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Rachael

Schmachael

About Me

The first thing I did when I got back from Africa was buy Vogue - it's nice to be shallow sometimes.

My Interests

Music - Sleep - Hugs - Drinking - Dancing - Bristolian accents - Baking - Travelling - Fancy Dress - Scrabble - Driving Fast - Frustration - Drinking Games - 'I Have Never..' - Shoes - Vogue - Going out for meals with Dave (and then running away from the bill)

I'd like to meet:

Someone to travel the world with, preferably by boat - mm boats

Music:

Cocteau Twins - Head Automatica - Coheed & Cambria - Brand New - Amy Winehouse - DFA 1979 - Damien Rice - Bloc Party - Billy Talent - Panic! At the Disco - Willy Mason - Everything but the Girl - Dashboard Confessional - Jurassic 5 - The Roots - Sigur Ros - Lauryn Hill - Freestylers - Isobel Campbell - Sarah McLachlan - The Departure - The Libertines - Erykah Badu - We are Scientists - Radiohead - The Strokes - Ocean Colour Scene - The Verve - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Massive Attack - Leftfield - Portishead - Zero 7 - 5ive

Movies:

Rush Hour.. the only film you'll ever need

Television:

America's Next Top Model ; Shameless ; Project Catwalk ; Lost ; You Are What You Eat ; Scrubs ; ER ; Supernanny

Books:

Me: "I wish I could own every book ever written" Dave: "Even the shit ones, so you could look clever?" Exactly.The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini , Passion - Jude Morgan , White Teeth - Zadie Smith , Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie , Regeneration - Pat Barker , The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger , The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon , Slammerkin - Emma Donoghue , The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck , I Dreamed of Africa - Kuki Gallman , Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami , The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde

Heroes:

Nigella Lawson - Queen of Gastroporn

My Blog

Two Weeks and Two Days

Hey girls and boys.. Where to start? I've lived 3 and a half months in one of the most fantastic countries imaginable, and I can hardly bear to leave. Anyone who's had the priveledge to read my gushin...
Posted by Rachael on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 05:40:00 PST

One Month in Africa!

Hello Boys and Girls! Thought that I'd let you know that I'm safe and well, and drinking more than I ever did in England!The people here are fantastic, everyone's so friendly and funny, they all expec...
Posted by Rachael on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:16:00 PST

M'off

Just before I go,I'd like to say thankyou to everyone who made the effort to come to my leaving party last night, it was lovely to see you all even if I didn't manage to spend as much t...
Posted by Rachael on Tue, 02 May 2006 10:10:00 PST

My Last Ramshackle...

So.. Friday was my last Ramshackle for four months, and no one cried!That's an achievement I tell you, after the trauma of Tristan and Isolde leading to me and Schmazel sobbing in the pub last week (o...
Posted by Rachael on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 05:48:00 PST

Changed my mind..love my job!

I love working for a graphic design company...this afternoon's assignment? Separate a MASSIVE box of jellybeans into 6 colours and rearrange prettily for a photoshoot..score!!Plans of hiding fish in m...
Posted by Rachael on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:25:00 PST

Why yes my job is incredibly boring..so I do boring quizzes

7 Firsts: First boyfriend/girlfriend you really loved: I haven't.First best friend: Hannah..she got abducted to Libya..safe.First screen name: Ahem..Grooviegirl..and Hazel yours was CoolDudette d...
Posted by Rachael on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 07:48:00 PST

Eeevo

Uuurgh Evolution sucks...you can change the name (and the carpets) but it's still the same dirty, chavvy, gropy place it's always been. New resolution... never go there again!!It's only the people you...
Posted by Rachael on Sun, 20 Nov 2005 06:47:00 PST