I got a pitch email earlier from an SEO company saying ‘your Instagram is great and deserves to be seen by more than 186 people!’ I nearly replied with ‘actually that’s 185 people, get with the programme – some new bookstagram account followed me yesterday and has since disappeared back to the Instasphere. Thanks for […]
Tag: ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’
Is It Just Me or Do the Olympics Prompt a Breakdown
I’ve been having really odd reactions to the Olympics so please help me out and tell me if you’ve experienced anything similar (no, I’m not talking about checking out the Team GB diving team, although I do encourage you to do that). When I’m watching TV, usually with a plate of food or a cup of […]
Review: ‘Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe’, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
This is a spoiler-free review except for the bits you can guess from the title. Oh look, something else I originally saw on Tumblr, probably courtesy of feistiest. You know how they say you should never judge a book by its cover, but we all do? With this, the cover – by Chloë Foglia -made me […]
Going Back to Hell 101
No one ever did confess to being under the age of 11 so I’m going to assume you guys are in the same-ish age bracket as me and are school-age. By ‘school age’ I mean ‘in compulsory education’. I’m technically university age but am also technically on a gap year and I don’t have a clue how […]
No Site For Weaklings
We’ve started the religious experience topic in RS, and today we looked at proof. Here is an extract of my notes: If someone experiences an entity, then the entity exists. (I have conversations with characters, then the characters exist…) It took me a few minutes to figure out why Thank You God was playing in […]
A Word on Today and Some Other Days
The ‘start’ of My Chemical Romance has always been 11th September 2001. Unless you think it though, anyway, and then it’s more “sometime between 9/11 and 23rd July 2002 when their first album came out” (9/11 was the catalyst but I kind of think that it took five people making noise to properly get it going, […]
Holiday Post 2013 #2: Indifferent Ignorance Awards 2012
I never published the Awards at the end of 2012 because there was so much going on, but having taken eight months to get my shit done, I think it’s time to celebrate 2012. Comedian of the Year: Tim Minchin I was seriously worried that I was going to fail my Maths GCSE because I […]