My So-Called Life
the random and not-so-random musings of a twenty-something history geek
My So-Called Lifethe random and not-so-random musings of a twenty-something history geek |
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| Lizzie is a fully qualified history teacher having finished her course at Canterbury Christ Church University. She's also a geek who was secretary of the University of Kent Computing Society during her three year BA at the University of Kent. She is very much in love with her shiny Husband, though she is sad that he doesn't glow bloo :( More about her on her website: http://carina.org.uk |
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| Sep. 4th, 2009 @ 12:08 pm Yesterday was a bad day for travelling... (for me, anyway) - long, contains angst! | |||
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I went up to London yesterday to see pot luck theatre* with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} no1typo. We ended up seeing Hairspray, which I hope to write about at a later date. I've been all writers blocked recently, even when I've had things to write about, and so this journal has been very quiet.Anyway, to return to this entirely uninteresting tale of Woe, for which Livejournal is famous and I just want to get off my chest... I should have known what the travel situation would be from early(ish) in my journey, when I drove onto the slip for the M20 (off the A249) and stopped. And stayed stopped for over three quarters of an hour after an accident on the M20 between the junction I was coming on at and the next one, which closed the whole carriageway for most of the time I was stopped, and two lanes were still closed when I finally got past. It wasn't really the best start, and very nearly made me late for picking up no1typo. After that things went mostly to plan (bar the overcrowding/traffic jams of a bus getting around London at 5pm :)) and we got our tickets, had dinner and wandered to the theatre. It was after the show that it all started to get interesting.First, as to be expected really at Theatre kicking out time, the traffic was solid for a while and it took us ages to get a bus back to Victoria - a number 38, which advertised Victoria as its destination and then kicked us (and the rest of the passengers) out at Green Park. By this time it was nearly 11pm, we were getting tired and Victoria was a dark and scary walk away across the park (yes, I know it's not far, but it was dark and scary. So we decided that, given we couldn't really be bothered to wait for a bus that may or may not come (and may or may not pick us up when it does come) we got a cab the rest of the way to Victoria. Where we found a train back to the place we had left the car was indefinitely delayed because of problems at Clapham Junction. After half an hour or so of waiting, we decided to get on a train to East Croydon, because at least then we'd be getting closer to the car and home and we could always get a train from there to Purley. When we got there we found that, again, the closest train for Purley, had it been On Time was still ages away and it was already showing as "delayed" (by this point, I was getting heartily fed up with signs at train stations merely saying "delayed"), which could mean anything for us and our wait. At which point we completely lost our heads and Definitely a mistake. All was fine until I hit the M25 (for reference this is my normal route home from my mum's) at which point it became mostly single lane because of roadworks, and to my utter woe the sliproad to the M26 was closed, meaning that the M26 itself was closed, meaning that I ended up going to the Darenth Interchange and straight on to the M2. The M25 was single lane pretty much from the point I joined to the point I came off at Darenth. Despite the fact that the route I ended up taking is only ~10 miles further than the route I usually take, it took me significantly longer to get home, because for the entire stretch of the M25 (which, I remind you all, dear reader, was single lane) I was at 50mph or less. Luckily the rest of my drive was ok, but I ended up nearly freezing myself with the aircon to stay awake, so it took me ages to thaw when I got home. So it took me forever to get home. The show finished at 10pm and I didn't get back until around 2am. It was a brilliant evening otherwise though :D *What I call it if you go with the intention of seeing a show, but are not bothered as to which one thus purchase your tickets for far less than you otherwise would from a booth like tkts in Leicester Square. (A list of what they have on sale today.) |
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| Sep. 13th, 2007 @ 10:11 pm Quiz! (and other stuff) | |||
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A quiz, stolen from bethanthepurple 1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/. 2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark. 3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions. 4. Post the top ten results. 1. Anthropologist 2. Archivist 3. Historian 4. Child and Youth Worker 5. Adoption Counselor 6. Writer 7. Print Journalist 8. Critic 9. Market Research Analyst 10. Translator In other news, the flat inspection went fine and we still have a home. It's even a very clean home, the cleanest it's been (imo) since we moved in 2.5 years ago. I'm glad it's over because it was a real strain on me. Having spent all the time since we returned from holiday stressing and angsting over it often while cleaning as I have never cleaned before and only not doing those things when I've been asleep I am now very very relieved but also incredibly tired, which I think is mainly due to the depression. no1typo is coming for a visit tomorrow and I'm looking forward to a relaxing wander around Canterbury or an afternoon spent in Espression with her, depending on time factors and the weather. |
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| Jun. 4th, 2006 @ 10:14 am Typo is off to Yorkshire | |||
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For those concerned citizens who may want to know: 08:00am: Left Coulsdon 10:00am: Stopped at Toddington Services (junction 11/12 M1) for a short break Will update more as more info comes in :) |
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| Feb. 27th, 2006 @ 02:49 pm New Shoes? | |||
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Well that's what I call a successful day :D contentNow Playing: Jennifer Rush: The Power of Love (VH1 Classic) I had to go into Uni for a tutorial and afterwards Ben (who had the day off :D) and I wandered the town, mostly because today was my day to get some new, sturdy shoes before I have to go back in to school on Wednesday. I found a pair in Sole Trader that were just perfect: a pair of Doc Martens that were suitable for school :D Piccies of my new shoes are here. They are lovely - sturdy, comfortable, tough, while still looking really pretty (I think ;)). Unfortunately DM boots don't tend to go down to well at school :D Luckily fairly cheap too - £39, or £29 for the loafer style. I want more pairs like this in different colours now :D ( shooooooooooes ) Afterwards, on our way back from lunch at Nandos we ventured in to Mevthens were books are now reduced by 50% in their closing down sale (less than two weeks to go now) and I brought 1 book for "me" and 4 course books for "teacher me". I'm feeling very bouncy indeed. Like new books, especially ones as cool as some of these are :D Just a pity they have to close really. And Finally: Reason #4572 why you shouldn't buy your parents a scanner for Christmas (oh the ramblings in my year 4 school diary ;)) |
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| Apr. 2nd, 2005 @ 12:00 am Happy Birthday Mamma! | |||
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no1typo |
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| Sep. 30th, 2004 @ 01:55 am Abseiling for the prince's trust (An Appeal) | |||
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Hi all. eating :SNow Playing: Barenaked Ladies: Pinch Me Today my mum is doing an abseil to help fund the activities of her Prince's Trust team, on their community project which looks like it will be doing up a nursery run by the YMCA. I'm in for a tenner should she complete the abseil, so I was wondering if anyone else wants to sponsor her and if so could they comment here or on one or other of her blogs how much you're in for that'd be cool :) If you're in canterbury I can come collect and give it to her when I next see her. Those who have her mobi number please text her to support her, cos understandably she's a bit apprehensive :) In other news my Friend Jonathan is going to be on ITV1's Moving Day today at 2, so everyone set their VCRs :D *goes do work or something* |
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