Echolalia

miss_like @ 2009-10-30T10:47:00

2009-10-30T10:49:04Z

Ow. Ow. Ow. What the hell? Ow.

My throat is super sore. But only on one side. Fuck it hurts. Paracetamol does little other than take the edge off. I've had a look down and it doesn't even look inflamed so I don't know what is going on back there. Whatever it is, it prevented me from sleeping.

Rage rage rage rage

2009-10-16T12:36:47Z

How foolish of me to click on the link that was labeled as being from a Daily Mail columnist. Incandescent fury.

I would love to be able to take this article apart piece by tiny, bigoted piece, but I am unfortunately in work for the next few hours. Suffice to say, I once again wish I could remove the pathetic, trollishly offensive 'news' paper from my consciousness.

WHARRGARBL

Magic Eye

2009-09-18T12:15:28Z

Here's hoping the hotlink works!

EDIT: I didn't realise it was going to be so hooj. fixed, I hope

too hot

2009-07-04T00:00:33Z

It's hot. Sleep difficult, not aided by increased body temp due to time-of-the-month-ness. Birthday soon. Only 3 years until I'm 30. Depressing, but not the end of the world. I had hoped to have stuff figured out by now, but I guess I will need more time.

Bought about 10 Mills and Boons today from the charity shop/WHSmith. They all have the same underlying story, but it's the flavour that makes them good. That and the writing. Some of them are terrible, but there's a few who are really good and enjoyable. Also, happy endings make me happy.

Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to M&B only for gay people? Like, a sweet and tender romance (with a moderate dash of sex) but the main characters just happen to be two men/women? And I don't mean the yaoi bullcrap where one of them might as well be a shy little girl either. Realistic, sensual, tender, romantic stories that just happen to be about non-straight people? If not, I may have to write some. I suspect the market for such stuff would be comparatively small, but surely someone else must want to read about it.

BLAZING WHITE HOT FURY OF A THOUSAND BURNING SUNS

2009-07-01T21:32:04Z

The Daily Mail have made me angry again. The lovely purpleheather linked to me an article, the link text of which should give a clue as to the contents. I have not yet calmed down enough to read the whole thing. I am BURNING WITH RIGHTEOUS FURY.

There is nothing DISTURBING about girls kissing girls. At 15, not a lot of people have got everything figured out sexuality-wise. Hell, I'm 26 and I know I haven't. Who gives a damn if they want to experiment with their sexuality? Oh, right, the Daily Fucking Mail, that's who. How must it make those girls feel, to have themselves labelled as "disturbing", "lurid", "attention-seeking", "inflammatory"? Jesus christ! They are TEENAGERS for god's sake! Let them work it out for themselves! God knows, if I had I might have figured out some stuff about myself before it became a bloody mental health issue! Heaven forbid that we let young people work stuff out for themselves! How will our country survive if we let them make decisions and approach things with an open mind, instead of being moulded into the shape of person we want.

To quote from the linked article:

"For previous generations, exhibiting any type of gay behaviour was certainly considered 'harm done'. Being teased for being 'lesbian' was one of the more cruel taunts that could be hurled at a teenage girl. But today we're witnessing the emergence of a growing number of young girls who are willing to experiment"

How can we let this travesty of tolerance continue! Next thing you know people will be expecting total equality for LGBT people, and then what will happen?! The country is clearly going to Hell in a Handcart!

"Their upfront, relaxed relationship is cited as evidence of the new feeling of openness and acceptance. "

Oh NO! Openness and acceptance?! But what about the homophobes? Won't somebody think of the bigots! Going to Hell in a Handcart!

"Indeed, having spoken to many youngsters about this, I'm coming to the worrying conclusion that Katy Perry's song I Kissed A Girl And I Liked It, which was a massive global hit last year, increasingly represents the experience of a generation of girls who are happy and relaxed about public, same-sex sexual experimentation. "

SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE! Same-sex affection and experimentation in public?! There should be a LAW or something!! Hell in a Handcart!

"It's hard to imagine the issue being quite so inflammatory in Britain, but there's no doubt it is increasingly common among middle-class youngsters, many of whom now possess a remarkably audacious sense of sexual confidence."

SEXUAL CONFIDENCE?! IN OUR SOCIETY?! SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!! HELL IN A HANDCART!

Sarcastic FURY aside, I am also incensed about their decision to suggest that lesbianism is some kind of "phase" that girls go through and then regret later.

I also find their citing of women having both male and female partners as some kind of flip-flopping switcheroo of "faux" lesbianism personally insulting. I am not ashamed to say I'm bisexual, it's something that is part of me. I know not everyone I come into contact with will necessarily accept it, but the least they could do is acknowledge that people like me exist. I have loved men, I have loved women. There is nothing "faux" or "lipstick lesbian" about it. I don't care what parts you've got, if you're a person I can love, then I will love you.

So FUCK YOU Daily Fail. I hope your newspaper burns in righteous fire.

EDIT: David pointed something out to me that only increases my rage. This article is really a twofer for the DM. Not only can they tell us all how the country is going to the dogs because of all these different people out there, but they also manage to include many many pictures of nubile young women, including the famous shot of Britney and Madonna tongue fencing. SODDING HYPOCRITICAL BASTARDS.

EDIT 2: Also including one of the least flattering pictures of Beth Ditto I've seen, subtly implying that lesbians are all overweight and unattractive. I'd think it was unintentional, but then this is the Daily Mail. Fuckers.

Insomnia -.-

2009-06-22T02:42:50Z

OK, so here we are again. I can't sleep. I'm wide awake. I've tried lying down and turning off the light, I've tried reading, I've tried going to my happy place. I'm still awake.

Getting bloody pissed off with this not sleeping thing.

As promised...

2009-06-17T20:11:17Z

This is Widget, and her brother, who still has no name. She's the one on the left, with the stripes.

Widget peeks at me from on top of her wheel

Here you can see Widget's beautiful colouring :)

I am enchanted already.

HAMSTAR

2009-06-17T18:03:01Z

So, anyway, my eeny weeny bit of cute stuff has finally come home. She's adorable. I was going to call her Gadget, after the inimitable Miss Hackwrench, but decided I should pick something that wasn't already taken. David suggested Widget, and so she was named. I shall attempt to produce photographic goodness at some point today.

I also am currently homing my sister's as yet unnamed little boy. He's coal black and a greedy little pig ;P

miss_like @ 2009-04-29T13:41:00

2009-04-29T12:43:49Z

still off work. docs tommorrow.

miss_like @ 2009-04-15T12:08:00

2009-04-15T11:09:10Z

I love Google Reader. I wish it would let me share with Heather, but it seems determined not to play. Still. It is shiny.

moar dalek

2009-03-29T17:34:24Z

Julie and Dan came over for dinner today, lovely roast lamb by David. They all tripped off to Home Bargains, and Julie bought me a cookie set. A Dalek cookie set. I promise I'm not obsessed with daleks...but the cutter is awesome (I shall bring it to Wales for Dalek-biscuit awesome). Th cookies themselves look pretty minging. We shall see.

Writer's Block: GIP (Gratuitous Icon Post)

2009-03-29T17:27:46Z

You finally have an excuse to use it—what userpic do you not get to use very often but can't delete because it's just that awesome?

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I love this, but so rarely have an excuse for all-out horror...

miss_like @ 2009-03-23T10:01:00

2009-03-23T10:02:32Z

Operation: Move David And Anna To Birmingham proceeds. There is, however, one tiny small stumbling block in the road; Me. I am incapable of sorting my shit out. I am stressing about everything, and so far have failed to apply for the one job I looked at and went "yeah". I have frozen up. I really really want to move to Brum. It's a lovely city full of amazing people, and some of the best friends I've got in my life. I just don't know where to start, and I'm paralysed with fear. Fear of failure, fear I won't get a house, a job, that I'll be left in Liverpool on my own with David in Brum, that I won't find a doctor who will understand my mental health problems, that I'll get there and discover I don't like it, or that people don't like me. I'm also afraid of talking to my current boss about it, for fear she will make any remaining time I have here a living hell. She's nice, but she's big on loyalty, and leaving is the ultimate disloyalty. I want to move, I *have* to move. This city is killing me and stifling my life. I just don't know *how* to move.

Help.

Dymo

2009-03-20T18:28:20Z

I bought a Dymo label maker from Home Bargains. It was 99p. It talks the alphabet...in French! I shall have much fun with this. I have already made a label that says ANNA

pattern + moaning

2009-02-24T09:39:38Z

I realise I didn't post the pattern to the dalek. I got it from here: http://www.entropyhouse.com/penwiper/who/extermaknit.html although it seems to be down at the moment :S

I just want to say, I don't get what the big deal is with Noro yarn. TBH, it's pretty but it's a pain in the bum to knit with, and it has snapped on me once already. Also, it is scritchy. Bah. For £7 a ball I want quality, not-snappage, and soft lovelyness.

DALEKS ARE SUPERIOR PUNY HUMANS

2009-02-17T21:47:06Z

Poor Milligan

2009-01-18T13:37:22Z

My lovely PC is terribly used and abused. I've been running to capacity for several months now, and have never defragmented him. So I tried to defrag him today, but something keeps interrupting it. And now I'm going to have a look at startup programs and suchlike. I will make him be a more happy PC one way or another.

bah

2009-01-10T17:00:59Z

Stupid headcold. I literally have no sense of smell whatsoever. Total anosmia. It's severely impacted my sense of taste as well :(

INTERNET

2009-01-06T17:06:03Z

IT LIVES. Our connection has been completely borked for the last week. If anything important happened, well, I surely missed it. Now to sate my hunger for comics and knitting patterns.

warg

2008-12-15T19:42:50Z

So, right, my computer Milligan (all my computers are named after poets beginning with "M" I've had Marlowe and Malory before now) has been being a bit dodgy for a couple of weeks. I would press the power button, and nothing happens except the button flashed orange. Turns out, this was to tell me that the power supply was insufficient for my component needs (I had a new gfx card put in to help with the WotLK release) so when David tried a fix on it, it exploded.

This means I have now got a new power supply. But I had a few painful hours where I thought he was dead. And yet he lives.

I love my computer, but I know nothing about him. And he's definitely a he :)

miss_like @ 2008-11-08T09:35:00

2008-11-08T09:40:19Z

I've done this one before, but someone on David's flist did it and spurred me to do it again, it's always interesting :)

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 42.
3. Find the first full sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST

=====

There was a glowing lantern somewhere above, but not in view, as the stairway turned back at a tiny landing. She climbed up, boots echoing despite her care. At the top of the stairs were three doors. The two either side were closed. The lantern light came from the middle one, open wide.
On its narrow bed lay the wrapped bundle Lina had prepared that morning, but there was no other sign of Eloise. Miss Temple took up the lantern and returned to the landing.

=====

From The Dark Volume by G. W. Dahlquist

miss_like @ 2008-11-05T07:17:00

2008-11-05T07:16:09Z

Thank you America :)

time waster!

2008-10-15T20:08:38Z

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3076951

miss_like @ 2008-10-03T08:58:00

2008-10-03T07:58:22Z

Rikk, I forgot to ask, did you enjoy Space Captain Smith?

Knitting again

2008-09-28T12:28:16Z

I've been driving David crackers with the knitting, but I'm really into it. It's kind of addictive! I've made 12 little hats, a headband thing (that didn't work, but oh well) and started on a scarf for my niece (although I think it might be too wide, maybe I should start over). It's really relaxing, and I get this feeling of accomplishment when I see how well its going :)

I will not give in to his moaning, although I might stop trying to knit and play WoW at the same time >_>