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Me and The Rebel Alliance.

It's Sunday night and so far my daily accomplishments have been:

• Slept in
• Watched the Eastenders omnibus
• Went to Tesco
• ...bought a pumpkin for 98p (ritualistic carving ensues)
• Did some Cold War background reading for my Cold War mini-presentation tomorrow

Now Saturday was far more productive, on oh so many levels...

• Woke up at 7 am and attended a practical exercise as part of my postgrad course work
• Just before 1 pm I stood at a podium in front of 50+ people and forgot the entire English language! Blushing, flustered, rambling instead of coherently summarizing my group's result from the exercise...at one point I even uttered the phrase 'rebel alliance' before realizing that I was now referencing Star Wars! Deer caught in headlights would be the understatement of the year...Classic Sigga
• Consequently money was spent at Orla Kiely and beer was drunk and a movie was seen...
• Later on there was an interesting multi-cultural dinner party in Kensington (one floor below Mick Jagger's flat apparently) with Italian cuisine and the once and future king of the Republic of Congo :p

Dirty Dancing.

Some great movies are celebrating their birthdays this year so of course it's special DVD editions galore in the stores (oh and Virgin Megastore is now called Zilli or Zinni or something) so I caved today and bought Dirty Dancing (mostly due to the lovely pink packaging!)

*Cue music* She's like the wiiiind...

Later: OK so it's Zavvi...stupid name anyway

Halloween!

It's almost Halloween, my favourite non-holiday of the year! What to wear, what to wear...

I'm tempted to buy a pumpkin or two as well as one of those 'Halloween Boxes' from Waitrose that have plastic bats, spider webs etc to decorate the mansion, I'm sure my flatmates will be thrilled! ;)

Miss Chanandler Bong.

Had another Friends moment this afternoon when one of my neighbours knocked on my door as she had gotten one of my deliveries by mistake. "Is this you??" she said and held a handwritten note to my face, it read 'Miss Raymsdottr' and I can just imagine the puzzled look on my face! Then I looked at the parcel and there my name was, spelled quite correctly so I don't understand why my neighbour felt the need to 'correct' it...

Friends Trivia Game on YouTube

Stuff I'm loving right now.

• Muji Rose & Ylang Ylang Scented Tin Candle
• Californication
• This shelf and coffee table I just bought off Ebay...
• My Morning Jacket's version of Rocket Man
• My neighbourhood
• ...and I guess, to some extent, London.

My recently aquired shelf & table (pics off Ebay, not my room) :

Some more Whitney.

Courtesy of Matti: Whitney screws up the classics

Rugby fever part deux.

I watched the RWC final at a place in Islington called Shillibeer's, nice place with good food and nice atmosphere but that didn't change this night's results...*sniffles* England lost tonight's match and I just want to hug Johnny Wilkinson...

Rugby fever.

I have to say I'm getting quite excited about tomorrow's rugby match, England vs South-Africa..

My local Sainsbury's.

In Iceland you're lucky if the person at the register says 'hello' to you at your local supermarket, tonight I had a lengthy conversation in my local Sainsbury's about Whitney Houston and how she's wasted her life and talent, "I mean, it's alright to have a bit of fun but she was SO talented! You just don't do things like that!" my new friend exclaimed while singing along to 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' and bagging my groceries....

Horoscope.

This week's horoscope from The Onion [thank you Bethany for reminding me]:

"Capricorn December 22 - January 19  

The stars were going to predict the beginning of a lifelong romance for you this week, but they couldn't get through it without bursting into laughter."

How very true...