Can someone with a paid account please syndicate my new blog for me? It's at http://fingersandtoes.wordpress.com. Then all you people who won't read anything that's not on your lj friends page can catch up on what I've been up to in London! :P

What are some things I can do in Auckland? I'm always seeing neat indie designer shops and vintage shops and stuff in the magazines but of course I have no idea what any of them are called now or where they are. What else can I do up there that's fun? Let me know! And see you soon, Auckland!

Also, hi Wellington! I will be seeing you NEXT weekend! Same questions apply! So far on my list is Salsadrome on Friday night (Sarah - are you free?) and Shoc, which sounds like a pretty awesome chocolate shop. Bearing in mind I will probably have no money after Auckland, where should I go? (yes, I will probably go to Te Papa!)

I only post here when I want something!

I'm determined to get to the library at some stage today. Now, the library is only about 40 steps from the building I work in, so hopefully that won't be too hard!

So now it's up to you all to tell me what to borrow. Recommendations please!

yup, definitely a fake.

I'm getting a bit grumpy with gmail - they used to block all that kind of stuff, but I've been getting more spam than non-spam lately.

I'm usually pretty good at picking scams. I'm pretty sure this is a fake but if it is it's very good. Can anyone confirm/deny?

Comes from online@security.com and says:

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When I hover over the link, it actually links to http://203.143.16.149/icons/small/www.paypal.com/SecureInfo/paypal/index.php

Is anyone free on Saturday 26 August? If so, there are some lawyers who need your help! They need jurors to help out on their litigation skills training course. You'll need to be available from 9-5, and for that you will get morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch at a nearby hotel.

Go here:
http://www.lawyerseducation.org.nz/litskills/info.htm

for more info.

I wish I could do it because I've never been a juror before and this could be my only chance! Sadly I have lots of dancing on Saturdays so I can't.

I love the lj dungeon meme! Read this:

You are in a fog-shrouded pit.
You quaff the potion marked 'SALSA'. You suffer a momentary vision of merengue.

Brilliant!

There are a few here on my friends list who would probably really love my dungeon - everyone seems appropriately cast, for example furbaggy is an arch-demon! try it out: http://thesurrealist.co.uk/dungeon?user=sarahdotcom

I've just realised that my blog syndication has been getting a whole heap of comments I didn't know about because they don't get emailed to me. I will try to read them every so often, but if you want to KNOW I'll read a comment, click through and comment on blogger, where the comments DO get emailed to me.

Thank you!

ok, the syndication seems to be up and running. If you want to read the interesting stuff from now on, go here and add me:
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/fingers_n_toes/profile

10 people have already, thank you!

There will still be the odd friends-only stuff here, no doubt, and stuff when I want to get hold of people quickly, but actual *content* will be at the new blog.

which, by the way, no one has commented on yet. Who will be first?

You still want to read me? Add http://syndicated.livejournal.com/fingers_n_toes/ to your friends lists!

Lots n lots of thanks to mattmatt for creating the feed.

Everyone happy now? ;)

you8s

yays to eveyrone dooing well. UI can't say too mucgh bachase i'm druinkg. yass. yays. taht's ribt, go you guyes. hey! I
m pround of you.

bah! I'll be gone as soon as someone tells me how to delete my journal!

I'll be back after the boycott (48 hours or something). After that I'll look for a new permanent home.

So what is WITH livejournal?

today's the 6th, I'm deleting as soon as a few people have had a chance to read this post and know what's going on.

TWO reasons now - the breastfeeding icon issue and Caleb's suspension. And actually, does anyone remember that when LJ was bought by SixApart they said that there would never be ads? Six months later, ADS everywhere!

Part of the reason I haven't updated much lately is that I'm just not happy with lj any more. If it wasn't for all of the real-life friends I have who are on lj I would have moved long ago.

Thanks for all of the lovely birthday wishes, text messages etc everyone! I had a great day up in Taupo with the girls. Lots of good food, shopping, catching up and hot pooling! Check out the hot pools and the other highlight Orakei Korako - the photos on that site just do not do it justice, it was incredible!

So apparently my office has become quite coveted. A senior solicitor with a big office and a good view on the other side of the building said he'd rather have my office, and apparently my supervising partner spent a while working in here on my day off last week. And was joined by another partner for a while as well.

You know why?

Because I get sun, all day long. Ha!


Something that only pinkity will fully get: togs togs togs UNDIES!

oh and yes I had a good weekend ;)

I'm so terrible about telling people what I'm up to! This weekend I'm off up to Rotorua to Jambalaya (www.jambalaya.co.nz). I'll be dancing all day, every day - this is going to be tough!

Have a great Easter everyone!

Hmm, didn't do too badly on this one, although I'm ashamed I've never read some of them!  If someone could lend me the Life of Pi that would be great, I'm trying to get my hands on it at the moment.

Meme instructions: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won't, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around the ones you've never even heard of.

(edit: I don't have a bookshelf at the moment, being homeless and all, but I've underlined the ones I have in boxes.  hmm, that's not many)

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
(The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini)
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
(Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(Atonement - Ian McEwan)
(The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert

So the other day at Madison Square Garden Billy Joel gave his first concert since the one I went to on New Year's Eve 1999. My cousin Jessie's actually really good friends with Billy Joel's daughter, they went to PCS together. Jess refuses to take advantage of the friendship though so wouldn't get tickets and won't introduce Jean (my aunt) to Billy Joel. (aside - Jean won't introduce Jessie to our cousin, Nellee Hooper, so they're even!)

Anyway, I think they managed to get free tickets through some other channel. They were on the subway on the way to the show when this guy started walking up and down waving a ticket around: "Billy Joel ticket, Billy Joel ticket". He got close to Jean and she asked how much he wanted for it. "Oh, it's not for sale", he said, "I just found it on the ground. Are you going to the concert?" And he gave them the ticket.

Jess tried to call her friends to get them to come to the show, but I guess since they were in the subway she couldn't get through to any of them. They got to Madison Square Garden and tens of thousands of people were milling around. Jean noticed an upset-looking woman talking to a couple of officials. She went over, and it turned out the woman had lost her ticket. When Jean got her spare ticket out, it was exactly the ticket the woman had lost - the seat numbers matched those of the people she was with.

By this time Jean and Jess were quite late to get into the show, so the officials said "come with us, we'll find you a seat". Their new seats were in the front row, right by the piano.

New York really is a magical place.

also, remind me that I have to tell a cool new york story.

man I miss new york sometimes. new york stories just don't happen in christchurch