It's not a cry you can hear at night, it's not somebody who's seen the light...

My name is Lara. I love Joy Division, which is totally the most important thing about me. You should also know I am quite sarcastic without having a firm understanding of sarcasm. True story.

I was born in Seattle, Washington, grew up in Kalispell, Montana (AKA HELL), moved to Melbourne Australia in 2003, and Christchurch New Zealand in 2010. I studied half a Bachelor of Fine Arts~Theatre Studies in University before switching to German so I could study abroad in Vienna (2001). Hence, I have studied English, German and Latin at a University level.

I am currently studying a Postgraduate Diploma of Social Work at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand while living in a flat affectionately known as the Lesbian Flat of Doom, with my friends _honeyspider and phfa and my cats, Ariadne and Echo and Alison's cat, Helios (they don't have LJs, they're not old enough yet), all of whom I love dearly.

I'll add anyone to my f-list if they ask, so feel free! I spend most of my time writing, talking about writing, or thinking about writing while watching Most Haunted or something Tim Minchin, Hugh Jackman or Dylan Moran related. Or singing. I love singing, and I'm actually good, which tends to help! I can play the flute and the piccolo, the guitar and the ukulele, and I used to play the viola but then I sold it to a 3-fingered man. True story.

( A very important thing to know, is that I ramble. So there is more under here! )

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So...in addition to what I just wrote, I was looking up wedding venues because I LOST Deirdre's (smooth move, idiot) and I found THIS

YOU CAN GET MARRIED IN MY BRIDGE!!

I just died. Actually I screamed and terrified my housemates >:D Which is distracting from the main point here, which is:

YOU CAN GET MARRIED IN MY BRIDGE!!

Deirdre cannot, for the simple fact that she would just throw Giles off of it when she finds out at her reception that he slept with someone else. But holy Finklestein, this is important information that I have to know.

I wonder if you can marry the bridge IN the bridge...

"It's the bridge, Clare! It's the bridge!!"

(You really don't want to be with me in person when I see the bridge...it is True Love)

EDIT: And I started the Wedding Scene of DOOM. *Deep breaths*

I was feeling down today (LONG story) so I decided to do something constructive to take the feeling away (social work training, oy) so I wanted to make a post of all the photos of people and places and things that mean something to me. And when I started to plan it, I realised just how long it would be if I put everyone into it. And that made me feel so amazing, you have no idea...

I did it anyway deciding I would only use photos I have taken myself (or by my family since I wasn't at the reunion to take those and I didn't take the ones of me as a kid, but you get the point!) to cut down on spamming random Hugh Jackman pictures ;). Not everyone that should be here is including my friends in Australia. Woot, Peter, Laura and Ness, I have no (not blurry) photos of you!! And there are other friends who aren't on here, but be that as it may, here it is. Some of my happy things.

( To me you are perfect )

Journal layout bored me so I changed it. It's been the same for...6 years? Anyway, since I SUCK at changing them, I just changed it to the Darker London layout and switched headers (one MIGHT be under the impression that I like the bridge or something...). How's that for lazy?! I also don't like change, so changing ti to something I know is probably for the best... And now I am adding links to fricking EVERYTHING because it's AWESOME. Wheeeee!

Anyway, I Mark Reads Harry Potter has gotten me hooked on re-watching the old movies. I just finished one (SEAN BIGGERSTAFF! I love watching my Julian) and after I feed the Simba-kitty (Landlord's cat, we did not get another feline) I will watch two. And...hopefully...write something Darker Londoney. I've had a blank window open for me all day. May give up and write Nicholas/Hannah again instead. I had a scene for tomorrow but I might do it tonight and to hell with it! They're taking over my brain with their inability to communicate. It's awesome.

Mostly? Loving the fact that whatever I do to piddle my time away, it doesn't matter. I am on VACATION so suck it, deadlines!

.... The Tower Bridge has a Twitter.

http://twitter.com/towerbridge

And I thought I'd seen everything. Somehow, this fails to elicit the same response in me as SEEING the bridge. Though I just watched a Most Haunted episode where they investigated the bridge and they went into the mortuary underneath it and that is AWESOME.

(I am still so moving to London, Baby)

Happy birthday to Circe and my Mommy! Also to Peter Kemp, who is 39 and displeased about it. Chin up, old chap. It's not like you're actually getting any older. Moving on...

I.LOVE.LONDON. Like love love. Serious love.

Vienna Love.

I went to the London Dungeons with the lovely Muz, Clare and Lisa. We jumped the line and I got in free, which was quite lovely! It was awesome and more involved than the Edinburgh Dungeon, and Idid the ride again and then Clare bought me pictures of the ride with me screaming and Muz looking too cool, and Lisa and Muz beheading Clare and I! Then we met up with Jess and had lunch where I had fish and fish and fish and chips. No. Really. I'll upload the pictures tomorrow and you'll be amused. And I ended up eating fish and fish and half-fish and half-chips so I finished most of it, GO ME! Then we went to the tower of London, after walking across the tower bridge which REALLY EXCITED ME (it did, ask any of my compatriots) and the tower was awesome and we saw crown jewels OooooOooOOoOOOOooo! Then we went for pizza and then we went on a ghost bus tour which was AWESOME and I saw Big Ben and the houses of parliament AND WE DROVE OVER TOWER BRIDGE IN A DOUBLE DECKER BUS LIKE IN THE MUMMY 2 OMGOMG except Brendan Fraser wasn't there. Which was most upsetting. But a strange and somewhat fit conductor was. He was awesome. It was a great tour. And I got a picture of where Sweeney Todd's place was on Fleet Street! And then when we were walking back to the underground station we passed the theatre where Jude Law is performing Hamlet but I DIDN'T lick him and the fact that he wasn't actually there has NOTHING to do with it at ALL... I'm a good girl.

:D

AND TOMORROW IS DARKER LONDON DAY and I might be having a really excellent time, if you couldn't tell :D

EDIT: Photos here