Life goes on
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altogetherisi Politics is back. That means more flooding my twitter feed with sarcastic and inappropriate comments about UK politics and politicians (um... sorry? XD) and also, more trying my darndest for an internship. Still no luck/not good enough. *sigh* But I remain hopeful. There was one day I came home and I had two invitations to interview by email and another by phone. Clearly it had been the first day back after the holidays for going through the non urgent emails.
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The march of time also means that most of my friends have either already gone, or are about to go back to uni. Sad. Saw three, H, A and C for coffee on Wednesday - which turned into a bit less than two hours of coffee with three of them, followed by another two and a half hours of walking around streets in the dark and sitting at bus stops having very deep conversations. At one point, my friend A and I tried to go to our favourite pub, but it wasn't there. It was just, gone. The outside was still there, but I dunno, they must be refurbishing? All the interior just wasn't there. It was the weirdest thing. I took it as a sign not to drink.
There will probably be drinking of cocktails tonight though, seeing H, L, S and C, and possibly some of their friends too later. Mmmm, cocktails.
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I have hurt my right index finger, and possibly my right hand generally. Not badly, but I think it's strained, because some motions hurt, but other functions are totally fine - typing this with two hands is fine, for example. It might be RSI, I'm really not sure. What I am sure about is that that is my go to finger for all my point, click, and scrolling needs, and I want it to be better. The scrolling suddenly hurting was a big alarm bell though. You guys, I scroll so much. I cannot have this hurt me. So I'm trying to rest it and use my left hand, or my right ring finger which seems the most cool. It's not too bad - I am left handed, my left hand is more than adequate. It's just slightly weird realising exactly how instinctive some of the motions I make regarding this computer really are. It's trickier than not biting my nails.
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I really need to get back to the writing - definitely looking at the end of Feb now, because progress has just dropped off. Oops. It's getting trickier. I think I'll put another extract up here, because I never share most of the time, but it does help motivate me somehow.
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The Glee tickets are somewhere in the postal system! I think. Hope I'll have them soon. And then, that I don't lose them sometime in the next 5 and a half months.
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There are actually loads of castles in the UK and Ireland. Way more than I thought. Hope I get to see one up close sometime...
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The march of time also means that most of my friends have either already gone, or are about to go back to uni. Sad. Saw three, H, A and C for coffee on Wednesday - which turned into a bit less than two hours of coffee with three of them, followed by another two and a half hours of walking around streets in the dark and sitting at bus stops having very deep conversations. At one point, my friend A and I tried to go to our favourite pub, but it wasn't there. It was just, gone. The outside was still there, but I dunno, they must be refurbishing? All the interior just wasn't there. It was the weirdest thing. I took it as a sign not to drink.
There will probably be drinking of cocktails tonight though, seeing H, L, S and C, and possibly some of their friends too later. Mmmm, cocktails.
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I have hurt my right index finger, and possibly my right hand generally. Not badly, but I think it's strained, because some motions hurt, but other functions are totally fine - typing this with two hands is fine, for example. It might be RSI, I'm really not sure. What I am sure about is that that is my go to finger for all my point, click, and scrolling needs, and I want it to be better. The scrolling suddenly hurting was a big alarm bell though. You guys, I scroll so much. I cannot have this hurt me. So I'm trying to rest it and use my left hand, or my right ring finger which seems the most cool. It's not too bad - I am left handed, my left hand is more than adequate. It's just slightly weird realising exactly how instinctive some of the motions I make regarding this computer really are. It's trickier than not biting my nails.
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I really need to get back to the writing - definitely looking at the end of Feb now, because progress has just dropped off. Oops. It's getting trickier. I think I'll put another extract up here, because I never share most of the time, but it does help motivate me somehow.
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The Glee tickets are somewhere in the postal system! I think. Hope I'll have them soon. And then, that I don't lose them sometime in the next 5 and a half months.
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There are actually loads of castles in the UK and Ireland. Way more than I thought. Hope I get to see one up close sometime...
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Date: 2011-01-16 01:48 pm (UTC)And OMG, are you going to a Glee concert? SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I wanted to go too, but I think it's going to be too expensive and going to a concert on my own is something else than going to a musical on my own. But I don't want to definitely decide against it yet.
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Date: 2011-01-16 02:58 pm (UTC)I am indeed going to a Glee concert! I am totally excited for this, even though most of my RL friends are like "You're going to that... why?" They do not understand AT ALL. Originally, I thought, lol, not wasting my precious monies on that, and then all the dates sold out and I was sad, so when they added new dates I admitted to myself that actually I really wanted to go, asked the one RL friend that is into it to similar levels as me, and managed to get a couple of tickets for the end of June. Excitement.
Going to things on your own... well, I haven't done that much myself, but regrets suck, so if you think you will wish you had gone, do. Is my opinion anyway :)
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Date: 2011-01-16 08:24 pm (UTC)You know, I think I would regret it... you are such an enabler with your encouraging and excitement and everything! What day are you going? I'm thinking of buying a ticket now and then scheduling musicals around that because I guess I could probably get day seats or something, and then London would not be all that expensive on the whole?
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Date: 2011-01-16 09:17 pm (UTC)Which musicals do you want to see? I have heard that day tickets are marvellous things, but I have no experience of them myself, or of how in demand they are each day - except that I know some people were camping out to get day tickets to see Tennant in Hamlet two years ago O_O I would assume though that weekdays will be easier than weekends etc, and Wednesdays and Saturdays would be easiest since they will generally have a matinee so twice as many day seats up for grabs. Essentially though, only you can decide how much you want to see things, and how much money you can afford to spend (London is totes expensive, sadly.) and rank their importance to you, so just be sensible, and once you have figured out what you want, go for it!
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Date: 2011-01-17 09:11 pm (UTC)I'd really, really love to see Shrek and Billy Elliot, but Les Mis or Wicked or anything is okay too. But these two top the list because I haven't seen them before. I'm just scared there won't be ANY tickets left, but that's just paranoid little me. Thanks for enduring me, isi. <3 This was really helpful... and enabling. :) (I think there will be some serious booking going on soon.)