Do I look like a good girl?

The Spirit - my new desktop wallpaper with Eva. Don't you love it?

If your answer to that question is yes, you can download a 1600x1050 pixel graphic for yourself here:
http://www.mycityscreams.com/downloads/wallpapers/SpiritWallpapers_1680x1050_eva.jpg

Sexiest Geeks of 2008 - vote now!

Yes... the time has come to vote for the sexiest geeks of 2008... do so now here:
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/12/every-geeks-a-l.html

A few of my favourites include:

Zooey Deschanel

Danica McKellar

Jade Raymond

Veronica Belmont

Never heard of her before now... but she's really smart and looks like a girl-next-door version of Jordana Brewster (of D.E.B.S and Fast & Furious Fame)... hot!

And now for the token male... clearly I wouldn't do him but he did rock 2008... Go Barrack!

Barrack Obama

Katy Perry should be on this list too...

Coffee...

Hhhhmmmmm...
ok so the e-mails, text messages and phone calls combined have meant that we are back in contact somewhat (meaning I'm barely replying but am replying)... and now she wants to meet up with me for a coffee over the Christmas break. I have agreed (why do I feel that you are judging me when I write this?). The amount of things going through my head though... freaking hell! What does a coffee really mean?

Who knows what it is about... guess I'll find out after Christmas.

Google is sorry!

What the?!? I'm getting a "403 Forbidden" error message for all blogger/ blogspot blogs... freaking annoying!

Google, no point in being sorry now! You weren't sorry when you wasted my time by interviewing me 9 times for a position that didn't exist in the end?!?

No longer a corporate whore...

Yes, as the title says, I am no longer a corporate whore as of today.

Yesterday was my last day in the office and I am now officially free! "Corporate whore" may be a bit harsh but that is how my sister described the way I looked one morning before work... I was wearing a slightly pretentious-looking grey tailored suit and a Thomas Pink striped shirt. I look quite hot in that ensemble if I say so myself but yes, corporate-whoreish and just not me.

So I have chosen to give up the "secure, well paid, permanent and pensionable job in the blue chip, respectable company" and yes shock horror... done so in the middle of a recession! But you know what? It may be the best thing that I have ever done. Then again ask me how I am in a few months if I am unemployed and broke and miserable!

All I know is that I yearn for more... and am capable of much more than that. If you define success as your weekly manicure/ hairdresser visit, your San Tropez everyday fake tan, your SUV and your D4 house that you are paying off your mortgage for (all of which have you trapped in a job you f*cking hate that has you stressed out and with no time to actually have a life) then I wish you all the success in the world but that is not success to me.

Don't know where this will take me but I feel a lot more alive than I have done in a long time... bring on the unknown, fear, creativity, horizons, spontaneity, opportunity... and bring it good! Let's see where we go.

By the way... I'm pretty sure that this may mean that I'm going to go travel for a bit (or more than a bit!) next year at some stage... Seeing as how I never did that after college/ a few years ago when everyone else that I know did it and I was being the "sensible" one by getting my qualifications/ experience, I have no one to go with this time (this is where girlfriends seem to come in handy but I haven't got one of them now either!)... SO... just throwing the invite out there... If I decide to go, I'll go on my own... but if I happen to meet a random travel companion before then, then why not - join me and we'll have a crazy adventure!

Goodbye to this:

Photo taken by hinius on Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/35468146967@N01/54524775

I'd kiss these girls (and yes Katy Perry's one of them!)

Noticing a trend of late (lady crushes that have been blogged about the past few days... see
Here Come the Girls on red lemonade, Pretty Ladies (Pt. 2) on AnneElicious and Man Crush/Lady Crush on Raptureponies among others) I thought I'd add my list.

So, who's on my list...

Katy Perry

Zooey Deschanel

Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar)

Cheryl (doesn't need a last name, you all know who I mean)

Jennifer Connolly

Natalie Portman

Sarah Shahi (Carmen on the L Word)

and based on the above (bar Miss Gellar) pretty much any hot brunettes with brown or green eyes!

... to be continued and photos to be added but that's more than enough ladies for tonight!

"Love Lockdown” by Kanye West

I’m not lovin you, way I wanted to See I wanna move, but can’t escape from you So I keep it low, keep a secret code So everybody else don’t have to know

Being stalked by an ex...

Ok... so we've all done it, you know googled an ex or wandered your way over to their Bebo/ MySpace/ Facebook page just to see how they are/ what they're up to (or in other words are they going out with anyone new)... BUT, it's getting a bit creepy for me of late... In the past month, an ex from 6 years ago that now lives on a different continent has googled me (on the sly cause she probably figured I'd pick up on the location if she typed my full name in what with my knowledge of web thingys and all). So she googles me by using my first name combined with the college that I went to, which interestingly enough returns a pretty high ranking... Hhhmmm. Pity for her that she didn't realise the college that she is in came up in the stats program... coincidence, I think not... I then received an e-mail from her a few days later and an invite to connect on facebook, which I have done so and will not be mentioning the recent google/ stalk-like incident. So that's that ex...

Hhhhmmmm... in other ex stalk-worthy news... a much more recent ex (yes if you've read any previous posts, you know who I mean) didn't seem to take the hint when I didn't reply to any of her recent text messages and must have decided that the e-mail route might prove more productive... Well, I read the e-mail, re-read it about 20 times and then decided not to reply to that either... until about a week ago. No point in being a complete cold-hearted bitch and it's coming up to Christmas plus we're broken up a few months now so I thought I'd drop her a line (well actually it was 3 lines but it was a response nonetheless and will hopefully have given the impression that I hope she's well but I don't want any contact for a while yet in so many words). Then a former roommate of hers adds me as a friend on a social netorking site and we exchange a few messages. Ah bless, nice guy... coincidentally I bump into him and a few others at Q+A last weekend and we have a short chat (not mentioning aforementioned ex)... Following day I get the 'oh I heard you bumped into xyz last night, hope you had a good night' text... Fair enough, this doesn't quite qualify as stalking... but come on leave me alone for a while! Just because I talked to someone we both know does not mean you have to contact me about it when it has nothing to do with you... If you love somebody set them free and all the other stuff that Sting sings about!

The End