Below are the most recent 2 friends' journal entries.

Thursday, January 7th, 2010
cobweb_diamond	1:44a	Fabulous but chilly as all get-out. BBC Iplayer gifted me with Noel Coward's Easy Virtue this evening, which objectively I'd say was a little fluffy, but I'm a sucker for 1920s-40s period dramas and loved it. It left me with a lingering desire to smoke elegantly outside my crumbling English country manorhouse while wearing a wing-collar shirt and making catty remarks about my relatives. Unfortunately I'm still in Glasgow, which in addition to being unglamourous is currently cold as fuck. The other day I went out wearing only shirt & tie and a jacket and almost froze solid like one of the disposable character in The Day After Tomorrow. My mother got me a fabulously warm Welsh Guards dress uniform jacket, which athough very eye-catching -- it has braid on the arse, and epaulettes -- was originally intended for a pretty big dude, meaning I look about 14 sizes larger than usual. I am not a big dude. Apart from our trip to Isla, I didn't get much time with my Scottish friends this winter. Claire and I caught Sherlock Holmes with Grace before she went back to Boston... the guy in front of us had to shush us several times, we were giggling so much. Sorry, it was just such an awesome movie! Haters to the left. And of course we all braved the icefloes of Edinburgh for a Hogmanay party at Shirley, Dan & Kapil's flat. Dan is an excellent person to have a hangover with... not only does he carry off a combo of knee-high lace-up boots and a pink tie with aplomb, he doesn't mind if you steal his laptop and force him to watch Adam Lambert youtube videos all morning. By now Claire and Shirley have jetted off to India once more and by the time we are reunited once more I will (with any luck) be a mature university graduate. Presents this year were pretty fabulous. Mum got me an antique fan from the good ol' Panopticon and the aforementioned Welsh Guards jacket. My brother got a cane with a duck-head handle and a WWII gas mask so he can scare the hell out of us all by looking like one of the people from "The Empty Child" in Doctor Who. We all got a fuckload of books. Oh, and now the Yuletide fics have been revealed, you can find mine here. To be perfectly honest I think both of them were pretty dire, and I apologise to my recipient for that. I'd had the idea for the The Thick Of It fic for ages but I left the notebook containing the original in the wrong country & thus ended up writing the whole thing in one night, on a train. As for the Doomsday one... it was a last-minute Yuletide Madness fic. Say no more? Current Music: Shoo Shoo Baby -- Andrews Sisters
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
cobweb_diamond	5:47p	1. Had a little London Moment at all the trees and the bricks and the ice in Battersea Park today. I never want to leave you, London! Mum pointed out where her family's narrowboat had been moored when she was a kid and they lived on the Thames. Kinda jealous of that... living on a barge is so romantic (ignoring the whole get-rid-of-your-own-sewage thing) but these days the waiting list for a mooring is something like 50 years. 2. My xmas stocking was pretty awesome: it included the ADAM LAMBERT ALBUM (now on its seventh play since yesterday), The Fall Of The Kings by Ellen Kushner (this book is FUCKING BRILLIANT so far), an ancient copy of Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and a giant dictionary of vampires. (And a whole bunch of candy.) Yay presents! Still haven't got my mother a New Years gift though. Tricky! 3. Yuletide! My Yuletide gift was SO AWESOME! It was an Uther Doul/Brucolac fic from China Mieville's book The Scar, and was totally grotesque. Just what I wanted! Now I feel pretty guilty because the story I wrote was done pretty last-minute (on a night train because I realised I'd be away from the internet on the submission date) even though I'd had the idea for a while, and I had to tweak the ending to make it gen instead of slash. But the recipient seemed pleased, so it can't have been that bad. Oh, and I did a Yuletide Madness story on christmas eve! That fic is fucking crazy. I don't know what I was thinking. I took a cheesy and ludicrous b-movie fandom and then added, like, serious epic mythology to the end. Whaaaaat. Current Music: Adam Lambert - Music Again | Powered by Last.fm
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