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In, “another rubbish post”…
But also SHINY! SENSIBLE!
I had a talk with Rob, after staying up all night (stupid, I know, but I have not been missing night’s sleep recently)  trying to do stuff (stupid make up aside, that’s easy) but getting absolutely bugger all accomplished because my head’s up my hole and I can’t concentrate.  [...]

All Hype

I haven’t wanted to analyse of late, or write about my moods.  I get tired of glaring into the proverbial and literal mirrors all the time.  I’ve been feeling like a walking DSM-IV rather than a person, farting out symptoms.  And there are times when I really hate this blog and feels solely like it’s [...]

Ah, great.

Got my budgeting loan decision.  Because it’s the end of the financial year, the maximum they could give me was £300.  Which is over a grand less than I actually needed to move.  Stupid London.
Guess I’m staying here then.  Brilliant.
OR.
Well, there is one thing.  There’s a flat next door being redecorated, and they’re installing heating, [...]

Housing Dilemma

(please bear with me with emails and comments).
I have a dilemma.
My tenancy is up soon.  The landlord says that I can stay on.  Previously, that wasn’t an option.  This flat is falling apart and it needs work, work he was going to do when I moved out.   Now, he says he’ll install heating around me [...]

Belfast

Belfast was fun.
I bought a notebook with me, so here is what I was scribbling over the days.  I’d just scan these in, but my handwriting is so appalling you’d be better off reading hieroglyphics.  Some of it is the pretentious bleating of someone who is both exhausted and terrified of flying.
(Someone has commented on [...]

Half a million

Gosh! Blimeh! Crikey! And other exclamations! This humble corner of the blogosphere has reached its half a million, which to most people isn’t particularly impressive,  but when I started this blog (and I have never really promoted it or linked it anywhere) I didn’t imagine that anyone would be interested in reading my silly ramblings.
(I [...]

New president, how exciting!

After all that, I spent nearly all of yesterday asleep.  I’ve just woken up and feel decidedly more even today.  Which always happens when I have an appointment, like I do today.   I’m going to eat Shreddies and hot milk and try to shake off this drugged feeling.
Tomorrow I am on a ridiculously early (but [...]

A mindful act of rebellion

This post is sponsored by Brackets.  No, really, it is.

(too much time on my hands…)
I have a plea!  My mobile phone has kicked it.  Does anyone have a handset, unlocked or locked to 02, that they no longer use and that they’d be willing to part with in exchange for my gratefulness?  Please e-mail me [...]

Tired/Pissed Off

Nonsensical self pitying post coming up…

Martin

Archway is an area of North London populated with Irish people like me. It’s almost home in two senses. It’s not far from where I live and there’s so many Irish centres and pubs that it feels like a walk down the Falls Road. It lies at the foot of Highgate, [...]

Quack quack / Something for the weekend

Firstly, here’s a repost for all my new readers.  It’s just a silly, soundless video saying hello, proving that I have too much time on my hands.
Anyway, it’s the weekend, but instead of my something for the weekend, how about you recommend something to me?  A book, some comedy, artist, music, film, anything you like [...]

What Lurks Beneath My Sleeves: Goodbye to self harm.

I spent a lot of last night wrapped in a bath towel examining my body.  It’s strange to notice and acknowledge your skin but have very little feeling towards it.  It’s kind of like babysitting someone else’s child.  Or looking at the meat in the butcher’s window and being unable to imagine what the animal [...]

Too cold

I hate moaning about the weather, but bloody hell.  Enough with the cold already, it’s horrible.  I’m in three layers and I’m still freezing.   This year will be the year I move to somewhere with fecking central heating.
Winter lasts too long.  There should be five seasons, one in between winter and spring.  What should [...]

Puking, shaking, hair loss and sexiness; medications galore

I think I expected too much from medication.
I didn’t want to rely on drugs to fix me, being that I believed (and still do, especially in the case of antidepressants and childhood behavioural problems that are too easily diagnosed as “mental illness”) that medication was overprescribed and nowt but a crutch for a weary mind [...]

The Self Destruct Button

Firstly, my most lovely and infuriatingly talented Rob has made an album!   It’s called “Found Wanting” and you can listen/download it here.
It’s rather Michael Stipe-esque, very dreamy, the kind of music you listen to as you fly through the air on a plane at midnight.  I particularly recommend the title track, as well as, “The  [...]

The inexorable march towards death continues… Happy new year!

Crikey!  Blimeh! and other such exclamations.  It’s 2009 already.  It seems like yesterday that I was sitting in my classroom, eyeing up the library books and listening to my teacher Mr. Conlon enthusing upon how we were some of the luckiest people ever, given that we’d straddle not only two centuries, but two millennia.  And, of [...]