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  <title>Humour of the Ursine Variety</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:54:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Incredibly descriptive post.</title>
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  <description>Freshers week = jokes times, indeed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jog tomorrow!&amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:36:20 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Green Eggs and Spam</title>
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  <description>I just realised. I have less than two weeks left until the beginning of the rest of my life is sorted out. Oh my c..c&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scary exam results a-go-go!</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:51:53 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>IMMA FIRIN&apos; MAH FAILZORZ</title>
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  <description>Does anyone have a spare not-being-rubbish? I broke mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&apos;s hoping that all of my other exams go better than this one, otherwise I&apos;ll just end up eating my own arm or something. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s a good thing that I don&apos;t want to do German at University!&amp;nbsp;Oh wait!</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:21:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Me, in bitesize chunks.</title>
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  <description>Christmas: Good food, good times.&lt;br /&gt;New Year&apos;s:&amp;nbsp;Not so much.&lt;br /&gt;Work:&amp;nbsp;Almost over!&amp;nbsp;Wah.&lt;br /&gt;Revising:&amp;nbsp;Makes me headhurty.&lt;br /&gt;Fiddling with Ubuntu:&amp;nbsp;Makes everything better.&lt;br /&gt;Billy sending me songs:&amp;nbsp;Helps too.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:34:51 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Leider...</title>
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  <description>After us all stressing over our german speaking exams, we finally got them over with today!&amp;nbsp;But the tape died, so we had to do it twice, which was -not- amusing&amp;nbsp;D:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah well, Hyde Park Winter Wonderland tomorrow C: Wurstwurstwurst&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;3</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:25:11 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>~Welcome to the Hotel California~</title>
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  <description>I&apos;ve been humming that since I got home from visiting &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser ljuser-name_kandrel&apos; lj:user=&apos;kandrel&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://kandrel.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://kandrel.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;kandrel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser ljuser-name_hissylizard&apos; lj:user=&apos;hissylizard&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://hissylizard.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://hissylizard.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;hissylizard&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, methinks due to playing it with Jon on Guitar Hero World Tour round his house, which he seemed to love! Here&apos;s hoping that he gets it soon, so that we can play online together, and he can emasculate me with his shredding skills. He made tasty homemade lasagne on Saturday, with -courgettes-! He spoils me. We watched Casualty and guessed how people would get injured! Morbid humour is the best kind. And he introduced me to Survivor, which is just awesome, and I must investigate more about it!&amp;nbsp;To Wikipedia!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, that proved pointless D: Moving on! Worth a mention is the Simlish-speaking guy walking in front of us on the way to shopping, who made me smile =D I miss clothes-shopping, I wish that I could do it more often!&amp;nbsp;Although now I sound rather... rainbows and latex, so I&apos;ll keep schtum! It&apos;s official, Basingstoke has the best shopping-centre EVAR, and I want its babies.&amp;nbsp;The number of cheap-shops it has is incredible!&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s nice to take some time away from being hectic and busy, and just enjoying myself occasionally. They know how much I appreciate getting to see them!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:17:23 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>The Guitar Hero World Tour bundle my sister and I bought together still hasn&apos;t arrived, and I&apos;m getting stick for it&amp;nbsp;D: According to guys at work (Gamestation) they&apos;ve not received any either, and the warehouses are just totally in meltdown for some reason or another. I&apos;m fine with waiting, but she&apos;s rather annoyed...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, apparently I&apos;m a staff member at RBW: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rbw.org.uk/attendees.php&quot;&gt;www.rbw.org.uk/attendees.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This amuses me greatly.&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:14:19 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Cheezoid hate self!</title>
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  <description>Despite being tired beyond all recognisable belief, I&apos;m on the computer. I&apos;m still on a high after visiting&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser ljuser-name_hissylizard&apos; lj:user=&apos;hissylizard&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://hissylizard.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://hissylizard.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;hissylizard&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser ljuser-name_kandrel&apos; lj:user=&apos;kandrel&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://kandrel.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://kandrel.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;kandrel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;for the weekend, so I won&apos;t be resting properly for awhile! =D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To summarise:&amp;nbsp;Tasty homemade food, good company, That Mitchell and Webb Look and lots and lots of PS3-related goodness. Jon makes the best Shepherd&apos;s Pie I&apos;ve had in a long time, and as for cooked breakfasts? Don&apos;t try and make a better one. No scrambled eggs are better! His food is the perfect accompaniment to silly modern British comedy :) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After having recommended LittleBigPlanet to people at work at Gamestation, I finally got to play it around their house, and now Christmas can&apos;t come soon enough! Happyslapping has never been so fun, and the game on the whole just seems polished in every aspect. And I didn&apos;t suck at Guitar Hero for once!&amp;nbsp;Well, I sucked -less- than usual, which is reassuring considering I&apos;ve got World Tour ordered!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of which, work on Saturday was... mixed. I sold a lot of copies of LBP, and generally had a good time and made myself useful, buuut... I fail at selling PS3 systems!&amp;nbsp;Those things just won&apos;t budge from the shelves, which made me feel rather inadequate when everyone else was selling Wiis and 360s left right and centre! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I seem to be working backwards!&amp;nbsp;Spooky o..o Despite abhorring Bond films, I found Quantum of Solace quite satisfying!&amp;nbsp;People who went expecting a Bond Film are being disappointed, but going for a good film will not disappoint. Besides, as I used my Prefect of the Month voucher, it was free! You can&apos;t complain about that :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes. Good weekend =D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:23:14 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Woooooooooooozy</title>
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  <description>To cap off my general out-of-it-all-ness of late (losing my voice, terrible cough, far too much work, amongst other things), today I had a nosebleed which lasted an hour and a half. It just wouldn&apos;t stop!&amp;nbsp;I couldn&apos;t get to school on time, I could hardly leave the house like that x..x&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Dad&apos;s suggestion, I was about to take myself to A&amp;amp;E, but luckily it stopped just as I was about to leave my school stuff at home and wobble to Hillingdon Hospital. That didn&apos;t stop me from being incredibly drowsy and wibbly all day though, and methinks I may have swallowed just a little too much blood by accident, I feel... off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&apos;s hoping I don&apos;t need stitches or anything, hospitals and myself don&apos;t go together very well at all!</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:49:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Note to self:</title>
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  <description>If it&apos;s not broke, don&apos;t fix it. NEVER shave and then exfoliate! Getting stinging cream into little cuts is evil o..o&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, I had multicultural toast today, things had to be used up. So I had marmite and philly!&amp;nbsp;Not together though, that would be horrible D:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/benjien/pic/00004abh/&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/benjien/pic/00004abh/s320x240&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:41:58 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I&apos;m getting mixed messages here!</title>
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  <description>Today was... interesting!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had three people comment on my ugliness, the most memorable being: &amp;quot;eey, you&apos;re uglier than my mum!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love Year 8s, they never get insults &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; right! And then I came across not one, but &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; guys who were eyeing me up on the way home!&amp;nbsp;I was quite scared, to be honest&amp;nbsp;D: You&apos;d not&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; expec&lt;/span&gt;t even one in West Drayton! So now I have two guys&apos; mobile numbers, and although I feel terrible saying this, but...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;I didn&apos;t scrumple up the numbers straight away o..o&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Normally when this kind of thing happens I shrug it off, but I don&apos;t know, I might actually talk to these people! They were... kinda nice looking c..c&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gah, listen to me, I&apos;m such a ho =3&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:18:14 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Mmm, food.</title>
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  <description>We splashed out on some Tesco&apos;s Finest bakery cookies, nyum &amp;lt;3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, I got bored with a Metro in my free period whilst we were playing Shed with some cards, so we had fun moving around peoples&apos; heads :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/benjien/pic/00003kss/&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;180&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/benjien/pic/00003kss/s320x240&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:02:51 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>On the buses</title>
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  <description>Why don&apos;t they ever show that program anymore? c..c&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But yuss, it was my free afternoon today, so I popped into Uxbridge to hand in some CVs and Application forms for the Christmas Temp jobs, and I was pleasantly surprised by how... calm the buses are! When you get used to being crammed next to screaming, stinking schoolkids from Uxbridge High and Stockley Academy every day, it&apos;s nice to have a chat with an old lady about how she used to go to my school =D &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s nice wandering around and being appreciated by people when you hold the door open for them, or help mums with massive prams with lifting them up steps. And I had to suppress a mini-lol when the female member of staff collecting Application Forms in Gamestation exclaimed loudly:&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;Oh, please come to work here, you look normal!&amp;quot;, whilst being surrounded by her tubby, awkward coworkers, fingers crossed that they accept my (frankly horrendous)&amp;nbsp;application!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got yelled at by mum again, apparently something to do with my work-at-home job (which I took to be available around the house more often), but she was changing her point so frequently that I didn&apos;t know what the problem was, which was not fun o..o&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two posts in three days? My, I&apos;m being an attention-whore lately! =D</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:09:20 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;I know you.&quot;</title>
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  <description>&amp;quot;When things like this happen, you&apos;ll hide and sing songs like Snake Eater to yourself.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m not sure what&apos;s making me feel worse: that I&apos;m &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; sad and predictable, or that I doubt that I&apos;ll find anyone who&apos;ll ever know me as well as Billy does. =3 No matter how I&apos;m presenting myself, he can glean my true feelings and name a song that I know which I&apos;ll totally... &lt;em&gt;get&lt;/em&gt;, if that makes sense! It probably doesn&apos;t, but ah well =D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I miss being able to sing to him, despite the geekiness of the songs which we&apos;d sing together. But maybe it&apos;s a good thing then, that I&apos;ve grown up a bit!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, I&apos;m going to go along with this Picture Meme, something which I&apos;d not normally do, but I felt like it!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Take a picture of yourself right now.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Don&apos;t change your clothes. Don&apos;t fix your hair.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Post that picture with no editing.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Post these instructions with your picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/benjien/pic/000020bb/&quot; ljaddtriggersobjectstatus=&quot;mouseout&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;middle&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/benjien/pic/000020bb/s320x240&quot; ljaddtriggersobjectstatus=&quot;mouseout&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aren&apos;t I just the darndest? My phone camera is made of fail and fuzziness =D&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:26:20 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Sitting cramped on a bottom-bunk has never felt so good</title>
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  <description>I&apos;m back from my holiday in Selsey (the South Coast for the less geographically-inclined), and currently the only thing I can think of is the fact that I have my bed back again. The past week my family and I have been staying in a rented caravan on a tacky holiday park; our usual holiday setup. The only way we could afford to go anywhere this year is because one of Dad&apos;s mates rented us his caravan, and well, you get what you pay for! =D&lt;br /&gt;The caravan was shoddy even by my standards, with my bed being as thin as myself, and not nearly long enough for me to lie on, but hey, we managed! I participated in such delightful activities as:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;- &lt;u&gt;Swimming&lt;/u&gt;! For the first time in years, I flailed around and looked kinda silly &lt;b&gt;by choice! &lt;/b&gt;I had so much fun that I refused to go back in again for a second time, instead I spent my time...&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;u&gt;Reading tedious Feminist texts&lt;/u&gt;! I really need to make more headway with this. *nods*&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;u&gt;Food&lt;/u&gt;! There&apos;s a tasty American-diner-style restaurant near to the caravan park, and we went there for lunch one day, and the food there was nyum &amp;lt;3 I surprised myself by &lt;b&gt;not&lt;/b&gt; having the biggest thing on the menu! Instead I had a yummy pie, while my parents had the special Riviera Burger, which is actually two massive burgers, one with bacon and one with egg. Needless to say, I was jealous when I saw their meals! We also had one yummy &apos;Streaky Pork&apos; (ie. 95% fat, 5% meat) from Tesco, which was fun. =D&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;u&gt;&apos;Entertainment&apos;&lt;/u&gt;! The clubroom had things like Wrestling (after sitting through a halfhour of &apos;Dropkick Divas&apos; singing terribly while posing for the drooling Dads in the crowd, we left), a Panto (Cinderella: It all went wrong, with the Teamstars forgetting their lines, priceless =3) and of course...&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;u&gt;Bingo&lt;/u&gt;! We wasted so much money playing Prize Bingo, the prizes were always rubbish, but it&apos;s so addictive we couldn&apos;t stop! We had no luck until on Thursday, I won this:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31PrspdIq5L._SL500_AA250_.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;this&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have never been so happy to get a toy in my life c..c I&apos;ve wanted one of these things ever since I was widdle and the film came out! One of my mates wants to re-enact the Rocket Scene with me, it&apos;s going to be jokes =D&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;u&gt;Scary costumes&lt;/u&gt;! No, I&apos;m not talking about the new digs I bought for our holiday, I&apos;m talking about the various mascots Bunn Leisure uses! They mostly use Bunny fursuits, which made me lol as it was, but their mother bunny &apos;Bella&apos;, sang an outright naughty song which would have made many people I know very happy in the pants region D: But what frightened me most was J.J. the fox, who wore a pirate outfit and &lt;b&gt;marigolds&lt;/b&gt;. I am not kidding, I took a photo to show people what will haunt my nightmares forever more!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;2&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/benjien/pic/000015tw/s320x240&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;u&gt;and of course Dancing Stage&lt;/u&gt;! I was quite good, spending only £11 on it, but I may have done myself an injury by playing Nonstop once too often. Ah well, thighache is a small price to pay for Rhythm-based yayness!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;So yes, &apos;twas fun, but I&apos;m rather exhausted now, I kind wish that I could be at the LFM meet today though, I know someone who&apos;ll be wanting to see me! In other news, my burns are going away, which is nice to know. =3 Also, OMGLONGESTJOURNALEVAR, but that&apos;s not saying much!</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:40:06 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Feh-mah-nee-zumz</title>
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  <description>I used my £5 book voucher to go towards &quot;The Second Sex&quot; by Simone de Beauvoir, a hyper-important Feminist text which should, through my reading of it, help me get into Cambridge. I was expecting Girl-on-Girl action to be instantly depicted from page One, and for it to be rather boring, but it&apos;s actually not too bad! I&apos;ve not even fallen asleep reading it yet!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news, yay for having squeaky-clean toothypegs! I heart the dentist &amp;lt;3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*waits for his MicroSD to come through the Post so that he can play his M3ds again*</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:06:38 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Epic Sunday is epic</title>
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  <description>Yay for actually doing something with today! I got told by &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser ljuser-name_jacel&apos; lj:user=&apos;jacel&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://jacel.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://jacel.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;jacel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;last night that he&apos;d be in town, and so that (coupled with my little brother talking in his sleep) meant that I couldn&apos;t sleep a wink! I went over to &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser ljuser-name_taldragon&apos; lj:user=&apos;taldragon&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://taldragon.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://taldragon.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;taldragon&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s place, and didn&apos;t really help much with the electrical stuff, but it&apos;s nice seeing people again. I also met &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser ljuser-name_jencen&apos; lj:user=&apos;jencen&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://jencen.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://jencen.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;jencen&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;for the first time, which was nice!&lt;br /&gt;The four of us went off to Focus to get some stuffage, but Tal seemed more than a little embarassed with the guys when they played up, and we had trouble reigning the party around to the checkout, we&apos;re so easily distracted c..c Then we popped off to a Harvester and had a really nice meal, and once again I am indebted to Tal for being so awesome! People may have played up a little, definitely including myself, but it was great, I just feel bad for being poor and not bring money o..o&lt;br /&gt;So yuss, I hafta once again say thankye to people for the great day, despite the &apos;day&apos; only being around 5 hours =3</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:12:04 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>flomg</title>
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  <description>I has new hair! All of my friends said that they liked it, and don&apos;t tell anyone, but...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;I don&apos;t hate it myself!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do you guys think? =D</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:12:59 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Haer, mk. II</title>
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  <description>It&apos;s been decided. The hair&apos;s going tomorrow! I was supposed to get it done today, but when I didn&apos;t because I was feeling too ill, mum yelled at me and is forcing me to get it done tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;Now, some people might not know me very well, but this is kind of a big deal, I love my hair like a little brother, but over the last few months it&apos;s been getting rather annoying. I&apos;ll show everyone here as soon as I can, you&apos;d better tell me it doesn&apos;t look terrible &amp;gt;=3</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:21:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Haer</title>
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  <description>So much for this blog getting used properly! But I need the help of people. I need do hack away at this mane of mine, and the current terrible weather&apos;s only emphasised this. Having wet, dripping hair flopping against my face is not ideal! But I&apos;ll not be going back to looking near-bald, I need a &lt;i&gt;style&lt;/i&gt;! Any ideas, guys?</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:57:57 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Food</title>
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  <description>It may be tasty, but don&apos;t let your eyes get bigger than your belly!&lt;br /&gt;I just ate a massive plate of chilli, hamburgers and chicken, and despite it being tastyriffic it&apos;s not done my tummy any favours D=&lt;br /&gt;I need to think before I eat, I&apos;m such a fatty =3</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:58:17 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Writer&apos;s Block: Favorite Lyrics</title>
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  <description>&lt;div class=&apos;appwidget appwidget-qotd&apos; id=&apos;LJWidget_2&apos;&gt;
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Anything by Wir sind Helden, because then I&apos;d be able to pass my German exam without worry!&lt;br /&gt;*hums Endlich ein Grund zur Panik*</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:53:35 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>!</title>
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  <description>New LJ ahoy! Not that I had anything on my old one, but having seen&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser ljuser-name_jacel&apos; lj:user=&apos;jacel&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://jacel.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://jacel.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;jacel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s swanky Journal yesterday I&apos;ve been inspired to create one for myself for me to post junk on for nobody to read!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yay for being easily influenced! *dances*</description>
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