Noofy xx

Sending lots of hugs to both you and Holly x x x

I had a tube of extra-strength super glue split on me earlier, meaning I had to spend an hour filing down my hands until it didn't feel like I'd encased them in carbonate anymore. Have you ever had to file down your own hands? It's quite a weird experience - probably the most relatable I've ever been to a spider shedding its hardened skin.

I'm sending my love to you, noofy and holly <3

Paul...the weirdest things happen to you :D

I'm working from home today. Which means playin around on photoshop and getting paid. I dig it!

Paul you sound very calm about all of this, whenever I get superglue on me I freak the fuck out. I don't know why, it's just so...super. Especially if a couple of my fingers get glue together, I'd be flailing around in panic. You're quite brave for using it.

Hi Tracee

All my loving fuzzy vibes to you Noofy and Holly

Lauren- that installation is sick! Where is it located? Also I'm excited for your trip:

Well I've been making a cardboard model all week which has involved lots of super glue and I've been getting it all over my fingers every day so my reaction was somewhat more tame than it would have been, say, a month ago... which is a good thing because I'd have probably lept up in a panic and stuck myself to the ceiling or the door handle. I'd have had to have taken up a career as someone who just politely opens doors for people, except they'd have to unscrew the handle and re-attach it to where-ever I was working.

... like I said, I've been using superglue for several days, it's no wonder my brain is a bit doolaley.

I just found an online diary I wrote 12 years ago, aged 16. I would HATE the person I've grown up to be, almost as much as I was annoyed by the things I was writing. One particularly ironic line was to "never trust anyone that doesn't like football" considering that the 28-year-old me now hates it!

Assuming you're in your twenties at least, what would your 16 year old self say about the person you grew into?

I really wonder how I will look back onto myself, I'm 17 now and I can almost hardly imagine that I'll ever change. But of course I will change, and I goddamn hope I will! Because nothing lasts forever, nothing stays the same...
I think my 12 year old me (yes, that is a lifetime ago for someone of my age, okay?! ;)) would LOVE certain things of me (like larping, having dreads, skiing, not being bullied anymore... etc.) but also hate some character traits. Now I'm so shy, especially compared to how I used to be, not speaking up when I should, and staying in the background. While that is not who I actually am, what actually suits me. I think it would be really funny to have me meet my younger self :) love-hate relationship! Lol.

Well you see, I am a completely different person to who I was in my teens, I would say that my personality as it is now didn't emerge until I was about 22/23 but then on the other side of things a lot of teenagers (or at least the teenagers that I've encountered on here) seem to be a lot more self-aware than we ever were when I was that age! I also think that might be due to having internet access at home now (which virtually no-one did when I was at school) which allows people to discover things about the world in their own terms and possibly discover/shape themselves a lot more quickly.

I'd like to think my 16 year old self would be fairly proud of who I am now. I don't think she'd be too happy with the road I took to get here.