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I'm Claire and I'm usually bored with doing German. Was out there for a bit last year and I miss it lots.
This was me a while ago (in the stripy t shirt)
This took far too long whilst I should have been doing work. Oh well ...
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Oh, and I like paint, perhaps too much...
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I'm Claire and I'm usually bored with doing German. Was out there for a bit last year and I miss it lots.
This was me a while ago (in the stripy t shirt)
This took far too long whilst I should have been doing work. Oh well ...
and rapidly turned into
Oh, and I like paint, perhaps too much...
Recent front page messages:
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» Body Mods
Brain Piercing (kind of)
Not really a body mod by choice, but more one of necessity. But still one that provokes funny reactions sometimes.
When I was 18, just as I was about to sit my A-Levels, I wound up in hospital as they finally discovered the reason I was having trouble doing such challenging things as standing up and talking without severe head pain and being violently ill, was not in fact migraines, but something more. Cue three and a half weeks of various things being done to my head in hospital to ease the pressure within. The first one basically involved doctors drilling a hole through my skull to drain out the fluid (I still wish there was a video I could watch of this). This didn't actually work, but has to this day (four years later) left me with a big dent on the right hand side of my head.
You can't see it, but you can sure as hell feel it, as one poor hairdresser found out as she cried out "Oh my God, have I just done that?" whilst washing my hair about a year afterwards. I also figured an interesting way to introduce myself in Fresher's Week would be to mention said dent in head, which didn't really result in people remembering my name, but did result in lots of people touching my head and going "oooh" or "ergh", and me getting weird looks.
The bit at the back of my head is kind of the piercing bit. It's a pipe which goes into my brain and runs down my neck and into my stomach (technically called a shunt), therefore keeping me alive, and as I have also discovered, preventing me getting hangover headaches (yay for bonus side effects). This also resulted in my insistance that people "feel the pipe that runs down my neck" in the bar. There's no wonder I get funny looks sometimes.
But, hey, I'm assured the staples in my head looked really cool before they were removed, apparently just like Frankenstein. And well, I'm still here, and with crazy scars to boot, so I can't complain.
(Wed 6th Dec 2006, 16:24, More)
Brain Piercing (kind of)
Not really a body mod by choice, but more one of necessity. But still one that provokes funny reactions sometimes.
When I was 18, just as I was about to sit my A-Levels, I wound up in hospital as they finally discovered the reason I was having trouble doing such challenging things as standing up and talking without severe head pain and being violently ill, was not in fact migraines, but something more. Cue three and a half weeks of various things being done to my head in hospital to ease the pressure within. The first one basically involved doctors drilling a hole through my skull to drain out the fluid (I still wish there was a video I could watch of this). This didn't actually work, but has to this day (four years later) left me with a big dent on the right hand side of my head.
You can't see it, but you can sure as hell feel it, as one poor hairdresser found out as she cried out "Oh my God, have I just done that?" whilst washing my hair about a year afterwards. I also figured an interesting way to introduce myself in Fresher's Week would be to mention said dent in head, which didn't really result in people remembering my name, but did result in lots of people touching my head and going "oooh" or "ergh", and me getting weird looks.
The bit at the back of my head is kind of the piercing bit. It's a pipe which goes into my brain and runs down my neck and into my stomach (technically called a shunt), therefore keeping me alive, and as I have also discovered, preventing me getting hangover headaches (yay for bonus side effects). This also resulted in my insistance that people "feel the pipe that runs down my neck" in the bar. There's no wonder I get funny looks sometimes.
But, hey, I'm assured the staples in my head looked really cool before they were removed, apparently just like Frankenstein. And well, I'm still here, and with crazy scars to boot, so I can't complain.
(Wed 6th Dec 2006, 16:24, More)
» Useless advice
Death by knife licking
After being caught licking a knife by her dentist mother, a mate of mine was told if she kept doing that she'd cut her tongue, and you can't put a plaster on your tongue, so she'd bleed to death.
Not sure if that's medically accurate; but she's never licked a knife since and hasn't bled to death, so I guess it must be good advice.
(Thu 19th Oct 2006, 12:22, More)
Death by knife licking
After being caught licking a knife by her dentist mother, a mate of mine was told if she kept doing that she'd cut her tongue, and you can't put a plaster on your tongue, so she'd bleed to death.
Not sure if that's medically accurate; but she's never licked a knife since and hasn't bled to death, so I guess it must be good advice.
(Thu 19th Oct 2006, 12:22, More)
» Inappropriate crushes
Rowan Atkinson
In Blackadder II. It must be the shorts and the goatee that do it.
(Wed 4th Oct 2006, 16:48, More)
Rowan Atkinson
In Blackadder II. It must be the shorts and the goatee that do it.
(Wed 4th Oct 2006, 16:48, More)
» Inappropriate crushes
John McEnroe
not in his dodgy perm days, but now. And Kafka. One of my friends used to have a thing for John Thaw though. Which was just wrong.
(Mon 2nd Oct 2006, 13:16, More)
John McEnroe
not in his dodgy perm days, but now. And Kafka. One of my friends used to have a thing for John Thaw though. Which was just wrong.
(Mon 2nd Oct 2006, 13:16, More)