Heading for adventure

Don't you like my green bobbly hat ---> height of fashion people!
The time is here! I'm off tomorrow for my African adventure - been planning it since the beginning of the year, so am really looking forward to it! And better yet it means two weeks away from london - wooohoooooo! Three vaccinations in my arm, plus the malaria tablets that cost more than gold (also known as Malarone) plus all the other randomness I'm choosing to ingest (including Brewers yeast which apparently keep the mozzies away) better be worth it.

Was going to leave you with thoughts such as:
- how do you get rid of guests who're still in your flat well past midnight on a sunday when you have to wake up at 6 am the next day
AND
- what do you do when you find a friend's been using cocaine in your bathroom, AND they left their stash behind....

BUT no
Instead I shall leave you with links to random silliness on the web - anyone heard of kitlers? A bucket of owls anyone? No? Dogbees then? Sorry, that's Beedogs!
I'll seeya suckers on the other side...
Tata tatelle

Sale!

The topshop sale's on and as soon as i found out I had to go on the website (like I'm really going to battle hyped up 16 year olds in an all out hormonal frenzy over discounted clothes in the actual bricks and mortar store.. puhlease) and buy a couple of items - aaah - now finally my soul is at piece... peace. Now I'm going to go read an article in the guardian (yes look at me I'm one of those people who read broadsheets on the weekend) about a woman who gave up shopping for a year. It was such an amazing feat that she wrote a book about it and the book became a success. What does that tell us about our consumerist society? Shouldn't she have just written the book and given it away for free? Why Sell the book? If I gave up computers for a year would i then go about writing about my experiences on a computer? No of course not, that just wouldn't be write, right..

No response

You know when you email people, and they never respond and you think, shit are they pissed off at me? Even though they probably aren't or couldnt' be arsed, or read your email and thought, yeah that's nice and promptly forgot about it? I dont know. Especially with people you don't really know that well. Like this writer girl, who never got back to me after a couple of emails to her. So I was like agonising about what I wrote, what did i say that so offended her? And months go by and by chance we are to meet next week at a writing gig, so i thought to myself, why not, lets email her? And it turned out she never got my email in the first place. So all this agonising for nothing.
But it's different with friends you know well. When friends i know well, especially close friends don't email me back I know they're a bit peeved. I know it.

The blog is dead

What's wrong with me? I hardly ever write, my mind is like sludge, even blogger doesn't remember my username or passwords any more.... waaah waaah waaaaah! not that anyone really reads this... it's like if a tree falls does it make a sound if noone's there to hear it? What's that mean anyway?
I've started uni again - and there's the enforced socialisation you feel you have to do because you'll be seeing the same people for a year. Anyway, first day at the pub after class and I couldn't help but see everyone as if we were on Big brother. All the cool people hung out together, while all the weirdos like me clamped together. Does this mean a) I watch Big brother far too often even though I hate it? And deny that I really ever watch it? or b) That I artificially creating tribal groupings that reflect my own level of self-esteem and confidence? One to ponder indeed. Anyway a month in and the pub group has gotten a lot smaller so now weirdo's and popular ones alike are united by their love of the alcoholic beverage... ah beer, how it unites you with people you would never speak to in any other circumstance. Not that I really drink beer, or like it much anyway... Much like Big Brother. Ugh! What have I become? I'm supposed to be a grown up here! 7 days and counting to Tanzania! I can't wait baby!