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	2006.05.21  23.11 Just to clarify, that last post wasn't me. As if I'd use the term 'lol' ! BUT the sentiment stands: hallelujah, for i am alive! hello Livejournal! *waving* Music: johnny boy - fifteen minutes

	2006.05.21  14.20 lol i am still alive

	2004.09.27  14.26 Hola. my first day back at Uni proper has just finished but i can't be bothered walking all the way back to hyde park so i'm procrastinating at yooowni where there are computers. Finding it nigh on impossible to like George at the moment, hopefully this is just transitory becasue we're still getting used to living in the same house but argh, her and her obsessive nazi cleaning, and then guilt tripping in justification of nazi cleaning. gah die die die die. Aside from this, the house is harmonius and zen like which is good. It was new girl/possible serial killer/andrea's birthday yesterday so we bought her a pretty necklace and she fed us cake (or just icing if you're Sarah who doesn't like cake). I'm very glad to be living with Sarah again, she moved in with a 5 litre bottle of Golden Syrup and 1000ft of clingfilm (she has other virtues besides the uber kitchen stuffs she brings us, but i think that illustrated her character fairly well) anyway... What cheer? well, Civil War & Restoration Literature ROCKS. I've not had anything else yet but I suspect they shall ROCK also. I have a job at the Union Bookshop until mid-november which is good as atleast I now have a vague claim to industriousness. Next week I have an interview for a job at the Brotherton Library which would be quite, inexpressibly fabulous if I were to get it. Hmm... I may go and drink Chai (the hot drink currently in possession of my soul) at Barakakaraasrarass'... or whatever its called. Yesterday I squandered money on CDs for the first time in a while, Toots and The Maytels greatest hits... something by Sandy Denny and a 'acid folk underground' compilation called 'Gather in the Mushrooms' which I am yet to listen to but I cannot imagine it will be anything but wonderful. Plus this afternoon I am going to wander down to Jumbo and buy a new copy of 'Little Earthquakes' as my other copy has been MIA for about 8 months now and I really miss it. Infact I shall go and do that now, then drink chai, then go home and watch Neighbours. fool proof, no? Love to all, (especially all you crazy new freshers) Mood: doo de doo Music: nothing.

	2004.08.16  10.23 I thought I'd update cos I'm bored. I'm in the nice shiny level 11 cluster at Uni having just booked my £2.60 megabus journey home this evening. Stupid national express and their £1 fares which can't be bought on the same day. bastards. I look rather too much like a pirate for my liking today, my jeans are rolled up as I have insect bites all around my ankles and I have a headscarf on. arrrrrrrrrr. I do indeed look a twat but I DO NOT CARE because it's so sunny outside and I have my happy-CD-of-WOMAD-train-journey-joy on, which is truly one of the most joyous CD I have ever made. We have someone seeing the room this afternoon, everyone PLEASE cross your fingers and PRAY that she wants to take it so that Viv's rent doesn't go up to £70 which she cannot afford. Someone saw it yesterday who I think could go either way, but i always think that about people and then they cruelly reject us. I don't understand why no-one wants to come and live with us, it's a nice house and we aren't all that scary. But anyway... yes well shall see.. Yesterday was mostly spent cleaning the cellar (the house collective now owes me MANY pints) where all the spiders in the world are living. Not many dead ones though which seemed odd, perhaps they have found some kind of elixir.. (yes, alchemy is alive and being practiced in the cellar of a student house in leeds, by spiders. obviously) Plus viciously hoovering every ten minutes because the same dirty little monsters that infest my grandma's house and bite me to death have found their way up to Leeds. I am not fucking pleased. But it's all better because I had the best bath ever with the light off but the door open and old Jeffy B on the stereo. oooh and my tea involved lots of corriander which improves any day. laa.. I hope it stays sunny. I might go and buy a chair when I get back to the house, there's a second had furniture place around the corner which has a very pretty chair that me and George have been eyeing up for ages. Though perhaps I should be noble and buy it for her for her birthday. Or I could buy her the novelty penis topped bottle stopper which something tells me she'd appreciate more. Friday day time I went out to eat a huge dessert with Olivia and then we had Elke and her sprogs over in the evening for an unofficial birthday meal (Elke is my dad's ladyfriend by the way, she's a German chocoholic and *really* knows how to accesorise). Which was very nice actually, I wasn't sure if it would be too weird but it wasn't, so I am very pleased about that. We watched the Olympics opening ceremony (complete with a stream of sarcastic comments from my pa "they're a bit like the Frog Chorus..") and Elke made me the most amazing chocolate cake ever and bought me chocolate and useful sharp knives . mmmmmmmmmmm kitchenalia. RIGHT that's enough of my drivel. I need to go and fix the curtains in the spare room. byyyeeeeee xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx OH WAIT. I shall be at Leeds Festival, i have been promoted to Special Oxfam Steward! (which just means I have a really dull job with a radio in a tent rather than a moderately dull job with the public in the sunshine) but I shall be there and you guys must text me (07793112015) if you would like to meet up. cos I would probably like to meet up with you :) Mood: energetic Music: david bowie - young american

	2004.07.03  14.25 I'm back Job hunting is not going especially well, I possibly have a trial with a generic, faux-Italian coffee shop in the Triangle on monday but I think what is more likely is that they'll tell me not to bother when I ring them this afternoon to tell them I can't do half the shifts they want me for. There was a small ad in the local paper for a part time seasonal farm hand! That would have been great but I didn't recognise the area code of the contact number and upon looking it up discovered it was Macclesfield, which isn't that far away but has no useful transport links to speak of with Glossop. My life would be of such higher quality if I could drive. On thursday we went to marvel at our lovely house for next year, I have mis-placed my set of keys already. Then I counted Ford Focuses (Foci?) on the coach back to manchester. There were 94 definate sightings and probably that many again of suspected ones. Thursday night we went for meal with Dad and Elke and I spent most of it listening to how much greater then me my sister is, but i already knew that. T in the park soon. Hurrah. After a great degree of drama involving retarded postmen and lots of customer service phone calls I do finally have a ticket. But I'm still having daydreams about setting the post office on fire. They have jobs going actually... perhaps I could bring them down from the inside. I like being at home but I hate that I have approximately no life whatsoever here, I spend lots of time watching tv and eating biscuits and getting cabin fever because there are only so many ways to pass time here and I've exhausted most of them. It is the most frustrating feeling in the world. However I should be going to see Jeni today, I haven't seen her since Christmas and she's now nearly seven months pregnant. I think I'm going to go and watch the Ladies Final now since it doesn't appear to be raining in Wimbledon. Mood: bored Music: The Fairport Convention

	2003.08.08  11.17 July 2003 Hello Viv, Congratulations, you have been accepted to be a steward for Oxfam at Leeds Festival. blur for free! sweeeeeeet. I'm on my lonesome though, so those of you who are going had better all be prepared for me to attach myself to you at regular intervals :D right anyway, as a general rule this journal is kinda defunct now. apart from stuff like this i suppose. But it'll probably resurect itself at some point, fret not. Mood: pleased Music: air

	2003.07.21  10.30 I need to ask for a favour off someone. someone with a nice speedy internet connection. See, I want download this album (which is not commercially available as far as I can tell, if it this then it's hiding itself from me very well) but with my rubbish slow dial up connection it'd be something stupid like a million years of solid downloading- which isn't really an option. so.. um, I don't know how much of a slog 135MBish is for fast connection people but if someone could do it for me and send it me on CD I will love you forever and ever and send you whatever it is you'd like in return. pretty please? Mood: demanding Music: the music

	2003.07.08  23.52 ( sleeping meme ) I've not been very productive today. I rewrote my CV (must find job must find job) and nearly burnt the house down and made some CDs.. but that's about it. Yesterday we went to Urbis, as it's been eyesoring itself in Manchester for about three years now we thought we'd give it a chance. It was kind of good.. I think. You can tell the content was an afterthought, a "we've built a big, impressive, glass building, now we'd better think of some stuff to put in it" kind of thing. It was fun becasue Nicola was really hyper and there were lots of interactive things for her to be amusing with. hehehe. After that we went and ate olives in the royal exchange cafe and talked loudly about chocolate. Which was nice. I'm starting to get bored. Mood: awake Music: ladytron

	2003.07.05  22.57 Oh, what an exciting Saturday night I'm having. I can get away with it though, I've been working today and yesterday at le bookshop where it has been crazy because of the Buxton Festival and the fringe which started tonight. Official Bookseller to the festival we are. oooer. This accounts for why I'm very tired and why I shall slope off to bed soon. Yay! my favourite player is in the final! He deserves to win, I hope he does ~smoooches Federer~ I need to get my Muse ticket, but everywhere online is charging me £5 for delivery so they can suck it, I might go into Manchester tomorrow/Monday anyway. Wednesdays night was 'interesting', the end-of-history celebrations turned into me, Eileen, Mr Minns and Ms Humphries pretending to be a family having a meal in Croma. A little too much white wine on my part. Oh dear, I think I behaved respectably... I was only tipsy after all ~crosses fingers~. It was very nice, you'd think it would have been horribly awkward but it really wasn't. Oh yeah, please don't go and see the film Identity, pfft.. what a load of wank. I had this song in my head all day long and so I thought I'd buy myself the album. I like it. Mood: fine Music: beth gibbons&rustin man - funny time of year

	2003.07.01  20.00 This song. Oh! it's so romantic sounding, so gorgeous. Today was a monumentous day- i found a strapless bra that fit me. I didn't buy it as I didn't have £22 but I'll know for next time. I went to splurge money I didn't spend at Glastonbury today and did very well. I now have some pretty shoes, some troosers, three tops and a bra for £65 (the shoes were £45). I'm very pleased with myself. I also finally picked up mine and mutt's and Hannah's REM ticklets. I'm now even more excited about seeing them for the SECOND time in the space of a month. I'm trying to get my hands on a ticket for eels later this week, for eddie izzard in december and i might purchase one for Muse when they come on sale, if I think I can afford it. So. Glastonbury. T'was excellent. I think. Well, it was. Certainly, indeed, without a doubt. But.. I felt a little let down, i suppose, by something.. myself largely, and circumstance. It was still fantastic though, don't get me wrong. I felt a rather lost and melancholy this morning when i woke up in my bed and not my tent. I need not try and say anything else. Music: goldfrapp - pilots

	2003.06.19  20.50 Okay, this could quite possibly be my last pre-glasto post. just thought it should be said. Mood: sedate&tired Music: sfa

	2003.06.17  21.07 I'VE FOUND A NEW HAIRDRESSER! You have no idea what a relief that is, the old hairdresser, Andre (sadly not as camp as he had the potential to be) made me feel soooo uncomfortable - though no doubt through fault of my own. Now we have the lovely Ursula who has provided me with a shiny, new haircut. It's not really that much different to what I had before just with an extra layer, and best of all if you look at a certain angle and squint a little it could pass itself off as a 'Mullette'. Fantastic. I have new glasses too. I wish I could take pictures and show them off. My history exam on friday did not go too badly, not badly at all. I'd go as far as to say I was pretty darmn chuffed with the questions on both papers. Also picked up my English Synoptic exam pre release stuff. It is on.. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes (hehe.. sorry, I felt the need to illustrate). It's not a text I know, I heard of it for the first time about two weeks ago when capitalflash mentioned it. I sort of wish it had been something else.. it sounds amazing from what I've found out about it, BUT the things I need to do the exam (context & interpretations and useful, intelligent comments) I don't feel are forthcoming. The exam is on friday so I have some time to panic and get sorted. This is not as big a hurdle as I'm making out, it's more to do with me being crap at english than the text. bah. anyway. I have a headache and need to go and do things. This week I need to: -pack for Exeter/St Ives trip -pack for GLASTONBARGH! -go to Eileen's to collect tent & stove, and also pass on her birthday present (only *ahem* a week late..) -henna hair -exam stuff -pick up my Grandma from the airport on thursday afternoon, possibly buying shoes on my way there if Ollie and Alison don't offer any shopping company. -some Hands On stuff.. can't remember what it is I'm meant to be doing there but I'm sure they'll tell me. Um.. that might be it. Mood: okay Music: radiohead (oh WHAT a surprise)

	2003.06.11  23.49 Save me. Revision has stolen my soul, run off down the street and gambled it the nearest casino and lost it to some guy with a big pointy stick and red hair. Or so the urban myth 'How Viv Lost Her Soul' goes. I haven't been out of the house since monday when I went out and sat an english exam. Which could have been worse/better. The Tennyson question was a lovely one which I think I managed to write a reasonable answer to, the Measure for Measure question was also a lovely one but I didn't think enough.. and so ended up waffling terribly and really scraping the barrel. History on friday will possibly be the end of me. Bjork is at the Sonar launch party I wish I was at the Sonar launch party (instead I'm just haunched over my radio with my finger hovering above the REC button). The weekend was very tiring and consisted mostly or car travelling. Yuck. First down to Dorchester to see my Grandma (who seemed okay.. in terms of spirits and stuff though that could well just be denial, her physical state was worse than I expect though) on saturday night/sunday afternoon. Then we drove across to Exeter to pick up Hannah and her stuff from Uni (it filled two cars. damn art students). It was quite a nice drive really, that bit of the south is a very pretty piece of country. It was bad timing though, would have liked to have had some revision time but it was probably worth it in the long run. ooh ooh bjork's on! everyone switch on their radios! As a post revision/nasty exam reward I think I shall purchase myself some of these or similar (ommm naughty me, remote loading).. ( I really really want these but sadly £85 is a little out of my reach). I should really be saving some money for Glastonbury.. but mmmm.. shoes. Speaking of which i need to sort myself for Glastonbury soon, so I don't have to worry about that when I get back from St Ives. Oh, Bjork is finished. boo.. she only did about five songs. pfft. Mood: blah Music: hmm.. dunnoo what this is.

	2003.06.10  00.56 I'm going to do that 20 annonymous people meme. Just to irritate you all :p ( here we go... ) Mood: awake Music: radio 1

	2003.06.05  23.26 Revision has dissolved me. I am now just a puddle of miscellaneous/irrelevant facts about 20th century Britain and Germany. And not very many facts at that. I'm mostly water I think... I have another heachache and for the first time in my life I think I have toothache. I am also extremely tired. I should know better than to listen to Radiohead with this state of mind. I can have a lie-in tomorrow but then I have my LAST EVER LESSON at Glossopdale Community College. Which is very very strange indeed, though certainly not unwelcome. I'm working for mutt on saturday, then we're going driving down to Dorchester to see my grandma that night, I'm a little aprehencious about that but I suppose it's only because I don't know what to expect. Then on sunday we go and pick up some of Hannah's stuff from Exeter and drive home. Monday morning I have my first exam: English Lit set texts (Tennyson & Measure for Measure) which I hate and I'm not very good at. Yes, I'm worried. Well anyway, I decided that Veronika should make a return (that will possibly only ring bells with one of you..). Say hello to her and don't be all coy.. cos I know you all fancy her (whisper it quietly, but so do I). g'night possums xxxxx Mood: tired Music: radiohead - paranoid android

	2003.06.03  11.40 I'm back in college today, history in the afternoon. bah. Well, it will be nice to see Eileen etcetera again as I've hardly seen anybody over half term. Argh. Will somebody PLEASE take ebay away from me.. --------- there's a gap in between there's a gap where we meet where i end and you begin and i'm sorry for us the dinosaurs roam the earth the sky turns green where i end and you begin i am up in the clouds i am up in the clouds and i can't and i can't come down i can watch and cant take part where i end and where you start where you, you left me alone you left me alone x'll mark the place like the parting of the waves like a house falling in the sea in the sea i will eat you alive i will eat you alive i will eat you alive i will eat you alive there'll be no more lies there'll be no more lies there'll be no more lies there'll be no more lies i will eat you alive i will eat you alive i will eat you alive i will eat you alive there'll be no more lies there'll be no more lies there'll be no more lies there'll be no more lies i will eat you alive i will eat you alive i will eat you alive i will eat you alive there'll be no more lies there'll be no more lies there'll be no more lies there'll be no more lies i will eat you alive i will eat you alive i will eat you alive (For once I'm not pretending that these say something siginificant about me right now. Yeah, they mean something to me but they're here mostly because I like them.) ~wanders off~ Mood: okay Music: longview.. (maybe? dunno something on la radio)

	2003.06.03  00.08 I'm feeling better now. Of course. Why's that..? i Some time to think and to get a little discourage perspective. ii a walk in't crunchyside.. somewhere on the left along Snake Pass that I didn't know (ha.. that really narrows it down). It was very relaxing and lovely, beautiful sunset through silhouetted trees and little golden flecks of light on the ground. At one point you could see Hope Valley cement works nestled in the distance and it had a Mordor-ish air about it.. the idea of this sinister hive of activity hidden away somewhere so calm and silent.iii Working in the shop in Buxton today. Its been ages since I was last there, and Buxton was always 'my' shop. A few old customers came in and said hello and were nice to me, and Anne came in.. last time I saw her was outside the co-op in Malaig almost a year ago. She drove me insane while we were on Rum but it was nice to see her again, though no doubt I'll want to kill her when we go to Mull in August. Also had an 'instant garage' CD donated to me from David, Mutt's ex-lover-friend-whatever, which is good.. it has New York Dolls on it ~griiiin~. iv Finding the most amazing skirt for £3... sadly it will require lots and lots of time spent adjusting it if I want to wear it in any respectable manner. v Seeing some boy (prolly about my age.. he's a regular apparently) wearing a big straw hat. I am totally inspired and want one now..vi mmm ebay I've taken the bold decision to go back to my Vespertine journal style. Though I'll change it back to another one soon because it doesn't really work on anything other than 600*800 and isn't all that well designed. God, gotta go to bed... Mood: sleepy Music: Blondie - 99 Red Balloons

	2003.05.31  23.59 Well today was quite nice for the daytime. But, erm, this evening mutt told me that my grandma has been diagnosed with lung cancer. Which is wierd.. for want of a much better word. I don't really know what the implications of it are.. and to be honest I don't really want to have to think about it... because its just going to make me upset and angry and scared. I don't know why I just wrote this.. felt obliged to I suppose..

	2003.05.31  11.05 sorry...it's exciting to me, just very dull to everyone else Woooo. Leeds have finally sent me an application form for accomodation, Bah.."You'll receive accommodation information a few weeks after your accept a place" my arse. Am down to four choices... one two three four. I was kind of hoping I'd find something on campus as I'm such a lazy bint, but the only on campus self-catered place is big and ugly and I'm not very endeared to it. Ah well... I don't think I can really be bothered going to look at these places but never mind, I have blind faith in university accommodation.. erm.... yeaaah ~cough~. I don't see why all the catered houses are SO much better than self-catered, except possibly because it is all a plot against me. And men only! but i wanna live in a pretty building! you bastards. I am still in my pajamas.. I must go and get washed and changed as today is errand-running day. wooyeah. (I haven't done any revision for almost a week. SHHH don't tell anyone) Mood: chipper Music: Portishead

	2003.05.29  10.47 toot toot Please don't say the 'R' word to me. I'll do some soon.. I promise. I have to tidy my room first becasue it's too much of a mess for me to revise in.. yeah. For now I'm going to stay looking at Vivienne Westwood teeshirts on ebay and start that stuff later. I really like this song at the moment. It's all fun and summery and makes me think of Jeni. Who I really miss, I don't feel like I have the time or energy to arrange anything with her at the moment though, maybe next week. So. Yesterday. I tried on lots of pairs of glasses. It's cruel of nature to have given me poor eyesight aswell as a face that doesn't suit glasses, one or the other would be acceptable but both!? what a bitch. Despite this huge injustice, I think I've found a pair I like and my dad said he'd pay for them, so I will go in and order those after I've pestered the people at D&A here to give me my goddamn 1/3rd off voucher. Manchester was full of Italians and people giving out free things.. like football-related hats! and portions of Philadelphia with a mini bagels!. mmmmphiladelphia. We watched Goldfrapp on monday night. Gorgeous. Many many thanks and hugs for my gracious host because I had a lovely time. And I don't mean 'lovely' in that empty adjective way that its so often used in. It really was lovely. Most probably the last time I'll set foot in Vaughan House.. and sit down on the bed in room 16 (i think) and complain about how much I dislike Stalybridge train station. ~muses~ I can be so fucking reactionary sometimes.. Mood: cheerful Music: R Kelly - Ignition

	2003.05.28  09.36 bleh. i still have a headache. Just on the off chance that any one of you is sat by your radio with a blank tape when Radiohead are doing their thing on jo whiley this morning/afternoon then a copy of that would be very much appreciated as I shall be out. heh.. I don't ask much do I? Must go and have a shower.... Music: white stripes - seven nation army

	2003.05.26  10.54 oh and if anyone wants to buy me this skirt I will love you forever.

	2003.05.26  10.38 The plan for today was to do as little as possible, HOWEVER.. I have to have a bath, call bus and train timetable people, go and claim some blingbling (hehehehehehe) off my Daddins and then sneer at all the cheesy stalls on the bank holiday market (keep a look out for bouncy castle people to get contact details from), call volunteer bureau and apologise profusely for missing mettings (via answerphone thus avoiding any real human interaction). um. find overnight stuff (Ima seeing the mighty Frapp of Gold tonight :D), decide whether Goldfrapp watching justifies wearing a mini(ish)skirt.. (I love my mini(ish)skirt), Revise something, write emails which i've been putting off for ever. errm.. a million other things I'm supposed to be doing actually... bah, it's a bank holiday.. doing anything on a bank holiday is illegal surely? Mood: rushed

	2003.05.23  11.07 I've beaten my computer into submission and made it work properly for a while for me. It hasn't been behaving itself recently. You aren't going to ask me to describe last night are you? i hope not. Because really, all i can tell you is "!!!!!!!!!!" and "thom yorke is a hobbit!" (I was right all along, he plainly is, he was wearing a waistcoat for chrissake). The odd tear was shed, i clapped a lot. It was very... special. for a lot of reasons. I wish I'd bought tickets for november now.. ~*~ My mother has replaced my bjork wallpaper with ( this. ) what craziness. I've really had enough of my hair, it refuses to behave, it has no integrity, or maybe it has too much.. it won't do what i tell it to do for any length of time longer than about five minutes and lets the rain make it all wavy and shite. And I don't understand where the weather gets off on being so nice today when I'm staying INDOORS to do some REVISION. stupid sunshine. But yes, revision has begun. I started on wednesday night and have been having dreams about the Llloyd George coalition government since then ~shudder~. Mood: okay Music: the dandy warhols - erm..can't remember the title..

	2003.05.19  13.40 sympathy. I'm feeling very sorry for myself. and you should too. I just had the most horrible horible dentist appointment ever. I've never had a problems with going to the destists but I was having to try really hard not to start crying/hyperventilating/shaking uncontrollably this time. Bleh. I can't feel the right side of my mouth and i'm speaking with a lisp. and speaking in general makes makes my mouth ache AND my bottom lip is all battered and bleeding. And I'm really hungry but can't eat anything. except maybe a bannana. meh.