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On and Off. From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (426 days old)

Christ: I didn't notice quite how many ads there are on this site. Therefore, and because Amber seemed rather annoyed by them, follow me if you will to Livejournal, where I am setting up shop despite … more

On Sicily, of course. What else? From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (437 days old)

Actually, it was rather annoying: even when I was sitting on the side of the pool in Sicily, knee deep in cold water and in the shade of a tree that may have been a palm tree and may have been a banan… more

On Yesterday. From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (455 days old)

Here is a fact: yesterday, Legoland was closed due to drainage problems. And here is an opinion: that'd be bad, but yesterday was good anyway, because Kew gardens is. And here is an aside: I was ha… more

On Why the Past Eleven Days Have Me Smiling From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (464 days old)

God: the one thing I love about the summer holidays is how normal and natural life suddenly becomes. It may be the sleep. Not having to wake up in time to be late to school means I tend to dream more,… more

On Heads and Portals. From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (476 days old)

I managed to bump my head twice today, badly, and now it hurts to raise my eyebrows. Ouch. However, it is a good day! It is a good day for the summer holidays are upon us; it is a good day becau… more

On my week, in one hundred words, plus these ten. From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (477 days old)

Wednesday through Thursday were spent at work, doing a million and one things. On Friday, I played communal Solitaire; I like working the till a lot. The weekend was spent swapping e-mails with OtherD… more

A Dramatisation of My Thoughts, With Notes From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (485 days old)

Saoirse1: Oh, are we blogging, then? Saoirse2: Yeah, well, it's been a week. I mean we really should have blogged on Thursday- Saoirse1: Ah, yes, the Birthday. Are you mentioning that? Saoirse2: Uh… more

On Post-Marxism Happiness From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (492 days old)

So! So! So! Marxism! Right! (And here is the fight for coherency.) The entire event was incredible. The meetings were great, the debate was fascinating, the people were brilliant (and even… more

On Boom de Yada and Nothing Else (What Could Follow Boom de Yada?) From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (497 days old)

Seen the Discovery Channel's latest advert? Well, you should. Other than that: It's the last week before work experience, so everything's been crazy-busy coursework-wise while remaining pretty q… more

On The London Debate Challenge Finals. From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (506 days old)

Second place is far from bad when the winning team was a grammar school. Eliezer, Miles and Pritesh were amazing. Go QPCS! Go Brent! Damn Grammar School Zombies. … more

Stream-of-thought post. From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (518 days old)

It's amazing how often I find myself defending the earthly. I'm always arguing that we need to disregard religion or ceremony or tradition in the name of saving lives, of ending war and poverty and mu… more

On Community and Whot From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (521 days old)

Since I wish to lose no geek points, here is the follow-up post for yesterday. We- Amber and I- went to the place in-between platforms thirteen and fourteen of Waterloo station, where we found a wh… more

On Nerdiness and Murder From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (522 days old)

I thought I had something vitally important to blog, but on inspection, it turns out it's just that I dreamed I promised Alice I'd blog about my week. Which would have been a brilliant post. I'd st… more

On Reasons to Say, "w00t" Without Sarcasm. From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (527 days old)

Ha, yes. We- QPCS's debate club- won the Brent Heats. We are, sometime this month, going through to the London ones. Oh, dear Lord! This is... this is good. This is very good. This is brilliant, th… more

On John Thomas From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (530 days old)

I have found a birth certificate, in amongst the papers my father left behind him. The birth certificate for a John Thomas Mac Dermott. Born in Londonderry in 1950, three years before my father. He is… more

On three things. From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (531 days old)

My new favourite word is "aleatoric". It is six months since my father died. I feel fine. … more

On Mild but Annoying Loss and Other Things From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (546 days old)

The debate teams (James, Pritesh and Giggy for the, ur, "junior" debate, and Sarah (since Otis abandoned us), Miles and I for the "senior" debate) lost pretty damn badly against Hamstead today. The mo… more

On London From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (556 days old)

LMHR was wonderful, and long ago now, but still great. I promised I'd mention the guy who both played the flute and beatboxed at the same time, since he was so obviously the highlight. But it turne… more

On (why is this house so dark?) From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (582 days old)

I bought a dress today, a dress that deserves a "the", a dress with its own soundtrack (The Boy With the Arab Strap, by Belle and Sebastian, I was thinking), a dress that changes the entire way you th… more

On Losing, Winning, and Winning Again. From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (588 days old)

So today was the debates against the Jew's Free School (name recently changed from Jewish Free School, for obvious reasons.) The title is the results. Yay! The year eights lost, but by barely anyth… more

On "ooh"ey things. From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (591 days old)

Oooh- The Sims 3 has recently been announced! And it looks wonderful. I mean, yeah, there's a lot of emphasis on making it more game-like, which I would love to say annoys me because I am one of th… more

A Remarkably Short Note (Not On Anything). From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (598 days old)

Jesus Christ, it's like in all the films! Finally, a proper white Easter! (Is it snowing this much in London?!) Happy Easter, blog readers. … more

On the thankfulness for Fridays From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (607 days old)

It's been a long nine days since I last blogged. Why? Because there has been History Film Club, and annoying revision lessons for the upcoming end-of-years, and International(e) Evening, and the Ha… more

Well, I made the team for the year ten's Hamstead debate which is, of course, "This house feels the 2012 London Olympics should be cancelled", with us on proposition. It's a badly worded motion,… more

On Purple Jeans...No, actually, I didn't buy them, and I wasn't planning on mentioning them. So: On Shires, Clouds, Escape Artists Incorparated, and something else.. From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (633 days old)

Hullo! Three things to blog about today, and structure is always meant to be a good thing. So, in this blog I shall: 1- Discuss Cambridge and its Shire, including a short mention of the Genius … more

On 394 From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (640 days old)

So, yesterday, Emily and I went with Sophia to The Otherwise Club Ball (Ur, it's a club for HSE people, who are, by the way, utterly normal and very good at coping and being sociable when meeting new … more

On Coincidences That Are Good. From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (644 days old)

Don't you love it when, in a moment, two completely different long-term strands of thought are pulled together? By an author blogging about your favourite song, or a quote you know being found in anot… more

On Tuesday the Twenty-second,Two Thousand and Eight From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (659 days old)

Today I: -Learnt that only one member of the cabinet in 1992 sent his two children to state schools consistently, and that his name was Newton. -Argued with Alice over whether the shape and size… more

From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (664 days old)

So I think it's finally hit me, that he's not coming back,yesterday. Bad timing; it meant I missed debate club. That makes it sound like nothing, doesn't it? God, it's really quite lonely. That m… more

On Bloggabiltiy From SaoirseIsASocialist in You Clicked. It's Not Too Late To Click Back... (669 days old)

What an interesting and eventful week I have had! Really, I wish my life would be as blogable as this more often. I need fewer brackets this way, you see. So, my week: Went back to school on Mo… more