View ArticleSpace like it's the 1990s...
Here I am getting caught up on my reading list this bright Saturday morning. After back>100 I came across this image on the Sartorialist. True fact: I bought that fabric from Walmart (or was it...
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A day spent shopping has led me to an irrevocable conclusion:The peplum is the most hideous thing to happen to fashion since Ugg boots.No lie - if the shopping centre offered "free day" where you can...
View ArticleBomb Girls!
So I can't properly bitch about how nobody told me to watch Bomb Girls, because lasergirl did, in fact, tell me to watch Bomb Girls last January. Then I forgot all about it until I saw an advertisement...
View ArticleMy Little Pony vid to "Clink! Clink! Another Drink!"
Came across this by accident while listening to Spike Jones songs on youtube...I had no idea there was so much boozing in MLP. This kinda made my morning. comments
View ArticleBomb Girls Picspam!
Never say I'm not good to you!For those who have never heard of it, Bomb Girls is a Canadian tv show about a group of women working in a munitions factory in Ontario during WWII. There are a few male...
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