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Monday, January 5th, 2004
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4:56 pm
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ugh, i'm so tired. i really thought i might fall asleep in latin. it was nice to see bex and sam for the first time since christmas, and to give bex her presents...and mildly interesting to see how various people got on oxbridge-wise...but other than that, today pretty much sucked. at the start of every term i convince myself that it'll be some kind of great new start, from whenceforth (is that a word?) i will be more focused, more committed, and more alert...yet every time i find that nothing...absolutely *nothing* has changed. the place still drags me down, i still want to leave, and i still feel tired and apathetic most of the time. ah well...only a few more months to go now.
highlight of the day: finding out that lawrence wooley was stoned for our latin christmas party...lmao.
oh...this may well be my last entry in this journal...i'm taking advantage of the free codes to change my crappy and unoriginal username...so don't forget to update your friends lists folks ;)
(and i'll probably make this journal friends only once my new one's up and running)
EDITAGE: my new journal = ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) under_control
current mood:  tired
current music: the strokes - new york city cops
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| Sunday, January 4th, 2004
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8:05 pm
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right. my protector somerset essay is done. and i'm officially exhausted. and dreading going back to school tomorrow. i still have fuckloads of work to do but i really don't think i can face it tonight, so i think i'll watch some of my teachers dvd and then have an early night. i haven't been getting to sleep until about midnight these hols, and getting up about 11...so god knows how i'm going to get myself up at 6.45 tomorrow...*cries*
current mood: drained
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1:48 pm
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stolen from lizita:
1) Using band names, spell out your first name.
Echo and the Bunnymen
Lostprophets
Inme
Zero 7
Ash
Biffy Clyro
Easyworld
The Strokes
Hundred Reasons
2) Have you ever had a song written about you? Nope, although someone on the feeder board promised me once :p
3) What song makes you cry? hmmm...to name but a few: hundred reasons, "falter"; feeder, "satellite news"; coldplay, "the scientist"; ash, "angel interceptor"; regina spektor, "samson"; eva cassidy, "fields of gold" [/geek]
4) What song makes you happy? sooooooo many. to name but a very, very few...feeder, "cement"; coldplay, "everything's not lost"; the strokes, "under control"; idlewild, "when i argue i see shapes"
5) What song makes you horny? erm...mostly muse songs, owing to matt's voice.
6) What do you like to listen to before bed? coldplay, "a rush of blood to the head"
7) Name a song by Nick Holmes. erm....*blank look*
8) Who was/were your music idols when you were younger? yes, like liz...take that...*cringe*
9) First album you ever bought? take that, "take that and party"...again, *cringe*
10) Name a song that reminds you of someone and why? hmmm...there are a few feeder songs that always remind me of jon lee...lots of songs remind me of my friends and going to see the said band with them...jimmy eat world always remind me of someone i used to kind of know because he told me they'd "saved his life", ahem.
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1:41 pm
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Happy 18th Birthday to my little Bexxles (quincys_theory)! :D ...i'd like to take this oppurtunity to thank you for being my bestest friend for...*counts*...nearly 7 years now!....*loves you* :D
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| Saturday, January 3rd, 2004
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9:49 pm
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2004 quiz thing stolen from picture_of_pain
First song listened to: feeder - polythene girl
First album listened to: feeder - polythene
First TV programme watched: eastenders
First Film watched: none so far, but i'm about to go and watch a bit of "elizabeth" even though i've seen it loads of times before, hehe.
First song sung: auld lang syne (or however the fuck you spell it)
First person hugged: polly, ally and helen, all in one go!
First thing written: erm...bex's birthday card i think...
First person spoken to: polly, ally, helen.
First person kissed: a random french man who thought me and pol were talking just to him when we shouted out "happy new year!", and so kissed each of us on both cheeks!
First thing eaten: erm...french onion soup at lunchtime on new year's day, in a cute french cafe.
First thing drunk: minute maid orange juice (not very rock 'n' roll, but it was the next morning :p)
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4:51 pm - warning: big paris update ahead :p
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so tuesday i got up at 5am...crawled out of bed, into the car, and then onto the coach. the journey was long and dull, and i was mostly feeling fairly out of it. we got to the hotel early evening, and it was a lot nicer than i expected...we had a bath and tv in our room, and the whole place was just really nice and cosy looking. we ate in the hotel that night, and got pissed on some dodgy, cheap french wine (for 4 jugs between 8 of us it worked out as about 1 euro per person)...
...the next day we went on a tour of paris and saw notre dame, the arc de triumph, the eiffel tower, les invalides, the champs elyssee, the sorbonne, the louvres, and all the rest. then we headed out to euro disney where we were spending new year's eve...just as we were getting off the coach at the park, i looked at my phone and saw i had two missed calls from my mummy...so i rang her back, and my dad answered and told me i'd been offered a place at cambridge!! which i communicated to the others in a somewhat strangled voice, and it was all nice and happy because so far 3 of us had heard from them and we'd all had positive news (helen got in, and polly got pooled)...madeline and alison hadn't got their interview results yet, and mad especially went pretty quite for a while later on...her mum rang but she ignored it, because i don't think she wanted to find out with the rest of us there anymore :| ...anyway, she didn't mention it again and neither did i because i didn't want to annoy/upset her, but she texted me last night and told me that she got pooled as well; i think she told her mum she didn't want to find out til she got home in the end. ally didn't get in, but she really wants to go to theatre school anyway so i don't think she was too fussed.
anyway, back to new year's eve...we spent the evening going on lots of rides - pirates of the carribean, the obligatory "it's a small world", indiana jones, thunder mountain, and space mountain x 2 \m/ ...pol, helen, ally and i had split up from the others for a bit to go on a space mountain again, and afterwards helen really wanted some water so we went to one of the crappy fast food places to get her some...45 minutes later, at a quarter to midnight, we were still in the bloody queue. eventually i turned into my father and snapped at the dumbass behind the counter, who gave us the fucking bottle of water, and we ran out of the door...just in time for the final three seconds of the countdown, so we joined in, threw our drinks around and jumped around hugging each other, laughing like loons because we couldn't believe our timing! after watching the fireworks over the castle we headed back down the main street, dancing and singing like maniacs to YMCA, "it'a raining men", the usual cheesy party fare, y'know...before meeting up with the others. so yeah, it was by far the best new year i've ever had...just being with my friends was great, not to mention actually doing something of note...and there was a great atmosphere :D
the next day we dragged ourselves out of bed to discover it had been snowing really heavily during the night...so we went for a walk, stomping through the snow to the metro, and went back to the eiffel tower for a proper look around...we couldn't climb up the stairs because of the snow, and there were huge queues for the lifts, so we just took a few silly photos, had a wander round, and then because we were actually starting to ache with cold, we found a cute, really parisien-style little cafe round the corner for lunch...in which i had the most gorgeous hot chocolate i'd ever tasted, french onion soup with croutons, and chips...*drools*...after that we were all warm and happy, and headed back to the hotel for a bath (albeit not a communal one :p)...then we went on a coach trip round the city at night, and saw all the stunning illuminations down the champs elyssee, before getting dropped off in the opera region to go for a meal. we went to a lovely posh restraunt and i had goat's cheese salad - one of my favouritest things, hehe...steak and chips (again, heh), and lots of nice wine. it was all great, pol and i somewhat stupidly had a competition to down a glass of red wine which went *right* to our heads...and then she suddenly went from really happy to really neurotic, and started going on about something our bus driver had said earlier about her being lanky, which had re-fueled all her (unfounded) insecurities about her height and thinking she looks like a "freak" (she's really, really pretty). then she got upset because she thought tania and claire were accusing her of attention seeking (they weren't), and basically cried all the way back to the hotel, steadily working herself into a complete state, going over all the things she hates about herself and her life. it's so hard to get through to her when she's like that; she won't trust you or believe anything you say...but she was so upset and i hate seeing her like that, so i just had to be patient and keep reassuring her...anyway, back at the hotel she really went into hysterics but tan, claire and i ended up talking to her in our room for a few hours and by that time she'd calmed down and was fairly back to normal...
so we were all pretty exhausted the next morning, but we only had a coach ride back and some shopping to do so it didn't really matter. i slept most of the way to the shopping centre at calais...then we all had a nice look round and i bought some really nice boots which were much better value than at home (they worked out at about £28), and lots of sweets, chocolate, and goat's cheese from the hypermarket, hehe. then we went onto the shuttle, and eventually arrived back at chelmsford sometime after 8 i think...
it was a really nice few days; just spending the new year period with ally, tan, claire, pol, mad, helen and laura was really special, even if we did have a bit of an upset on thursday night...and i missed sam and my bexxles of course. today i got up really late, had a soak in the bath, and then went off for my driving lesson...and apart from cutting a few corners and going over a few curbs, i was "pretty good" apparently, hehe. i really should make a start on my history essay...but i'm too sleepy to get my head round somerset and his arsing protectorate right now :|
current mood: sleepy
current music: the cooper temple clause - promises, promises
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| Friday, January 2nd, 2004
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9:45 pm
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...so i just got back from paris, i'm very sleepy so i'll post a proper update about it tomorrow...
...but in other news - i got into cambridge! :D ...seriously can't believe it.
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| Monday, December 29th, 2003
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9:00 pm
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my father has gout :|
surely only fat old tory landowners who spend their days sitting in armchairs drinking too much whiskey and eating three course lunchs (in manner of kilwillie from "monarch of the glenn" or similar) get gout?! or henry VIII. anyway, my dad's having a blood test to check his uric acid levels, but the long and short of it will no doubt be that he's over-indulged somewhat this festive season and needs to go on a diet.
i've pretty much done my packing now...i bought a pink wooley hat earlier to keep me warm...i've got my euros...got my passport out...washed my hair...so yeah, i haven't really got anything much more to do.
...have a great new year's everyone :D
current mood: sleepy
current music: rhcp - californication
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1:55 pm
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my letter from cambridge still hasn't arrived, so the mothership will have to open it for me while i'm away...i usually hate it when she opens my letters but the difference this time is that i know what it's going to say, whereas she's genuinely curious :p
i've been quite busy today actually...tidying my room, typing up my Donne essay (have i mentioned that i love him?...mum showed me his quote at the front of "for whom the bell tolls" and...*<3*), and i'm off to the shops shortly i think. except mum had to take dad to the doctor's cause he's done something to his foot (i think he's exaggerating myself, men tend to be pathetic and attention-seeking about that sort of thing) and there's a slight chance she might have to take him to casualty :| ...which would be bad, obviously from my poor dad's point of view, but also because i have loads of things to do in town, heh...then when i get home, it's packing time - or, the time when i stuff my suitcase to bursting with just about every item of clothing i can fit in there. i know paris will be great when i get there, but i'm too tired and bloated from christmas to be excited yet.
oh, and i watched "billy elliot" last night...it's such a good film...i cried lots. especially when his dad crosses the picket line because he needs the money to send him to ballet school...*sniff*
...in other news, i still can't really decide what colour my hair is.
current mood: tired
current music: rhcp - suck my kiss
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| Sunday, December 28th, 2003
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11:01 am
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grrrr. i remembered yesterday, to my horror, that i had a driving lesson at 10.30 this morning...so i dragged myself out of bed and into the shower at about 9, feeling like hell...and then the bloody instructor rang and cancelled because he "has a cold" (read: hangover :P).
current mood:  lethargic
current music: coldplay - one i love
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| Saturday, December 27th, 2003
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2:55 pm
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so i dyed my hair...somewhat foolishly i was too impatient to bother with the 48-hour skin test, so i had a slight panic in case my scalp started to itch like crazy or all my hair fell out :| ...but it seems to be ok at the moment, fingers crossed. it didn't exactly do what it said on the tin...it was supposed to turn my hair "dark blonde" but the colour came out kind of more chestnut-y, although it's quite blonde-y around the the parting...anyway, the difference isn't that noticeable, but it did what i wanted and generally brightened up my hair so i'm happy with it.
i really should do some work this afternoon...the morning was taken up watching my teachers dvd, snuggled under my duvet with a box of chocolates...<3 the christmas hols, hehe...but i really can't face the metaphysical poets right now.
current mood:  content
current music: placebo - pure morning
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| Friday, December 26th, 2003
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9:20 pm
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alison told me earlier that we have to leave at 5.30am on tuesday to go to paris. gah. ah well, it'll be worth it once we get there :D ...in between then and now i should be hearing from cambridge (they send the letters out tomorrow)...which will be good. i know i haven't got in (i know people say you can never really be sure, but i always just have a feeling about things and nine times out of ten it turns out to be right); it's just that it's been this "thing" for like, a year now and it'll be good when it's finally over and i'll know that UCL is definitely going to go down as my first choice and i can look forward to going there and stuff (gigage baby!) :D ...my worst scenario is getting pooled because i really don't want to go through another interview :|
before i go to paris, i want/need to do something with my hair. i'm not seeing my hairdresser til the 10th, but i'm thinking more colour-wise anyway. i've had highlights a few times before, and it looks nice...but they're not really that noticeable and fade after a few months, so it's probably not really worth the money...i might buy some actual hair dye tomorrow, i'm just scared of it going wrong and giving me green hair or something...anyone care to recommend any reliable brands? for some reason i feel like paris is like this cool, fashionable place and i should make an attempt to look decent while i'm there, heh.
current mood:  blank
current music: the cooper temple clause - talking to a brick wall
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4:57 pm
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too much cold meat.
too much chocolate.
too much alcohol.
too tired of attempting to argue with my grandparents in a polite yet forceful way...apparently there were too many "coloureds" and "queers" on top of the pops yesterday.
it's like spending 24 hours trapped in a lift with the hardcore contingent of the local british national party. seriously...my grandfather actually used the term "blackamoor" earlier :| ...and considers everything he says perfectly valid because he remembers to stick the phrase "i'm not colour prejudiced but..." at the start of all such comments...it's like a member of the KKK saying "i'm not colour prejudiced...i just enjoy stringing black people up from trees in my spare time"...
so i watched a programme about the rugby world cup with my dad and took muchos consolation in jonny wilkinson, hehe <3 ...
(my only complaint being: who gives a *fuck* about seeing footage of prince harry in the dressing room after the match? personally i'd quite like to have come into close bodily contact with a sweaty, mud-spattered jonny wilkinson after that match, but not being an inter-bred parasite living off the british taxpayer means i don't qualify apparently :p)
anyway...subsequently decided that jonny and david beckham are my ideal sports-star threesome...to go with my ideal rock star threesome of matt bellamy and dom howard (or nick valensi and julian casablancas) ;)
also, am i the only one who's noticed just how many programmes about world war two they've had on the past few days?...i mean, yeah, "lest we forget" and all that...but it's like in order to drum up some nice patriotic christmas spirit we have to hark back to events that took place over 50 years ago - and that the rest of the world has managed to move on from - and have a good gloat about how we beat those nasty germans, in order to make our inner daily mail reader feel good.
heh...i didn't even realise i had so much rant-mileage in me until i started writing this entry.
current mood: sleepy
current music: rhcp - scar tissue
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| Thursday, December 25th, 2003
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1:31 pm - it's christmaaaaas! :D
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my grandad decided to ring us at 8, which woke everyone up...so we all convened downstairs about 9 for present-opening and bucks-fizz drinking. my dad was winding me up because he's obsessed with his digi-cam and wouldn't stop taking photos (and now pol tells me she's just got one too. woo :p )...everyone seemed to like the presents i'd got them, which was good...and i got lots of nice things: kinesis - "handshakes for bullets"; placebo's "without you i'm nothing"; the red hot chili pepper's greatest hits; the cooper temple clause, "kick up the fire..."; a little biography of the strokes; "the last party", a book about britpop and blair and the whole 'cool brittania' thing; a book of poems by byron <3; the coldplay live dvd; teachers series 1 dvd; a pretty new top; cool black patterned tights and some nice glossy pairs too; a feeder t-shirt (the new pink one from the arena tour); a gorgeous big jewellery box; heaps of chocolate; money; a coldplay calendar; a private eye book, "the vicar at war" (muchly amusing); a lovely pair of earrings; a nice face mask/shower gel/body lotion set...think that's it. so yes, i am a happy liz :D ...i've just been watching the first ever episode on my teachers' dvd and i'd forgotten just how brilliant it was...my favourite bit is when simon and susan have been smoking in the toilet cubicle and when they come out this other snooty teacher's staring at them and susan's like "oh, we weren't smoking...we just nipped in there for a quick shag"...<3 that programme.
so apart from having our christmas dinner (which is already smelling most lovely), i think i'll be spending the rest of the day getting pissed, playing with all my new presents, and watching the eastenders christmas special...ah, christmas day :D
hope you're all having fun...*mwah*
current mood: cheerful
current music: kinesis - and they obey
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| Wednesday, December 24th, 2003
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9:37 pm
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6:51 pm
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well i still don't feel very christmas-y, even though i've been wrapping up presents, putting them under the tree, and had my first big roast dinner of the holiday :D ...i watched "the fellowship of the ring" for the zillionth time earlier, and i still <3 it...and cried like a loon when boromir died :| ...the only thing that would make these films better is if legolas and aragorn realised just *how obviously* they're meant to be together and got down to some ass-love, heh ;) ...next summer, after i finish school and have muchos time on my hands, i'm going to make it my project to actually read the book. i need more amunition than just the film to convince people that it's not just about "another fucking fairy"!!
in other news, my grandmother is driving me insane...apparently i need to be careful when i go to paris because nowadays you get lots of arabs following you around, and according to her they're all scroungers/terrorists/"not the same kind of people as us" :| *rages*
oh, and am i the only one who thinks that the death of the queen's dog hardly qualifies as headline news?
current mood: drunk
current music: placebo - nancy boy
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| Tuesday, December 23rd, 2003
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6:45 pm
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you are deepskyblue
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Your dominant hues are cyan and blue. You like people and enjoy making friends. You're conservative and like to make sure things make sense before you step into them, especially in relationships. You are curious but respected for your opinions by people who you sometimes wouldn't even suspect.
Your saturation level is very high - you are all about getting things done. The world may think you work too hard but you have a lot to show for it, and it keeps you going. You shouldn't be afraid to lead people, because if you're doing it, it'll be done right.
Your outlook on life is very bright. You are sunny and optimistic about life and others find it very encouraging, but remember to tone it down if you sense irritation.
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6:20 pm
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kat's was nice. tania had me for secret santa and she got me the first placebo album, one of those cool electrostorm globe thingys, and some cute little bits and pieces like a bottle of bubbles and stuff for the bath. she seemed to really like the presents i got for her too :) ...heh, i always seem to end up having the person who has me, by pure coincidence. we ate pizza and tex mex stuff and other nibbly bits, and drank all the yummy wine i took...which i think has finished me off; i wasn't too bad after last night but now i'm feeling pretty sick :|
sam got into oxford! i'm very proud of her. claire didn't though...i hope she's not too disappointed - after staying there for her interview she seemed to have kind of set her heart on it...but it's their loss in the long run.
current mood:  sick
current music: placebo - hang on to your iq
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10:44 am
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10:07 am
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agh, last night was good. tan seemed to really like the bracelet bex and i got her, and we all had a good laugh. although i ended up about as stuffed as a christmas turkey (not in exactly the same way, thankfully :p)...and i really should learn not to mix so many drinks. [/lightweight]
after the meal some of the others walked helen to the station, katharine and sam hung around a bit then went home, madeline and alison had already left early...so after wandering around a bit and rejecting various places because they were either a) boring or b) id-ing :p ...bex and i ended up back in yates, in the bar downstairs...where we got chatted up by 3 creepy men...well, 2 of them seemed relatively normal but 1 might as well have had sex-offender-in-the-making stamped on his forehead. the whole time we were in yates he kept staring at my chest...and yes, this is partly my own fault for wearing what polly described as a "kinkaaayyy" top...and i probably couldn't complain if my chest got a few glances...but he was *staring* in a most unnerving way. anyway, we still agreed to go on somewhere else with them because we wanted them to buy us drinks, but edward's was closed and there was a big queue for the toad...so at the point when we were standing in the queue and the creepiest guy offered us the two spare seats in the back of his car, we made our excuses and left :|
by this time, everywhere was closing except duke's which is really strict about id, so bexxles and i asked her dad to come and get us at about 11.30...and like a good liz, i was just about tucked up in bed at the stroke of midnight.
i feel pretty rough this morning (and i smell really badly of smoke, bleh)...but i'm off to katharine's at about 3 for us all to exchange presents :D
current mood: groggy
current music: coldplay - moses
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