Hiya, had a lovely weekend in Hastings - went to see Jan's youth theatre lots show - which was good fun, if a little hectic! Jan royally embarrassed me by shouting across the room "Boudicca, you're SMOKING!" (Jesus, I'm 26 that stage should be over now, surely?).

We went for fish and chips at the Mermaid on Sunday afternoon and then shopping (I, of course spent too much money on CD's and books). Then on the way home I get a text from the girls demanding my presence at home (Lornie's back from snowboarding - hurrah!). Got back just as roast dinner was being served (hurrah!) and sat in front of the telly for the next few hours. It is just Jess and I but is William and Mary on ITV just the sweetest Sunday evening television that we've had in a long time?

Well, tonight Boal is doing a lecture at the Cochrane, which will hopefully be over by 8pm so I can go to the comedy with the girls!

You're a decent Manics fan. Be proud. Not many
people can accomplish this.


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I'm so tired - I have been doing two weeks of training courses and I spent last night dreaming about our lecture at the Cochrane on Monday going horribly wrong! The chairs weren't there, no techs were about, the lights were all breaking, then my two bosses shouted at each other over my head! I woke up very tired indeed!

Saturday was another day with dad; we did mange to get to the Aztecs this time (might have had something to do with the Stop The War march). Pretty good exhibition, but I think we both enjoyed the Tony Robinson kids commentary a little more than we should have! Tea in St Martins again, which has become one of my new favourite place (absolutely nothing to do with the long hair goth boy that works there, oh no - who by the way spoke to me and I literally couldn't reply more than a squeaky 'yep, uh hu' - duh!). Later we went to Masion Beautx for cake and more tea - lovely, jubley.

Mind you, the tiredness might have something to do with the excessive drinking and partying. Saturday night, Jess and I were going to see Interpol. We started in the house with brandy shots and it got worse. Interpol were fantastic, the bass player had ultimate heaviness (see this link for more info). We then, of course, fancied going clubbing. We ended up at the After Skool party (which nice club as it is, is in a uni bar and will never escape that 'uni bar' feel - that and the toilets have lockers for your games kit in!). We knew when we were beyond drunk when the song that got us up to dance was Justin Timberlake (which I adore but Jessie doesn't!). We drank more, danced more, Jess then left me with some random man and disappeared for a while (I say a while, she actually left me outside for 1hr 20mins...in the cold...not answering her phone....but y'know these things happen!).

We managed to get home and collapse - the major thing is that Jess was meant to be getting a plane at 12.30 the next day from Luton...which of course she didn't make...leading to her feeling very guilty (it was a holiday to see a mate). We ended up instead having curry and watching Don Juan DeMarco - uummmm, lovely day in.

On Monday, we had cocktails at Soma (2 '4' 1 - hurrah, hurrah). But the boss rang me, the taxi driver rang me, I felt overly important and annoyed my friends....

On Tuesday Jess, Damaris and I went to visit our BA (Hons) Arts Management course. They were doing an event at Ocean. Multi-media, so, y'know, some of it was good and some was bad. There was this amazing woman, with black balloons and bizarre electro music - lots of fun. But of course, oh dear, we had got quite drunk and ended up getting the night bus the wrong way down mile end road - duh! But we soon got back and had chips and bed to think about.

On Wednesday Jess, Little Chris and I went to the Cochrane to see The Laramie Project. Nice and depressing...so much so that I wept. So y'know, we had to go out clubbing to cheer ourselves up. Popped into Metro's for a few cheap drinks and to pick up Andy. There was an amazing band playing. Well, an amazing guitarist and bearable band (reminder to self, ask Chris what they were called!). We then went to Candy Box, bumping into Herb on the way, and preceded to get very drunk on cheap whiskey - hurrah, hurrah. Managed to get home, but I was late for work (but only by half an hour).

On Thursday - after the last few days I was feeling bad and majorly run down. So, I made a lovely healthy carrot and ginger soup and went to bed early - good Bou!

Tonight, S&M Chris and I have a plan A and a plan B - either Ballet Boys at South Bank (if we can get stand by tix) or last three episodes of Angel and pizza. Both options involving attractive men!

Tomorrow will involve escaping to Hastings to visit parentage and eat fish and chips!

You're the Tortured Artist. You do anything and
everything; from water colours, to morbid
poetry, to emo music and zines. Nobody
understands you and they never will, but that's
alright because you have your art. You're
extremely intelligent and diverse, but perhaps
a little cinical. That's okay though, the world
can bite you and you can make up a short story
about then illustrate it yourself.


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Gosh it seems like a really long time since I've written anything! I've been v. busy at work with our training courses (anyone who know anti-stress tool that isn't danish pastry based please let me know a.s.a.p.!). I have also been told that I'm going to Manchester to help with those training days too. It is quite interesting, esp. meeting a wide range of different people. Some people have done the most amazing things (I get to read and type all their biogs) that I could only dream of....

Last ever Ticketmaster works drinks was on Friday - I of course can't actually remember anything past around 10ish - but apparently all I did was look cute and say "I'm soooooo drunk!" a few times. Bedrock went in a blur...then we were outside in the cold and some random man started chatting to me (he actually turned out to be the mate of the man that got off with my mate, and he isn't actually gay like we thought he was...). He was refusing to tell me his name but then Chris came up and said "Hi Arron, you've met Boo then?" Ha, ha!

Saturday - my Dad was in London for a few hours between visiting my baby bro (baby as in, 23 and 6' 3"...but still my little 'un) in Newcastle and going home to Hastings. We were gonna go to the Aztecs but the q was massive. We instead went to the National Portrait and National Gallery and then we got chocolate fudge cake at St Martin's cafe in the crypt - the best ever, with real yummy cream!!! I insist that every one goes there once in their lives!

I had a hangover and Dad was tried from travelling all day but we had a lovely time.

Sunday was the best - Jess and I met Richie at Archway. We bought lovely picnic things and then walked up to the pools on Hampstead Heath. We sat and watched the world go by, eating and sunning ourselves...we then went to the top of Parliment Hill and wandered down into Hampstead. A charity shop later, we went home and Jess and Richie cooked the most amazing vege curry which we enjoyed with a rather drunk Lucer and Kever (who had also had a good day by all accounts!).

Finally moved into the new house! Hurrah, hurrah - although my arms and back are aching from lugging all my stuff upstairs (apart from the filing cabinet which Kev mainly moved!). Got to start getting settled in now - managed to sort out my clothes, get my fairy lights up and get my feather boas out! The CD collection though - oh my god, that's gonna take ages to sort out!

Good News:

Passed Lesson 2 of Wicca First Degree

Bad News:

Manics finally sell out beyond resuce - they now own a posh private members club in Cardiff. (news from Popbitch central). AND I though that their songs on adverts was fucking awful...fucking cunts!

Manic Street Preachers Lyrics
" Gold Against The Soul "

Somebody told me to vote conservative
Tragedy is not known under this dimmest of lights
Everybody feels sick by the courtesy of dismay
Was I schooled without direction

Gold against the soul
Rock n' roll has a conscience
It supplies convenience
Gold against
Against the soul
Against the soul

Close the pits sanctify Roy Lynk an O.B.E.
Shareholding a piece of this fucking country
Fossilize - make Yorkshire into a tourist resort
And dream of new ways to humble the poor

Gold against the soul
White liberal hates slavery
Needs Thai labour to clean his home
Gold erodes
Erodes the soul
Erodes the soul

A 1000 Marlboro death ignored everyday
And who gives a shit about sexuality

Gold against the soul
Working class cliches start here
Either cloth caps of smack victims
Gold destroyed
Destroyed the soul
Destroyed the soul

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Well, well, well, who would have thought?????

Ummmhhhh, Nicky Wire rocks (and little Sean Moore is sooo cute in this photo - bless 'im).

So, my birthday drinkies started off quite odd, the Vibe Bar on Brick Lane - it's a cool enough place, but with too many 'try-hards'. I don't think that I've seen so many uncool people trying to be cool in one place before!
But then Abby and Courtney turned up and we had a few drinkies (and I started on the Whisky and Lemonade - a sure sign that I'm up for a fun evening!). We got bored went outside, did South Park voices, got bored, needed food...met Damaris outside the bar and walked up to get bagels from the 24hr place near the top of Brick Lane...the best in the world. We then all wandered up to Plastic People for Our Disco. The door was shut (it's now 10.40pm and it's meant to open at 10pm!). Went to another bar for a while, came back and they let us in...but we were the first there. The first round for all 4 of us cost £12 - at which point a couple of us thought that we may as well take some class As instead of buggering around with that sort of money! So, starting to get a bit merry, Athol (workmate) and a couple of his friends turn up - they stay for 1/2hr and then leave for some reason...
Mates turn up: Jess, Lornie, Carla, Helen, Chris K and S&M Chris. We proceed to party! Feathercut watching, drug taking (the drinks were at least £3 each, so not much of that), laughing, dancing to cool electro music (The Faint - hurrah!) and literally owning a corner of the club!!!

All lots of fun, Courtney, Jess, Damaris and I then left to join the q for 333 but soon got bored, when on an illegal alcohol run. Got an illegal taxi back to Jess' but most of us had got a little worse for wear. Jess and Lornie had both forgotten their keys so they had to wake Ellie up to let us in. Tried to roll a joint to calm down but with no papers and no baccy it got a little impossible. We chatted for a bit and then Damaris, Courtney and I went to get the 2 night buses home (mind you, it's not far just awkward!). When we got in the Chris' were watching porn (skin head, 18 cert, that S&M Chris got sent by an anon. admirer - that's another story!) and drinking tea. All sat around for a bit chatting and then I went to bed. S&M Chris and Damaris stayed up for a while chatting (although Damaris does insist that Chris hypnotised her and then quizzed her about her life!!!).

Got up quite early, feeling ok and watched Saturday morning telly - y'know, I'll happily admit that although I've been a fag hag since birth I have never actually knowingly fancied a homosexual until, that is, Brian Dowling. I KNOW that it's wrong but he's very funny and attractive...and I must keep telling myself that it is WRONG - goddamn it!

Then I went to pick up my mother, Jan from Ten and Ian's house. We had a big night planned but ended up having Chinese, DVD's and sleeps under comfy covers on the sofa. I also 'amused' her with my Lord of the Rings commentary, which basically runs along the lines of "Jesus Christ, I LOVE Aragorn, he's so sexy, oh my god, I love this bit, look at that, it's scary, oh Aragorn I'll have your sword if Frodo doesn't want it, he's blantly bad, he's Christopher Lee" etc...and then we watched Dogma and I proceed to lust over Alan Rickman, ummm snarling..... Nice evening!

Sunday I moved my stuff to the girls house (where I move in on Wednesday night) Due to traffic jams, the car demanding a rest and a drink, the need to clean my old room, etc. it took almost 8hrs to do 3 car loads! Arrrggghhh, I HATE moving.

Jan then made a lovely dinner, magickly, from an empty cupboard, like only a mum can do and S&M Chris and I welcomed the new housemates in. They seem very, very, sweet - Lotfi and Sara who had brought a bottle of wine and had rolled up within an hour of moving their stuff in - I have a very good feeling about leaving Chris with them (oh, an over-protective mother moment - I am sorry!).

oh my god! I literally have the best workmates ever!

I got chocolate cake, white chocolate fudge AND donuts AND little plastic hearts that warm up to keep my little cold hands warm (which I have lusted after since Pol got them)AND a beautiful photo album that's all blue and shiny (in a grown up way - I'll have you know!).
Bless 'em all the little cupcakes!

No more depressed birthday blues for Bou!
I'm also gonna go out tonight and get very drunk indeed! Hurrah, hurrah!

You know what - I'll stop this goddamn self-pitying crap (see below) and play on quizzila all afternoon!!!

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I kinda knew the result to this one:


Aragorn


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You are tired, but glued to the computer, you can't
pull yourself away. When all your buddies have
their "I'm sleeping" away messages
up, you find other stuff to do online...like
taking this stupid quiz.


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Romantic movie! You probably won't star in a porno
anytime soon. You seem to be really into the
whole "love" thing...romantic sex
with perfumed sheets and candles all over the
place. You're probably a hopeless romantic. You
value sex and respect your partner too much to
do anything like porn. AWWWWWW!


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Well, goddamn, I'm finally 26 today. Although the last week or so has been full of major reflections - currently in the process of moving, therefore this years 'spring clean' has been like a snake shedding its skin! The stuff that I still had was amazing! So, 5 bin bags full later I think I'm ready to move.
But what it did do was throw up a lot of questions about my life...When I was 16 I wrote a list of things that I would have achieved by the time I was 26 - and fuck me, if I haven't achieved any of them (actually I lie, I have fulfilled 1/2 of one - a really great job (got) with good pay (urrrhhh, nope!).
I suppose this is also happening because I don't have any real goals anymore - uni over, fucked up relationshit finally fucked beyond repair, failed Wicca exam number 2 - what I need is some fucking goals! Any suggestions will be gratefully accepted...(but they must cost NO money and be done at weekends!).

You know what, it's my birthday tomorrow and I had the major birthday blues until Daddy sent me loads of pictures of his new orchid - they are fantastic!

Thank you Daddy!

LAZY POSTING (half inched from the adorable Darian)

--------------HAVE YOU EVER---------

* Ever been so drunk you blacked out: Yes, only once when I was 17 - drank 2 bottles of red wine and went out clubbing with friends. I'm a sensible enough person to end up going home and pass out in my own bed but i have no idea how I did it!

* Put a body part on fire for amusement: Oh yes, me and my brother used to hold lighters and matches to our arms and hands to see how hard we were (I was so 'the hardest'!).

* Been in a car accident: nope, been hit a couple of times though not badly, when I was a kid (brought up in the country, no bloody roads and many a drunk driver!).

* Been hurt emotionally: Quite a bit but only once badly - you know that bit in The Fellowship of the Ring where the Ringwrath stabs Frodo - that's what it feels like but in your heart - ice, evil running throughout your entire body (y'know I might not be over my last relationship (relationshit - name that movie!)

* Kept a secret from everyone: There's always a least one person that I tell!

* Had an imaginary friend: I kinda see it more as different elements of myself and I talk out loud to them a lot of the time.

* Wanted to hook up with a friend: No, no absolutly not, I'm mean it wouldn't work, would it? He obviously doesn't feel the same way - I know he flirts with me but he flirts with everyone. I know he holds my hand and whispers in my ear and adores me but there is no way that he sees it like that. But why hasn't he rung me for two weeks? Right that is it I'm never mentioning his name again. Oh god, I adore him...(repeat to fade) (and then continue for over a year, much to the annoyance of all other mates). I'm so sorry!!!! ;-)

* Cried during a Movie: I get so involved in movies, I weep like a child at most of them - happy tears, sad tears, depressed tears, release tears.

* Had a crush on a teacher: My theory is if you fancy someone at school/college you're more likely not to skive off. Therefore crushes a plenty, but they fade the min that I don't have to be there anymore.

* Ever thought an animated character was hot: No, but I've thought that plenty are cool as fuck!

* Had a New Kids on the Block tape: Yes, this was a major change point in my life. I was an avid reader of the music press and an avid watcher of TOTP as a child and NKOTB were meant to be the next big thing. My friend Annie and I went to buy the first single in Newcastle HMV, went home and listened to it. I hated it with a passion and she adored it. The relationship disintegrated not soon after when she went to the NKOTB concert and I lost my faith in 'the next big thing', discovered NME and Melody Maker and drowned my sorrows in daddy's record collection!

* Cut your hair: yes, I hate hairdressers with a passion.

-------FAVOURITES-------------

* Shampoo: Frizz ease (which I can rarely afford).

* Colour: Blue, it is the most diverse colour - something for everyone. Also anything that glitters.

* Day/Night: dusk and dawn

* Summer/Winter: Autumn.

* Lace or satin: Knights (or nights) is white satin

* Cartoon Characters: Lenore, Emily.

* Fave Advert: Don't really have one and I don't have enough space to tell you all the ones that I HATE.

* Fave Film: This changes constantly but I have seen The Two Towers four times now.

* Fave Ice Cream: Good vanilla or Baileys with Baileys poured over the top for decant moments.

* Fave Subjects: Other people's lives (whether imaginary or real).

-----------------RIGHT NOW-----------

* Wearing: It's a lazy sunday, so 'The Queen is Dead' Smiths t-shirt and and Old Navy shorts with glow in the dark ghosts on.

* Drinking: Home made caffe latte - warm and whisk the milk first and then add coffee and top up with water.

* Thinking about: Life, the universe and everything

* Listening to: Just a Min on Radio 4 - hurrah, hurrah, Ross Noble is very funny indeed.

---------IN THE LAST 24 HRS--------

* Cried: Yes, a couple of times. Birthday blues and my computer crashed and managed to wipe every track that I had in my Real One Player (which was quite a lot!!!!!!!) Arrggghhhh, they were nowhere, I searched everywhere, and then I wept with frustration.

* Worn a skirt: nope, although I did wear one last Saturday - just for shock value!

* Cleaned your room: Yep, I moving next weekend so I didn't just clean but I threw out at least 2 bin bags full of crap.

* Done laundry: yep, general house stuff and my own stuff.

* Drove a car: nope, don't drive.

----------DO YOU BELIEVE IN-------

* Yourself: yes, but I have to remind myself that I do quite often.

* Friends: yes, yes, YES - I have the most adorable friends!

* Santa Claus: no

* Tooth Fairy: yes, she put a little diamond on my tooth!

* Destiny/Fate: YES

* Angels: I get stuck with this word, 'cos I believe in guardian spirits/guides but not the classic idea of angels (and BTW 'The Prophecy II' was on last night - Christopher Walken is soooo horny as the Archangel Gabriel!!!).

* Ghosts: YES, and I've met a few

---------FRIENDS AND LIFE--------

* Who's the loudest out of your friends: Courtney (but only in 'COURTNEY' mode)

* Who's the weirdest out of your friends: They all have their little weird quirks but that's why I love 'em

* Who will respond to this e-mail fastest: n/a

* Who did you send this to who won't respond: n/a

* Do you want all your friends to do this and send it back to you?: They should all copy and post on their blogs if they have them!