urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thewhiteswan Gemma Gemma 2007-09-22T09:39:36Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thewhiteswan:36011 2007-08-31T11:25:46Z 2007-08-31T11:28:07Z I now have a real penpal in Japan. I'm not sad, you're just jealous. I used to have an American penpal but one day she just stopped writing to me :( Anyway, I wrote my first letter to her today and I sent it so it should be on a plane very soon! I'm literally so excited about the whole thing I won't shut up, and I think Spencer thinks I've got a problem.<br /><br />I'm nearly home for Christmas. I'm looking forward to it, and I'll have a good New Year too because I'm going to Spencer's. I haven't yet started packing and I'm leaving on Saturday.<br /><br />It was the Archaeology Christmas party last night. We were supposed to dress up as Romans or Barbarians, but I couldn't really be bothered so I wore my own clothes and made a badge saying "modern day Roman". It was horrific in many ways:<br /><br />- The wine wasn't vegetarian (yet another vegetarian quite happily drank it...)<br />- The only people who were there were drunken post-grads and lecturers<br />- The food was really rubbish, it was literally a couple of bowls of crisps<br />- The music was ba-aa-aaaaad. Like Alan Partridge bad.<br />- Penny turned up and said one of the most annoying things ever "[to Steph] Awww babs, let's get you some vods darling" ARG.<br />- Paranoia, paranoia, everybody's coming to get me...<br /><br />So, to save the situation, Beth and I decided to leave after about an hour and ate some pasta at her house. We then came back to mine and Claire came back from football so we all had a really nice chat for too many hours.<br /><br />Today, Claire left for her football tour in Barcelona so I'm all Claireless in a house of CRETINS. Tonight nearly drove me insane. It's the other Clare's birthday today so she invited me into the kitchen to have some mince pies and mulled wine. All very nice and that, but they were also eating Chinese food. They all are fully aware that I'm vegetarian, yet they KEPT offering me meaty food, after I repeatedly rejected them saying I don't eat it. Idiots. And Tom is also allergic to seafood yet he was still eating prawn crackers, to then complain that his throat was closing up... Clare (the not nice one) decided then it was her right to grill me about my eating choices, asking me annoying questions like "would you eat a fertilised egg?" and "why don't you eat fish?" and "why do you not eat animal derivatives when it's not meat?". She then started talking about all the different kinds of meat that she'd eaten during her boring life, and saying how much she loved black pudding. How considerate.<br /><br />I seriously can't wait to have a break from them all. Maybe next year they'll do some cleaning as well as talking about themselves.<br /><br />EDIT: No I'm not going mental, there's a LJ option which you can click to auto post bits from other entries without you typing anything. It's the ultimate lazy journal writing! However, having done this I've realised all I ever do is rant and bitch about people. Maybe I should just be nicer. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thewhiteswan:25599 2006-12-14T22:07:44Z 2006-12-14T22:07:44Z I now have a real penpal in Japan. I'm not sad, you're just jealous. I used to have an American penpal but one day she just stopped writing to me :( Anyway, I wrote my first letter to her today and I sent it so it should be on a plane very soon! I'm literally so excited about the whole thing I won't shut up, and I think Spencer thinks I've got a problem.<br /><br />I'm nearly home for Christmas. I'm looking forward to it, and I'll have a good New Year too because I'm going to Spencer's. I haven't yet started packing and I'm leaving on Saturday.<br /><br />It was the Archaeology Christmas party last night. We were supposed to dress up as Romans or Barbarians, but I couldn't really be bothered so I wore my own clothes and made a badge saying "modern day Roman". It was horrific in many ways:<br /><br />- The wine wasn't vegetarian (yet another vegetarian quite happily drank it...)<br />- The only people who were there were drunken post-grads and lecturers<br />- The food was really rubbish, it was literally a couple of bowls of crisps<br />- The music was ba-aa-aaaaad. Like Alan Partridge bad.<br />- Penny turned up and said one of the most annoying things ever "[to Steph] Awww babs, let's get you some vods darling" ARG.<br />- Paranoia, paranoia, everybody's coming to get me...<br /><br />So, to save the situation, Beth and I decided to leave after about an hour and ate some pasta at her house. We then came back to mine and Claire came back from football so we all had a really nice chat for too many hours.<br /><br />Today, Claire left for her football tour in Barcelona so I'm all Claireless in a house of CRETINS. Tonight nearly drove me insane. It's the other Clare's birthday today so she invited me into the kitchen to have some mince pies and mulled wine. All very nice and that, but they were also eating Chinese food. They all are fully aware that I'm vegetarian, yet they KEPT offering me meaty food, after I repeatedly rejected them saying I don't eat it. Idiots. And Tom is also allergic to seafood yet he was still eating prawn crackers, to then complain that his throat was closing up... Clare (the not nice one) decided then it was her right to grill me about my eating choices, asking me annoying questions like "would you eat a fertilised egg?" and "why don't you eat fish?" and "why do you not eat animal derivatives when it's not meat?". She then started talking about all the different kinds of meat that she'd eaten during her boring life, and saying how much she loved black pudding. How considerate.<br /><br />I seriously can't wait to have a break from them all. Maybe next year they'll do some cleaning as well as talking about themselves. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thewhiteswan:462 2006-01-22T18:06:26Z 2007-09-22T09:39:36Z <center><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y131/athirwen/pointe_shoes2a.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a></center><br /><br /><center>Comment to be added</center>