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About Me
- Allie
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Well, I have just finished my thesis in history, and am working on surviving beyond it. The future is wide wide open. Let's see what happens, shall we?
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My Life Right Now - February1 week ago
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feel sick. i didnt eat anything bad.2 weeks ago
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So Why Is It . . .3 months ago
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I Started A New Blog4 months ago
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six months on1 year ago
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Feelin' fine2 years ago
Books Bought 2010
- Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons
- Her Fearful Symmetry, by Audrey Niffenegger
- Journey Into the Whirlwind, by Evgenia Ginzburg
- The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
- The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
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Blog Archive
Favourite Blog Posts
- 2009
- Escape!
- Of rivers, mountains and fiords
- The final installment
- Another meme
- Reasons to be happy
- My traumatic near-death experience
- World travel without leaving your home
- Who said that students eat badly?
- Mall etiquette
- Buy me!
- A secret no more
- Even Elizabethan playwrights need their privacy
- Three degrees of separation
- Memory
- Reasons to be happy
- Simple pleasures
- Snapshots, part I
- Snapshots, part II
- Snapshots, part III
- Snapshots, part IV
- Europe, part I
- Europe, part II
- Europe, part III
- Europe, part IV
- Europe, part V
- Europe, part VI
- Europe, part VII
- A little piece of me is in London
- Is it possible to be TOO much influenced by books?
- A&P Show
- The year in review
- 2008
- Filling the nights
- Who am I?
- 2008
- Got some answers?
- Am I the Antichrist?
- Read this post
- And the winner is...
- Who killed Allie?
- Petty bourgeois counterrevolutionary imperialism
- Just too cool
- Time for a break
- Things to do before I shuffle off this mortal coil
- A little piece of Trish
- 123
- This is my official consent form
- Revolution simmering in the suburbs
- Being a copycat
- China China China
- Can you feel the love?
- Because it's late at night
- News?
- Perfection
- Fueling my unrealistic expectations
- How to speak like a Kiwi
- Ten of the mostest
- Sensible spelling
- Scanners are good
- Sir Ed
- A story that will be funny in 2 years
- 2007
- Cliche or truth?
- Being a bridesmaid
- The soundtrack of my life
- Life lessons from literature
- Bizarrity
- The statcounter post
- The places I must see before I die
- If only...
- Lost in Austen
- Advertisements
- Beware - spoilers!!
- World domination
- Emancipation
- The perfect man
- My Great Idea
- M
- Irrational prejudices
- My secret shames
- Health professionals and my family
- My numerous and complex needs
- Exclusive exclusive
- My tyrannical dictatorship
- James Joyce
- Tears
- Advice on fanfiction
- Childhood sweethearts
- Top 5 Actresses
- Egg-cradling
- For your education
- Me according to music
- 2006
- Top 5 Actors
- U2 U2 U2 U2 U2 U2...
- Jane Austen
- Five things I would not say at a cocktail party
- Isn't life odd?
- Let the pessimism shine through
- Hollywood here I come
- Am I dying?
- Car rally
- Joy of having siblings
- How abnormal am I?
- Why Jane Austen is a genius
- Graveside
- 2005
- How I feel about moving house
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loved this video! and love her!
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