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Goodness Gracious Meme
12:39 / 12.08.05
Extremely self-indulgent, but the lovely, enthused, critical and intelligent responses already on 'my' 303 thread are sending me out the door with an enormous happy.
 
 
P. Horus Rhacoid
06:09 / 13.08.05
Went in today to talk to the people at my university who deal with undergraduate theses. This is about 5 months after the deadline, keep in mind (I'm wicked disorganized). Anyhow, I go talk to the woman in charge. I'm worried that it's too late or that I'll get hassled, but I pitch it to her for about 30 seconds and she says 'okay.' Of course, I have to get in touch with a couple people to advise it, but: I'm going to be writing a novel! And if all goes well, I'll be doing it with the help of people who I have a ton of respect for and who both Know Their Shit.

On top of that, tomorrow I'm going home. En route, I get to stop off and visit my roommate from last year who transferred to a different school, and then I get to visit my sister in Boston.

I could whinge a bit about how tonight I also had to say goodbye to one of my really close friends who I've had a massive crush on for most of the last 9 months, and who is also transferring (to Colorado) (with her boyfriend of the last 7 months), but I managed to sort my feelings out in that regard a few weeks ago (wonderful feeling of freedom there). As goodbyes go it was a good one in a bittersweet sort of way. So I guess right now I'm a little sad but mostly happy, especially because, holy fuck, I'm going to London in two weeks.

All in all I am pretty freakin' happy right now.
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
09:36 / 15.08.05
I got a new job!

With Black Horse, the insurers, in Cardiff. At a starting salary higher than their usual, 'cause I'm quite old and stuff. And because my current job ends at the Bank Holiday and this one doesn't start until September 12th, nearly two weeks of guilt-free househusbandry awaits!

Plus I had a lovely weekend, during which I got to:-

(1) Meet some Barbe-people and be treated with exceeding kindness by them all. Special thanks to Kit-Kat Club.
(2) Dance my ass off to lots of top pop music, none of which I could readily identify right now, due to the combination of alcohol and terminal unhipness.
(3) See my dad, mum and sister (and family cat) for the first time in months.
(4) Crawl past a surreal traffic accident on the M4, in which (so far as I'm aware, and please God strike me down if this turns out to be false) no-one was hurt but a holiday caravan was horizontally sheared in half!
(5) Return home to my beautiful girlfriend who took the weekend off to paint the bathroom and make me a love heart ceramic mosaic thingy she picked up at Homebase... [melt]

So, quite good then.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
09:56 / 15.08.05
Sitting in my own flat for the first time since Saturday, having managed to lock myself out.

Having friends happy to feed, water, house and generally put up with me all weekend=the most pleasant lock-out I can imagine.
 
 
Triplets
15:46 / 15.08.05
The young woman in Vision Express who helped me with my new pair of glasses earlier. So charming and lovely! Just made the whole customer experience enjoyable and fun

After she was done processing my order I asked her to grab her manager and spent about two minutes explaining to her just how fucking great she is at her job. She went all tomato Bless!
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:56 / 15.08.05
Eek, job interview!
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
10:34 / 16.08.05
This is the most I've seen of my niece so far. She's growing up in a truly bizarre household, and she's going to be spoiled rotten rotten rotten. I am flabbergasted with affection. Ladies and gentlemen, it's CRAZYSPROG! (quicktime link)
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
05:32 / 18.08.05
Ron Weasley Versus The _____. It would spoil it to tell you. Go clicky.
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
05:51 / 18.08.05
Good stuff, Our Lady. Gives me the smiles.
 
 
Axolotl
13:19 / 18.08.05
The google toolbar for Firefox. I'd been using the unofficial one for a while (and very good it was too) but upgraded to the official one after my work PC lost all my settings. I was overjoyed to find a g-mail icon and a spellchecker. No longer will my posts have foolish spelling errors, nor will I have to cut & paste into Word when I need to check my spelling. I love well designed software far more than I should.
Also Google Earth. How cool is that?
 
 
Saveloy
09:49 / 25.08.05
These gorgeous lovely thingies at the Science Museum, London. I forget exactly what they're meant to demonstrate - something to do with maths in 3D form - but they're the most satisfying bit of sculpture I've seen in, well, ever probably. The one in the middle, in particular, makes me weak at the knees. I don't know that the photos do it justice, but the combination of satisfying shapes, smoothness of surface and precision of, er, sculpt hit all my buttons. If only I could get my filthy hands on them.... *drooling, heavy breathing etc*
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
11:47 / 25.08.05
Learning how to be a Guy makes me happy.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:29 / 25.08.05
Yes. It's as if beautiful flowers are opening all over the conversation.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
12:55 / 25.08.05
Yes, I haven't had as much fun since... well, breakfast.

Mind you, I had a late breakfast.

(With apologies to John Peel.)
 
 
h1ppychick
13:03 / 25.08.05
(threadrot) Canty, I work there. Plus points: generally lovely people. Minus points: Welsh (heh heh). (/threadrot)
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
21:44 / 02.09.05
Congenial company+fish and chips+Queer as Folk collectors box set= Happy.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:38 / 02.09.05
My friends. They're ace.
 
 
■
18:21 / 05.09.05
After a brief tour of Southern England (which included a visit to Gosh! in which I happily picked up issues 2 and 3 of Fluffy. Yay!) in lovely weather, I arrive home to find my Noodly Appendage shirt has arrived. Squee! This shall become my official Barbemeet uniform from now on.
 
 
Triplets
18:55 / 05.09.05
I've just nudged two friends into speaking to each other again. Yay.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
19:23 / 05.09.05
Hubris. Or perhaps just living the moment. Armistead Maupin said you can never have a good man, a good flat and a good job, all at the same time. Well, I may very well have. But, lo, I hear the Fates titterring at my temerity.
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
05:38 / 06.09.05
I bought my first ever roasted half-chicken from the deli counter yesterday. 2 euro for half a chicken! So cheap! My God! My ex-vegetarian soul is having a freaking BLAST!
 
 
Psych Safeling
15:01 / 06.09.05
Feeling so sick again that I had to reach for the rice cakes (aka flattened clumps of sugar puffs without the sugar).

And thread-jumping, parkour stylee. Yes I am, you just can't see me. (Executes perfect triple somersault and lands on running feet.)
 
 
Saveloy
15:19 / 06.09.05
I've hit the motherlode! My eyes are melting!

Sorbet

Fuzzy Bear Pair

Peony & AnnT

Little Elephant

Mitzy

Lola Cat

but most of all:

Wonky Panda
 
 
Triplets
15:51 / 06.09.05
Melting.
 
 
■
21:27 / 06.09.05
Please don't ever do that again Sav, you'll burn out our squee circuits. Wonky wonky panda.
 
 
Baz Auckland
22:33 / 06.09.05
I'm getting married in....16 hours! Woo!
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
22:36 / 06.09.05
*clicks on Wonky Panda link*

*thud*
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:38 / 06.09.05
Yay for Baz's weddingness!
 
 
Essential Dazzler
22:47 / 06.09.05
Ha Ha! There'll be cash if KA (King, Ace) wills it.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
22:54 / 06.09.05
It's finally sold, done, gone, passed on, the millstone which launched a thousand hair salons yet to come. All the sadness associated with the flat is wrapped up and passed on for new keepers to replace with some happiness (let's hope), at last.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
17:31 / 10.09.05
Best Doctor Who thing ever.
 
 
Triplets
17:35 / 10.09.05
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:24 / 11.09.05
1) After much effort and grinding, I have managed to drill a hole all the way through the glass thingy I'm turning into a spindle whorl.

2) Related: there is an Lj comm called yarnporn. This is my new best thing ever.
 
 
Saveloy
11:27 / 13.09.05
Gives me a big smile:

Fab Mod Gear for Top Mods
 
 
Disco is My Class War
04:50 / 15.09.05
Today, two days before I turn 30, I passed my driver's licence test. The third time I've done it. And my wondrous father is dropping off my car (my car, see, a vehicle that belongs to me) on Sunday. Plus, I only had to spend two hours convincing the lovely folk at the roads office that I am in fact male despite their past lax attention to filing important documents, that Miss Mister Disco was not the correct thing to put on a licence and that no, I wasn't going to leave until they issued me with a licence despite my inability to produce a doctor's letter saying I have had surgery I haven't had. And then they gave it to me. And the photo ain't half bad!
 
  

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