An Addendum

The point I was making in writing “Self-Proclaimed” is made so much more succinctly here, so read it!

Real posts coming soon, I promise – life is rather getting in the way at the moment!

Self-Proclaimed

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If you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think you are working.

 -Katherine Paterson

Something that always seems to come up in the Blogosphere, often from disgruntled commenters, “trolls” and the like, is this notion that bloggers can’t call themselves writers unless [...]

Lime Crime Drama

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I’d like to open this by saying that if you’re totally sick of hearing about this by now, I’m sorry, and the rest of this article is under a cut so you can ignore it!

Lent

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Throughout my life I’ve had something of an odd relationship with Lent. Brought up a Catholic, giving something up for the 40 days before Easter was something encouraged, but my parents’ weren’t the types to force it on me, believing that it was something I had to do for myself [...]

Snow Days

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It’s times like these I really start to wonder what the rest of the world must think of the UK! Despite having nowhere near as much snow as other countries get on a regular basis at this time of year, and despite the total inevitability of the odd [...]

Thoughts on Size Acceptance

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Totally uninspiring title I know, but I couldn’t really think of anything better! I wrote a lengthy draft post containing my personal observations and impressions of the Fat Acceptance movement that seems to be growing in popularity at the moment, however I decided to scrap that because of [...]

The Mineral Makeup Mutiny

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I have noticed quite a few searches for phrases relating to the Lime Crime drama that’s currently erupting throughout the blogosphere. I don’t really feel qualified to comment since this from what I’ve read (and I must admit, I do enjoy a bit of good old Internet drama from time [...]

Skeptic or Scientist?

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Do you believe in the spirit world?

This post was inspired by a conversation with a work colleague concerning the new series of Most Haunted which is on TV at the moment. This series they’re doing different “scientific” experiments to try and prove the existence of spirits “haunting” [...]

Chip on Your Shoulder?

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There’s a chip on my shoulder,
And it’s big as a boulder.
With the chance I’ve been given,
I’m gonna be driven as hell.

(“Chip on My Shoulder” from Legally Blonde: The Musical)

I’m a law student who loves chick flicks and musicals, so naturally I’m super-excited that Legally Blonde: The Musical [...]

The Copycat Debate

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Have you ever taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test? For those of you that don’t know of it (and can’t be bothered to click through to the Wiki entry) it’s basically a long version of those personality tests you see all over facebook, only this one was developed with a [...]