I’ve been having a lot of fun making .gif files recently at WEB-CAM-STOP-MOTION!!
Only one week until I leave for Jakarta. The awful news of today’s bombings in the city tinge my excitement with sadness, but then I guess it makes me even more determined to give something back to my mother’s country. Coming soon: a couple of reviews and a walk through my room! How exciting! …try to conceal your yawns at least!!
Last little bits from Mexico! Might have some more on offer if I dig around a bit. Will have to have a look. Steph and I got wing tattoos on my last day 
I’d been thinking about it for a while and we found a guy who was really good at tattooing wings so it was clearly fate! I absolutely love it.
Back to work next week. Meep. Then the day-long journey to Indonesia at the end of July. The Mexico journey really took it out of me. I’ve slept for approximately 15 out of the last 24 hours… At least I’ve got a few days off to adjust!
I made a Twitter account. Mostly for online interactions with one Stephanie who is across the seas, but the damned thing won’t let me upload a picture of my beautiful (*cough*) face. I dislike it already.
On the life front, I had a wonderfully lazy afternoon in Brunswick Square with Sam today. A lazy afternoon I can’t really afford, given my current dissertation situation but I’ve been so deprived of sunlight tucked away in my flat that as soon as I plonked myself onto the grass my body wouldn’t let me move until I’d absorbed 2 hours’ worth of vitamin D. It really does nothing for my motivation when the sun insists on shining so. Why couldn’t it be miserable like it is the rest of the year round??
It seems as though the healthy eating/exercise regime I’ve been trying to keep up since January is working as I have been told twice this week that I’m ‘wasting away’. I have hardly been to the gym recently due to dissertation madness but I plan to go a bit mad up in there once I hand this thing in. I’m desperately missing my thrice-weekly dose of endorphins and Pimp My Ride (it’s usually on in the evenings when I go). Yo dawg, I heard you got ADHD so I put a pool table, a bubble machine and some flat screens in yo car so you won’t be bored while you drive, dawg.
Another thing I’m missing is my mum’s kitten, Shakti/Choki (although mostly known as ‘Booboo’ or ‘Booboolina’).
Just look at her little face. She grew rather fond of me when I went home for a few days and my mum said she was quite forlorn when I left.
Dissertation update (bleh): I wrote the hardest section last night on Islamic courts and inheritance law (*YAWWWWWWN*) so I should really just suck it up and get on with the rest of it. Not much further to go, but it’s a case of so near yet so far. I just want to sleep and sleep and sleep.
