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With Friends like these... (and some 101)
Feb. 26th, 2009 05:17 pmI swear, my friends are on some sort of mission to make me look bad. They persist in being Made of Awesome and I cannot compete.
So I have a friend called Lil, who I love dearly and who often sends me text messages that make me so jealous I could spit. Unlike so many people our age, she's found a job she loves, and its so cool. She's a lighting technician. She lights bands and theatre productions and generally gets to play with exciting gadgets and meet famous people.Last summer she went to every festival going, including Glastonbury, and got paid to do it. She also lives in a fabulous house with a bath the size of my room.
So I have a Best Girl, my dearest friend since I moved next door to her when we were 5. I call her Goo, and have done for many, many years, though I feel you should know that really she has a beautiful French name. She went to Oxford to study Biology, came out with a First (the highest grade of degree that very, very few people get) and is now doing a PHD. In combating cell mutation. That's right people, my best friend? Is trying to cure cancer.
I'm feeling better though, seeing as my friend Mal, one of those annoying types in school who never did any work and still got superb grades, recently rang me to tell me that the parcel with the book he had promised me in August and finally sent in January might be a bit late because he "forgot to put an address on it". That's right people, he just popped in the post box with a return address but no 'to' address.
Warms my bitter little heart, so it does...
Just so I don't clog up your flists, here's Mission101, January - Feb. Late, as usual!
4. Find a moisturiser that I like and use it. It's called Soap and Glory Righteous Butter, and it was a present from Nat. Trust me to fall for something badly punned...
24. Go to the theatre 10 times. I've been 3 times in the last 2 months. I saw a hugely surreal opera called Skin Deep, Let Them Eat Cake by Gershwin and have just come back from the ballet, which was gorgeous and which I could go on about forever.
25. See live music once a month Well, the opera, and a reggae band and the OSA, again.
28. Read a new book every month. Temeraire by Naiomi Novak and The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. Both excellent.
This is all the interesting progress people. I have slipped a bit on one or two, but I think I'm doing ok.
So I have a friend called Lil, who I love dearly and who often sends me text messages that make me so jealous I could spit. Unlike so many people our age, she's found a job she loves, and its so cool. She's a lighting technician. She lights bands and theatre productions and generally gets to play with exciting gadgets and meet famous people.Last summer she went to every festival going, including Glastonbury, and got paid to do it. She also lives in a fabulous house with a bath the size of my room.
So I have a Best Girl, my dearest friend since I moved next door to her when we were 5. I call her Goo, and have done for many, many years, though I feel you should know that really she has a beautiful French name. She went to Oxford to study Biology, came out with a First (the highest grade of degree that very, very few people get) and is now doing a PHD. In combating cell mutation. That's right people, my best friend? Is trying to cure cancer.
I'm feeling better though, seeing as my friend Mal, one of those annoying types in school who never did any work and still got superb grades, recently rang me to tell me that the parcel with the book he had promised me in August and finally sent in January might be a bit late because he "forgot to put an address on it". That's right people, he just popped in the post box with a return address but no 'to' address.
Warms my bitter little heart, so it does...
Just so I don't clog up your flists, here's Mission101, January - Feb. Late, as usual!
4. Find a moisturiser that I like and use it. It's called Soap and Glory Righteous Butter, and it was a present from Nat. Trust me to fall for something badly punned...
24. Go to the theatre 10 times. I've been 3 times in the last 2 months. I saw a hugely surreal opera called Skin Deep, Let Them Eat Cake by Gershwin and have just come back from the ballet, which was gorgeous and which I could go on about forever.
25. See live music once a month Well, the opera, and a reggae band and the OSA, again.
28. Read a new book every month. Temeraire by Naiomi Novak and The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. Both excellent.
This is all the interesting progress people. I have slipped a bit on one or two, but I think I'm doing ok.
