worked at the pharmacy today for the morning/early afternoon; will do so again tomorrow. it's not really taking time away from studying considering i never study in the morning - the wooden cogs in my brain don't start turning until the pm. i might as well go to work to a) get my ass out of bed and b) make a bit of money. anyhoo...
before my whole melancholy bent yesterday, i was going to post about how i miss slow dancing - yup, everything from arms-out-like-zombies slow dancing circa grade 6, to full-on body contact, feel-his-breath-on-your-skin sexy dancing (let's hope you didn't do THAT in grade 6!). you NEVER hear a slow dance song in a club nowadays - slow dances are relegated to weddings, poo. well, i have four, maybe five, weddings to attend this summer, so there's some slow-dancing potential i guess!
i remember my very first slow dance - grade 6, with the younger twin of a set of boy twins in the class, ha ha ha, how appropriate! even better was that the older twin danced with canuckian, who's the older twin as well. classic...
this is the crap you think about when you want to do ANYTHING but study...
CET
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Monday, May 29, 2006
sporadic vomiting
the rain god and the sun god must be having a cage match over england today - one minute it pours rain like a bloody mofo, the next minute it's bright, bright sunshine overhead...i swear, i don't think i'll ever get used to this english weather!
i have not stepped outside since saturday morning, when i came back from dc. saturday and sunday were complete wastes, as my body and mind could not function at all due to the jetlag kicking in. today has been a bit better, though i really didn't start studying until around 3pm, but anyhoo...
perhaps i'm getting off my holiday high, or perhaps it's the sound of the rain, but i'm in a bit of a melancholy mood today. i've been listening to my fav kt tunstall a lot this weekend - note for note and word for word, her songs seem to capture my relationship with ex-T perfectly - in particular, the words from her song 'throw me a rope' have resonated with me:
and whenever you go it's like holding my breath underwater
i have to admit that i kind of like it when i do
oh i've got to be unconditionally unafraid of my days without you
so throw me a rope, to hold me in place
show me a clock, for counting my days down
'cause everything's easier when you're beside me
come back and find me
whenever i'm falling you're always behind me
come back and find me
'cause i feel alone
CET
i have not stepped outside since saturday morning, when i came back from dc. saturday and sunday were complete wastes, as my body and mind could not function at all due to the jetlag kicking in. today has been a bit better, though i really didn't start studying until around 3pm, but anyhoo...
perhaps i'm getting off my holiday high, or perhaps it's the sound of the rain, but i'm in a bit of a melancholy mood today. i've been listening to my fav kt tunstall a lot this weekend - note for note and word for word, her songs seem to capture my relationship with ex-T perfectly - in particular, the words from her song 'throw me a rope' have resonated with me:
and whenever you go it's like holding my breath underwater
i have to admit that i kind of like it when i do
oh i've got to be unconditionally unafraid of my days without you
so throw me a rope, to hold me in place
show me a clock, for counting my days down
'cause everything's easier when you're beside me
come back and find me
whenever i'm falling you're always behind me
come back and find me
'cause i feel alone
CET
Saturday, May 27, 2006
a bit of gossip
so here i am back in england. the flight was fine albeit a bit turbulent at times (i hate turbulence); i watched the end of the latest harry potter, queen latifah's predictable film, 'last holiday', and 'the constant gardener' - sooo good. if i ever get pregnant i want to look as hot as rachel weisz does in the film. my butt doesn't seem to be headed that way though, as i've been sat on it for seven hours. it flattened out, packed up and left its home for my thighs - now it looks like i have no butt, just huge, gargantuan tree trunks for legs, but anyhoo...
the gossip: so i texted frenchie to let him know that i'm back in town, coyly asking him what he was up to this weekend (it's a bank holiday)...lo and behold he tells me he has a date tomorrow! now, before you start calling him a bastard, hear me out; i told him right off the bat that this wasn't going to be serious as i am not looking for that, and we had agreed that it would be fine if we dated other people, plus he had mentioned this girl before, as his friends were trying to set them up for a while now, but things didn't fall into place for them to meet until just recently.
we went from texting to chatting on msn, and basically we both agreed it would be weird/wrong for us to do anything now that he is interested in the other girl - he's looking for a girlfriend and she's looking for a boyfriend, while i'm looking for neither, so it was all cool. it was really refreshing to have a frank and open conversation with him about stuff like this - honesty was all i ever asked of him and it was nice that he wasn't deceitful, and told me right off the bat. our conversation then led to a dissection of our first and second dates, which i found really eye-opening. men and women are just SOOO different, if we didn't know that already - he thought he talked too much while i thought he talked too little; he misread all my signals while i misread all of his, though admittedly in the end we both ended up where we wanted to be! we even talked openly about the sex, and what both of us could do to improve upon it - well, upon our individual skills i guess, since it doesn't look like we'll be doing it with each other anymore! - it was such a mature and honest end to my first 'casual encounter' experience. and another bonus: i can FINALLY concentrate on studying for my finals, which up until this point was pushed to the backburner in favour of boy-crazy, lustful thoughts.
pharmacy degree, i am all yours.
CET
the gossip: so i texted frenchie to let him know that i'm back in town, coyly asking him what he was up to this weekend (it's a bank holiday)...lo and behold he tells me he has a date tomorrow! now, before you start calling him a bastard, hear me out; i told him right off the bat that this wasn't going to be serious as i am not looking for that, and we had agreed that it would be fine if we dated other people, plus he had mentioned this girl before, as his friends were trying to set them up for a while now, but things didn't fall into place for them to meet until just recently.
we went from texting to chatting on msn, and basically we both agreed it would be weird/wrong for us to do anything now that he is interested in the other girl - he's looking for a girlfriend and she's looking for a boyfriend, while i'm looking for neither, so it was all cool. it was really refreshing to have a frank and open conversation with him about stuff like this - honesty was all i ever asked of him and it was nice that he wasn't deceitful, and told me right off the bat. our conversation then led to a dissection of our first and second dates, which i found really eye-opening. men and women are just SOOO different, if we didn't know that already - he thought he talked too much while i thought he talked too little; he misread all my signals while i misread all of his, though admittedly in the end we both ended up where we wanted to be! we even talked openly about the sex, and what both of us could do to improve upon it - well, upon our individual skills i guess, since it doesn't look like we'll be doing it with each other anymore! - it was such a mature and honest end to my first 'casual encounter' experience. and another bonus: i can FINALLY concentrate on studying for my finals, which up until this point was pushed to the backburner in favour of boy-crazy, lustful thoughts.
pharmacy degree, i am all yours.
CET
Friday, May 26, 2006
off to blighty
*sigh* - today is my last day here in dc.
canuckian and i had so much fun last night - canuckian's friend jobylicious invited us to karaoke night at her regular thursday night spot - there were a few people there, mostly lawyers. canuckian and i knocked back a few G&Ts and sang a bon jovi classic, 'blaze of glory' - as if you don't know that song, people! it was hilarious, two asian twins belting out a pop song about cowboys. i think it's fair to say this was the first time ANYONE'S experienced this scenario...anyhoo, i think we did pretty good considering we wouldn't normally touch karaoke with a ten-foot pole, even though our dad has a karaoke machine at home.
could only happen in dc: after singing a song, the singer introduced himself as a local politician running for some shadow cabinet or whatever; he said a little speech and then passed around a petition and handed out stickers. the stickers said '51', in reference to the local movement of trying to make dc the 51st state. the issue is 'taxation without representation' - i've copied this from wikipedia:
"No taxation without representation" was a rallying cry of the American Revolutionary War. During the years prior to and during the Revolution, advocates of American independence decried the fact that the American colonies were required to pay taxes to London, yet they had no representatives in Parliament. Therefore, the Americans felt that they were being forced to fund a government into which they had no input.
In modern times, the phrase "Taxation Without Representation" appears on the automobile license plates of Washington, D.C., to protest that city's lack of representation in the United States House of Representatives and Senate (although the district does have a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives who can sit on committees and participate in debates). The slogan is intended to use irony to claim that a core value of the American Revolution is not being applied to the nation's capital. An effort to put the phrase on a redesigned D.C. flag has yet come to fruition.
that was my new fact learned for the day.
i'd also just like to give a hand to the weather gods this week, as dc has been blessed with some kick-ass summer weather. i've even got a bit of a tan! betcha london's going to be grey, poo...yup, just checked the weather online, i'm going back to light rain and clouds, ARGH!!!
will blog again from the dark side,
CET
p.s. thanks be to my sister for a) letting me sleep on her bed while she slept on the couch, b) buying groceries for us and for paying for most things, including my flight and c) for being my sister. MWAH!!! :o)
canuckian and i had so much fun last night - canuckian's friend jobylicious invited us to karaoke night at her regular thursday night spot - there were a few people there, mostly lawyers. canuckian and i knocked back a few G&Ts and sang a bon jovi classic, 'blaze of glory' - as if you don't know that song, people! it was hilarious, two asian twins belting out a pop song about cowboys. i think it's fair to say this was the first time ANYONE'S experienced this scenario...anyhoo, i think we did pretty good considering we wouldn't normally touch karaoke with a ten-foot pole, even though our dad has a karaoke machine at home.
could only happen in dc: after singing a song, the singer introduced himself as a local politician running for some shadow cabinet or whatever; he said a little speech and then passed around a petition and handed out stickers. the stickers said '51', in reference to the local movement of trying to make dc the 51st state. the issue is 'taxation without representation' - i've copied this from wikipedia:
"No taxation without representation" was a rallying cry of the American Revolutionary War. During the years prior to and during the Revolution, advocates of American independence decried the fact that the American colonies were required to pay taxes to London, yet they had no representatives in Parliament. Therefore, the Americans felt that they were being forced to fund a government into which they had no input.
In modern times, the phrase "Taxation Without Representation" appears on the automobile license plates of Washington, D.C., to protest that city's lack of representation in the United States House of Representatives and Senate (although the district does have a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives who can sit on committees and participate in debates). The slogan is intended to use irony to claim that a core value of the American Revolution is not being applied to the nation's capital. An effort to put the phrase on a redesigned D.C. flag has yet come to fruition.
that was my new fact learned for the day.
i'd also just like to give a hand to the weather gods this week, as dc has been blessed with some kick-ass summer weather. i've even got a bit of a tan! betcha london's going to be grey, poo...yup, just checked the weather online, i'm going back to light rain and clouds, ARGH!!!
will blog again from the dark side,
CET
p.s. thanks be to my sister for a) letting me sleep on her bed while she slept on the couch, b) buying groceries for us and for paying for most things, including my flight and c) for being my sister. MWAH!!! :o)
Thursday, May 25, 2006
fatty olympics
uh-oh, with jason's help (i.e. antagonizing comments) i've managed to start a two-team eating competition, combining three very potent ingredients to create the fatty olympics:
- i am in america;
- i am a food beast;
- i am very competitive
looks like i am well on my way to 300 pounds by tomorrow evening, when i fly back to jolly old blighty.
i don't want to go back to england! even though this is american soil, overall this is north america...i quite like being on this side of the pond and am loathe to head back to studying and exams, poo. there space in north america to breathe - to stretch your arms out without fear of knocking into 7 million people. i can see the stars at night. i can breathe in air that won't leave me with black snot. life is easy-going and laidback here.
i can't wait until i'm home.
CET
- i am in america;
- i am a food beast;
- i am very competitive
looks like i am well on my way to 300 pounds by tomorrow evening, when i fly back to jolly old blighty.
i don't want to go back to england! even though this is american soil, overall this is north america...i quite like being on this side of the pond and am loathe to head back to studying and exams, poo. there space in north america to breathe - to stretch your arms out without fear of knocking into 7 million people. i can see the stars at night. i can breathe in air that won't leave me with black snot. life is easy-going and laidback here.
i can't wait until i'm home.
CET
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
you know what i mean...
i've set up an email address so if people want to contact me about stuff that they don't want the rest of the world to know about they can do so! and i hope NO ONE censors their comments on my blog! opinions, whatever they are, are always welcome. well, unless you're being blatantly rude or sexist or racist, etc., then i'll just tell you to fuck off. :o)
today is/was an attempt-to-do-homework-day - i hate it when you're working on a lab report and get stuck on something, whether it be using the right units, is it suppose to be a negative or positive value, or the simple rules for manipulating natural logarithms. argh. this lab report blows goats.
am meeting kiwigirl and some people later for wing night at the 'big hunt', a bar just off dupont circle. tuesday night wing nights are tradition. can't wait to get greasy and sloppy eating wings, mmm...speaking of eating, i swear my appetite (as if it wasn't big enough already) seems to have increased ten-fold since i got to the states; i have been pigging out on chips and dip, cookies and chocolate all day, it's pretty ridiculous. it's because food is so AVAILABLE - it's EVERYWHERE!!! at my sister's house they have a huge basket entirely devoted to storing all the different kinds of potato chips they have, i mean seriously! around the basket are chewy chocolate chip cookies, almond roca chocolates, cadbury cream eggs, godiva chocolates, two bags of m&m's and two bags of chinese sweets. if i don't weigh 300 pounds by the time i leave i'll be very surprised.
CET
today is/was an attempt-to-do-homework-day - i hate it when you're working on a lab report and get stuck on something, whether it be using the right units, is it suppose to be a negative or positive value, or the simple rules for manipulating natural logarithms. argh. this lab report blows goats.
am meeting kiwigirl and some people later for wing night at the 'big hunt', a bar just off dupont circle. tuesday night wing nights are tradition. can't wait to get greasy and sloppy eating wings, mmm...speaking of eating, i swear my appetite (as if it wasn't big enough already) seems to have increased ten-fold since i got to the states; i have been pigging out on chips and dip, cookies and chocolate all day, it's pretty ridiculous. it's because food is so AVAILABLE - it's EVERYWHERE!!! at my sister's house they have a huge basket entirely devoted to storing all the different kinds of potato chips they have, i mean seriously! around the basket are chewy chocolate chip cookies, almond roca chocolates, cadbury cream eggs, godiva chocolates, two bags of m&m's and two bags of chinese sweets. if i don't weigh 300 pounds by the time i leave i'll be very surprised.
CET
Monday, May 22, 2006
america-land
hello from dc!
well, a lot has happened since i landed on these american shores friday afternoon. being the lazy butt that i am, here are some thoughts/comments in point form:
- US customs sucks ass SOOO large...spent an hour an a half waiting to see a customs agent, only to have the one i did see not know ANYTHING about his own job - he kept tapping the glass wall to get his co-worker's attention, asking him questions like "what stamp do i put on her passport? what code is she? oops, i made a mistake," blah blah blah...INCOMPETENT! that's US security for you.
- i (inadvertently) managed to pick up an american guy on the shuttle bus from the airport to the subway station! we started chatting because i sat in the seat he wanted to sit in because it had more leg room (and he's pretty tall); all-american straight out of kansas, literally! gave me his email address when we were on the subway, told me to email him if i got bored of studying once back in london...see, when it rains, it pours!
- the number of morbidly obese people i've seen in this city since friday is astounding. seriously, at both of canuckian's graduation ceremonies there were families upon families of morbidly obese people, it was actually quite shocking.
- supa-sized everything! went grocery-shopping with canuckian today and i had forgotten how with everything here, FRIGGIN' HUGE is the standard size. her shampoo bottle is about the size of my head!
- i am lovin' the food here...we had tapas, thai, asian fusion, japanese, uhhh...all yummy, all excellent, and enough leftovers for a complete meal the next day!
- george bush sr. and barbara bush spoke at my sister's graduation...it was pretty cool but i missed most of it because i was at the mcdonald's inside the air and space museum getting food for canuckian...i don't EVER have mcdonald's, but there are times where it is necessary because either a) it's the only thing there or b) you have very little money.
- surprising our parents was the BEST! canuckian prepared them right before they knocked on the door, saying there was something special waiting on the other side...i opened the door and my mom screamed her head off while my dad hugged me and kept himself from crying, what sweeties. it was so nice spending time with them and just being a family together again. all we did while they were here (they left today for home) was eat and nap and eat and nap, so like my family...
- i love how green it is here, grass and trees and flowers and bushes EVERYWHERE...even though london has huge and beautiful parks, there's hardly any green elsewhere and i miss that.
- teaism, my oh-so-favourite cafe in dc (www.teaism.com) - mugs of tea so big you can swim in it, candied-ginger scones to die for, and an asian-fusion breakfast/lunch/dinner menu that is out of this world...
sillyhead: sorry i didn't tell you about my visit to dc! i will be home this summer don't you worry, so we will meet up then...
okay, must get off the computer so canuckian can do her homework. an hour to go before our afternoon trip for ginger scones...
CET :o)
p.s. i am so happy i am here.
well, a lot has happened since i landed on these american shores friday afternoon. being the lazy butt that i am, here are some thoughts/comments in point form:
- US customs sucks ass SOOO large...spent an hour an a half waiting to see a customs agent, only to have the one i did see not know ANYTHING about his own job - he kept tapping the glass wall to get his co-worker's attention, asking him questions like "what stamp do i put on her passport? what code is she? oops, i made a mistake," blah blah blah...INCOMPETENT! that's US security for you.
- i (inadvertently) managed to pick up an american guy on the shuttle bus from the airport to the subway station! we started chatting because i sat in the seat he wanted to sit in because it had more leg room (and he's pretty tall); all-american straight out of kansas, literally! gave me his email address when we were on the subway, told me to email him if i got bored of studying once back in london...see, when it rains, it pours!
- the number of morbidly obese people i've seen in this city since friday is astounding. seriously, at both of canuckian's graduation ceremonies there were families upon families of morbidly obese people, it was actually quite shocking.
- supa-sized everything! went grocery-shopping with canuckian today and i had forgotten how with everything here, FRIGGIN' HUGE is the standard size. her shampoo bottle is about the size of my head!
- i am lovin' the food here...we had tapas, thai, asian fusion, japanese, uhhh...all yummy, all excellent, and enough leftovers for a complete meal the next day!
- george bush sr. and barbara bush spoke at my sister's graduation...it was pretty cool but i missed most of it because i was at the mcdonald's inside the air and space museum getting food for canuckian...i don't EVER have mcdonald's, but there are times where it is necessary because either a) it's the only thing there or b) you have very little money.
- surprising our parents was the BEST! canuckian prepared them right before they knocked on the door, saying there was something special waiting on the other side...i opened the door and my mom screamed her head off while my dad hugged me and kept himself from crying, what sweeties. it was so nice spending time with them and just being a family together again. all we did while they were here (they left today for home) was eat and nap and eat and nap, so like my family...
- i love how green it is here, grass and trees and flowers and bushes EVERYWHERE...even though london has huge and beautiful parks, there's hardly any green elsewhere and i miss that.
- teaism, my oh-so-favourite cafe in dc (www.teaism.com) - mugs of tea so big you can swim in it, candied-ginger scones to die for, and an asian-fusion breakfast/lunch/dinner menu that is out of this world...
sillyhead: sorry i didn't tell you about my visit to dc! i will be home this summer don't you worry, so we will meet up then...
okay, must get off the computer so canuckian can do her homework. an hour to go before our afternoon trip for ginger scones...
CET :o)
p.s. i am so happy i am here.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
leaving on a jet plane
i don't know if i've mentioned this before, but i'm off to washington dc tomorrow! yup, it's canuckian's graduation on sunday, so i'll be studying/living it up in dc for a week. my parents are heading down for the ceremony as well - they have no idea that i'll be there! canuckian and i have been planning this surprise for a while now - i can't wait to see the looks on their faces when i come waltzing through the door! i hope they don't suspect anything...
so i had classes in the morning today, then the rest of the day off. classmate T came by to my flat and we hung out for most of the afternoon, eating lunch, watching 'scrubs', listening to music. our music tastes are like night and day - i think her music is whiny and drones on and on, while she thinks my music is nothing special - funny how two sets of ears can listen to the same piece of music so differently!
frenchie texted to say he's swamped with work and so tonight's get-together might be cancelled. i'm not too bummed though - sure it would've been nice to get some more action, but i'm not too fussed - that's a real 'blase' attitude, isn't it? i think i kind of feel this way because while he has stimulated me physically (no need for me to elaborate!), he has yet to stimulate me mentally. we have a connection for sure, but i think it's purely physical, and i am okay with that.
time for a nappy nap!
CET
so i had classes in the morning today, then the rest of the day off. classmate T came by to my flat and we hung out for most of the afternoon, eating lunch, watching 'scrubs', listening to music. our music tastes are like night and day - i think her music is whiny and drones on and on, while she thinks my music is nothing special - funny how two sets of ears can listen to the same piece of music so differently!
frenchie texted to say he's swamped with work and so tonight's get-together might be cancelled. i'm not too bummed though - sure it would've been nice to get some more action, but i'm not too fussed - that's a real 'blase' attitude, isn't it? i think i kind of feel this way because while he has stimulated me physically (no need for me to elaborate!), he has yet to stimulate me mentally. we have a connection for sure, but i think it's purely physical, and i am okay with that.
time for a nappy nap!
CET
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
golden age
put your hands on the wheel
let the golden age begin
let the window down
feel the moonlight on your skin
let the desert wind
cool your aching head
let the weight of the world
drift away instead
listening to kt tunstall's cover of beck's 'golden age', off her new album, 'acoustic extravaganza'...the whole album's brilliant, but this is my favourite song at the moment.
i was a good girl today and went to the library to study for a few hours, BEFORE heading to the coffee shop to see if hottie was there. alas he was not, but there were two other cute guys minding the shop. hiring good-looking men to work must be the owner's tactic for luring customers in...
i had my lovely cream tea (scones, CLOTTED CREAM (= heaven), strawberry jam, washed down with a steaming pot of earl grey tea, mmm), read a magazine, did some sudoku, and just watched the world go by outside. the rain, my thoughts, and the hum of the city...i love days like these.
okay! back to studying...
CET
let the golden age begin
let the window down
feel the moonlight on your skin
let the desert wind
cool your aching head
let the weight of the world
drift away instead
listening to kt tunstall's cover of beck's 'golden age', off her new album, 'acoustic extravaganza'...the whole album's brilliant, but this is my favourite song at the moment.
i was a good girl today and went to the library to study for a few hours, BEFORE heading to the coffee shop to see if hottie was there. alas he was not, but there were two other cute guys minding the shop. hiring good-looking men to work must be the owner's tactic for luring customers in...
i had my lovely cream tea (scones, CLOTTED CREAM (= heaven), strawberry jam, washed down with a steaming pot of earl grey tea, mmm), read a magazine, did some sudoku, and just watched the world go by outside. the rain, my thoughts, and the hum of the city...i love days like these.
okay! back to studying...
CET
Monday, May 15, 2006
back to reality...almost
i must admit, i'm still on a post-shag high, mmm...
okay, enough of that, back to the reality that is being a pharmacy student just a few weeks away from exams! i finally started studying today for a theory test we have on wednesday. just by cracking the books open and looking at them with feigned interest is what i consider half the battle won. i'm done class by one tomorrow, so it will be hardcore studying until wednesday morning, promise! well, maybe a trip to see my coffee shop hottie first, then i'll hit the books...
...seriously, i have to stop being so boy-crazy in the middle of my revision period - not good!
distractions, there are many...
might see frenchie on thursday night...roll on week, roll on!
see what i mean? distractions...
CET :o)
okay, enough of that, back to the reality that is being a pharmacy student just a few weeks away from exams! i finally started studying today for a theory test we have on wednesday. just by cracking the books open and looking at them with feigned interest is what i consider half the battle won. i'm done class by one tomorrow, so it will be hardcore studying until wednesday morning, promise! well, maybe a trip to see my coffee shop hottie first, then i'll hit the books...
...seriously, i have to stop being so boy-crazy in the middle of my revision period - not good!
distractions, there are many...
might see frenchie on thursday night...roll on week, roll on!
see what i mean? distractions...
CET :o)
Sunday, May 14, 2006
rack em' up...
i know i have!
well, i debated kissing and telling, but i'm a little boozed at the moment so i think i might kiss and tell...yup, the dirty deed was done with frenchie and my oh my, what a lovely way to spend a saturday afternoon! that will be all i'll say about it on this blog - girlfriends can get the juicy details if they email me, HA!
went out tonight with kiwigirl and friends...G-A-Y night at the astoria...haven't been dancing in a while and absolutely LOVED it...a gay guy danced with me to a song from the musical 'grease'...while i absolutely hate that movie, dancing with that guy was fun...he said i was 'absolutely gorgeous' and i wasn't about to argue...what a sweetie!
i must say i'm chuffed at the fact that marvin the martian and i played the 'numbers' game when we had dinner at kiwigirl's, and i am now one up on him, ha ha ha...take that mr. martian! i see your bet and raise you one...
i've already written too much, time for bed and hopefully no hangover tomorrow...
CET :o)
well, i debated kissing and telling, but i'm a little boozed at the moment so i think i might kiss and tell...yup, the dirty deed was done with frenchie and my oh my, what a lovely way to spend a saturday afternoon! that will be all i'll say about it on this blog - girlfriends can get the juicy details if they email me, HA!
went out tonight with kiwigirl and friends...G-A-Y night at the astoria...haven't been dancing in a while and absolutely LOVED it...a gay guy danced with me to a song from the musical 'grease'...while i absolutely hate that movie, dancing with that guy was fun...he said i was 'absolutely gorgeous' and i wasn't about to argue...what a sweetie!
i must say i'm chuffed at the fact that marvin the martian and i played the 'numbers' game when we had dinner at kiwigirl's, and i am now one up on him, ha ha ha...take that mr. martian! i see your bet and raise you one...
i've already written too much, time for bed and hopefully no hangover tomorrow...
CET :o)
Friday, May 12, 2006
cellarscape - copilot
cellarscape is the name of the band i went to see tonight - well, the band consisted of one person, paul terry (check it out! sky baby records), a friend of my lovely evil hypnotist. EH and i had a cuppa coffee before heading to dinner and then the gig; it was great having a much-needed chat with him about everything...he listens to me, never judges, makes me laugh, is slightly witty, very nerdy and i love him for it! sounds like my type of boyfriend but alas he is not! ah well...
paul terry's set was great but the acts that followed made me want to run out of the club screaming, ugh...tonight was his CD release party, it's called 'copilot'.
another plug: check out threadless t-shirts, they are the best t-shirt site i've found so far - you can submit your own t-shirt designs and if enough people vote for your design they print it and you can order it! i've already gotten three t-shirts so far, and if you check out the site and order a T, refer me so i can get points towards a free T! please please, pretty please, with a cherry on top??? the submissions are great, the humour subversive...LOVE IT!
CET
paul terry's set was great but the acts that followed made me want to run out of the club screaming, ugh...tonight was his CD release party, it's called 'copilot'.
another plug: check out threadless t-shirts, they are the best t-shirt site i've found so far - you can submit your own t-shirt designs and if enough people vote for your design they print it and you can order it! i've already gotten three t-shirts so far, and if you check out the site and order a T, refer me so i can get points towards a free T! please please, pretty please, with a cherry on top??? the submissions are great, the humour subversive...LOVE IT!
CET
Thursday, May 11, 2006
uni talk
okay people, let's move away from my love/lust/whatever life at the moment and focus on another topic...
this week has been crazy/hectic; my family friend's daughter, moe, is over here at the moment with her friend chewy - they have been staying at my place this week before embarking on their contiki tour of continental europe. so it's been early mornings and late, late nights for me all this week.
tonight we met up with moe and chewy's friends from their uni in canada, who are studying here in london. i don't know if i've mentioned this in my blog before, but i went to UW while they went to UWO. our two universities are like night and day, SERIOUSLY. people who know these universities KNOW what i'm talking about. right now you're reading this and you're feelin' me, right?
UWO sounds like those super-crazy party schools in the USA. i was regaled with uni stories all night long; i didn't mind as they were quite outrageous and funny but man, it was like a show reel straight out of 'animal house' or some movie like that. interestingly enough, my flatmate S went to UWO for her masters and she HATED it. she said it was VERY cliquey, and if you were 'in' you were 'in', but if you weren't you were COMPLETELY ostracized. well, i was definitely sitting with a bunch of people who were 'in'. miss ruckus, your thoughts?
anyhoo, am meeting the evil hypnotist tomorrow for a much-needed dinner and catch-up together, followed by watching his friend's gig at a pub somewhere. can't wait! as for frenchie, we're to meet on saturday...don't know what the plans are yet but you can bet it will be interesting...will i kiss and tell? you will have to wait and see...
CET :o)
this week has been crazy/hectic; my family friend's daughter, moe, is over here at the moment with her friend chewy - they have been staying at my place this week before embarking on their contiki tour of continental europe. so it's been early mornings and late, late nights for me all this week.
tonight we met up with moe and chewy's friends from their uni in canada, who are studying here in london. i don't know if i've mentioned this in my blog before, but i went to UW while they went to UWO. our two universities are like night and day, SERIOUSLY. people who know these universities KNOW what i'm talking about. right now you're reading this and you're feelin' me, right?
UWO sounds like those super-crazy party schools in the USA. i was regaled with uni stories all night long; i didn't mind as they were quite outrageous and funny but man, it was like a show reel straight out of 'animal house' or some movie like that. interestingly enough, my flatmate S went to UWO for her masters and she HATED it. she said it was VERY cliquey, and if you were 'in' you were 'in', but if you weren't you were COMPLETELY ostracized. well, i was definitely sitting with a bunch of people who were 'in'. miss ruckus, your thoughts?
anyhoo, am meeting the evil hypnotist tomorrow for a much-needed dinner and catch-up together, followed by watching his friend's gig at a pub somewhere. can't wait! as for frenchie, we're to meet on saturday...don't know what the plans are yet but you can bet it will be interesting...will i kiss and tell? you will have to wait and see...
CET :o)
Monday, May 08, 2006
drowned rat day
buckets of rain falling from the sky today...i don't mind it too much, as it feels like it's cleansing the city...
had a good chat with (funny enough) my ex from university. he's had far more dating experience than i have, so i thought it would be interesting to get his viewpoint on the whole 'casual dating' matter.
i feel kind of 'unpredictable' at the moment, in that i honestly don't know what i am going to do if the opportunity for some action presents itself. nine times out of ten i'm the type of person to say no - this is in NO WAY a comment or reflection on people who say yes the majority of the time, this is just me being me - but for once i feel like i might take that chance, take the plunge and do something out of 'my' ordinary...
anyhoo, i'll end this post by putting up a link to one of the most hilarious videos i've seen in a long time...seriously, you have to watch this!
CET
had a good chat with (funny enough) my ex from university. he's had far more dating experience than i have, so i thought it would be interesting to get his viewpoint on the whole 'casual dating' matter.
i feel kind of 'unpredictable' at the moment, in that i honestly don't know what i am going to do if the opportunity for some action presents itself. nine times out of ten i'm the type of person to say no - this is in NO WAY a comment or reflection on people who say yes the majority of the time, this is just me being me - but for once i feel like i might take that chance, take the plunge and do something out of 'my' ordinary...
anyhoo, i'll end this post by putting up a link to one of the most hilarious videos i've seen in a long time...seriously, you have to watch this!
CET
Saturday, May 06, 2006
steady on there fella!
at home now after my first date with the frenchie. all i have to say is this guy is HHHOOORRRNY!!! holy crap. now, before your mind really hits the gutter full force i will make the following points:
a) we just kissed, that's all, but
b) it's pretty damn obvious that he wants more, and
c) i don't know what to do with all this attention!
we hit it off and the conversation flowed nicely; we had a yummy english breakfast at a patisserie, followed by quite a few drinks at a pub down the street. it was pretty obvious that he was attracted to me - he said i look a lot cuter in person than in my pictures, though he qualified that of course by saying my pictures were great to begin with, HAHAHA - he was obvious in his advances, like asking me to sit closer, if not could he sit closer, blah blah blah...three gin and tonics and a pint of beer later (that was just what i drunk!), i still could not move close to him i was that nervous! guys who are that forward excite me but make me really nervous as well. i don't know what to do with such an obvious show of attraction!
it reminds me of when i went to a boy/girl party in grade 6; the boy that i fancied asked his friend to ask me if i would kiss him, as you do when you're in grade 6. sure i had a crush on the guy, but as soon as this crush was reciprocated it freaked the hell out of me! i ran upstairs to the kitchen and called my dad to come pick me up. how sad!
the kiss itself, at the end of the date by the subway station, was a little awkward. i think i'm a shy kisser because i sure as hell don't open my mouth up that wide when i first kiss someone! holy mick jagger batman! or am i out of the loop? is kissing like that standard in this day and age? whatever happened to starting out with small, delicate kisses and then working your way up to open mouth and tongue? anyhoo...
will i see him again? probably. for all my fears, it is quite exciting. can it come at a worse time? no - i SERIOUSLY have to start studying for exams, and am so busy anyway all the way up until exams are over, after which i come home for the summer. i think i'll have to tell him to cool his jets and slow down just a bit!
CET
a) we just kissed, that's all, but
b) it's pretty damn obvious that he wants more, and
c) i don't know what to do with all this attention!
we hit it off and the conversation flowed nicely; we had a yummy english breakfast at a patisserie, followed by quite a few drinks at a pub down the street. it was pretty obvious that he was attracted to me - he said i look a lot cuter in person than in my pictures, though he qualified that of course by saying my pictures were great to begin with, HAHAHA - he was obvious in his advances, like asking me to sit closer, if not could he sit closer, blah blah blah...three gin and tonics and a pint of beer later (that was just what i drunk!), i still could not move close to him i was that nervous! guys who are that forward excite me but make me really nervous as well. i don't know what to do with such an obvious show of attraction!
it reminds me of when i went to a boy/girl party in grade 6; the boy that i fancied asked his friend to ask me if i would kiss him, as you do when you're in grade 6. sure i had a crush on the guy, but as soon as this crush was reciprocated it freaked the hell out of me! i ran upstairs to the kitchen and called my dad to come pick me up. how sad!
the kiss itself, at the end of the date by the subway station, was a little awkward. i think i'm a shy kisser because i sure as hell don't open my mouth up that wide when i first kiss someone! holy mick jagger batman! or am i out of the loop? is kissing like that standard in this day and age? whatever happened to starting out with small, delicate kisses and then working your way up to open mouth and tongue? anyhoo...
will i see him again? probably. for all my fears, it is quite exciting. can it come at a worse time? no - i SERIOUSLY have to start studying for exams, and am so busy anyway all the way up until exams are over, after which i come home for the summer. i think i'll have to tell him to cool his jets and slow down just a bit!
CET
Thursday, May 04, 2006
sunny days ahead?
tomorrow's suppose to be a beautiful and sunny day here in londontown...i sure hope the weather gods hovering over england deliver the goods - i am in dire need of some vitamin D!
yesterday's dinner at kiwigirl's (with marvin the martian in attendance) was so much fun! it was just so relaxed - the wine was flowing freely, which led to our conversation being pretty open and honest, with the primary topic of the evening being sex! wow, let's just say i enjoyed our conversation, and we laughed, A LOT. oh, and kiwigirl's cooking skills were phenomenal if i do say so myself :o)
can i just also add that marvin the martian was looking way hot? he hardly (if ever) reads my blog, but if he reads this then oh well! mmm...
in other news, i found out that my blog has been linked on another person's blog, one that i hardly ever read...i don't even really know this person, so i guess i'm kind of flattered that he's linked me, because i guess that means he likes what i write? i also find comments from strangers really cool; it makes me really curious as to who they are and how they found me, and how my writing comes across to people who don't know what i'm like in person...(ugh, i just re-read that and it sounds so narcissistic, sorry!)
i think it's a date in the park on saturday with frenchie! i was suppose to be online yesterday to arrange the details, but of course was too busy being verbally explicit at kiwigirl's...i sent him an email tonight so hopefully he'll reply soon. he seems like he could be a fun guy...
time to sleep!
CET
yesterday's dinner at kiwigirl's (with marvin the martian in attendance) was so much fun! it was just so relaxed - the wine was flowing freely, which led to our conversation being pretty open and honest, with the primary topic of the evening being sex! wow, let's just say i enjoyed our conversation, and we laughed, A LOT. oh, and kiwigirl's cooking skills were phenomenal if i do say so myself :o)
can i just also add that marvin the martian was looking way hot? he hardly (if ever) reads my blog, but if he reads this then oh well! mmm...
in other news, i found out that my blog has been linked on another person's blog, one that i hardly ever read...i don't even really know this person, so i guess i'm kind of flattered that he's linked me, because i guess that means he likes what i write? i also find comments from strangers really cool; it makes me really curious as to who they are and how they found me, and how my writing comes across to people who don't know what i'm like in person...(ugh, i just re-read that and it sounds so narcissistic, sorry!)
i think it's a date in the park on saturday with frenchie! i was suppose to be online yesterday to arrange the details, but of course was too busy being verbally explicit at kiwigirl's...i sent him an email tonight so hopefully he'll reply soon. he seems like he could be a fun guy...
time to sleep!
CET
Monday, May 01, 2006
bank holiday beach vendetta
this weekend was a long weekend here, something they call a "bank holiday". spent the whole weekend with classmate T and her boyfriend A (remember from previous posts, T&A?). had some of T's homecooked comfort food on saturday, mmm (thanks T!), followed by watching "the last of the mohicans" on tv. remember that film, with madeleine stowe and daniel day lewis? i love that film. it's so romantic and action-packed; the music is sweeping and the cinematography majestic - one of the first CDs i bought (when CDs were a new thing - how old am i???) was the soundtrack to the film. ANYHOO...
we drove to canterbury on sunday, less than two hours' drive southeast of london, near the north kent coast. it's a lovely little town, very quaint and english; visited the famous canterbury cathedral, where we got in for free (by accident, hehehe) - twice! had a yummy sunday roast at a local pub, followed by a short drive to the seaside town of margate. i think that was the best part of the day; we kicked off our shoes, rolled up our trousers and ran around in the surf for a while. i collected seashells (as i always do); lovely conch shells of all shapes and colours. we saw a couple of dead fish on the beach, and little crabs here and there; T&A tried skipping stones along the water but the surf was a bit too rough for that. we climbed the rocks along the sea wall (rocks we weren't suppose to climb, but oh well!); 'A' jumped off the rocks onto the beach, doing a front roll to break the otherwise hard landing; 'T' was suppose to take a picture of the action but she didn't quite get all of it! we had ice cream and sugared donuts by the boardwalk (can we say "diabetes in a ring"?), then walked back to the car, soaking in the fresh sea air and the setting sun. just what T and i needed i think, as exams are fast approaching...
woke up to yummy soft-boiled eggs today, courtesy of 'A'; we dipped pieces of toast in the runny egg yolk - it's called 'solders', like soldering two metal joints together. i think it's an english thing, as i've had solders at ex-T's house too.
came home from T&A's, then headed out again to catch a movie with "date guy" from a couple of fridays ago. i now know for a FACT that he is OH SO NOT MY TYPE - he votes conservative! eek! ugh! blech! we watched "V for Vendetta" and were discussing the film afterwards (as you do); as the film is all about the government and politics, i soon learn that he is conservative-leaning, and thinks stephen harper is a "relatively honest guy". ummm, WHAT??? i then ask him what he likes about the current conservative government and he says something about the changes to income tax and the softwood lumber dispute. no thanks. i didn't stick around with him after the film, as i have a lab report to do (and have yet to start!); he said he'd call me sometime this week but i would not be the least bit disappointed if he didn't. people might think me harsh for not liking a guy because of his politics, but (in addition to that) the kicker for me was that he did not know hugo weaving (who played 'V' in the movie) was also elrond in "the lord of the rings" - anyone that knows me knows how much i love the books and the films...if that's not a deal breaker then i don't know what is. moving right along...
i was msning with 'french-canadian' guy tonight, and it looks like we're to meet up saturday for an activity of some sort! before your mind dips into the gutter, i meant rock climbing, or horseback riding in hyde park...we were trying to decide on a cool and fun date activity, other than your usual drinks at a bar. we might just end up wandering around a park, as the two previously mentioned activities are a little on the expensive side. as always, i will keep you in da loop!
CET
we drove to canterbury on sunday, less than two hours' drive southeast of london, near the north kent coast. it's a lovely little town, very quaint and english; visited the famous canterbury cathedral, where we got in for free (by accident, hehehe) - twice! had a yummy sunday roast at a local pub, followed by a short drive to the seaside town of margate. i think that was the best part of the day; we kicked off our shoes, rolled up our trousers and ran around in the surf for a while. i collected seashells (as i always do); lovely conch shells of all shapes and colours. we saw a couple of dead fish on the beach, and little crabs here and there; T&A tried skipping stones along the water but the surf was a bit too rough for that. we climbed the rocks along the sea wall (rocks we weren't suppose to climb, but oh well!); 'A' jumped off the rocks onto the beach, doing a front roll to break the otherwise hard landing; 'T' was suppose to take a picture of the action but she didn't quite get all of it! we had ice cream and sugared donuts by the boardwalk (can we say "diabetes in a ring"?), then walked back to the car, soaking in the fresh sea air and the setting sun. just what T and i needed i think, as exams are fast approaching...
woke up to yummy soft-boiled eggs today, courtesy of 'A'; we dipped pieces of toast in the runny egg yolk - it's called 'solders', like soldering two metal joints together. i think it's an english thing, as i've had solders at ex-T's house too.
came home from T&A's, then headed out again to catch a movie with "date guy" from a couple of fridays ago. i now know for a FACT that he is OH SO NOT MY TYPE - he votes conservative! eek! ugh! blech! we watched "V for Vendetta" and were discussing the film afterwards (as you do); as the film is all about the government and politics, i soon learn that he is conservative-leaning, and thinks stephen harper is a "relatively honest guy". ummm, WHAT??? i then ask him what he likes about the current conservative government and he says something about the changes to income tax and the softwood lumber dispute. no thanks. i didn't stick around with him after the film, as i have a lab report to do (and have yet to start!); he said he'd call me sometime this week but i would not be the least bit disappointed if he didn't. people might think me harsh for not liking a guy because of his politics, but (in addition to that) the kicker for me was that he did not know hugo weaving (who played 'V' in the movie) was also elrond in "the lord of the rings" - anyone that knows me knows how much i love the books and the films...if that's not a deal breaker then i don't know what is. moving right along...
i was msning with 'french-canadian' guy tonight, and it looks like we're to meet up saturday for an activity of some sort! before your mind dips into the gutter, i meant rock climbing, or horseback riding in hyde park...we were trying to decide on a cool and fun date activity, other than your usual drinks at a bar. we might just end up wandering around a park, as the two previously mentioned activities are a little on the expensive side. as always, i will keep you in da loop!
CET
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