Bangface Weekend was great, chalets are definitely the way forward.  Maybe I'm getting old, but camping at festivals has lost its charm.
The ability to shower whenever you want, real beds, a roof, heating, a toilet that doesn't give you 6 strains of dysentry, and the use of a kitchen?  Yes please.
Music was pretty good, though was a little disappointed with Snares; apparently he got better after I left, but he was just playing some kind of acid gabba to begin with, which wasn't my cup of tea.
Plenty of lazing on sand-dunes too; luckily the weather-forecast was overly pessimistic.
Will definitely consider going next year; RIP Glastonbury and Glade. ;)

In other news, finding the real Grey's Anatomy, and not that mediocre TV series online is a pain.  Damn you, ABC.

I'm sorely tempted to shave my head.  I fancy a change, and I know without a doubt that this will make me look like Van Zan from Reign of Fire, and not a terminally ill patient.

 

Shame I just missed comic relief, would've been a perfect excuse.
Feel free to post here with comments about how awesome an idea this is and how sexy I will look.

On a related note, I've applied for a new job down in Folkestone with the police.  It's a civilian position (External Investigator, basically crime-scene grunt work), but it sounds interesting, is better paid than my current position, and it's a foot in the door.  Police recruit from their civy staff before opening positions to the public, so I'll be in a stronger position.
Unfortunately this means I should probably delay the thug-life haircut until I have the job.  *sadface*

Oh, and there's an awesome gym down in Folkestone.  Lots of funky equipment (eg. monolifts, chains, farmer's walk, atlas balls), olympic medal winner members, plays metal, and seems to be the polar opposite to the shitty "lifestyle gyms" that you see everywhere.
I had a wander round Canterbury last weekend, checking out the other gyms here.  My god, they're dire; rows and rows of exercise bikes with fat people ineffectively pedaling away while watching Neighbours on the banks of televisions.  The weights section?  One bench and a set of dumbells.  The mind boggles.  One of the gyms had a KFC right next to it. 
I've played Themepark; that's good business sense right there.

Bah, went for a cholesterol test last week, and it turns out I have "slightly elevated levels", and they want me to make an appointment to dicuss it.

First glasses, and now this?  I wonder if I can sue my parents for giving me defective genes.

I'm not particularly worried about it (pending doctor-grilling about what exactly "slightly elevated" entails), but it does mean I'll probably have to cut down on my mammoth fry-ups. KHAAAAAAAAAAN!
It does make breakfast a little tricky on a low carb - high fat diet, but if you're going to have carbs, breakfast is the best time to have them.  Anyone have tips on making porridge interesting?  Apart from the obvious one of serving it with fried bacon and eggs.

I'm a little intrigued as to what the doctor's going to say, and whether or not he'll have a fit when I mention I'm on a high fat diet for fat-loss.  I might ask him about BMI to try and catch him out. ;)

Had someone from the BBC stop by the flat and give me a questionaire on what radio stations I listen to. 

I've always wondered where the media folks get their figures from, as I've never known anyone to be asked, and here I am, rock you like a hurricane being surveyed.  Hrm, makes me sound like an oilfield.

In other news, I just ordered some chalk.  I'm, like, a proper weightlifter now! :O

http://www.canterbury.gov.uk/buildpage.php?id=209

Well I know *I* wouldn't mess with her.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE, add an strikeout the books you read but didn't like.

 

 

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - overrated, but still a classic
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - kinda funvery overrated
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible - some.  An archaic religious text of a religion I don't follow, not my cup of tea. :P  I could also make a joke about how this is a list of fiction books, but that would be beneath me.
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 . His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - not all, but most
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - doubt I'll enjoy it, but it's a challenge
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - i want to read this largely because of his name.
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - the religious metaphors towards the end get a little oppressive, but overall a great story.
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - read this too late in life to really appreciate it.
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - wtf?  why is this here? >_<
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert - one of my favourite authors, he created a truely epic world, yet micromanaged the minutae with sublime skill
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."  that's all I remember >_>
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - bit over-rated IMO.  good for the time, but short, and although the ending was tragically beautiful, most of the rest didn't really grab me.
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding - no thankyou, I have a penis
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - read it when I was very young, can't remember much about it
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White 
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - not all, but most
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - strangely enough, was discussing this earlier today
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - well written, don't want to read it again :P (his sci-fi's up there with the best though)
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Not sure why Narnia and Shakespeare's works are there twice.  Austen seems a little over-represented too perhaps, I always found her work to be horribly stuffy.  I guess I wasn't her target audience. ;)

Sci-fi isn't too poorly represented;, they have the main classics, but would've liked to have see some Heinlein in there, perhaps Stranger in a Strange Land.  Some Asimov wouldn't have gone amiss either, if not for his writting style, which wasn't as elegant as a lot of the authors listed, then for his vision.

I guess that beats 6, should I feel smug?
 
Oh, and I should probably work out how to use cuts at some point...

Life just feels like a pit of despair at the moment.  I find solace in bands like My Chemical Romance - they understand my pain unlike any human.

I will be posting some of my poetry later.  Perhaps it will help with the void of empty emptiness that fills my empty soul, which is empty with nothing in it.

Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort.

Current Mood: blank

My 19 year old blonde female assistant starts work tomorrow.

*rubs hands together*

This series is freakily awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_RpbaUU7NI&feature=related


Also this amused me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uSlqI1AVUk

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/02/birthday-thing.html