{ I know my heart is a warning. }

The problem with travelling is that I get out of my already-sporadic habit of posting and then garner a reluctance towards starting up again. But anyway, yes, I went to Swansea and had a brilliant time with my cousin, V. Swansea University (and Swansea itself) is on the south coast of Wales so when you look out of V's windows you can see the sea. I arrived on Guy Fawkes' Night* and we went to to the beach where people had started up bonfires and were letting off fireworks. It was an amazing night, and the atmosphere was brilliant.

V and I spent the next couple of days just hanging out - a bit of shopping (the beach completely wrecked what was left of my shoes so I bought some boots, huzz), cooking, talking and watching films. We talked to The Sister on skype because Lancaster Uni had turned all its JCRs into 'chocolate factories' a la Willy Wonka. Chocolate shots, a fountain, cocktails &c. V & I decided we were obviously in the wrong place, heh.

Guy Fawkes tried to kill the king and blow up parliament in the 1600s. Being British, we commemorate this with a level of ambiguity - yay he failed, or yay he tried?

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Saw Up whilst in Swansea. What a beautiful film. It was both hilarious and dramatic, and I fucking love me some balloons. Hell yeah!

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My line manager was in Cambs on Tuesday. ( work rant )

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Oh, fandom.

Due to being in Swansea I didn't see the Spooks pre-air. I almost forgot that episode 2 was going to air last night. ( Spooks, 8x02 )

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Last week's NCIS was utterly delightful. Mike Franks! The Kelly! Surprise guest star at the end! FUCKIN' A. Unfortunately, Criminal Minds was deathly boring, so here's hoping last night's turns out to be better.

Weirdly, Glee has become the show that I most look forward to? This week is an Artie ep and I'm psyched, yo. It's about time; McHale's voice is amazing.

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Oh gosh, Mad Men! No spoilers but I loved it and laughed happily through the joyful parts. So damn satisfying!

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EBL is unwell so I'm on the platform at Ely waiting for my connection to Cambridge. I'm so ready for this flipfuck of a week to be over. It's going to depressing trying to get home tonight.

Up eventually: my second ever Yuletide letter, yay!

{ but you're still not sure about me. }

I actually started that post this morning with the intention of talking about Armistice Day but obviously I got side-tracked. But anyway, the 2-minute silence went off without a hitch but no-one actually stopped working which was in stark contrast to how things used to go at school. The 2-minute silence was a pretty powerful thing at school; the way everyone, regardless of what they were doing, would stop and shut up. It was beautiful, really. It reminds me of how we used to respond to the school bell, too. Very Pavlovian, I suppose, but also amazing in its regimentation.

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+ Rosemarie DeWitt and Ron Livingston got married!

+ I am eating chocolate which has invisible crushed wafer in it

+ IT IS AMAZING

+ everything else is terrible; je suis of crank

+ at present I strongly dislike everyone I work with

+ should probably stop listening to this song. New album in 2010 omg!

{ fire burnin', fire burnin' on the dance floor. }

OH MY. !!!!

With thanks to atlashrugged for bringing these amaaaaazing things to my attention. !!!!

And now to watch this week's episode, yay!