• brighton (oct 19-21)
• moving to stroud (oct 28)
• norwich via london (nov 9-11)
• warwick (nov 16-18)
• cambridge via london (nov 23-25)
• london (dec 10-16)
• berlin (mar 1-whenever)
• norwich to study I hope (oct 2008-jun 2012)

• collection of poetry about city hardships thinly disguised as animal rhymes
• a zine by Bev Sanchez, the mother of 8 in Alabama
• writing over an entire room covered in paper and filming it and playing it backwards
• a real folk comedy duo
• performance poetry with paint and possibly tits
• global pass-the-parcel but in reverse so each person adds a layer
• music from batery-powered phonics games
• herb box

• write a list
• talk to the cat
• have a wank
• Facebook
• F5
• F5
• F5
• alphabetise CD collection
• look around the room
• think up observant, witty one-liners
• practice signature
• Wikipedia
• clean fingernails
• toast
• cheese
• cucumber
• Facebook
• try to cheat by looking up essay topic online
• convince self it can be done tomorrow.

paid jobs only, mind. oldest first.

• telesales officer for ADT. I lasted 2 hours. I called 50 people.
• servant in the foodcourt at Jimmy the Greek. I got through 3 weeks.
• runner at a Lord of the Rings convention. I wore an Eowyn costume. I was powerful.
• kids entertainer. Bouncy castle woo woo woo wwooo... woo. um.... woo. oo
• serving wench at The Wheatsheaf in Tooting Bec. it was a front for an IRA den i wager.
• nanny in south west London. Lord Snowden was her grandmother's lover. I managed two months.
• only english-speaking barperson at The Prince of Wales in Wimbledon. I lived above the pub, there were mice and pigeons and little heating.
• cheery soho coffee maker. that was great,...

Living in London, I've been to some bars and some clubs. I have realised that I would much rather stay at home with a bottle of sauvingnon and a spliff.

• Boombox. I can't even say get over yourself because that would cross so many levels of irony, which you would love wouldn't you.
• Madame Jo-Jo's. Skinny jeans and sharp elbows.
• Everywhere in Hammersmith
• Wetherspoons in the Shepherd's Bush shopping centre. There's a smell.
• Ghetto. I don't want to talk about it.
• Public Life. Nice idea but it's not quite water-tight, you can still feel the rain when you're wasted.
• Bar Soho. Sounds classy, no? Five pounds for a hole of Australians.
• Speaking of Australians, Church. Never been, never will.

• Arthur's Seat
• hollow oak trees
• rain
• trampoline
• Alex
• a friend calling you when you're thinking of them
• singing in the car
• wine
• facepaint
• people lauging at my poems
• dim sum (and dim sum more!)
• photo op
• kissing
• Jarman the old black cat
• a full car
• coming inside after spending the day outside
• macro
• Sammy
• tea