random acts of senseless beauty

VERY FUNNY BLOG
The Prime Minister of Australia has a blog! If you’ve got a moment, please try and check it out here.
It helps if you have a basic understanding of Aussie politics, but it’s funny none the less.

FRUSTRATION STATION
I’m becoming bored with my lack of time
I have so much I’d like to get down
about people who dance really badly at gigs and make me presume all kind of things about their homelife
about pinky goldy purply skies at a certain time of the morning
about how wonderful it is to be known by name. [...]

WOT NO BLOG?
I’m busy at the moment. You know… work and stuff.
But I know that I want to write about Rainbows (with witty quotes from Dolly Parton/Daivd Brent), Queens Of The Stone Age, and drunk men in checked shirts in nighclubs. Oh, and probably how evil band management companies are.
So think on those [...]

REALITY BITES
I’m a bit of a loser when it comes down to it. I have to admit that I am somewhat addicted to a couple of Reality TV shows. I was a Big Brother Fiend from the offset. I think because I missed the very first 2 weeks of the very first series, and [...]

WIBBLE WOBBLE
I had my first real wobble last night. That is I had the moment when I suddenly said “oh fuck, I’m actually 30″ and then burst into tears. I got over it pretty quickly; I mean, I’m no different from how I was three days ago am I? I don’t feel [...]

PARTY FEARS (TOO)
Tomorrow is a big day. I’m turning 30. I’m pretty ok about it… well on most days. Then I have the days where it suddenly strikes me that I’m a hopeless, single, 30 year old with no house and a job she’s bored with. I have no direction for [...]

FEELING SMUG
I’m feeling pretty smug right now ’cause I set up the comments thing at the bottom of each entry. Well… Maybe I had a wee bit of help (thanks Hilary!) but it now means that anyone who reads my rubbish can be really rude to me.
Or encouraging.
Or just say hello.
Whatever.

RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS BEAUTY
I often wish I was a little more free-spirited; or a little less conventional. Less constrained by society. I�d stop randomly in the middle of the street and stare at the things that strike me as beautiful. The things that wake you up to being alive, just when [...]

I just interviewed a woman who is HIV positive. She�s been positive for 12 years now, and when she first was diagnosed told only her very closest friends; a group of 5 people who �lived in each others pockets�. It was them that pushed her to open up, because they could tell [...]

WORRY
I’m worried a lot at present. Stuff that’s keeping me awake at night. Not all night mind you… just enought to make me feel uncomfortable in those moments of quiet when your thoughts are all you have for company.
I’m actually in Belfast for a four day weekend to get away from home for [...]

BEING A GEEK
I got called a geek the other day. By a guy who works on our website of all things (us being Radio 1 who I work for… and the site is on the list of links over there > ). Damn cheek. But I guess I am a geek. [...]

ON BEING SICK (ONLY FOR THE STRONG OF STOMACH)
I’m sick. I haven’t felt this bad in quite a long time. I babysat my nieces at the weekend (Liberty, 3 and 3/4; Anastasia, 7 mths) and they had both picked up a bit of a tummy bug. My brother felt really ill on [...]

I’M ON THE TRAIN…
I love my mobile phone. I find it hard to be without it, and life in London is much easier to navigate since the days of having to stand waiting for up to an hour in the cold because your mate is stuck on a bus in Kensington and can’t [...]

How come it comes so easily from time to time to just lie? Fidget and blush and let out a great big whopper of a lie. It�s even easier on the phone. �um.. yeah� I�m sorry I can�t make it tonight but some vague emergency has happened with my family that you�re [...]

I�m living temporarily at my friend Sarah�s flat in Maida Vale. It�s a beautiful, cluttered, higgledy-piggldey and homely place. It�s in a quiet street and the suburb has a strange feeling of serenity about it� particularly after the comfortable squalor of Shepherds Bush that I�ve been used to for the past 6 years. [...]