Hello. I seem to have survived a week of work. Well, a week of induction. My head is buzzing with protocols and names and faces. There are more commitees here then you would believe! And I'm taking the training manual home with me to try and get my head around it before I have a meeting with my supervisor on monday.

But, other then that and my stupidly breaking my bike (I'm a genius) life is good. I've got my new laptop, we're all up and running, I'm on it right now. Things are going well in other ways. I'm mostly happy, which is nice :) When I'm happy I feel like I don't have much to say.

Oh yeah, I'm going to the London expo XD My mum agreed to let me, so I'm happy about that (though now I have to get my cosplay spruced up in time).

All in all, I'm doing good.

Hey everyone, it's meme time!

If you're on my friends list, I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine... you're on my list, so I want to know you better!

Comment here and repost a blank one on your own journal.

01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
02) What was your dream growing up?
03) What talent do you wish you had?
04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
05) Favorite vegetable?
06) What was the last book you read?
07) What zodiac sign are you?
08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
09) Worst Habit?
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
11) What is your favorite sport?
12) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
16) Do you have any pets?
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
18) What was your first impression of me?
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22) What color eyes do you have?
23) Ever been arrested?
24) Bottle or can soda?
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
27) What's your favorite place to hang out at?
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30) Do you swear a lot?
31) Biggest pet peeve?
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
34) Favourite and least favourite food?
35) Do you believe in God?
36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

OMFG it's an update! Nick must be back becasue I was drunk last night.

Random, did you lot (and by that I probably mean Chloe as she's the only one who'd care) know that Reclaim the night London doesn't allow transwomen to march? That's disapointing because I'm sure as hell never attending now. If we're not reclaiming the nights for some of the most vulnerable women, are specifically excluding these vulnerable women, then I certainly don't want anything to do with it.

Anyway, what have I done this week? Not a lot. I'm mostly enjoying living in a house with friends, it turns out to be quite fun. I like this casual socialising malarky that happens when you run into someone in your own living room. Quite nice. Not a lot's gone on, really. We have a full house again, Anna and I hatched some evil plans and put stuff on the hallway walls, I ordered some bookcases, that's about it.

We went out to the pub last night and got drunk, that was fun. Sam kept telling us how much he misses Rupert which, for some reason, lead to a load of us texting him with declerations of love, including Nick asking him to marry him, which was great fun at the time. My phone keeps breaking because Fuko-chan is too awsome which makes me sad, but it's working at the minute so I won't tempt fate. Don't care much about other conversations...the guy at the bar got deeply excited when he realised I drank malt whiskey, that was amusing. I decided to have a little and the first guy at the bar was like "Oh, we don't have any of that, here, have this bourbon, it's higher precentage" and I was like "gtfo" then the other guy came over and started making recomendations and got all excited.

Anyway, it was a good night out.

And tonight, with any luck, we're going to have an adventure in bookcase building, since they should be delivered today and there is assembly required. It will be an exciting adventure and, hopefully, after that I'll be able to have my books off the floor and onto some shelves.

Yay, shelves.

Fandom character meme questions answers...

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Today we bought a shiny new sofa to replace our broken one. Yay for things that aren't broken. Hopefully people will give me the money for it back soon, then I shall be content! Today has, in a general sense, been a good day.

Have a meme. It looks fun, questions from everyone plz, the wackier the better (even if you don't care about the outcome).

1) Make a list of twenty-two characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment. (That way you're not leading the questions asked to fit the characters.)

2) Ask your flist to post questions in the comments.

For example:

'One, Nine, Fifteen and Twenty-One are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from Four. Do they succeed?'
'Under what circumstances might Five and Seven fall in love?'
'Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?'
'What would Two experience in Silent Hill?'
'What Pokémon would Eight have?'
'Write a drabble in which Sixteen and Nineteen FIGHT CRIME.' </lj>(...possibly not technically a question.)

3) After your flist has asked enough questions, round them up and answer them using the twenty-two characters you selected beforehand, then post them.

( Last night I had a dream, to spare those who don't care. )

And a fanfiction meme -

If you had me under your command and could make me write anything, regardless of whether or not I know the fandom or if anybody even writes fic in that fandom and no matter how crack-addled it might be, what would you love to see me write?

And ending with a meme that I don't think anyone will do, but I'll throw it in anyway...

[1] Go to my list of fics and pick out a line or three from one of my stories.
[2] I will respond with which story of mine I think it's from. I promise I won't cheat, but I may not actually know the title.
[3] A drabble of choice for the first four of you that manage to stump me!

My writing journal

So, I have four pairs of jeans, a set of pjamas, two sets of bed linen and a duvet that I didn't have this morning. That means my mum is starting to get nervous about me going and insisting on buying my Useful Things I Might Need. She's already starting to annoy me about whether or not I've got everything. Very annoying.

I have 4 days to finish packing my life up, then I have to load it into the car, be driven across the country, and then unpack it again. Unpacking it is the easy part, appart from hanging my posters which always takes ages.

Three weeks tomorow I start at the John Innes. Trying not to think about that one too much right now.

It's odd, I feel almost reluctant to leave. I think it's because this time I'm not coming back, not to live, not for at least four years. This time I'm not really a student any more, not in the traditional sense. Norwich is going to be wierd too.

I've got a list of things i'm worried about as long as my arm and it's a good job I couldn't find my phone last night or I would have been sending self-destructive text messages.

I'm sure once I get to Norwich and I'm settled in and work's started up i'll be fine, it's just the waiting the gets to me. I can't help but feel that something's wrong and I can't help but worry.

Firefox isn't saving my bookmarks. I've just realised this today and I'm not sure how long it's been going on for. I have a massive bookmarked directory fof fanfiction that's been posted in lj communities that I've been working on for nearly six months now, I don't know how long firefox has been loosing my links and how much of that is missing. It's so stupid but I don't know what to do.

The Convention anti-harasment project. Something interesting and something I'll be acting on in relation to any other conventions I go to. It's a grassroots project to try and get cons to adopt anti-harrasment policy and it impliment and articulate them within the convention. I think, especially for the big cons, having something like this is becoming essential. Organisers of big cons still seem at treat the events like gatherings of a small group of friends and you simply can't run a convention with over 1000 people attending it like that. There needs to be policy and there needs to be procedure. With the bigger cons seeming to grow every year, this is only going to get more and more important.

1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
2: Post the first lines from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.

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