some excellent things

[fahye]

1) YULETIDE ASSIGNMENTS ARE OUT. I am very excited about mine. And despite the hair-tugging and face-clawing that inevitably occurs near deadline, I am looking forward to this coming month of frantic scribbling in the company of everyone else who's signed up for the madness.

2) The second important email I received today was my term allocations for internship next year. After painstakingly ranking 70 different term combinations from 1-70 by preference, I am VERY PLEASED to report that I got my first preference! Which means I get to do a psych term, and also get a lot of ward experience before my nights/relief term.

3) To celebrate, I have ordered Blue Year's Eve and Snow Globe from China Glaze's seasonal collection. I have reds, and greens, and red glitter and green glitter. Clearly I need shiny blue and opal glitter! (Although if you ask my mother, I do not need to buy another nail polish ever again.)

4) I am going to make delicious pasta with zucchini, chilli and parmesan for dinner tonight.

Comments

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

My YT assignment is fucking perfect. In every single imaginable way. I am going to FREAK OUT FOREVER about not doing it adequate justice aosi chaiocvhiacghas must finish NaNo BUT YULETIDE.

Also, congrats! [I love China Glaaaaaze, they are the best]

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Mine matches up perfectly with the fic I've been dying to write for the fandom, so I am going to have SO MUCH FUN.

[They are! There are a couple of greens in this year's collection that I ADORE -- Holy Day and Glittering Garland -- but I think my budget only runs to my two favourites.]

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

MINE TOO! MINE TOO! I am deeply excited, you have no idea. The recipient even has exactly the same level of fandom knowledge as I do so I don't have to worry about tripping myself over and NNNN they actually bothered to make a note of that in their request. BEST RECIPIENT.

[I can't remember which shade it was I wanted, but strangefrontier brought her swatches to show me when we went to a museum last month and there are SO MANY CG greens that I like I could probably spend the budget of a small country on them]

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Sadly there is nowhere here where I can fondle CG bottles in shops before buying them in person, so I have to get them online. Thank goodness for blog swatches!

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

yeah, we have to buy them online here too :( and the shipping is EXPENSIVE and the cost of the bottles is EXPENSIVE. however Holly found this local (as in, London-based) company who make their own nail polish and all the shades are named after places in London! So that's cool.

Currently TOTALLY GAY for Chanel Le Vernis Peridot (http://www.amazon.com/Chanel-Vernis-Colour-Peridot-Collection/dp/B0057K6WK0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312669131&sr=8-1) UGH LOOK AT IT. LOOK AT THE PRETTY THING.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Is it Nails, Inc? Because I have seen so many pretty swatches by them with London-location names and I WAAAAANT THEM.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

YES THAT'S THE ONE. :D Such sexy urban shades. :D

(I made my first frankenpolish recently with holographic craft glitter. It is gloopy and gritty and thick as fuck, but once it FINALLY dries it looks amazing)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

UGH as if I needed more reasons to go back to London, I ALREADY MISS IT HORRIBLY.

luuuuuuuuust (http://www.nailsinc.com/nailpolish/spring-summer-collection/890/)

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Clearly you need to get another placement here IT IS THE ONLY EXPLANATION.

(Queensgate Terrace looks especially delightful)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

My medical degree is over now, no more elective placements :( Getting part of your specialty training done overseas is very hard until you're at, say, Fellowship level. Which is at least five years away. SOB.

No doubt I will break at some point before then, and use one of my two precious two-week blocks of allocated leave per year to descend upon London and buy all the cosmetics.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

HRMPH. Well that's just rude of them.

And to SEE ALL THE THINGS. <3

[fahye.livejournal.com]

INDEED <3 I spent so much time at the Imperial War Museum and the Science Museum and the London Museum and the Natural History Museum and the National Portrait Gallery that I have STILL never seen the Tate Modern or the V&A.

Plus I am sure you need to drag me to at least five pubs.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Plan for the next FAHYEVASION: Pub crawl, V&A (I was in there last week it is made of fabulous still but they've closed the fashion & textile galleries until next year and they were repairing the lighting in the Mad Christian Bling gallery, hmph), the fundamental exhaustion that is the Tate Modern, BOROUGH MARKET. :D

Blargh, I should become a tour guide. Far too excited about this city for someone who lives in it.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Sounds amazing! I have promised certain Americans that they are next on my visiting agenda (& I need to rectify the fact that, city-whore though I am, I have never been to New York) but after that, LONDON ONCE MORE.

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

All my friends being super excited about Yuletide makes me sadface that I'm not doing it! But I am only halfway through my big bang, so. Maybe I'll do Yuletide Madness or pinch-hit.

Hoorah on the internship! And on zucchini!

[jadengreen36.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your internship! :)

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