Insomnia + aching claw + new camera lens = random late night snaps!

Helloooooo there. I'm pretty bored right now, but luckily I've got friends lovely enough to entertain me and cook haggis for me, and allow me to very cheekily steal their triple word score on Scrabble. And all because of my stump! [Hi stump waving at me in that there picture. Also that's me just casually wearing a pore strip on my face, I didn't manage to get the surgeons to have a quick fiddle while I was under.]

Also getting me through this is Adele's new album - so good. So so good. She's got the kind of voice that's just comforting and settling and yet still makes you swing your hips about without even realising.

Adele - Someone Like You

Sooooo.....I had a slight mishap with an improperly opened can of grapefruit - cue several A&E visits and an emergency surgery and I'm nearly good as new! Apart from a couple of weeks without the use of my right hand (no driving, writing, cooking, wearing liquid eyeliner) - which does put a slight dampener on blogging.

See you sporadically!

Making ridiculous fancy coffees is an excellent form of procrastination. Other brilliant procrastinatory activites include: Twitter, making several pots of tea, having a nap due to too much tea, and rearranging teacups. What a good student I am.

It's that time of year again. Library time! And January, I guess. 

So here comes revision, and isn't it much nicer to study by ambient candlelight, than by the unflattering bright lights of the library at night? Yes, it's also much douchier, but one must accept these things.

So as I sit, trying to ram knowledge into my brain, my mind tends to wander to more delightful things. Such as what I want to do in 2011:

Have an afternoon tea party
Have a picnic in some beautiful gardens
Paint my face like a slow loris, and then reenact the 'Slow loris loves being tickled' video
Make a stop motion video
Take my big camera out more! And snap more impromptu things
Visit antiques fairs, dressed in tweed and flat caps.
Climb a tree (I say this every year)

 Climb Arthur's Seat and watch the sun rise over Edinburgh
Go to the zoo and look at penguins. Try to find a slow loris.

I'm sure more things will pop into my head as I procrastinate...

Bombay Bicycle Club - Motel Blues

Villagers - Becoming A Jackal

Wolf Gang - Lions In Cages

I'm feeling a little guilty about my lack of recent posts. A little lazy. Although my twitter has never been so active - there's something to be said for the immediate and inane nature of twitter chat.  So here [to make up for it] is a little list of my favourite songs of 2010. Enjoy.

Alex Winston - Pull My Heart Away

Alexander - Truth

Darwin Deez - Bad Day

David Vertesi -All Night, All Night, All Night

Emanuel And The Fear - Simple Eyes

Emy Reynolds -Tonight

Feldberg - You & Me

Freelance Whales - Hannah

James Vincent McMorrow - If I Had A Boat

Josh Ritter - Change Of Time

Kid Cudi - Erase Me

Lisa Mitchell - Clean White Love

Local Natives - Airplanes

The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin

Nathaniel Rateliff - Oil & Lavender

Noah And The Whale - The First Days Of Spring

Radical Face - Welcome Home, Son

Robert Francis - Junebug

Sarah Jaffe - Clementine

School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep

Sia - My Love

Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill

So....I've been pretty incognito again. I can't help it! I find revising cardiology RIVETING. 

All sarcasm aside, I hope you had a lovely Christmas. I...did? Christmas to me is always more than just the 25th, it's the run up to it, so I guess I had a fabulous Christmas, all things considered!

Santa brought me a pasta machine and a cake stand, amongst other goodies, and I bought myself some big dickhead headphones which I am loving [despite blocking out all railway announcements].

This tune is absolutely AMAZING with headphones. In my own little world.

Blake Mills - Wintersong