Say “Back to the grind” and I’ll kick you

Work again tomorrow.
Yes, that irksome thing I have to do to afford designer dresses like the one I’ve just bought for my schoolfriend’s wedding in August. Expect: an appraisal, 700 unread emails and 700 questions about The Glastonbury That Wasn’t. I get another 5-day holiday in two weeks, for reasons that will be made clearer [...]

I’m not there

I’ll cut to the chase and say I’m not at Glastonbury. For the second time, I have had to pull out at the last minute.
Yes. I have come through several near breakdowns since the age of 18 (most of them at highly decisive points in my life) but it seems that the mere prospect of [...]

Glastonbury here I come

Things I Resoundingly Love
Music
Music
Music
Music
Being around people enjoying music
Adventure
Things I Resoundingly Don’t Love
Long queues
Getting lost
Not knowing where amenities/people/my things in general are
Being cold and wet
Vast windows of unstructured time, unless they involve lying in bed being fed chocolate ice cream by a West End play cast or similarly emptying my brain.
Anything that tries my limited short-term [...]

Dispatches from 24

Bloomin’ eck, where have I been all my lives?
Since you ask:
- Turning 24. As always, trying to focus on the lovely people who remembered my birthday, (rather than get upset by those who forgot it despite the fact that I remember theirs year after year).
- Being bought drinks. Drinking them too quickly and leaving [...]

  • The Latest Thingys

    Should you care, the latest music I am wanting is:
    • The Duels and the soundtrack to Cabaret the Musical, the new albums by James, Portishead and the Breeders (what 1994 timewarp, officer?), plus Carina Round
    • I Am Listening To Bjork's "Debut", and half of Lobster's Cure/Siouxsie Sioux collections. More when I can get my iTunes library transferred onto this new laptop
    • Reading The Anais Nin Diaries (3rd attempt)
    • Watching Shamelessly addicted to the Apprentice. An hour-long commercial for the Young Socialist League, figuratively-speaking
    • Going To See (tentatively hoping to see) Jane Horrocks in The Good Soul of Szechuan with the folks for my 24th birthday next month
    • Working On Nothing. And waiting for feedback on the last piece
    • Surfing Feminist blogs that don't pay for contributions
    • Loving My dad for buying me a print of the original dustjacket of A Streetcar Named Desire from Blackwells in Oxford. Rarely one for spontaneous-gift-giving but always bang on the money when he does
    • Hating The lack of hours in the day
    • Thinking Occasionally, when awake
    • Last Updated June 1 2008
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