bitful

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Archive for July 2002

hero

Tuesday 16 July 2002

According to Which PowerPuff Girl is your blog?, Bitful is Blossom. Fun questions, lame result though. I want to be Buttercup. Everybody wants to be Buttercup.

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giggle

Tuesday 16 July 2002

First excellent laugh of the day: having Bitful translated by Google into Italian! Here are some extracts, conveniently (and manually) translated back into English:

Sound bits => Healthy spikes
Note to self => Note to the car
Oh well => The water well of "oh"
Just wear some poppers => The right poppers to deterioration
Link => Observations (???)
And I [...]

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naked

Monday 15 July 2002

Why do people bareback? While bearing no judgement whatsoever, I cannot subscribe to it but I keep trying to understand the reasons behind all the unprotected sex I witnessed on Saturday night.
Why is it that my supposedly Italian complexion got slightly burned after one and a half hours in Brocknell park? And that my Italian [...]

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tip

Saturday 13 July 2002

Note to self #4412: do not drink and blog.

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left

Saturday 13 July 2002

I'm getting ready to go to Fist (if you're not familiar with the London scene, I meant "go to Fist" as in "go to the monthly club named Fist, not "go and Fist, although, now that I think of it… oh well) and, being as usual a very diligent pupil, I've been doing some research [...]

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cruise

Saturday 13 July 2002

Everybody's talking about it, so I won't say anything more than "go see Minority Report". You'll hate it, you'll love it, I don't think you'll be bored though. I usually shuffle in my seat (and take off my shoes, and play with my chewing-gum and eventually even fall asleep) with most movies lasting more than [...]

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bug

Friday 12 July 2002

I can't understand why I feel so tired and sleepy today, there's no reason really. I think it all started when I was bitten by something at the museum this morning. So I took a nap in the afternoon, and when I woke up I looked like this.

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buff

Friday 12 July 2002

I've been wondering for a couple of days about what to wear to Fist tomorrow night; fortunately G. has just come up with the perfect idea: "just wear poppers and a smile" (and you get 3 quid off too!).

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suck

Thursday 11 July 2002

This is starting to sound a bit like "Bitful's Arts Week", for I seem to concentrate on catching up with everything I've missed recently.
So, Spider-Man - the movie yesterday. Not impressed. At all. I expected it to be much, much more spectacular, with an convoluted storyline and a proper evil villain. None of that for [...]

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spouse

Wednesday 10 July 2002

The Gilbert and George exhibition yesterday was brilliant, a true delight for anyone who is fascinated by London and its contrasts and contradictions. It made me want to find out more about the artists (I only knew that one of them is originally from Italy, and something about some of their artistic views being labelled [...]

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gamble

Tuesday 9 July 2002

I was winning the auction but during the last 30 seconds the next best bidder came in and bought the cellphone at the "buy now" price. Bastard.
Having loads of fun - nevertheless, I hope my tendency to addiction will not hit online auctions now - I don't think I could afford the habit.

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cell

Tuesday 9 July 2002

I'm getting a new mobile phone, and this time I'm afraid it won't be a Nokia. The display on my old 8210 started getting scrambled, then I could only see anything on it if I pressed hard on the top part of the handset, and now it's just died. I have a 6150 that the [...]

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pride

Sunday 7 July 2002

Failed to feel proud at Pride, failed to get drunk in Soho, failed to crash at crAsh - but an entirely satisfactory (long) Mardi Gras anyway.
Looking very much forward to going and see the Gilbert and George exhibition with Y. tomorrow.

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march

Saturday 6 July 2002

Just back from the Mardi Gras Pride Parade. There is a limit to how many times you can possibly listen to Kylie's Can't Get You Out Of My Mind within the space of two hours. Not many people, they were probably still at the gym or at the hairdresser's to look their best at the [...]

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drop

Saturday 6 July 2002

More "girlie" activities yesterday, as my friend G needed my help on the purchase of a new pair of jeans and trainers (completely unrelated to Mardi Gras, he says, but I bet he'll be wearing them today) and I took him to about 20-odd shops. G hates shopping, I don't mind it, and I give [...]

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crop

Thursday 4 July 2002

My landlady's father just gave a new fresh summer look to the backyard. I'm seriously thinking of wrapping the tree in a leather harness and piercing some leaves to match the lawn's #1 crop - really, I'd do anything to stop thinking of tonight's date with teenage anticipation.

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look

Thursday 4 July 2002

Me heart Trabby's new design.

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five

Thursday 4 July 2002

Last night I realized that my ex-boyfriend's birthday is in 5 days. Now, considering that I have not been in touch with him for 5 years (after a rough split-up) and that we had been together for 5 years, I thought it's about time I drop him a line. Then this morning I came across [...]

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tune

Wednesday 3 July 2002

Has anyone heard about I Should Be So Lucky, supposedly some sort of a Mamma Mia-like musical extravaganza built around the hits of La Minogue? I remember using this poster from the production for a short while as my desktop wallpaper late last year, but all I could find about it now was this page [...]

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march

Wednesday 3 July 2002

There seems to be an ongoing discussion involving a few of the blogs I regularly read about the significance of Gay Pride / Mardi Gras festivities. During this current build-up to Mardi Gras I am overwhelmed with images from the first time I attended (London, 1991) and what it meant to me, namely the [...]

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north

Wednesday 3 July 2002

Just spoke to charming telephone operator with deep voice and sexy Scottish accent (I am quite partial to just a hint of a warm intonation from up north). I was completing my application for online banking and this man (Mark? Carl? of course I can't remember his name) was asking me personal questions just to [...]

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weigh

Tuesday 2 July 2002

Some thoughts after spending last night watching a bit of telly.
Up: Morten Harket at V Graham Norton.
I never liked him much back in the 80's, but he seems to have aged well. A bit too well for someone who's going on 43.

Down: Peter Krause's new look in Six Feet Under (first season being shown here [...]

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switch

Monday 1 July 2002

Scatterbrain. I am an absolute scatterbrain (and a scatterheart too, judging from the past couple of weeks' series of events). I was meant to continue jobhunting today, but then I remembered that David last night told me the comment box on this site is much too narrow when looked at on a Mac, so I [...]

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