Archive for April, 2006

Vicarious Purchasing

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

The Christ has risen! Time to go shopping.
Yesterday, after a slothful weekend proper (ludicrous excitement at 7.15pm Saturday notwithstanding), significant other and I went shopping. I also tried out my new Holga camera at the South Bank and it was JoyTM. Using a toy camera is so liberating:
It weights nothing
Doesn’t have an on/off switch
You can [...]

P0rn

Friday, April 14th, 2006

After hearing David Tennant say yesterday (while being interviewed by Jo Whiley) that his porn name would be Whisky Glasgow, I had a think what mine would be.
Sukoshi* Venezia
Oh my gawd I actually like it.
(It’s the name of your first pet as a child and the town of your birth)
*From the Japanese for little or [...]

Blessed Be

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Thanks to everyone for the congrats on my good news yesterday. More goodness today too (and it’s a holiday weekend coming up as well, I am blessed), they used one of my photos on Londonist today
Life is sweet.

The right thing

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

I left my job, with no other job to go to (no huge sum of money behind me either) at Christmas. After three months of being unemployed I was wondering, did I do the right thing?
I decided to apply to go back to college (the long way around and a fag paper away from the [...]

Toys out of pram

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

From the BBC website:
“Mr Berlusconi, a billionaire media magnate, also said it was too early for anyone to claim outright victory.
He insisted the voting figures showed “many, many, many murky aspects” and needed to be checked - especially the votes cast by expatriate Italians.”
Did he just call me dodgy?