Bel - Thats Dr. Coffee to you.

About Me

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I adopted a cute lil' gothy fetus from Fetusmart! Hooray fetus!
Hayloo!
I'm Bel. I tend to get rather too sarcastic.

What can I say? At the beginning of 2007, life was generally brilliant. I had my dream job at the In Arcadia Voodoo Cafe with a bunch of amazing people, not forgetting of course, the Teenage Fanclub (who can be found at the In Arcadia Layabouts group) But as with many things in life, it all came to an end far too soon. Nowadays I am a professional coffee snob, being a barrister, I'm Barista for Caffe Nero, which is inhabited by Durham RAHS, communists and the occasional Goth. Despite my "misgivings" about working for a large chain, I actually really enjoy it so far!
However, I still cook a lot, exotic things involving a lot of chilli usually. Would love to make a "career" out of that, if anyone wants to employ me! (I'd also like to be the first ever person to get headhunted from Myspace!!)
I also run an online shop, Cyberllama, selling wonderful fairtrade jewellery, clothing and giftware from Peru. Cyberllama has its own Myspace page (see my top friends) or clicky the banner below.

The rest of the time I wallow in intellectual pretentiousness and collect degrees and totally impractical qualifications, mainly because I find People fascinating. I've recently finished my MA in Anthropology, doing my thesis about vampires.... yup, this is the level of useless fact-collecting and people-watching that has enthralled me for the past five years!!
I share my humble little abode in Darlington (the infamous 'Darlo') with the two men in my life, my beloved Caaaarl and Pogo the ferret - both of whom are Cute with a capital Q. We are also proud parents of Parsnip, matriarch Ferret, who is small, yellow and pointy at one end, and as such, very aptly named. Then there is Pixel, the smallest, cutest little ferret in the world. They are our babies and life wouldn't be the same without them.

I live entirely off coffee and Curly Wurly bars and Polish lagers. I dye my hair too often and have far too many holes in my ears. I don't think in straight lines. I talk too much and write too much. I have too many black and purple clothes. I have bizarre stationary fetishes. I like words too. I like vampires and people in touch with their darker side, and anyone who stands out somehow. My Collected People rock my world.
Sometimes I get political:

My Interests

Last November, I tried to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.
AND I DID IT!!!!

I write constantly and regularly contribute to

Go have a look and tell me what you think!
I love to travel, ceaselessly infact. Just got back from South Africa and it was bloody amazing. Also obsessed with South America and Scandanavia. Plenty more trips planned!!
Other interests include promoting the hell out of CYBERLLAMA - my online shop selling wonderful things from Peru

I love my ferrets - there are plenty of pics elsewhere on my profile.
I run a ferret network to exchange advice on keeping the little hooligans in the local area. Anyone interested should have a look at Little Hooligans Ferret Network
For some unfathomable American reason, it is STILL illegal to keep ferrets in California. There are campaigns against this. Please click your support!

Also, we are trying to move to Canada. So I am "interested" in selling my house in chavs-ville, and finding a cafe job in Vancouver. Please help.
I collect Giant Boots, New Rocks especially. I will stick my photo up again later. I would add a link to my favourite shop that sells them, but I think posting that was the reason why this profile got hacked in the first place. No details at present but most people will understand that anyway.

I'd like to meet:

Vampires, Goths with a sense of humour, people with an IQ higher than that of a donner kebab.
Anyone who can give me a job in a decent funky cafe.
oh, and Cyberllama CUSTOMERS!

Music:

Can't really define my style other than definitely not cool. Getting in to heavier stuff now, Gothy stuff as ever, still HATE dance music with a passion (I can hear my chavvy neighbours dancing round their car alarm right now infact). I tend to support unsigned bands especially if they are local, even if they are crap. Most of the time, no one has ever heard of half the stuff I play. Current favourites are Stolen Babies. They are my friend on here somewhere, go check them out.

Movies:

Otherwise, Coppola's Dracula, Y tu Mama Tambien, Quills, Ghost World, Little Otik, Delicatessen, Nightmare before Christmas/Corpse Bride, Ginger Snaps, Secretary, any Wallace and Gromits! Lost in Translation, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, (or, as it seemed after four tequilas - "eternal spot on the sunless mind"), Pan's Labyrinth. Perfume, The Prestige and most recently, Venus.

Television:

Not a fan! But did get rather addicted to Green Wing. Since we got Sky at home, I watch South Park religiously and have no sex life.
FOOD AND DRINK Saying food and drink are my life sounds both pretentious and like I'm a morbidly obese alcoholic. I'm not really (well, ok, maybe pretentious) I enjoy my food, and I know how to enjoy food. I really believe that food should be enjoyed, not feared or merely tolerated. Its a cultural thing as well as just an energy source. There are so many wonderful things to eat out there, and a million ways of preparing them, so why stick chemicals in a microwave? I do have my prejudices - McDonald's et al, Starbucks etc do not actually serve FOOD in my opinion. Likewise, decaff coffee, non-alcoholic beer and vegetarian 'meals' are nice concepts, but they miss the point entirely. I cook constantly, I'd love to make a career out of it. Please employ me! Anyone interested... I am trying to write a book: The Social Life of Food. See my blog for details.

Books:

anything and everything! I like words. I like finding strange things in dictionaries.
Annabel --
[adjective]:

Having the texture of congealed cheese

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com TOMATO CAM!!!

Heroes:

Mona the Vampire! Ruby Gloom. and if I have to choose people who actually exist, then The Hairy Bikers!

My Blog

Curry and happiness

YUM.I am happy. Life is pretty good right now.The sun is finally out. Given how cynical and stoic about things I usually am, it is strange how something as small as the weather affects me. I like dram...
Posted by Bel - Thats Dr. Coffee to you. on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:29:00 PST

Another thing that disgusts me about the US government, they are poisoning their own coffee!

This may not be 'news' as such, as what I am about to quote was written in 2004. However, it is news to me, because although on some level I was aware of what was going on, I had no idea of how bad it...
Posted by Bel - Thats Dr. Coffee to you. on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:44:00 PST

A little too apt maybe?

Which book am I?You're Love in the Time of Cholera!by Gabriel Garcia MarquezLike Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by sleeping with as many people as you possibly can. But i...
Posted by Bel - Thats Dr. Coffee to you. on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:03:00 PST

My hubby the TV star

Blatent plug!!As many of you know due to my incessant texts and bulletins, Carl was on television the other night, for a Tyne Tees television program called Northern Eye. It's about the biofuels indus...
Posted by Bel - Thats Dr. Coffee to you. on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:28:00 PST

Banks, minimum wage and the inherant unfairness of the universe.

I am Cross.We are hard up. Very, in fact. This is partly because I was unemployed for a long time. It is also because there is no such thing as a graduate job for an anthropologist in darlington. And ...
Posted by Bel - Thats Dr. Coffee to you. on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:42:00 PST

The "For No Reason Party", offically pronounced FUN!

well, I think there was everything I said there would be.....Eighteen people managed to consume quite a ridiculous amount of braaid meat, the entire contents of the potjie pot, a bucket of potato sala...
Posted by Bel - Thats Dr. Coffee to you. on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:30:00 PST

I’ve been tagged, apparently

This is supposed to be a game. A game of self-indulgence and introspection.Jillian tagged me. She has posted eight 'things' about herself on her blog, then tagged me, and now I've gotta do the same. H...
Posted by Bel - Thats Dr. Coffee to you. on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:48:00 PST

Deja Vu: A Moan. (quite graphic, sorry)

I am Ill.I have been send home from work TWICE this week due to aforementioned illness, once from Durham, once from Darlington. The first time was because I threw up my pannini in the loo, the second ...
Posted by Bel - Thats Dr. Coffee to you. on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:11:00 PST

Why I hate Darlington

Unlike happy Goat stories, this is going to be a RANT.I am Ill and Grumpy. Be warned.I really really hate Darlington.I hate the fact that when I want to met up with one of my friends, we can't think o...
Posted by Bel - Thats Dr. Coffee to you. on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:48:00 PST

All hail Kaldi, discoverer of the black drink of happiness.

Once upon a time, in ancient Ethiopia, Kaldi the goat herder sat, no doubt picking his nose or dreaming of that really beautiful ewe he saw in the market last week, or whatever 16th century goat herde...
Posted by Bel - Thats Dr. Coffee to you. on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:40:00 PST