spiders!

OMG there are LOADS of spiders around at the moment!

apparently september / october is when they mate; and this year boffins are saying conditions are rad for spiders so we should expect to see record numbers.

owhhhh. i'm seeing one pretty much every day at the moment :( they creep me out a lot. silly, i know but i can't help it. i saw the biggest spider i have EVER seen last week - it was HUGE. my dad had to come and put it outside. yes, i'm 27 and being rescued from spiders by my dad! although it takes me about half an hour i can usually manage to get a glass over it and put it outside (obvs i don't hurt them, that would be mean) but this one was just too big!

oh oh oh and the other day when graham was round one was on my hand so i shook it off and ran down the stairs and then freaked out for a bit.

Glastonbury 2010

Tix on sale 4th October.

I think I'm buying myself one... :-)

Dear Julian Casablancas,

Please hurry up and put details on your website of how and when i can pre-order 'phrazes for the young' and also what uk dates you will be playing.

love Em xoxo

ps i'm still available if you and your wife ever split up.

My love and seething hatred relationship with facebook when trying to close my account...

SO. It has taken me all day to try to close down Facebook.

The people behind it make it almost impossible to delete your information. When trying to find out how I could delete my Wall information (posts, status updates, photo upload info etc) I found that Facebook offers no facility to delete the Wall. Therefore, you have to delete each tiny update individually. I had two and a half years' worth of actions on my Wall. This has taken me hours. There is no point in just taking the easy option and using the "disable Wall" option, as then there would be absolutely no reason for closing the account. The info would still be in tact, sitting on their systems.

Not only this, Facebook seems crafty. Every time it says I have no more wall posts left, it has actually kept a stash of them hidden that it hasn't enabled me to delete. This has happened at least ten times when I have logged back in to see IF, this time, my Wall is empty. A glitch in the system or just Facebook being utter arseholes and wanting to keep information?....I don't know.

Having said all this, closing down Facebook has not been an easy thing to do - emotionally, that is. I have spent the day looking through a log of my past two and a half years. It is like an online diary....reading through it, I was reminded of so many past times that I had forgotten about. I read a post from Em, saying that she missed me "more than words can say" when I was travelling around Asia. There were so many other memories that I wiped....posts of friends asking me whereabouts I was in Thailand because they wanted to meet up with me; of Tom telling me that 2009 "will be the best year yet. Last year was amazing, but this year will be even better"; of me and Ali on our travel adventure, living the dream (and wanting to kill each other, but still living OUR dream); of drunken nights in Brighton and barbeques down the beach; of me and Laurence keeping track of our score in our pool competition (though I am still not sure who actually won); of my friend Paul informing me that India is full of "yoghurt weavers"; of old friendships that have now faded away, like that of mine and Ali's American friend Joe, who informed me on my Wall that he was going to write me a list of reasons why I am an "instigator". And then I was reminded of the old features on Facebook years ago - The Graffiti we used to do, the gifts we used to give each other. (Richie Gladman: "Thanks for my pencil, Butler." Em: "Here's a cat in a bag. I don't know why. Facebook is weird.")

So giving up Facebook hasn't been a breeze like I thought it would be. It has actually brought tears to my eyes - nothing has been able to log my friendships better than that website. And I know that I will lose a lot of friendships from closing my account because they won't stand the new "virtual" distance.

But it is the right thing to do. It would be hypocritical of me to support fat cat neo-conservative free trade bastards. And then there is the fact that companies that I HATE have bought into being able to get the public's information for their own gain, whilst wrecking the world for those less fortunate than ourselves. (Though she says this whilst writing on a blogging site owned by Google....hmmmmmmm.)

I was going to delete my Myspace too, but that really WOULD be the end of an era, and I can't bring myself to do it yet....I may break down in tears! The time will come. Just not yet.

drunks vs geriatrics / some blogs i like

so i was on the bus the other day and this couple (man and woman) of old drunks got on and well everybody moved towards the back of the bus because they smelled and looked dirty and no one wanted to sit next to them. the dude fell on the poor care in the community woman sat at the front; she, of course, freaked out. then the drunks sat on the side facing seats at the front. THEN this old dude dressed smartly starts yelling at the drunks calling them CUNTS and ranting on about how they are a disgrace. at first the woman was yelling back (the man was just kind of staring like he wasn't sure of his own name let alone wtf was going on) but then the old smart dude got all up in their faces and started punching them both in the face! eek! it was bizarre because they were like comedy slow-mo punches. BUT THEN he hit the dude on the head with his walking stick. FINALLY the driver intervened and made the smart dude get off, but the drunk woman had already kind of run off the bus. after he'd been kicked off, but before the drunk dude had got off the bus (he was just kind of staring and swaying) the smart guy HOOKED HIS WALKING STICK AROUND THE WOMAN'S NECK. not even joking. then he walked off with blood coming from his nose (i think he must have hit himself). the drunk guy got off too. meanwhile the care in the community woman had pissed herself.

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and would you look at this fucking hipster? http://www.latfh.com/

Um...

I can't really think of what to say about this. But it's definitely worth a look...

Odder than "Hannah Montana Linux x86 Edition"...

I am no longer vegetarian...

I am now vegan. I know that immediately this labels me in most people's eyes, but I can't help that.

I don't expect you to cook meals for me any more, Ali, Em or Mart! My reason for this change is because I realise that I have been living naively for four years...."free range" or "organic" do not mean "cruelty-free". They are labels that conjure up images of animals running free, but in reality they are money-spinning ideas where torture is still allowed as a law. The life of a dairy cow is a really miserable one - and then she gets slaughtered for fast food, anyway. I was a bit stupid to think that any "organic" food that the big supermarkets sold would originate from small, happy farms. I realised today, when I was at the train station, that I can no longer buy any snacks. No chocolate bars, no sandwiches. But this will save me money!

If you want to see the reasons why I have become vegan, google Earthlings the film. I think you can even view the whole horrific thing on youtube. You would not believe what we let happen behind closed doors. If you were aware, you wouldn't play a role in this cruelty.

I don't understand how people like to live in ignorance.