li'l miss consumer

So I've been really sporadic about posting. But I promise, I've been busy...living. Chugging along with the dissertation. In a three-hour session, only 15-20% is actually spent writing. The rest of the time is spent checking email or writing to people I haven't written to in ages, cleaning my room or getting a sudden urge to file through my bills and statements, downloading different applications for my laptop, listening to the traffic outside, making another cup of tea, or checking my nails for chips (from typing of course).

In the past week I have trekked to Bethnal Green to check out potential flats, watched 'The Machinist' with a philosophy PhD, consumed Haagen-Daaz in a muddy patch in the middle of Leicester Square, spent over an hour inspecting new duvet covers, repeatedly 'booked' my social calendar, read the most bizarre news articles - like this stone-throwing girl (WTF?!), watched tv programmes on OCD and cystic fibrosis, had a free manicure, and been in contact with most everyone I know either through email or phone.

Did I add that I think my new anthem is Liz Phair's 'Extraordinary'? That has to be the icing on the cake. I'm beginning to see the charm of the mainstream...

I'm so bourgeois it makes me sick.