Posts by Emma Hart
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My partner is cringe-makingly terrible with names. When I first met him, I was impressed by how open and friendly he was, and then after a couple of years I realised he greets everyone like a friend - just in case he knows them and he's forgotten.
You store faces and names in different parts of your brain, so correctly identifying someone you know involves switching operations.
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Craig: the eco-friendly furniture is labelled GREEN. If that's what you get when you vote Green, they will govern alone!
Or in a loose coalition with the Leather Wipes Party.
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I had a year 10 student at the end of term 3 who had got a bit bored in Maths class, so she carved a heart in the back of her hand with her compass, then coloured it in with a ball point pen...
We used to draw the ink on first, then jab it repeatedly with a compass. I wonder which method gets you blood poisoning fastest.
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It'd probably be crass of me to plug the ObamaFox Firefox browser extension, so I shan't.
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So we taught ourselves Calculus out of the textbook. Set something we would all try and figure it out. Those who did first would confer to ensure they agreed then each would teach someone else who would then help someone else etc.
Good gods, how wide-spread is this? Because that was 6th and 7th form Chemistry for me. Our teacher was hopeless, and had a thick Punjabi accent that with the best of intentions we couldn't decipher, so we used to sit at the back of the class with the textbook and the lab manual and try to puzzle it out as best we could. It didn't make for great marks to be honest, and I still don't understand that whole mole thing.
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I wish some of these people would go see a prison & get some reality check that they aren't holiday camps.
I have simple desires. I wish every time there was a panel debate about a proposed policy like this they'd replace the guy from Sensible Sentencing with someone who's worked in Corrections.
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Contrariwise is an interesting site if you are a bit literary in inclination and like tattoos.
Ohhhh... - and I mean this in the nicest smiliest possible way - you bitch. What a great site.
another great bit of advice from years ago was someone telling me that you can't have booze or drugs for 24hours before and after getting tatts.
Heh, the research I've been doing for the book has meant a lot of running across stories that make me go 'OMG', and a lot of teh stoopid comes down to being so worried about the pain that you get too smashed to know what you're doing. Or "I'm scared it might hurt so I'll cover my skin in Bonjella..."
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@emma. hold off on getting more. they're highly addictive and you end up getting them for the sake of it.
Oh go on, Che, just one more. Maybe on the other side of my chest? (I don't think, going by the amount of time I spent peering down my own shirt after I got that one done, that I could bear to get one on my back.)
But yeah, this one has enormous significance for me. I'll have to be absolutely sure what it is that I want before I get another.
But I do want something pretty on me. Don't we all?
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By the way, hands up if you knew Russell Brand had a football blog.
*raises hand*
Though that process did go "Hey, Russell Brand has a blog at the Guardian!... Wait a minute, this is about football..."
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I got her to do this.
oh, she's lovely.
Which is interesting considering where you got it.
For all that it's only about two inches high, the top of it pretty much hurt not at all, but the very bottom - on the 'fleshier' part of my chest, was a bit stingy. I have a friend who has a pentacle in much the same place and she had the same experience. I've no idea if that's different for men, but it does seem to contradict that 'over the bone hurts more' thing.
At the ripe old age of 28, I had my first done at Absolution as well (girlfriend of a good friend of mine works there.. I expect we know some of the same disreputable people ;)
Heh, I suspect we do. I was recommended naith for black-and-grey work and Jolene for colour. I've since seen a full-leg peacock Jolene did and it was stunning.
I forgot to mention that when I went in to book (absolution has about a two-month waiting list for tattooing), Jolene was doing the inner thigh of a woman who looked completely relaxed, and naith was doing the upper arm of a huge man who looked like he was in agony. It was disconcerting.