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Daisy and co.
We have mice! Got in last night to find my flatmate with her feet firmly on the sofa and out of
rodent reach. A wee mouse had crept out from under the fridge, run across the floor and under the
dishwasher while K was sitting on the sofa chatting on the phone... I pity whoever got an earful of her shriek
when she saw it. "I've named it Daisy." she said. Good choice of name, for a mouse, I thought.
Apparently it was a rather sizeable mouse, at which point I wondered (out loud, and to a fearful look from K)
whether it was perhaps a female mouse, and whether or not she might be pregnant.
Advice on what to do with our new inhabitants has been varied, and says a lot about the people it came from I think.
"Kill them. Leave poison around and let it work. The house will stink for a while afterwards though as
the bodies will be rotting under the floorboards/behind the dishwasher though."
Ew. We thought.
"Get humane mouse traps and put chocolate in them"
Chocolate?? We asked.
"Yes, apparently the cheese thing is a myth. Mice like chocolate."
So the latter is what we're doing. Two little choc filled traps have been set to trap Daisy and her friends/children, and
we'll then release them into the wild (our back garden). If we do see more small baby mice we've decided to stick to names with a Victoriana feel - Annabell, Maisy, Anne, etc.
Very much in keeping with my Victoriana style I'm doing today - am currently sporting a 150 year old cape with black
beading and ribbon around the top. Treat!
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The boss wears Alberta Feretti
The week before I started my fashion magazine job I saw my New Yorkian cousin. On informing her of my new
job, she congratulated me and said
"Oh, you absolutely MUST read 'the devil wears Prada'" Which, it turns out, is a book written by Anna Wintor's
former personal assistant about the hellish year she spent running around after The Most Important Woman in Fashion.
It's proper easy-read chick lit, but I couldn't put it down - i read it every lunch time/tube journey during my first
week and I'd finished it by the Friday. Lauren Weisberger's world of Runway magazine is clearly exaggerated, but the similarities that
there were between the book and my new place of work were not lost on me.
Fashion parties, cars here and there, bikes picking up the most random of objets, rails and rails of clothes, shoes, bags,
photographers, but also the mundane and unglamorous stuff... champagne may be glamorous, orgainising the logistics of moving eleven cases of
the stuff from an event to the office and organising it's storeage is not.
So today it is, that one of the other assistants is absent and I am dealing with the Editor's daughter who's fallen down and cut herself at school
this morning... entertaining the under tens... it's all part of the job! And it still beats any other job I've ever done...
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http://www.fazed.com/chopper/index.html
http://www.fazed.com/chopper/index.html
Pat says:
hello there!
Jamie says:
hello
Jamie says:
hows home?
Pat says:
cosy
Pat says:
nice
Pat says:
i just got a cup of tea brought to me.
Pat says:
Mums are great, aren't they?
Jamie says:
definately!
Jamie says:
do you have a dog there too?
Pat says:
I wish!
Jamie says:
i like going home to see our dog
Jamie says:
hamster?
Pat says:
Oh, I LOVE dogs. One day, when i have a proper house etc will have one
Jamie says:
me too
Pat says:
nah, I used to have two fish though
Jamie says:
not quite as exciting....
Pat says:
I got so upset when they died tho I'm not sure how much use I'd be with dealing with a dog lengthed life
Jamie says:
it was VERY VERY sad when our dog passed away
Jamie says:
lets not go there
Pat says:
ok.
Jamie says:
happy stuff
Pat says:
tell me about gardens?
Pat says:
Is it fun there?
Pat says:
Never been to kew
Jamie says:
oh its very cool
Jamie says:
you have to come sometime, its 300 acres approx
Jamie says:
the glass houses are nice and warm at this time of year
Pat says:
Maybe I'll come on one of my days off.
Pat says:
I've only taken today off this week, so it's back down to londinium ce soir
Pat says:
and work tomoz
Jamie says:
what work do you do?
Pat says:
work on a magazine
Pat says:
new job
Pat says:
only been there a month
Jamie says:
oh cool, what magazine?
Pat says:
Chicken Breeders Monthly
Pat says:
(not really!!!)
Jamie says:
i have a subscription to that
Pat says:
hahahaha
Jamie says:
i loved the october gizzard pull out
Pat says:
shit
Pat says:
ooops!
Jamie says:
its on my wall
Pat says:
yikes!
Pat says:
Glad you liked it!
Jamie says:
what magazine?
Pat says:
oh, just a magazine, it's a fashion one. Anyway.
Pat says:
what was on at 93 ft east ?
Jamie says:
cool, i run a fashion magazine website
Jamie says:
erm cant remember the DJs name
Jamie says:
but hip hop break beaty stuff
Pat says:
I haven't been there for TIME
Pat says:
Used to go quite a bit - ever been to any of the sizzla parties they used to do?
Jamie says:
nope
Jamie says:
http://www.fazed.com/fashion
Pat says:
they was fun... did one with a us western theme with line dancing and evthg!
Pat says:
twas hilarious... just lookin at your site, ang on
Jamie says:
its a good atmosphere there, bit of a bugger to get home though
Pat says:
you live west i take it?
Jamie says:
yup wandsworth nr clapham
Pat says:
ah ok.
Pat says:
What do you do for that there site?
Jamie says:
its mine
Pat says:
like as in
Pat says:
it's all mine mwah ha ha ah aha!
Pat says:
kinda ting?
Jamie says:
yup
Jamie says:
just like that but less evil
Pat says:
oh ok.
Pat says:
why and wherefores?
Jamie says:
was editor of my uni newspaper, wanted to continue publishing afterwards. Set up a website and it has evelved over 4 years to this
Jamie says:
people write from all over the place, gets about 2500 people to it a day
Jamie says:
and i have some section editors
Pat says:
ooo, lovely... i am in the process of trying to start up a fashion blog
Jamie says:
still lots of work to be done, but its fun
Pat says:
one of my mates has agreed to teach me how to build web pages and the like
Jamie says:
why not just have a fashion column on fazed?
Jamie says:
Pat says:
could do...
Pat says:
but...
Jamie says:
lots of readers
Pat says:
i might be crap
Pat says:
!
Jamie says:
could do it by blog
Pat says:
you know, chicken breeders is quite a specialised kinda market... not sure I'm up to the fashion mkt just yet!
Jamie says:
heres a blog my friend publishes on fazed: http://www.fazed.com/chopper/index.html
Pat says:
I'd let you have a look at my current blog, but, well, it's kinda, well.
Jamie says:
he uses a standard template, but you will no doubt make yours jazzy
Pat says:
not that jazzy
Jamie says:
this is a good fashion blog: http://www.myfashionlife.com/
Pat says:
i did write a bit about the paris shows on mine
Pat says:
but I'm not committed enough
Pat says:
I got some pretty cool shots of backstage chez Vivenne Westwood tho
Jamie says:
can i see?
Pat says:
I dunno... I'm kinda weird about my blog
Jamie says:
or just kinda weird generally?
Pat says:
mind you, i don't think there's anything that personal on there these days
Pat says:
yeah, ok, you sussed me
Pat says:
weird generally
Jamie says:
Pat says:
Jamie says:
all the best people are
Pat says:
oh you are too!
Jamie says:
watch it...
Pat says:
haha
Jamie says:
are you a journalist?
Pat says:
not yet
Jamie says:
or photographer?
Jamie says:
or what?
Pat says:
nup
Pat says:
I am a lowley tea making assistant at the moment
Pat says:
but you gotta start somewhere...
Jamie says:
how are you working towards not being?
Pat says:
working on my networking skills
Jamie says:
I am starting a post grad diploma in journalism in jan all things going well
Pat says:
I am the crappest networker int he whole entire history of the universe
Pat says:
where you doing it?
Jamie says:
LSJ
Jamie says:
but its not definate
Jamie says:
my work have said they will pay half
Pat says:
that's brillliant!
Pat says:
it's so expensive. I did look at MAs in fashion journalism at LCF, but to be honest, I don't know if I want to do a course that's so specialised
Pat says:
everyone I know who's actually studied fashion journo/promo has ended up hating it and gone to work in music or some such
Jamie says:
general is best i think if you already have that foot in the door which you seem to
Pat says:
yeah, am pretty lucky as if I hadn't got this job it would've been the whole hideous work experience thing.
Pat says:
Yuckity yuck!
Pat says:
doll, I'm gonna scoot...
Jamie says:
aww
Jamie says:
good to meet you
Pat says:
I know but I'm wasting my day off in front of my puta!
Pat says:
and you...
Jamie says:
we seem to have a bit in common
Pat says:
let's talk fashion soon?
Jamie says:
yup
Jamie says:
let me know if you can make it to kew on a day off
Pat says:
ok!
Jamie says:
i'll meet you for lunch in the orangery
Pat says:
ooo, treat!
Pat says:
bisous,
Pat says:
x
Jamie says:
50 % discount doncha know
Jamie says:
byeee x
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Mystery message
Woke up this morning turned on my phone and it bleeped with a text message.
"A date for your diaries. I am having a party to celebrate my divorce - well practically darlings! 27th nov details to follow..."
sender +447776******
sent 23:52:02
08/11/2004
Number not recognised by my phone. I would normally be inclined to think that someone had programmed my number acciddentally into their phone,
believing it to be someone elses. However, the text was perfectly spelled, punctuated, and bore all the linguistic signs of someone I would be friends with.
But I am mystified. Who could it be?
The indications of the word 'darlings' is significant. This means it's either
a) A girl who understands the value of campness
b) One of my gay boy friends, (but I'm pretty sure I have all their numbers so can't be that, surely)
or c) A straight boy who is getting 'practically divorced' because he's finally discovered his inner gay boy is actually his out sexuality.
Also, who do I know that's married? Or 'practically' married? What does prractically married mean in any case?
Is it cohabiting? Does this mean it was b), a gay boy who was living avec partenair...
And most importantly why do I not have their number in my phone?
My first reaction was to text back and say "Who are you?", however, what if it's someone whose number isn't in my phone because they're an
ex-friend who I've culled at some point in the past?
Do I phone up from work where the number will read "withheld number" and see if i can discern who it is when they pick up, and quickly hang up
if needs be...
whatever to do?
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Whatever happened to...
Lady Cat?
Threesixfive was one of my most favourite must read blogs and now she has well and truly fallen off the edge of the internet... can't find hardly any evidence of her fabulousness on google, just one lone picture which i can't seem to copy for your enjoyment... the visual quality of 20six has without a doubt diminished since she crept out the cat flap never to return...
She popped up in my inbox while I was in Paris to tell me about the St Paul's pillow fight and I remembered how much I miss reading her...
Anyone know what happened?
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Yowzers...
Almost exactly a year a go I was having this career conundrum mill about my mind: hmmmm?
I have just found out that I've got a new job... one which could well lead me to where I want to be. This is a) amazing and b) very fucking scary. Not least because I have spent the last three years meandering through banking/teaching/temping which has generally meant dossing/netsurfing/faffing. As of Monday, it's all change. I will be an offical employee of a fash mag, and have to prove to a whole lotta people that they did the right thing by taking someone on with an interest in the job rather than experience in it.
More importantly - whatever will I wear???
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Let's get Political
Right you lot... this is a fan-fucking-tastic idea from the Guardian on how lil' ol' you and me over here in Blighty can get who we want in the White House. Basically, you sign up and they send you the email addie of someone on the US Electoral role... it's then up to you to use your charm and way with words (and I know there are a lot of you who have the gift of gab and keyboard) to convince them to get who you want into office. They Guardian are being all non commital about it but clearly, the idea is to get that fuck witted monkey man on his bike.
Go here: BIN BUSH!!! and all will be explained...
Do it! You know it makes sense...
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