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I do not want to date you. Any of you. Do you know how many people comment on my beautiful smile? That is because I smile like that at anybody who isn't actually being rude to me. That smile is not fo...
Posted by Effie on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:10:00 PST

Fog

It's foggy here today, which amuses me because I like fog. We don't seem to get much of it, so on the odd occasions that we do, I appreciate it. I generally hope that it will get sufficiently bad that...
Posted by Effie on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:37:00 PST

My little mouse

My mouse is now all hooked up and working at last  And it's cute - it's small and shiny and it has a little slot in which to store the receiver when it's not in use. *hugs the mouse*Additionally,...
Posted by Effie on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:23:00 PST

A random Rickman thought

I was watching Sense and Sensibility the other day and I couldn't help feeling sorry for Alan Rickman. I don't know how old that film is (and am too lazy to check IMDB) but he must have been verging o...
Posted by Effie on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:32:00 PST

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - contains spoilers

Well, I was out last night, queuing for my copy. I didn't go all the way into town, just to a local bookstore, but even there the queue was impressive. I arrived at about 23:20, and was half a block b...
Posted by Effie on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:06:00 PST

The eerie silence of a plague-decimated city...

...otherwise known as 'why is the world so freakily silent at 5:45am?' Because of the Central Line derailment, I had to take an overground train to get to work this morning (I'm so glad they're a...
Posted by Effie on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:03:00 PST

Why my bosses are a waste of space

1. They expect me to receive letters that they've sent to one location when they know that I'm working elsewhere at the moment.2. Their records are all wrong, because they either can't read or can't w...
Posted by Effie on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:19:00 PST

Skating and stuff

I made good use of my free afternoon today and went ice skating. It's been years since I was on the ice - probably 10 or 15 years - so I was impressed that in the 2 1/2 hours I was there, I managed to...
Posted by Effie on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:34:00 PST

Leaving America

I never seem able to leave America without problems. Somewhere, fate is trying to tell that country to hang onto me, but the immigration authorities just aren't listening to it. This time, I was stuck...
Posted by Effie on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:52:00 PST

Updates on my life

Firstly, I've been trying to sort out what is going to happen to me with regards to my university course, which I am currently failing because programming is incomprehensible to me. Unfortunately, it'...
Posted by Effie on Tue, 08 May 2007 09:14:00 PST