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catherine

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About Me

Baff is away in another land and I am sure she misses you a lot.She will miss you even more, in a good way, of you keep in touch and send her gubbinses. The best gubbins will recieve knick knacks in return.“it is the mark of a civilized society to eliminate such inequalities as have their source not in individual differences but in its own organization”....................Go here: www.bonebox.net/newsrex....................My greatest fear is opening the door to a public bathroom and finding someone dead inside. It crosses my mind every, single time I use one.

My Interests

Sleeping. Punctuality. Falling asleep on the bus. White tulips. String. Cereal. Feminsism. Falling asleep in the bath. Dresses. Fake coffee. Dinosaur comics. Lemon yoghurt. Falling asleep in class. Vanilla. Pigeons. Swimming. Parliament Hill. Chamomile tea. Grapes. Clean lungs. The sound of breathing from thousands of miles away. Ghetto mac. The moment you realise a hangover is gone. Falling asleep in the sunshine. Literary theory. Self obsession. Bright socks. Clean sheets. Rolling down hills. Classy two for a fiver wine deals. Anticipation. Tater tots. Byzantine mosaics. Marker pens. Pimms. Twirly skirts. Car boots. Parcels from overseas. Long letters. Dairy alternatives. Falling asleep on the phone. Blue rinse chic. Curly hair. Vegetable curry. Dancing badly. Sitting on the bow. Being read to. Blue Irises. Loose Park. Lemon and ginger tea. Cinnamon tea. Falling asleep watching movies. Catholic icons. Harold and Maude. Soft jumpers. Sandwiches. Layering. The ceiling of the Baptistry. Falling asleep being held. Cardigans. Breakfast. Coffee in the art block. Anything that's free. Chubby's. White things. Pineapple. Thin feet. Twee pop. Algorists. My happy lamp. Clean hair. Optimism. Black pepper. Small cutlery. TYPEWRITERS. ....... ...... ..... ....... ........ ...... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....Not interested in: Eating yoghurt with a fork, cats, jet lag, root beer, dust, fried brocolli, long fingernails, the dentist, casual misogyny, data entry, the fanatically tidy, "the" "indie" "scene", disposable fashion, large crowds in small spaces, large crowds in large spaces, warm beer, those who lack integrity, accepted explanations, dying flowers, people who overtake in swimming lanes, grey days, moths that eat clothes, getting lemon juice in my thumb cuts, "We need to talk", winter Baff, not getting enough sleep, not knowing the answers, the window seat, cockroaches. QUEUING IN THE COLD.

I'd like to meet:

Michael Bluth. Stephin Merritt. Clare Short. Julian Barnes. Paul Auster. I'd like to meet Naomi Wolf to tell her to stop being an idiot. I'd like to give Nicole Ritchie a sandwich. Ryan North.

Music:

the 6ths, adem, the afterparty, andrew bird, the arcade fire, the beach boys, beck, belle and sebastian, bonnie prince billy, camera obscura, the castanets, calexico, the chiffons, the cure, delgados, dexy's midnight runners, eartha kitt, the essex green, final fantasy, francoise hardy, franz ferdinand, the hidden cameras, iron and wine, i'm from barcelona, jeff buckley, jens lekman, joanna newsom, john greiner, the kinks, the konki duet, the magnetic fields, m. ward, mirah, neutral milk hotel, otis redding, pelle carlberg, the popsicles, the postal service, pulp, sam cooke, the shirelles, simon & garfunkel, the smiths, spoon, stephin merritt, the talking heads, the unicorns, the zombies

Television:

Man says "Where are you going? You can't survive out here! You have no wilderness skills!" Lady says "Oh... Go give yourself a handjob."

Books:

I have taken the following books to India: The Second Sex The Woman Destroyed A HIstory of the World in 10 1/2 chapters F Scott Fitzgerald Stories One Hundred Years of Solitude Mr Vertigo.I am scared and hope these are enough. I plan to start a book club.

Heroes:

None.

My Blog

India 6

Hello everyone... Just got back from a weekend away from Sriperumbadur - on Friday night I went to Maduramangalam, which is a tiny village where three other volunteers are working. It is utterly utter...
Posted by catherine on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:08:00 PST

india... 5?

Update update fun.   Have been waiting to get through a mild 'funk' before updating as to my doings and sayings. Moved into placement on Saturday feeling a bit bedraggled, underpreapred and left...
Posted by catherine on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:05:00 PST

India 2

Hello all,   Bit of a rubbish day for some reason so apologies in advance for woe and or endisnighishness (neologism).   A bit worried about the overall effectiveness of the education we ar...
Posted by catherine on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:14:00 PST

Future damage limitation

Should a similar mania to the one which has recently gripped me ever take hold again, please do the following:Take me firmly by the shoulders.Shake me a little.Look into my eyes.Say: "Baff, you don't ...
Posted by catherine on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:43:00 PST

Blogs are for talking about your feelings.

So now I will do that. My feelings are thus: [........:............:......urgh.......................:::: ...............................:.......] (Where . is a single, perfectly formed and overwhelmin...
Posted by catherine on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:29:00 PST

I'm not planning to go anytime soon, but if I were...

www.heavensabovefireworks.com/index.htmThis came up on the side of a gmail message. How appropriate and sensitive. (I want to go in a big green Catherine Wheel)
Posted by catherine on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:46:00 PST

technology

My jeans just split open all the way down the shoddily hand stitched seam. I stapled them back together. Where would I be without office technology? (At home in bed)
Posted by catherine on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:06:00 PST

Dear thief

Well done you have destroyed any remaining vestiges of my belief in/respect for humanity. Fuck you.
Posted by catherine on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:35:00 PST

mother of god

social policy is utterly irrelevant in the face of this soup. I'm a genius. Fucking YUM.
Posted by catherine on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 06:03:00 PST

yes!

chocolate poverty pudding:cocoa sugar flour golden syrup milk oven yum
Posted by catherine on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:22:00 PST