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Oct. 1st, 2005 @ 11:59 am (no subject)
Current Mood: depressed
I'm ill. I'm slumping on my chair. I can't be arsed to update this any more.
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Sep. 27th, 2005 @ 12:12 am (no subject)
Current Mood: piratey
Current Music: Opeth - Baying Of The Hounds [it's just OK]
I am naked.
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Sep. 14th, 2005 @ 10:01 am Alessio and the Nougat Pillows
Current Mood: jocund
Current Music: Metallica - Blackened
That subject line should SO be the name of a children's book.

These entries are getting long.

I've just eaten a bowl of Lidl's Nougat Pillows and milk that I earlier caught Alessio lick while I was distracted talking to my mother. She thought it was disgusting that I should still eat them but I insisted that if there was extremely low risk of catching some disease, as she assured me, then I would do it. But the actual taste of the cereal I've found to be more definitely more disturbing than the cat's licking of it.
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Sep. 13th, 2005 @ 10:49 pm Can anybody tell me what tags are really for?
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Dimmu Borgir - In Death's Embrace
I'm bored, which is why I've started writing this. Today I finished my mum's business website and it came out much better than I thought it would. She thinks I have taste. Perhaps I could become a web designer, but I'm not that into the graphic design side of it I guess, more the coding aspect. I might be able to string together a half-decent layout, but I don't think I feel at all comfortable in artist's shoes. So it still looks like I should go for programming as a backup option/day job (whichever way you want to look at it).

The cat site has also now been updated with the new 'stud', odd as it is calling a kitten that.

I don't know what to do tomorrow, as the early finishing of the psychotherapy website has thrown my plans somewhat. Of course, Thursday I start packing. :) I'm so excited about university. I think it will be a shock, but hopefully a good one. It will be an even more radical change for me than for most, given how monotone and stagnant my life has been for the past couple of years.

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Now this... is fucking hilarious!
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My band rehearsal last Saturday was disheartening. My keyboards sounded lovely as I had some extra time when setting up and discovered that it was actually very easy to put them through the PA in stereo. Oh Glory Be! However, the guitar and bass sounded 'less than ideal' to me on this particular occasion. This probably contributed a lot to the frustrating feeling that we were actually a lot better in our last rehearsal, which can never be a good thing.

Not that I've felt like it at any point while writing this entry... but it's a little annoying not being able to slag people off on here, in case they should ever chance upon the entry.

Lastly, um, I went shopping in Reading with Leachie yesterday and gained a pair of nice new Vans trainers but lost my new backpack and my much beloved Opeth hoody. :( So there's sixty quid lost to the wind. And both items will need to be fully replaced, of course.
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Sep. 10th, 2005 @ 07:51 am Haircare & doom metal
Current Mood: content
Current Music: Herbie Hancock - Sly
I think I've mastered the art of my hair. Although I haven't done much differently, the last two times I've washed it it's dried looking great, so all I have to do now is wait for more length and I'm sorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrted. Hoorah. This means I don't have to go and buy those salon hair products, as I was contemplating doing. I'll probably still keep my expensive hair straighteners though, so that I can whip them out for novelty occasions. I don't really know what I mean by that myself, it's probably not worth thinking about.

I've been obsessing about my hair all my life. I'm so vain.

I'm eating breakfast listening to some quite nice progressivish goth metal [note: not Herbie Hancock, that was later]. Not that this has anything to do with that, but I'd really like to hear some really great doom metal some time. I can see so much potential for really powerful, amazing, groovy/dirgy music out there but I haven't heard a band that, in my view, does it well yet. One song though, that's got me recently excited is Schuld unseres knöchrigen Faltpferds by Bethlehem (no truly depraved black metal can have lyrics in English), which according to my Romanian friend Jana who has a staggering, almost encyclopaedic metal knowledge, is some 'extremely sick black/doom metal'. Sounds good to me. Wow, listen to me, I'm soooooooo metal. :D

I better go, as I've finished ze breakfast and need to get all my stuff packed as my band are rehearsing this morning at ten. It's been over a month I think! Wish me luck innit.
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Sep. 6th, 2005 @ 09:49 pm mooooooooooooooooooo
Current Mood: slightly dispirited
Current Music: Arcturus - The Throne Of Tragedy
For fuck's sake! Why is it that my nextdoor neighbour often has Radio Four playing all night? I mean I like Radio Four, but when you wake up in the middle of the night and all you can hear is words like constituency, futhermore, stock market, blah blah drifting through your open window, it can be a teeny bit irritating.

Today, after my ultrasound scan in hospital, I went into town and wandered aimlessly and dreamily. I went into bookshops, something I don't normally do. They're overwhelming, I find. Just think of all the stuff there is in each book, then think how many books there are in that shop. I kind of enjoyed picking up books at random, and reading their front and back covers, though. Anyway, as I wandered in my bemused state I contemplated life and other such things, which was annoying. In particular I tried to remind myself what the point of living is, and then I realised there isn't any point - ehehe. So there we go.

I was severely unimpressed with the only thing I bought, which was a tasty looking Danish pastry. It was very stale; unusual for a pastry bought at midday, as Henry pointed out on the phone later on. Another interesting event in my morning involved this fat old scruffy looking bloke whom I passed in a little alleyway. He was whistling quite unreservedly, clearly oblivious to anybody around him. But the thing was, I've never heard anybody whistle so beautifully before. He sounded a bit like an accomplished recorder player.

Tonight after working out and eating dinner I was dismayed to find there was no hot water. I had to spend about forty minutes boiling water in the kettle and two saucepans so I could have a bath.

Yea.
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Sep. 5th, 2005 @ 02:55 pm Spot the pube
Current Mood: melancholy
Current Music: Miles Daves - The Pan Piper
Yay, my LJ looks nice now, although annoyingly I can't seem to change the black-on-white configuration of the inactive menu items at the top.

I've also finished my mum's cattery website with which I'm fairly pleased. I can't make certain page elements align centrally in Firefox yet, though. Quite amusingly, if you look at the pedigree charts carefully, you might notice that on each a single pubic hair has made its way onto the scan. I can't be arsed to redo them.
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Sep. 5th, 2005 @ 12:07 am Things I like
Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: Opeth - Patterns In The Ivy II
- Lip balm
- Metalheads
- Tom Leach
- Cristina
- Beer
- Bean
- Natalie
- And oh, so many other things! :O)
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Sep. 4th, 2005 @ 12:13 am The woes of perfectionism
Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Yes - Close To The Edge
I have spent at least two hours trying and customizing different LJ layouts, and have arrived nowhere. So I've gone back to the default, for the moment.

Today I said "it's useless without a beard" to Bean, which made perfect sense in context, but stepping back, I thought it was really funny. Yes I did. Anyway, the context was a tramp costume for a fancy dress party I was going to tonight, but didn't. Bean, who is at the party, text me a little while ago to say there's a girl there I really would've liked, so I'm kind of excited about that. Perhaps she is my princess. Perhaps...

I'm enjoying this blogging thing, and I don't know why. I guess I just like talking about myself.
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Sep. 3rd, 2005 @ 09:48 am Enigmas three!
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: None
I can't believe it... it just did it again when I clicked the rich text link. Unbelievable. From now on I'm writing in Notepad and pasting in.

Anyway...

- Why do my clean clothes always smell horribly damp when I take them out of my wardrobe?

- Why do I gag on toothpaste come the final stages of brushing my teeth?

- On warm summer evenings I leave my windows wide open, whereupon millions of tiny little fly things come in and settle happily on my ceiling (and lots of moths too, which buzz around erratically as moths tend to do). But in the morning, all visitors are gone! Vanished. My ceiling looks as clear as could be and I can't find any on the carpet either. Freaky...
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Sep. 3rd, 2005 @ 12:03 am Fucking shitty web design...
Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: Cynic - How Could I
OH MY GOD. I JUST CAREFULLY WROTE A NICE FIRST ENTRY, AND THEN I CLICKED ON ONE OF THE QUESTION MARK SYMBOLS BELOW, FEELING SURE THE SITE WOULD BE WELL DESIGNED ENOUGH NOT TO TOTALLY OBLITERATE MY ENTRY, AND GUESS WHAT IT FUCKING DID?
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