alissimo

vase - for alimcsage

2007-04-29T16:55:00.001-07:00

vase - for alimcsage
Originally uploaded by paul glazier.

Paul gave me this as a birthday present - posted it on Flickr for me. It's sweet, isn't it. I'm very stoned, picked up just this evening. watching Woody play Zelda on the GCube at the mo. Lisa is studying on her laptop just behind me. Her boyfriend, Kieran, is checking his emails. We all have laptops or game consoles in front of us. And we are all stoned. Just watched Thelma and Louise and Shaft. That's not one film, by the way. Or three friends of mine. It's two films. Anyway!

At the end of second year now, coming up for exam time. As per always I am unprepared to a disgusting degree.

My brain is really dead. I might stop writing now...more may follow, but it may take some time...

xxx

room

2006-12-01T13:58:00.001-08:00

room
Originally uploaded by alimcsage.

This is my loverly room. Bit short of posters. But I like it. Look at that big comfy bed!

PS I now have learnt the correct terms for the parts of the mouth used for speech and the phonemes they create. I can't finish a sentence without touching my throat and thinking 'hmm, /b/ is an unvoiced bi-labial plosive, cool'.

woody3

2006-12-01T13:56:00.001-08:00

woody3
Originally uploaded by alimcsage.

This is Woody. We love Woody. Right now he is cooking yummy-smelling curry. Oh, curry is good. I'm drinking mulled wine and nibbling jamaica ginger cake. Oh christmas is the bestist.

:-)

new home

2006-11-29T07:30:00.000-08:00

sitting on the makeshift sofa, having read the first few scenes of Perestroika, the second half of Angels in America. Been going on lots of walks in the city to get me head together, which is nice, listening to beach boys right now. Bought dad a 'ruby' sheesha for xmas, but it arrived yesters and he opened it prematurely...silly man...nevermind.

Woody is drumming against the back of a chair, in a distracted sort of way, he keeps stopping and starting. I am so paranoid at the moment, just about Woody, I keep thinking he knows what I'm thinking. I think that's just me being silly. Now he's talking on the mobile. I think it's Rory. I want to see Rory but he never calls me anymore. Plus I can't be arsed getting dressed today. so I probs won't be going outdoors. aahhh welll. whatever. We both gave up smoking - me and Woody. I gave up first.

woody's gone a bit mental

2006-11-15T15:08:00.000-08:00

ah well, i am worried about him, but you can't treat everyone like they're your own kin, he's not my son and I should leave him be a bit!

We went to the indian food shop this afternoon. I have lovely dates and grapefruit to eat mmmm. They aren't anything like grapes...how odd. I always thought they were called 'greatfruits' but nevermind.

working on an essay at the moment (3000 words, they're starting to work us a bit harder now...) it's an essay on the heroic in Frankenstein and Mrs Dalloway. I'm finding it shocking fun what.

Bought mini milks the other day. O yes. When was the last time you had a mini milk? I have become an internet obsessed no-life girl. I blog on this, I check my myspace about...oo...every two seconds, i post on flickr, i am constantly posting on my uni's english language web forum. That's scraping the bloody barrel, isn't it!

I know the words to dizzee rascal's 'i luv u' and it's actually a nasty ol song, i'ntit. Having a bling moment. Keep buying really big earings. No earing yet has satisfied my desire for laaaaarrrrge. Ah well.

Dya like Lady Soveriegn? I think it's part of my slight homesickness, i want to reconnect to my pikey catford roots. ah well.

I want some massive gold rings...i tried on the gold chains mum bought ages ago from her home-shopping-network phase. I tried them all on at once. It felt goood. I look good in a baseball cap.

do i need help...do i?

grr

2006-07-31T04:01:00.000-07:00

ohhhh gooooood looooorrrd,

right. I did the essays that needed doing. I bought the tickets for my journey up to uni for my re-sit.

YESTERDAY
- feeling tired, been out all day, mags round in morning, saw sarah for lunch, bought fabulous cds for dad - Dave came round (friend of dad's) in evening, stayed till 10pm getting stoned - PASSED OUT like a jibbering fool in the fucking kitchen. I had to tell him to leave "you have to leave now dave. I am tired Dave. Leave."

chinese food yum yum yum

2006-07-24T14:38:00.000-07:00

just ate a fuckload of crispy chinese lovelyness, watching beverly hills cop three and researching an essay.

haven't been up to much recently, except briefly seeing a boy called Dwayne from Peckham. O yes. Anyway, been going to the gym with Mags, which is fun. Feeling more fit and healthy than normal.

Have to do a bloody resit exam in august but that's ok I guess...and I'm secretly enjoying doing my History of Art essays :-)

Going up to Somerset House for their movies in the park type thingy later next month, soon it will be Craig's 21st! yay! parties abound - Ellie and me are planning a joint 21st party as we didn't get to really celebrate our birthdays at home this year.

So that's all good good good

I will write again soon!

xxx

...and relax

2006-06-12T06:33:00.000-07:00

immense stress over. Not immense in real-life terms, obviously. Had some exams. Did some cleaning. But, hey, I've been doing nothing for nine months I'm out of practice doing things. Finished most of the tidying yesterday - dumped the sofa in the park by the river. It looked so sad all alone. We came home had a coupla joints and watched big brother (peeeeettte we love you peeeeetee!).

This morning Woody left to go home. Iain and Malcolm are gone for good. Rory left, taking all but the kitchen sink, Lucy went back to Bavaria...oh everyone is gone! Hattie left a few minutes ago and now I am alone! I passed english lit tho. Got a B. Am quite pleased. Two Bs in english this year. NO other classes have released results yet. Still waiting on tutors to get back to me re lack of coursework and one failed mid-year exam. but hey, let it wait (panic panic stress).

ought to work out new loan for next term - will do that directly! have to organise money for first rent payment in august and get hold of the right papers to send to the landlord. O god it's so fussy doing things so dull. Nevermind. Thinking about getting a myspace. As I blog so often it would be worth having two sites....oh well!

yawn...

2006-03-07T06:21:00.000-08:00

The lecturers are striking today. I never cross a picket line, obv, so i've not even checked how this affects my classes, i'm just staying in and drinking. Fight the power! Workers of the world unite! etc.

The hunt for hash has been ongoing. The whole of west scotland appears to be dry. We soldier on however, with wine and beer, as best we can. Played 'fuzzy duck' for a good four hours last night - drinking games that involve remembering words are EXTRA EXTRA fun when one person speaks largely french. he he he.

Not a lot else going on at the moment. Need to speak to someone about their tendency to over-drink. I'm calling it over-drinking because we all drink alot, but she manages to drink a lot in one go. If you see what I mean.

Lucy the darling managed to make pizza (she made the base herself and everything) so I am campaigning for her to try again. It was lovely pizza first time round but there was a distinct biscuitness to the base which could be rectified by buying the right kind of flour. I think it needs to be done.

Right now I should be reading Great Expectations. I should also be researching a good three final essays. Ah well!

This year for english I have already managed to read:
Hamlet
Jane Eyre
Emma
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Turn of the Screw
The Homecoming
The Magic Toyshop
Much Ado About Nothing
The Great Gatsby.

I have yet to read:
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Human Stain
and probably a fuckload of poetry...

I think that hard work negates the need to go to english classes.
yes.

six-0-six am

2006-02-02T22:05:00.000-08:00

yes, six-0-six am and i can hear mal and claude fucking in the room next to mine. i can barely think, rum then whisky then vodka then gin slaush puppies at the union, then lambrini in claude's flat, then booked tickets for dundee on the morrow. nina and woody just left to slkeep - all my clothes and bedsheets are in the drier next door. nina stole sheets from rory for me, sweetk, lovely woman that she is. catrina is having fun in new zealan i hope - got a fabulous mix cd from her today -thankyou caterina!!! o god i've drunk too much, and penny and richard are visiting tomorrow, o christ, i am bringing woody along for moral support, i don't want to think how hung over i will be by then. scabies is still the fabulous menace of flat L and i am sooooooo tiered, got the hard fi album today - randon germans are sleeping in our living room...i am slowly regaining the power to spell....

signed up for extra-make-up-credits-classes today, i was so proud of myself. all my exams were fine, english was peasy, history of art was like taking an exam in a foriegn language you never knew existed "leonardo da vinci" and "1483" were my answers for just about every question...im sure i did fine...will report back later...after sleep...
turrah!
xxx
alissimo!

ok, new post!

2006-01-13T13:13:00.000-08:00

I am sitting on my bed in halls, my door propped open with a shoe box to let the smoke out. I'm watching Ghost World on tape on my TV and appreciating how quiet my flat is. My flatmate lent me a packet of Pall Mall and now my throat hurts. I have my first exam tomorrow morning. FYI tomorrow is a saturday. I was not impressed when I discovered my first exam was nine AM on a saturday. Jeez. I was also similarly unimpressed by my D I got for an art history essay. Oh me oh my o. Art history is turning out to be far more work than I ever expected. On the plus...the exam and the essays for last term count for 50% of my overall grade this year...and as long as a I keep getting Ds, or even an F or two then some Cs or Bs even, then my overall grade will still be a pass. All I need to do is pass. When it gets to proper lectures I will start to work harder - turn up to all art history lectures for one. History of art is memorable when you turn up and see the slides and everything. If you pick up the lecture notes on the sly and ask your friends what you missed you learn nothing. That is big lesson one from first term. Oh well, I will do better this year I hope. work harder, try better.

Ghost World is such a great film, I've watched it a bzillion times. Rory brought a dvd player and surround sound, Woody brought a HUGE TV and we have a great living room now. People are turning up in dribs and drabs and it's nice seeing everyone.

Went out with Dad and Steve and Steve's son Adam last night, when I got home I realised there was a two hour period of empty flat and then the clubs would close and the house would get noisy with drunk people. So I stayed up watching the Godfather and eating potato :-) when the guys got back we hugged and chatted and it was really nice. Ebany helped me revise for a coupla hours today but it was all too much like boring. We gave up. She will so do better than me in this exam. SIGH.

Anyhoo, christmas was lovely, christmas day with my Godmother, boxing day with Cat and Dad (faaaaaaaaaaaaaabulous food, thankyou caterina!) and it was cool to see my lovely friends - two 21st birthdays (Ellie and Jason). My 21st is coming up...I'm strangely excited... :-)

Chocolate mousse

2005-11-09T07:23:00.000-08:00

I have a cold. Or at least I am beginning to get a cold. Malcolm, my flatmate gets colds, then I get them. He has a cold which means I am doomed. I have been yamming down oranges to make me better, but I've been smoking roll ups too, so that won't help. In fact, the best thing for me is just to stay in and not go to lectures. If i walk down byers road to the uni then I will get cold and that will make everything worse. I am sure. However, I have my window open to release the smoky fumes so I am gonna get cold anyway.

Ohhh...

I need a good book to read. Just finished reading Emma. Not fun. It was ok, but I'd like to read something different. Hjave been trying to read Norwegian Wood, but it keeps pissing me off. My flatmate is having a crisis. We can't really help, I think maybe I should be doing something though. I should have gone to my Russian class today. Ahh well.

Might be making chocolate mousse tonight. If my friend remembers to buy cream.

Also There's an essay I COULD write if I so desired. Maybe I should go do that. And a letter I should post. I could tidy the flat, walk down to town, buy something...no...bad plan. Sit in here. do nothing. Better plan. Oh! could go see Martha Wainright tonight, even better plan. Will check times and prices, ok turrah! xx

sunday again

2005-10-30T03:50:00.000-08:00

good jesus it's almost monday again......goood grief.......

not sure what the plan is for today, saw 'Saw 2' yesters. In fact saw it twice!! I need to shower, and do my laundry...grr...

The laundry room is free, and it's only four floors away...and it would be nice to have clean sheets and clean clothes. I have lasted the week ok but it is definitely washing day. I really miss my mum. I want her to be somewhere where I can call her if I want to chat to her. My friends fill the gap ok, maybe I should go see some other family. Been living near my aunt for two months and still haven't seen her!! Terrible.

I really want a fag and some chocolate, and there will definitely be both in the kitchen. That's a good five yards from my room...five yards....oh i can do it, i can. Then I can shower, take my washing to the laundry room, and read Emma, for my english lit work. Oh god, that sounds so sensible.

Ok, then I'm gone!
xxx

ohhhh so tired...

2005-10-24T06:11:00.001-07:00

It's been a particularly interesting week. Apart from the cake baking (which was very well recieved) I don't remember much of monday through friday. Yesterday I'm pretty sure me and Wood bought chips...that's really about all I can tell you. There was a party the night before - we had to dress up like pirates and go to my mates' stalker's flat. It was good, we danced, drank vodka-y punch. Me and some friends went on to another party up in town and got stalked by some strange man outside BHS or whatever on Sauchiehall street. Oh fun times. Got a taxi back with some nicely dressed young man at seven the next morning.

That day before the party started I just slept and slept and slept. It was another late night the night before. Though I can't remember what we were doing...oh well...never mind!

I have to go matriculate today, I purposely slept in and missed alllllllll my lectures. It makes you feel so nice. But now I have no baccy and have to run to the shops...ah me...

OH I just remembered I have two rolls of film from last weeks parties, I will go put them in to Snappy Snaps right now! and buy baccy, and meet Wood, and get some coffee, then matriculate...then pick up the pics, then go home! good plan! ok, thanks for your time! turrah xx

Cake day

2005-10-21T12:02:00.000-07:00

Today is Cake Day number two, I have bought plentiful cake making supplies from understocked corner shop. Also have been to doctors to get a check up and register. Ohhhhh have to go into uni and get my matric card sorted out...grrr....how dull...there are plenty of other things I'm sure I should be doing - going to lectures and seminars, perhaps - but I would rather sit here and chat to little hazziot bean and listen to XFM on my laptop (oh london radio, how I miss it so!).

Oh Craig has come online, I will go chat to him, ok, turrah! xx