things to consider

• i spent money in town for the first time in forever

i got this really pretty shirt from topshop which cost me £20. i haven't spent money in ages, so £20 for a top seemed like a lot of money at the time lol.

there's also a matching dinosaur one that i'm pondering whether to get or not.

obviously everything i buy/say/do has to relate to radiohead somehow, so i was exceedingly happy to find that a magpie* was one of the featured birds on my shirt.

i also bought £32.50 worth of candles which again, felt like a lot of money at the time, but now i am very pleased that i got them as my room smells glorious.

• i'm going back into the recording studio next week

i haven't played those songs though since i was last in the recording studio, which was over a month ago now; this could cause some unforseeable dillemas me thinks. alison said that when she went into back into the recording studio to mix my orginal recordings, she literally just started crying and turned around to say 'that doesn't sound like rachel'. she also said that deep down she really didn't want to have to give me back those recordings because of how poor the quality of the recording is (nothing to do with my actual voice and guitar, she assures me). i definitely agree with her and i'm glad to know that richard is moving out all of his gear from the studio as a protest against mark. sorry mark, you're lovely but as alison said you made me sound like i'd been shut in a dust bin with a scarf over my face. the guy at pioneer can mix down the voice ridiculously quickly apparently, and knows everything about everything too. plus, he's also a really nice guy, so i've heard.

• the piano showroom was like heaven and omg i want my new piano NOW

i went to this really really really lovely piano showroom in suffolk the other day. it was truly magnificient. after much delibiration i finally decided that on the piano that i want. it's a very compact korean number which has amazing feedback and a great crispness to it. it was between that one and a really sentimental looking german one. however the german one was far too classical for my liking, so i went for what felt best when i was having a little tinker on the keys. it's being delivered on thursday and i cannot wait, hopefully then, as thom says, all can become normal again.

*magpie: morning mr magpie, the second track on the king of limbs

Time is the best healer.

I was foolishly thinking of doing some art or that horrific English essay today.. but then it occurred to me that I should go into town and buy some stuff with leftover Christmas/birthday money. After my once in a lifetime shopping expedition I think I shall meet up with the peeps and continue with my anti-sober weekend rule.

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Also, can you imagine how terrible and fraudulent it would be to go into a recording studio and use a backing track for someone else's song? I mean if you really insist on using a backing track then at least let it be a backing track that you've created for your song. Geesh kapeesh, it's as bad if not worse than using auto tune! I say this as it's two weeks until I'm in the recording studio, I'm bricking it, but cannot wait to get a feel for what it's like. After my recordings have been.... recorded... I shall seek advice from my lovely mentor, Alison. She'll know where to go from there. I know though that two days after my recording I'm doing open mic again, which will be a laugh.

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Oh and I just finished watching this weeks edition of Skins. It's really quite bad isn't it? Obvious, boring, monotonous and absolutely NOT skins. I mean a skins story about an insecure virgin? Part of being a skins character is losing your virginity when you're 10 years old. (Unless of course your name is Pandora. But she can get away with it. Because she is cool). What am I saying? It really wasn't that terrible the more I think about it. I think the reason I personally don't really like this new generation is for the fact that the majority of them are awful actors.

Finally, despite what I said about my gig fatigue. I really really really want to see Death From Above 1979 in May.

two weeks of seldom freedom..

I haven't posted in a while. I suppose quite a lot has happened in a way. I dyed my hair, got a bowl, did a bit of christmas shopping, got crunk, watched some TV... the usual stuff.

This is how I'm feeling today. Just high on life basically. This flash on the photobooth doesn't quite capture how incredibly bright my hair is right now.. although it is beginning to already fade (as you may be able to see). I'm going to go all out for my grammar interview though and use a bit of the olde John Frieda shit.

But yes, enough on hair! I'm still highly excited at the fact that Stella won The Apprentice and am gagging to catch up on my dear old Sherlock.

I've got a booming headache and I haven't done any revision. But apart from that I'm suffering from the same anxieties of life and experiencing the usual fulfillment of shopping. [To be fair that's an absolute lie. So I brought a couple of nice things in town today which totally aren't in the style of Blair Waldorf or anything, but seriously?! I just want my daddy to come home. Or reply to my 100000000000000000000000 text messages at least.]

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I think I'm currently going through the prelude of a head cold. I just ate the most vile pasty known to mankind [which is actually kind of surprising considering it came from M&S.] But yeah, I hope I haven't got food poisoning or anything! I'm sat here in front of the mac, absolutely freezing cold and slightly tiresome. My head literally feels like someone is pounding it with a baseball bat. This probably isn't what y'all want to be hearing, I know, but I can't help it! I'm really really really lethargic and lackadaisical at this precise moment in time.

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So I am going to stop waffling and focus on things that need to be done.

• The washing
• English revision
• Some Chemistry revision too if I can fit in in
• GO. TO. SLEEP. You fool.

Hmm. I can do that...

Goodnight ev.... FUCK I SWEAR THERE'S SOMEONE CREEPING UP THE STAIRS! HELP I NEED SOMEBODY!