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Dana

I am here for Friends

About Me

Following an attempt at quite possibly the world's craziest summer job (bookselling door to door in America), I am now very well practised at annoying complete strangers and find myself unceremoniously flung into my last year at uni. As anyone who's asked me the grim question 'So what's the post uni plan?' would tell you, I have no convincing plans for my future as yet, but I have belief in my legendary ability to land on my feet and am sure that said plan will be a brilliant one.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who has anything interesting to tell me.

My Blog

Dana, the single-handed orphanage greenhouse provider

So I received a (clearly fabricated) letter from Biffa waste services today thanking me for my conscientious approach to recycling.  Apparently, I have now contributed enough wine bottles to enab...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:26:00 GMT

Dana, the single-handed environmental superhero

The Caretaker's find my commitement to the environment so endearing that they thought they'd issue me with my very own recycling bin...  (Looking suitably demonic/hungover here I feel) ...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:48:00 GMT

The Devil's Dictionary

Random examples that rang true with me.  May update later. Alone, adj, in bad company. Apologise, v.i. To lay the foundation for future offence. Baby, n. A mishapen creature of no particular age,...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 05:01:00 GMT

The poetic value of being a frozen pea.

When asked what veg I'd like to be, I said I'd be a frozen pea. As most veg find their sorry fate Is in a pan of boiling state, Freezing would prolong my days, I'd live a life with joyful ways &n...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:17:00 GMT

More like a duck than I originally planned

I found a considerable flaw in the duck analogy this morning.  To escape the circus that is my house preparing for visitors, I decided to christen my new wellies with a walk down the garden. ...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:15:00 GMT

I am like a duck

Winge winge, I have lots of work, winge, and I will be spending every spare moment in front of my laptop this next couple of weeks (have taken the entire dining room table hostage as my temporary essa...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:49:00 GMT

I have an interview!

Bartle Bogle Hegarty.  Does that not sound like the sort of place I should work? They are a major advertising agency based in London, and have summoned me for an hour long interview on the 9...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:07:00 GMT

Nativity Skating

I went shopping, came back with some angel wings, a pair of mint green wellies, 15m of gold starry tinsel and some dingy boots. Returned home, opened some wine and proceeded to massacre the tinsel and...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:11:00 GMT

Hamburg frolics

It has been a monumentally random weekend.  So naturally, I have thoroughly enjoyed myself and felt the need to document it somehow... We enjoyed a pretty snag free journey from Cardiff Cent...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:42:00 GMT

Madness!

Online job applications are the bane of my life.  Here is a sample of questions I have been plugging my way through for the past week and a half... 'How would you promote mp3 players to the over ...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:48:00 GMT