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Writer's Block: It Sounds Better When You Say It

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:30:05 GMT

No matter what language you speak, you've probably come across words or phrases in another language that sound better than their equivalents in your native tongue. What's your favorite word or phrase in a foreign language?

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Going up to a sort of ex and yelling 'hijo de la puta madre' or something of that sort, then taking to the time to disucss the literal translation; 'son of a whore mother' was a drunken mistake but rather fun all the same

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:10:32 GMT

I am unimpressed by the livejournal layout today.

Alreet pet

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:54:51 GMT

01] What did you do in 2006 that you have never done before? taught english, learnt spansih, went to uni sll the usual
[02] Did you keep all of last years resolutions? i can proudly say i made no such resolutions, and self improvment was kept to a bare minimum
[03] Have you any resolutions for next year? work hard and play hard i think
[04] What countries did you visit? chile and argentina, england - A LOT, thats about it
[05] What would you like to have in 2007 that you didn't have in 2006? a stable group of friends, a bit more direction an all that
[06] What date in 2006 will remain etched in your memory? my birthday was pretty special, torres del paine in chile, it was beautiful
[07] What was your biggest achievement of the year? getting through the first term of architecture, surviving chile
[08] What was your biggest failure? not sorting out my summer plans in time
[09] Did you suffer any illness or injury? horrible sinusitous but thats about it
[10] What was the best thing you bought? an enormous clock
[11] Who's behaviour made you appalled and depressed? a few things but we don't talk about that anymore
[12] Where did most of your money go? on chile, paper, pens and martini
[13] What did you get really really really excited about? chile (crops up a bit often this chile doesn't it?) visiting hexham anytime, iona, hogmanay
[14] What songs will always remind you of 2006? the list is too long, i can't think back a whole year
[15] Compared to this time last year are you :
[A] Fatter or thinner? thinner
[B] Happier or sadder? both, they seem to go a bit hand in hand
[C] Richer or poorer? much poorer
[16] What do you wish you'd done more of? travelled for longer and further
[17] What do you wish you'd done less of? messing around, being shy, slacking off uni work
[18] How will you be spending Christmas? at home in edinburgh with the usual suspects from south of the border
[19] Which LJ users did you meet for the first time? none
[20] Did you fall in love in 2006? who knows
[21] How many one night stands? pfft
[22] What was your favourite TV show? i um actually stopped watching tv, although i got mildyl obbsessed with family guy
[23] Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? yeah probably
[24] What was/were the best books you read? a lot of stuff i read in chile, my next ambition is going to be war and peace
[25] What was your greatest musical discovery? oh many many things, i broadened my tastes at least
[26] What did you want and get? um, i dunno to be honest
[27] What did you want and not get? again
[28] What was your favourite film this year? Belleville Rendezvous, not from this year, but I saw it for the 1st time this year
[29] What did you do on your birthday and how old were you? 18, me and other volunteers went to a "nearby" national park in chile and we spent the day driving around seeing beautiful scenery, then camped, twas great
[30] What one thing would have made your year more satisfying? spending more time with people i care about
[31] How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006? um frumpy moving into my artschool/gap year traveller period
[32] What kept you sane? locking myself away and being antisocial every so often
[33] Which celebrity did you fancy the most? Noel Fielding, without a doubt
[34] Which political issue stirred you the most? Michael discovering that I had tory tendencies
[36] Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned this year? you are constantly learning more and more about yourself, so consider your actions and try not to be a dick

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:27:27 GMT

Dammit! I just lost the game!!

Merry Christmas everyone, hopefully see you all soon

xxxx

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:57:28 GMT

I am definitely going to get trenchfoot, or gout. Or something.
Tom from London informed me that Saturday was only the second day since reading week when there hadn't been any rain... Sunday and today pretty much made up for it. I've got through ever pair of trousers just from going to get my laundry or popping next door. Urghgh
Anyway, we've got a drawing workshop this week, pinning up on Friday (the last day of term - a little harsh in my opinion)
I have just sorted out going back for a cafe grande night out, bit stressful on my phone credit.
Meanwhile, check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCRxcf4YNjg what me and my flatmates do for fun.

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:36:20 GMT

I thought I'd show you what I've been up to the past few months:

These little bastards took up an entire days work (they went wrong twice) They are now supremely squint, but superbly gorgeous little stairs - the English among us might even say "lush" (doubtful)

This is the rough shape my design has taken, not really planned (this is probably obvious)

And lastly this evenings toils, kitchen, bathroom, workroom and coffee table all covered!!

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:01:43 GMT

This post is mainly to illustrate what it's like to live with people who consider themselves "arty"
My flatemates have made it a sort of mission to steal as many chairs as possible this year...
We now have 22 chairs between the 4 of us but instead of sitting on them we now have an enormous chair sculpture in the middle of the living room (below)

And above, there is also a picture taken out of my window. I'm hoping the paint will get all weathered from the constant rain although it seems to be holding out so far..
..We have room and flat inspections tomorrow *woe* I have to unpin everything from my wall

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 15:39:54 GMT

Reading week - class!!
Even got some reading done.
John and Mic from Hexham were up for what seemed like months, actually only 4 days. They informed me I was going to die young, and probably be very miserable with what time I had left if I kept up the level of work I was doing. So after a couple of late nights in the studio I moseyed on down to Langley and Fourstones for a break from the hectic uni way of drinking, staying up late and watching Family Guy.
Didn't reeaally go to plan, but what the hey I had a great time.
Have got a few projects due in next week, am sort of getting there, but the bastards that run the studios are shutting them for the Monday bank holiday tomorrow!! I really could have done with a solid 13 or 14 hours in the studio to get stuff done. It may sound like I'm trying to point out how many friggin hours I put into my course. I am. And I'm not sorry. But it's true so there you go.
Have got an hour before my bus back tae Glasgae so I'd better get my stuff packed.
Also must buy Newbie's birthday present, I think I know what he's getting but I'm not sure...

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:55:17 GMT

What is it with all these Edinburgh + Rain posts? If it's not raining in Glasgow, the possibility of rain elsewhere is extremely low as it probably means time has stopped, or the world has ended.
Am probably coming back through to the Burgh today, cos I sick of Glasgow. Having said that, about 8 people from halls are going too. Am also undecided. Night in or night out?? I need to do some work, collages, drawings, it's a hard life.

In other news. My hands are utterly covered in bright green spraypaint due to Newbie's newfound penchant for graffiti art. (Don't worry, we didn't deface any monuments or nice buildings- we're architects for goodnessake)
Speaking of architecture....

...actually let's not.

Well....its not going bad, but this past week I've not being staying late because we don't have any definite deadlines at the moment, so I've been going home at 5 or 6 o'clock. And already that feels like having a half day. Friday was immense. Started at 10 o'clock, lecture got cancelled so we were done by 1pm!! The feeling was like being on a cocktail of drugs whilst bungeejumping or similar. Wow.

Have got to go and eat some apple strudel (serves 12 for £1.50!! You can't go wrong with Sainsburys)

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:27:12 GMT

Time: 11.25am 10/10/06
Location: Stage 1 Arch. Studio

Briefing: "Consider day lighting, scale proportion, views, access, circulation, materials, colour and texture. You do not need to concern yourself with structure or construction."

I love art school.

Also, the last point before we started making our models was put forward by Tony, the head of 1st year:
"And yes we are aware of disability access laws. And we have chosen to ignore them."

This is just going to turn into an architecture journal, we walked across the whole of Glasgow yesterday. It took pretty much all day cos all 5 of us kept seeing things we had to photograph.
Newbie took me to a gig last night. It was....shit. Shame, becasue his best friend's band was playing, but I'm not going to lie. I am not a fan of screamo bands as it turns out.

Um otherwise, we all seem to be getting the hang of cooking for eachother. Someone stol the last of my Coco Pops this morning. WHich is fine except that he doesnt even live in our flat, and his own kitchen is a mere 30 seconds away.

Am looking forward to another fortnight of crazed work after a weekend "off".

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:38:28 GMT

Also the fact that getting up at 7.30 to be in the studio by 9am means that I won't get home til half seven. And this is a relatively easy project!!
Man I am lucky that one of my flatmates seems to enjoy cooking for all of us.
I have lectures non stop from 9-5 tomorrow. Loving the architecture!!xx

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:29:58 GMT

I really love that when I stay up til half past 2 making models of minature people, I am actually doing something important to my course and not procastinating as usual.

Insomnia sucks right?

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:29:14 GMT

I knew Glasgow was going to be rainy, but B'JEESUS, talk about a place that the sun don't shine.

Other than that, and the fact that our Freshers week hasn't heard of the word "organisation" yet, Glasgow is awesome!!

Am in a top floor flat with 2 other architects and a sculptor. Unfortunately the last bedroom is now occupied by the security warden, a bit of a sullen cow and that's me being kind. We had such great plans for our penthouse...

Fifi, the Mancunian architect (as opposed to the Devonshire architect Ben) is currently plotting to either (a)Claim she sexually harrassed him or one of the underagers next door, (b) claim she brings drug dealers back to the flat or lastly (c)Poison her.

I know which one I'm going for.

My healthy eating plans seems to have been misplaced, luckily it turns out that Newbie is a pretty good cook and willing to make my meals as long as I am nice to him.

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:39:30 GMT

In actual fact, it was pretty fun.
Mic's friends are cool, they even gave me minature puzzles to do so I wouldn't get bored during the football.
Alice's friends seemed very amused by the fact that I was Scottish. I had an awful asthma attack at her house however (I blame the 2000 goats they keep, I'm not even exaggerating). Luckily for me it happened during the middle of the night. Michael was scared silly, not knowing what to do. I have absolutely no recollection of the incident...
Then onto Peterborough to meet Robbie (the small one staying with me during the festival, as if you didn't remember!!) We couldn't actually stay at his house cos of kidneys, chicken pox etc, and in fact he went off to London. And kinda left Mic and I in a village called "Oundle". Apparently.
Anyways, onto Wales, via Birmingham, a bomb scare, throwing up in the toilets (I was actaully ill NOT hungover, before you jump to your own conclusions) and then, cancelled train services, Wolverhampton. Wolverhampton again. Finally Welshpool (where Katy lives)
Fantastic Welsh family, swimming pool, more Welsh people etc etc, Donnie Darko (ie. Newbie)
Then home. Via Penrith and a weird 33 year-old chatting me up while drinking waay too much Heiniken beer.
Quite scary.
Now Glasgow *stress*

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:34:19 GMT

I've finally got rid of all my house guests.

That's not actually a good thing. I really really miss having someone round the house. I mean, my anti-social tendencies are now being rewarded, it's true. But I miss Robbie waking me up to get in the house at 4am!! And teasing Michael for being a Tory. And just generally hardly seeing Tom at all.

Not long til the Mac!! I wish I could grasp that. Then I could work on getting excited about it!!

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:45:50 GMT

To think that the last couple of nights I have become (a) completely rat arsed....to coin a phrase, (b) seen Tim Minchin, Dara O'Breen and the other 10 whose names I've forgotten (c) worked the hardest I've ever had to at work, for the simple price of £4 and haven't even collapsed yet is, in my book, fairly damn impressive.
On the downside Robbie has to leave early to look after his parents' twin kidney transplant. On the upside Michael Grew is coming up from Hexham, has a spare ticket to Radiohead and so I can go and see Beck live!! I love the festival soo much. Apart from those Italian kids who smashed the bus window and made me late...yet again.
Have discovered that GSA have placed me in the shitty halls of residence, and I have to pay them £3000 per year for the privilege of living there. Just dobn't mention Glasgow or kitchen utensils to me if we meet.
As for plans, methinks art gallery with Cat today, Rich Hall, Jason Byrne, Danny Bhoy and more Speigletent. Oh and working of course. I'm a little worried that if I leave at the end of August I may miss out from August tips so its probably for the best if I stay on another week or two
BTW, is it true Craig Hogg is off to South Africa? If so..WHAT A FCKING LUCKY BASTARD

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:08:23 GMT

Turns out I have a big phobia of skin conditions, I break out in a cold sweat every time I think about Pirates of the Carribbean II. Urgh.

On the upside no noticable psoriasis at T in the Park at the weekend. It's OK, you can all feel free to slander my name for leaving The Who early. (Kasabian were much better) Was good, although the stars of the day were an unexpected find - "Men, Women and Children" and their Monkey Men chant. It turns out that my incrediably annoyingly cool sister has already heard of them. Of course.
Spent way too much money, but am still bitterly disappointed that the cheap tickets for next year sold out in minutes this morning, and prevented a further spenage beyond my means.

Will hopefully make it out tonight (Dress code: slutty, according to Fiona) although I can't seem to shake off this tiredness I've had for the past week...it's getting old now. Maybe I've just reached the age where I need to take afternoon naps. That, however. shouldn't prevent me from dressing incrediably unsuitably.

Saw a good quote from Billy Connelly last night: "A well balanced person has a drink in each hand"

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:27:34 GMT

Hexam was great - especially the 2 hour walk across country to get home after a night out in Newcastle.
Back to work I'm afraid, only excitement so far was the fire alarm going off last night and us being unable to turn it off for 12 hours
I've discovered that the Kooks are incrediebly cool - catchy!
Ruaridh went off to "Birmingham" on Sunday, it took us about 3 days to say goodbye- including All-Night Tescos, jelly eating competitions, fancy dress and cardboard horses....and a hell of a lot of Mario Game something .....I suck at Mario Game something, although not as much as Pablo who was truly disgraceful.

I still need to get to the Big Mission sometime, anyone interested in getting properly gothed up sometime let me know!

Cat M, I'm now busy til Friday for climbing, so if you fancy it then? We could do it proper climbing stylee and go to the pub afterwards?

Anyways, I almost had to do a 2pm- midnight shift today and I'm back there at 9 tomorrow, so tara!! xx

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:08:22 GMT

I am going to Hexam - I am going to Hexam!!
Well, I might be if Robbie gets off his arse and organises himself, or lets me know that he has done so.
Cafe has been better recently, made the most PERFECT cappucino t'other day (boss was skiving - I was alone behind the bar) Liz and my attempts to pull the perfect pint were, however, less than successful. Nevermind, I'm not even working today, so who giving a flying duck
I'm actually really late for meeting Alan and Bob for some serious Grade 3 climbing so must be off

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:34:25 GMT

Have had a few shitty days at the cafe recently. I seem to get nagged a lot for either a) things I do without needing told or b) things that are other peoples's fault
Get really sick of that place, sometimes it depends who you're working with, other times it's the customers, sometimes it's both. Especially the young mothers. I hate them so much.

So radomly met with Alan and Jamie, ended up walking home, it took us about 4 hours tho we did bump inot the infamous duo - Alice and Andrew (Tarbuck and Hood) on our way. Got the finger from a couple of neds as we rested by the roadside and stared at by a whole bunch of weirdos.

Ended up back in Morningside drinking Carling with Michael B and Craig in the park later that evening (classy). Had enormous fight with him again, and it sort of hit home that little old me really can do a lot of damage to a person. Something I thought I'd always avoid... I know I'm only one of his problems, but at the moment he makes me feel like a fairly important one and always just end up feeling incredibly bitchy, or incredibly cold. Arfhg

Saw Alice and Alan again today, good times were spent on top of a cow (action photos to follow), and hopefully will see them again for drunken fun this week. Unfortunately I also have to return to work, I really really can't arsed. I think I'll waste time making my bebo look pretty.

On another note, I was dissapointed with Lost last night. It was pretty much the first episode I hadn't seen and it didn't really do much, even in the Lost sense.

Half the Sugar- Half the Fun!!

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 19:20:36 GMT

Well well well, Edinburgh life has certainly been plodding along...

...Cafe Grande is back on form, after a few horrendous shifts with bosses and new girls it's not going so badly - apart from attempting to clean the coffee machine with Parmesan cheese (just don't ask)
If I want a festival job I'm going to have to start my new CV, instead of making useless lj posts about it. Speaking of things to do I need a haircut (I cut it again the other morning in a moment of hungover madness) get some new glasses and improve my arm strength so I can actually manage a grade 0 overhang climb. Speaking of hungover it was Emma Nick's leaving do on Friday, got rather horrendously drunk as per usual, in fact looking back I did pretty much the same thing I do every time she has a party. Take from that what you will...

At Cat M's suggestion we went climbing the next day, such a bad idea when you're feeling lightheaded, but hey it was fun and pretty empty.

Apart from that its work work work, bit of Irish pubbing but no other social life to speak of!! (Ever since the cancellation of the Gipsy Kings I've become a recluse as Alan discovered the other day when I gave my reason for not wanting to meet him as "I'm feeling antisocial this afternoon and I don't want to see you")

Nothing more to say on the matter apart from the fact that the ol' Papel BM and I have seen eachother twice!! And he returned my stolen expensive pisco. Even better- there is still some left!

Jajaja this made me giggle and I'm not even at uni yet!

Tue, 23 May 2006 22:06:26 GMT

How many students from each uni does it take 2 change a lightbulb?...
Glasgow Uni - Seventy-six - one to change the light bulb, fifty to protest the light bulb's right to not change, and twenty-five to hold counter protest.
Strathclyde - Five - one to design a nuclear powered one that never needs changing, one to figure out how to power the rest of Scotland using that nuked light bulb, two to install it, and one to write the computer program that controls the wall switch.
Caledonian - Seven - one to change the light bulb and six to throw a party because he didn't screw it in upside down this time.
Edinburgh - One - he holds the bulb and the world revolves around him.
St Andrews - Five - one to arrange the party, two to co-ordinate the press, one to call the electrician, and one to get daddy to pay for it all.
Heriot-Watt - Three - one to change it and two to figure out how to get high off the old one. (oh no, they're onto us!)
Napier - Only one, but he gets 10 course credits for it.
Dundee - Ten - one to buy and fit the bulb, and nine to petition for the electrification of Dundee.
Aberdeen - Two - One to change the light bulb and one to crack under the pressure.
Stirling - None - Stirling looks better in the dark.
RSAMD - Five - one to change the bulb and four to do an interpretive dance about

*sniff* You can probably tell that I miss Chile

Mon, 08 May 2006 13:38:53 GMT

Only 2 and 1/2 days travelling (I HATE STA AND TPA AND LAN AND IBERIA SO SO MUCH) and I got home yesterday morning via bloody night bus from London to Glasgow. Have just had the best sleep since Wednesday night (but must try to stop myself thinking about Chile)
Everything is pretty much the same- my room has barely changed, although this was a close thing; my mum had to physically prevent my Grandma from clearing out my bedroom to give me a "nice fresh start". Luckily she was later convinced that a choclate "Welcome Home" cake would do the trick.
Ha d a bit of shock though when I looked at my mobiles call lists, and the way they just stop on 10th January, the day I left. It feels like nothing has changed. Am scared I'm not going to do anything for the next 4 months, and nothing will change, and I'll be stuck here.
I have nothing to do!! I've uploaded all my photos, copied them and recopied them, and printed out the important ones!!
Anyway, that was my little waking thought for you (yes I know its 2.30 in the afternoon)

Fri, 05 May 2006 17:33:00 GMT

Right we´re in Santiago airport, apart from having too much pisco and almost having to pay 160 dollars extra baggage, our flight to Madrid doesn´t exist and we´re stuck here unless Iberia do something
if you read this GET IN TOUCH WITH MY PARENTS
cos you know- phones don´t work here
*profanities*

Thu, 04 May 2006 23:16:28 GMT

Most importantly- that Pavlova thing from Marks and Spencers if you can get there in time!!