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November 13th, 2009
November 10th, 2009
12:33 am - In Flanders Field
In Flanders field the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place, and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amidst the groans below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, saw dawn, felt sunset's glow
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders field.
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October 31st, 2009
12:31 pm - Radio Silence
Btw, phone has gone kablooey and has lost a big load of people's numbers. If you'd like to make sure I have yours, please text me and tell me who you are.
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11:43 am
I know this isn't that bad. I know it isn't. I'm holding up okay, I think.
It's worrying quite how much constant pain tires you out.
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October 29th, 2009
10:47 am - More Dental Woes
Well, the dentist took one look at the tooth even after antibiotic treatment and said she might as well take it out. Which was fairly nasty - I had no idea how much force it took to extract even a pretty wobbly tooth - though surprisingly about £50 cheaper than the root treatment.
My mouth is draining nastily and feels like raw hamburger, but tbh it's still an improvement over most of the last week.
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October 22nd, 2009
07:55 pm - Radio Silence
If I seem to be ignoring you, I'm terribly sorry - my phone has gone kaput yet again...
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October 16th, 2009
09:30 pm - The Hunt for Gollum
www.youtube.com/watch
If you haven't seen this before, I cannot recommend it enough.
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08:39 pm - The Skint Also Have Teeth!
Curent dental bill: £141.
And this is on the NHS, for root canal treatment and one other filling. At a private dentist, I believe it would be around ten times as much.
The next time anyone at all tells me the NHS is the worst thing that ever happened to this country, or makes the death panel joke, I'm going to break their fucking hose.
Shit, I'm skint :(
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September 26th, 2009
04:50 pm - Regency Yumminess
To celebrate the A&A downtime being out, I've just bought four metres of cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll - gorgeous embroidered flannel and mean to talk poor ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) squintywitchinto showing me how to make a gorgeous Regency winter dress from it.
Of course, knowing my luck, the player event won't go ahead and I'll die in beautiful flannel dress next July...
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September 25th, 2009
12:54 am - The Shudders
Can't believe how backwards this bloody sickness is. I seem to be getting worse instead of better. The runny nose has more or less dried up, but the cough's got worse, my throat feels like someone's taken a wire brush to it, my stomach's upset, I'm hot and cold constantly and I'm still getting dizzy from strenuous exercise like moving between one room and another, or not lying down for more than three minutes.
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September 23rd, 2009
01:12 pm - The Dreaded Lurgy
Ugh. Sick again, and now breaching the work absence policy, so I'll be up for an HR interview when I go back. It's clearly flu - feeling slightly better today but still have a temperature, muscle aches, sore throat, cough, sore throat... the usual roll of misery I'm sure everyone is sick of hearing of by now ;)
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September 8th, 2009
01:40 am - :D
Happy birthday, herecosyouare !
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September 2nd, 2009
11:50 pm - Nestly goodness
Back on the net after about a week offline; partially due to my flat turning itself into some sort of wireless blackspot (again), but mostly simply because I was just too damn knackered. It was an insane week at work last week, what with catching up on my own work and doing work of several other people currently on leave - sadly, one of the other admin staff is on long-term personal leave because her daughter has just been diagnosed with lymphona.
I am very, very much looking forward to the Nest tavern night tomorrow. I'm mostly happy with my kit, though I do wish my goggles would come, but more that I feel I have a handle on the characterisation now after the IC chat with Orev last night. Essentially, I'm playing an ex-slave wemic from a vaguely Japanese-style culture. My real main worry was that she would turn out too much like Sas, so I was glad to find myself in an entirely different mindset. If I can just get that too come across tomorrow, everything should be coming up roses.
I do hope the dear boy is well enough to make it, though. He was sick at lunchtime today and he's still looking on the green side.
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August 24th, 2009
06:23 pm - Back to work...
...apparently have managed not to get myself sacked or blown anything up by absent-mindedness in my absence.
I'm taking this as a good sign.
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August 23rd, 2009
10:33 pm - Intrigue, Steampunk and Corsetry
Well, I just had a truly fantastic week off in the Lakes with the lovely boy, and a truly fantastic weekend down in Coventry Steampunking with the lovely people in Zeitgeist. Am so horrifically inspired with Bowdy et al's lovely work that Mark and I ended up coming up with a concept for a new larp game to fill the long drive home.
The basic concept is that it would be set in Elizabethan England, probably the year after the Armada (depending on a few things I'll need to look up). Some magic, but more intrigue - information networks, gossip, rumours, propaganda and misinformation. And a whole bunch of other random things, but those are FOIP :)
I'm not sure how much room there is for another system in Glasgow, but if Zeitgeist can exist in close proximity with Scarred Lands, I would like to think we have some flexibility up here as well.
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August 16th, 2009
11:20 pm - Meme - Oh, go on then...
Well, I wasn't going to do this.
But then Willow died, and I find I'm having a bit of trouble getting her voice out of my head. So, what the hell?
Dramatis Personae: Major Sasagani Kotetsu Ipesch (Maelstrom) Willow Na'Vie Ash, Paladin of Peragus (The Cuckoo's Nest – very recently deceased) Kitten (The Cuckoo's Nest) Promise LaFayette-Moreaux (Masquerades and Massacres)
( Meme )
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August 3rd, 2009
11:26 pm - Today
I got new boots.
They are very steampunky :D
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July 27th, 2009
02:33 pm - Prestige
Well, that was a bloody fantastic event. Annoyed at myself for letting myself get distracted enough not to win the final of the great weapon fighting competition, but still had the most fantastic time. I feel as though we have found our way back after wandering a bit for quite a while, and I find that mirrored in Sas as well - she has her road to walk, and now she's figuring out the ways to do that.
Thanks so much to everyone for the wonderful interactions I had with them this weekend, most particularly squintywitch for the awesomeness that is Helena, Casp (damn your complicated lj-name! :P) for singing, campfire angst and giving Sas a kick up the backside she badly needed, Clauds for everything with Hagar, everyone who made me feel badass about the fighting competition and everyone else for religous joy :D
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July 15th, 2009
08:01 pm - WS Tentacle Haiku
Don't hide the schoolgirls
The well-mannered octopus
Just wants to be friends
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July 7th, 2009
01:09 am - Aliens and Alienation
My gods, what an event! Extraordinarily worth the drive to Bristol and sunburn for! ( Regency froth under the cut )
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