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"practice random kindness and acts of senseless beauty"

go on... go out and do this now. leave some money in the coffee machine so someone gets a free drink. wash someone else's coffee mug in work without telling them. buy a friend flowers 'just because'. stick up a poem on a noticeboard. go and ask in an old people's home if there is anyone who doesn't ever get visitors and sit with them for a while. smile at a stranger. let someone pull out of a side street in front of you. call your mum or dad or grandparents to tell them you love them. make someone a cake. draw this saying and stick it on a noticeboard where people will see.

spread beauty through your life. you can change the world like this.

:important places to go
FMW
HRN
feminist blog

:good karma
the hunger site
the rainforest site
the kids AIDS site
the child survival site
the breast cancer site
the landmine site
causeaneffect.org
give water

:charities
Amnesty International
Shelter
Jubilee 2000
VOHAN -the Vegan Organic Network
ACTSA

4:41 p.m., Friday, May 4, 2001
Ho hum. I'm bored now. Nothing to do (well not much) and Paul will be arriving in less than two hours. I think I'll be off in a minute. We're going out with Alan and Jay (his new girlfriend) tonight as Alan's finished his exams so it should all be fun. And I get a long weekend, so see you Tuesday! :D Have fun....

3:35 p.m., Friday, May 4, 2001
The new version of pieces of me is nearly ready. I just have to tweak a couple more things and then I'll be done :) Beginning of next week, say?

Yay me.

1:45 p.m., Friday, May 4, 2001
If you've found the journal entry from yesterday, you may be interested to know there's one for today, too.

If not, don't worry... they will all be linked, soon enough :)

1:27 p.m., Friday, May 4, 2001
I'm bored. and I want to go home. and they said it was going to be nice today and it's dull and cold and rainy.

Where is spring? Where's all the decent weather gone? I'm sick of this.

Think I need to write a journal entry. But I couldn't be bothered. We shall see.

Sorry for whining, but if I can't whine here, what's the point?

11:55 a.m., Friday, May 4, 2001
I had my breakfast at 8.30 this morning.

I have been starving - really hungry - since 10.30.

This is annoying me now. But at least I get to go have my lunch soon. And home time is getting nearer by the minute :D

11:30 a.m., Friday, May 4, 2001
So the random kindness is coming back to me... there was a huge queue at coffee this morning. All I get each morning is a cup of hot water that I put a peppermint tea bag in, and one of the lads who works there saw me and got my water so I didn't have to wait for numerous people who were getting coffee and things to eat.

Little things like that can make my day.

10:15 a.m., Friday, May 4, 2001
Time for a really bad joke, courtesy of Breakfast News on the BBC this morning...

It's Jedi Day.

May the fourth be with you.

*groan*

2:43 pm, Thursday, May 3, 2001
I've changed my mind about the journal entry. I need to move everyhing round and match it all up to the new version anyway. So it's there, but not linked yet. It shouldn't be too hard to find though if you can't wait or if you want a bit of a hint of how the new version will look ;)

1:13 pm, Thursday, May 3, 2001
There's a new entry at my livejournal. I will be writing a proper journal entry later too. I'll let you know when it's done.

4:04 p.m., Wednesday, May 2, 2001
This pisses me off no end. Especially after that little rant I had last week about why women are only allowed to be scientists in films if some childhood trauma has driven them to it. What's the point?

It's basically physics surrounded by pictures of Britney. And for a woman who is determined to remain a virgin till she gets married she sure looks like she's turned on all the time.

2:28 p.m., Wednesday, May 2, 2001
I've just shown a man to a meeting. In the two minutes it took me he commented on the fact I was wearing lipstick and my shoes. What relevance do either of those points have? If he was saying anything about me, it wouldn't have been *so* bad, but just to mention those points in isolation.... *grrrr* it makes me mad! And this is someone I used to think was a nice bloke.

I am so glad I am leaving.

1:08 p.m., Wednesday, May 2, 2001
It is *such* a gorgeous day out there. Sunny and warm. I so wish this office had a window. It's cold in here with no sunlight.

Either I had a really freaky dream last night, or a spider crawled across my neck and cheek. And a fair sided one too for me to be able to feel it like that. I hate spiders. Paul and I are just pathetic... there was one in his room while I was on the phone to him the other night and he was freaked. Sorry love but it's true, and you know I'm no better ;)

I'm trying not to dwell on it else I will NEVER sleep again.

11:27 a.m., Wednesday, May 2, 2001
I wrote one of my submissions for the May issue of peach last night. I'm so proud of myself ;) I mean, it needs editing, and it's too long so it needs cutting down a bit (once it's published I'll put the full version on my site), and I still need to write the second, but at least I've made a start. Even though it did mean I didn't get anything else done yesterday ;)

And I love the copy of the Tank Girl soundtrack that Paul's done for me and the songs he put on the back.

And I am *so* chuffed that it's a Bank Holiday weekend and I don't have to be in work on Monday.

12:36 pm, Tuesday, May 1, 2001
I forgot, there's a new entry at my livejournal. I will hopefully be writing in it more now.

10:02 a.m., Tuesday, May 1, 2001
I meant to thank you all yesterday for signing the guestbook but I forgot. Sorry.

I didn't win the lottery. I nearly won £10 but didn't... basically Paul wrote down six numbers last week and I could only remember five of them. I put 1 instead of 33. And if I'd put 33 I would have won £10. Shit.

Ah well, there's always next time *sigh*

5:41 p.m., Monday, April 30, 2001
I just thought you might like to know that the new version is coming along nicely :)

4:34 p.m., Monday, April 30, 2001
New journal entry.

My boss has been in today. He seemed a bit off with me at first but then seemed to get better. By the time he was leaving he seemed OK with me again.

Maybe he's forgotten I'm leaving.

11:39 a.m., Monday, April 30, 2001
Good weekend.

I wish it wasn't over.

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