I survived the crowds!

So I have finished my present shopping for this year (yay! finally!). And I managed to do so without being trampled on by all the other people who were gift-buying on Christmas Eve, or the mobs of men in red costumes who always seem to be, well, everywhere. Yes, I know, by doing this I was contributing to the transformation of Christmas from religious holiday to commercial event, but still. It's nice when you leave things to the last minute but manage to get them done properly in time ...

I suppose I should take this opportunity to say to y'all, hope you're having a very merry Christmas, and had a happy Hannukah, and will have a happy New Year, and all the rest. And I hope your friends & families are all more harmonious around this time of year, after all that kind of thing is what Christmas is supposed to be about ... isn't it?

hot hot heat

as much as i hate to say it, and as much ridicule as i may receive for it, i am not a summer person. yes yes 27 degree days with a sea breeze are lovely but once it hits 35 and there's an easterly blustering about, there's nothing i can do to keep cool. we have aircon but i just cannot get to a comfortable temperature, i can wear next to nothing and still be melting. maybe it's because i'm english but in my defense i left england when i was 6 and should be used to the sun by now... curses on these 38 degree days! curses i say. i want one of those evaporating air con thinggies for my room but they're like $150, which i could afford if i really really wanted to but i need a hair cut and christmas is just a week away and i still have gifts to buy for friends. since when did people buy presents for friends i never did this until i started uni, then i made friends with more people than i knew what to do with, so how do you know who to buy for? i don't want to buy for people who i won't see because they won't get their gifts until february when uni starts again, and i don't want to assume that i should non-gift a certain person only to find that they bought me something. stresses! i agree with orietta, christmas is too commercial, people should be happy they're alive not concerned about what's under the tree. with that, if i don't end up near the net for a few days i hope you all have a wonderful christmas and new years filled with tasty dinners, mince pies and plenty of custard!

love kat xx

Phase One complete!

I've been a tad busy lately, with work and, er, other stuff, so I've only just gotten started on my promise to change stuff. First has been to link to everyone's blogs ... I wasn't sure whether to create a separate list or mush it in with the profile links, which is what I've done. If you've any suggestions, do let me know :-)

I should point out that I made the new list manually, so if any of you change your display name or blog title, it will not update automatically; you'll have to tell me about it.

Also, Katio, I'm not sure what link to put for you. (p.s. are you still there? anyone heard from Katie? she's not posted here in a while ...)

I was going to start ranting, but I'd better not, although I will say that I'm happy on account of receiving free alcohol from my job last week, as well as receiving a nice letter of invitation to honours (yay me!). So in case anyone was wondering, things are going reasonably well in Hourann-land.

RESULTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Oh my god every body we can all breathe a sigh of relief now because the results are out!!!!!!!!!! okay even if anyone did badly, you can still breathe out because at least you know exactly how badly and can move onto step two which is to figure out how to fix the badness... but i am sure that everyone did GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am so excited and because it means i have officially finished my degree yay oh yay oh yay!!!!! is anyone else celebrating this fact? you'd all better be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i don't know about any of you guys but i have been checking the results like every day and for the last few days like 3 or 4 times a day, it was getting a bit obsessive. now i just don't know what to do with all my free time!!!!!!

as an aside, i think i found a wikked picture to put on our blog. i am in the process of obtaining permission to use it because my friend made it - but it was from photos taken at my house!

anyways cheers to all and merry working for all us retail folkies!!

and humbug to retail christmases
and merry christmas to real christmases

oh i am just so happy
i am beside myself with joy!

and even better the pricky guy at work has received some just deserts today, turning up to work drunky. hehehehe.

oh today is a lovely day......

Call for Submissions (or something)

As promised, now that exams are over and I'm less busy (ha! lies, I tell you!) ... I will now devote some time to making this blog more, er, cool. However, I figure it might be nice of me to get some of your opinions before doing so.

One possibility is changing the template, although many of you seemed quite impressed by this one ...? Anyway I'm quite happy to construct a new one from stratch, if of course y'all want that. If so, I'll need some idea of what you want, perhaps examples of Web sites you think look cool and that I should emulate.

Some other, less major changes that might be worthwhile are ...

• adding links to everyone's blogs
• a list of links to what we agree to be cool sites -- if we can in fact agree on that
• pictures? I'm not sure of what, but we're currently devoid of pictures, so maybe something would be good
• changes to the "about this blog" text, suggestions welcome

So. Please tell me your opinions! Let the pseudo-democratic debate begin (or something like that)!