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So guess who just announced their Eurpean tour ?

Do you remember how crazy happy I was earlier this year when Cobra came to town? Do you remember how much of a fangirl I was? No probably not because if you were sensible you skipped my LJ on your flist that week.

I am waiting for zomboy6 to text me the hell back so we can start planning our February of fun. Oh and skulleena_rawks we are definitely doing the Manchester date and I am making you come whether you like it or not.

This time I will try not to make a tit out of myself in front of Vicky T. And this time Nick will probably sexually assualt Gabe. I can't wait.

I will spend the rest of my evening watching Cobra on youtube. God I really need to learn how to love the new album don't I?

It's getting to the point where if I don't get see Dananananakroyd play live soon I'm gonna go crazy. Here have a video.

Dananananaykroyd 'Black Wax' from Best Before Records on Vimeo.

I'm having an exceptionally bad day already and it's only 10.30. I can't even bring myself to fill out this job application form at work, maybe it's got something to do with the fact that I keep getting interrupted.

I wish I could watch Glee tonight.

For any comic nerds - you know that issue of American Splendor when Harvey fixes his own toilet and shouts at the end 'Today I am a Man!' ? Well... today I am a man! Or today I am a girl who fixed her toilet with a mop, a plastic bag and some sellotape thus creating a kind of giant plunger to plunge away my flatmate's poo that has been clogging up our toilet for a week. I was so impressed with my handywork after a week of not being able to use our toilet that I actually did a little whoop and a jump and wished there was someone nearby to give me a high five.

So now I'm totally into fixing things and diy I'm going to put up those shelves in my bedroom I've been procrastinating about for the past year.

I am slightly high this morning as I slept for a total of 2 hours on Monday night and had just over an hour's sleep last night (not counting the nap I had on the bus on the way home from work). I believe the technical term is 'frazzled' as in I am so exhausted I feel like I could die but at the same time have this crazy amount of energy that I just don't know what to do with.

The docs have told me that you aren't supposed to 'reward' insomnia i.e. if you can't sleep you aren't supposed to do something 'fun' like read or watch tv because your body gets trained to think that it's ok not to sleep. Instead you are supposed to do something awfully boring to make your body want to go to sleep. But I've come to accept the fact that I will have insomnia for the rest of my life and no amount of rewards or punishments to my body is going to alter that so I caved and started watching series 5 of the Wire to help me through the sleepless night.

My moods when I have insomnia are just mental, I am so hyper right now from drinking tea and having breakfast, my body is running on adrenaline and I'm a little bit high, it's always like this. After lunch I will crash and wish I was dead and my eyes will burn and I'll get the most awful headache and will want no contact with the general public. I'm trying this thing though where I don't take sleeping pills. The ones the doctor gave me knocked me out and made me feel like I was underwater for a few days, Nytol doesn't do shit except makes me feel hungover the next day after a sleepless night, and the herbal stuff just doesn't do anything. The only good thing about insomnia is the sudden burst of creativity I will suddenly have at 4 in the morning where I'll start playing bruce springsteen songs on my keyboard or start making zines that I never finish. I have a whole draw full of half finished zines fuelld by no sleep whatsoever so I've decided to put them all together as like the chronicles of my insomnia, except you know edit out the bad bits of band Peterick fics I've written, and stick them together. In fact if I don't sleep tonight then that is what I shall do.

If anyone else has insomnia and wants to contribute to my zine with stories or whatevs then that would be splendid as my voice alone gets rather boring after just a few pages.

I'm so happy and hyper - Bis have announced 3 more dates in December!! London 6th, Manchester 7th, Glasgow 8th!!!

So they broke up in 2003 and broke my heart, then they reformed for some 'one-off' gigs this year and broke my heart again, and now I have to go through all that pain again?? It's the best and the worst news all at the same time. Mostly I'm just so super happy though!!!

I'm off to Leeds festival tomorrow and I really can't think of anyone I want to see play tomorrow. I don't really want to see Ash to be honest as I hate festivals and that will be such a weird gig in comparisons to the others we've been to. But it's free so that's the main thing, I just wish I could be bothered.

My LJ is Friends Only because I don't like the idea of stalkers or co-workers reading about my wild and exciting social life. If you aren't a stalker or a co-worker and you wanna add me then leave me a comment here and I'll add you right back.
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