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I say somehow managed because I went to the casting day with the Bear, and if anyone would be expected to get a callback for a series set in the days of beardy, burly, long haired men, it's him with the beardy, burly, long haired head on him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENevertheless, t'was I who got the call to spend a day drinking tea in a Portakabin in Bray. I had a costume fitting the previous day and was assigned a spectacularly unflattering light green scratchy dress and a heavy brown cloak in which to wander about Pendragon Castle for a spell. I got needlessly excited when I was sent on my way to the hair and make up trailer, as the hair and make up in question really just meant backcombing the shit out of my hair to give it that Middle Ages rats nest look, with a few small plaits thrown in, and brown make up smushed into my face and hands to give me an authentic smudgy, dirty mush and fingernails. So hot right now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-zS_hylvSVFU\/TeJiT4d3lCI\/AAAAAAAABgI\/gaVDVR6ExeM\/s1600\/camelot-dress.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-zS_hylvSVFU\/TeJiT4d3lCI\/AAAAAAAABgI\/gaVDVR6ExeM\/s400\/camelot-dress.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612156179371758626\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe scene we were required in called for us to enter the set of the big hall, all agog at the impressive interior and wander along our given routes looking amazed, for we were but local merchants and had never encountered such grandeur. The direction of my track brought me right past Sinéad Cusack as the duplicitous nun and I managed to get in the way of her exit at least eight times or so. Thankfully we were eventually rearranged and it was someone else's go to be that infernal extra that kept crossing in front of her path. All my determined concentration not to step on the dress worn by the girl in front of me or knock anything over OR be distracted by how tiny and gorgeous Eva Green is actually paid off and last Friday night, who was to be seen doddering past in the background?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-TX0PTQ5GJ6c\/TeJiiiZcPrI\/AAAAAAAABgQ\/AhTMOmXvBig\/s1600\/screenshot.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 289px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-TX0PTQ5GJ6c\/TeJiiiZcPrI\/AAAAAAAABgQ\/AhTMOmXvBig\/s400\/screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612156431145647794\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMe, that's who! Pendragon Female No. 4, all up in yo business! Delighted, I was. I'm still waiting to hear back about my idea for my character's spin-off series, \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EThe Girl With The Pendragon Tattoo\u003C\/span\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAhem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI'll see myself out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fredlemonade.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F05%2Fpendragon-female-no-4.html\u0026amp;send=false\u0026amp;layout=standard\u0026amp;width=450\u0026amp;show_faces=false\u0026amp;action=like\u0026amp;colorscheme=light\u0026amp;font\u0026amp;height=35\" style=\"border: medium none; overflow: hidden; width: 450px; height: 35px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6485905882340496341\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/pendragon-female-no-4.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/6485905882340496341"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/6485905882340496341"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/pendragon-female-no-4.html","title":"Pendragon Female No. 4"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-zS_hylvSVFU\/TeJiT4d3lCI\/AAAAAAAABgI\/gaVDVR6ExeM\/s72-c\/camelot-dress.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970712784003281497.post-6765606569035724556"},"published":{"$t":"2011-05-28T15:58:00.009+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-12-20T14:30:29.733+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fashion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Work"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Away With The Birds"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"For quite some time now, I've been admiring the fun and quirky t-shirt designs of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ladyumbrella.com\/\"\u003ELady Umbrella\u003C\/a\u003E and when they very kindly shared a promotional code for a 15% discount on Twitter I figured that was as good a time as any to pounce. Their bright blue \"Lady Umbrella Is Away With The Birds\" t-shirt won me over with its turbo cute birdcage design, as well as the fact that I can be somewhat away with the birds myself from time to time. Only a few days ago a co-worker was trying to say hello to me while I was on my way to the office and had to whack me with her newspaper to get my attention.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ryWnO3WcAy8\/TeEQV0Q3vsI\/AAAAAAAABfw\/t1m-NgrszGM\/s1600\/LU-1.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ryWnO3WcAy8\/TeEQV0Q3vsI\/AAAAAAAABfw\/t1m-NgrszGM\/s400\/LU-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611784577673051842\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ur8N7IYvHnA\/TeEQatAiVmI\/AAAAAAAABf4\/YWoOKik8XG0\/s1600\/LU-2.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ur8N7IYvHnA\/TeEQatAiVmI\/AAAAAAAABf4\/YWoOKik8XG0\/s400\/LU-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611784661624837730\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir customer service is faultless and tremendously friendly, as I discovered when I cleverly managed to order the wrong size from their online shop. There was no problem exchanging it and the t-shirt even arrives with cute as a button badges to boot.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-3U_DX9Vt8ug\/TeESWAJTGqI\/AAAAAAAABgA\/Oc3z8jjqClU\/s1600\/LU-3.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 168px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-3U_DX9Vt8ug\/TeESWAJTGqI\/AAAAAAAABgA\/Oc3z8jjqClU\/s400\/LU-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611786779885771426\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Lady Umbrella online shop can be found \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ladyumbrella.com\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E and they're also at the Loft Market in Powerscourt. The \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ladyumbrella\"\u003EFacebook\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/ladyumbrellaltd\"\u003ETwitter\u003C\/a\u003E pages are definitely worth a click of the Like and Follow buttons, since they're always running great competitions and discounts. So now you've no excuse not to support a great independent designer. Consider yourself informed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fredlemonade.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F05%2Faway-with-birds.html\u0026amp;send=false\u0026amp;layout=standard\u0026amp;width=450\u0026amp;show_faces=false\u0026amp;action=like\u0026amp;colorscheme=light\u0026amp;font\u0026amp;height=35\" style=\"border: medium none; overflow: hidden; width: 450px; height: 35px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6765606569035724556\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/away-with-birds.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/6765606569035724556"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/6765606569035724556"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/away-with-birds.html","title":"Away With The Birds"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ryWnO3WcAy8\/TeEQV0Q3vsI\/AAAAAAAABfw\/t1m-NgrszGM\/s72-c\/LU-1.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970712784003281497.post-8209235002166063953"},"published":{"$t":"2011-05-24T22:05:00.008+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-12-20T14:30:29.734+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Work"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Barack Attack"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"As Obamarama and yet more general traffic mayhem gripped the country yesterday morning, I had one eye on the live coverage and the other on the work I was supposed to be doing. All of a shot, an envelope with my name printed on it was thrust into my hand. \"Eh..thanks. What's this?\" said I, with a bewildered look on my face. \"It's a VIP ticket to Obama's speech\" came the wondrous reply. I opened the envelope, which went down a little something like this:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/28.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lcxi83D6YO1qaxm50o1_500.gif\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 243px;\" src=\"http:\/\/28.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lcxi83D6YO1qaxm50o1_500.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo be honest, I still don't know how my name ended up on the list of people in work on which these magic tickets would be bestowed, let alone on the front of that envelope. Maybe there's a gremlin in someone's computer that's taken a shine to me for some reason.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnyway, off I skedaddled to College Green with Cartman's voice singing \"I got a golden tiiicket\" firmly lodged in my head. The VIP area was ridiculously close to the stage. Like, properly ridiculous. I was so excited that I didn't even mind having to watch Westlife croon and sway in unison through sideways rain.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-jqEuVnn3XVk\/Tdwn3mF5CgI\/AAAAAAAABfY\/qrhKP8T9uhY\/s1600\/cia.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-jqEuVnn3XVk\/Tdwn3mF5CgI\/AAAAAAAABfY\/qrhKP8T9uhY\/s400\/cia.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610403071868340738\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YgqDWeART9c\/Tdwpo95nrKI\/AAAAAAAABfg\/4Z-LPWLHGnY\/s1600\/obama.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 306px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YgqDWeART9c\/Tdwpo95nrKI\/AAAAAAAABfg\/4Z-LPWLHGnY\/s400\/obama.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610405019584539810\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ETHAT effing close, like. Wahh!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen it transpired that Mr. Rockstar President was actually coming down off the stage to meet and shake hands with us mere mortals, the crowd damn near lost their mind. Myself included. My panicked surge towards the barrier was paid off with a proper and brilliant handshake from Michelle (stone cold fox, by the way) but I just missed out on one from Barack, as he was busy being so incredibly lovely to the three little girls in front of me and I didn't want to interrupt as he was telling one of them that she had \"the most spectacular blue eyes\". I'm not going to lie, at that moment I was really quite jealous of an eleven year old. Nevertheless, my face made it onto the live coverage on RTE. And check this out:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-W_1J8jfW1Bw\/TdwteQxaLjI\/AAAAAAAABfo\/yEraUAZRD1c\/s1600\/hand.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 291px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-W_1J8jfW1Bw\/TdwteQxaLjI\/AAAAAAAABfo\/yEraUAZRD1c\/s400\/hand.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610409233718324786\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBoom. That'd be MY famous hand, that would.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fredlemonade.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F05%2Fbarack-attack.html\u0026amp;send=false\u0026amp;layout=standard\u0026amp;width=450\u0026amp;show_faces=false\u0026amp;action=like\u0026amp;colorscheme=light\u0026amp;font\u0026amp;height=35\" style=\"border: medium none; overflow: hidden; width: 450px; height: 35px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8209235002166063953\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/barack-attack.html#comment-form","title":"12 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/8209235002166063953"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/8209235002166063953"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/barack-attack.html","title":"Barack Attack"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-jqEuVnn3XVk\/Tdwn3mF5CgI\/AAAAAAAABfY\/qrhKP8T9uhY\/s72-c\/cia.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"12"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970712784003281497.post-3892761098803945716"},"published":{"$t":"2010-11-03T17:03:00.009+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-02-27T17:02:42.966+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Family"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fancy Dress"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fashion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Parties"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Weird"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Work"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Rocky Horror Contraband Whiskey Show"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TNGbAl6fQ2I\/AAAAAAAAA-Y\/A0QvyBrxefs\/s1600\/1920s-1.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TNGbAl6fQ2I\/AAAAAAAAA-Y\/A0QvyBrxefs\/s400\/1920s-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535375851494785890\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll kinds of merriment was had at last Saturday night's Halloween jaunt to The Sugar Club. It's always fun when behaviour like trashing a venue with toast, rice and party poppers and screaming lines like \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\"Get your tits off the tank, bitch!\"\u003C\/span\u003E are acceptable, if not encouraged. The crowd was awash with excellent homemade costumes in the forms of Chilean miners, blood soaked nurses, Sweeney Todd and fantastic Dia de los Muertos ladies. Not a Playboy bunny to be had, thank fuck.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy own costume entailed a hip flask filled with whiskey safely stowed in my hold-up tights, just to complete the whole Prohibition era dead-girl-about-town look. It also just so happened to empty itself throughout the course of the night. (I'm classy like that.) Free hot chocolate that was kindly handed around by the organisers as we queued outside beforehand found itself magically Irished up, as did several glasses of soda water and lime. Weird. Delicious too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso among the crowd of ne'er-do-wells was one Greg Sestero of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/hey-roomie.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EThe Room\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E...er...fame. Relative fame at least. There was a screening of \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EThe Room\u003C\/span\u003E taking place the night after, you see. Billy Flag gave him a shout as he walked up the steps towards the bar and when he looked over at our table and waved, I dutifully squealed and waved both arms in my drunken zombie excitement, because it would appear that I don't do subdued when it comes to \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EThe Room\u003C\/span\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TNGcMbRfQKI\/AAAAAAAAA-g\/dPWoUsinC_8\/s1600\/1920s-2.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 291px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TNGcMbRfQKI\/AAAAAAAAA-g\/dPWoUsinC_8\/s400\/1920s-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535377154308522146\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EThis is me when we got home, drunk and hiding behind the Bear's camera having realised I had no photos from the night for the blog.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter the show finished and Midnight Burlectro had kicked off onstage, I met a cousin of mine who had descended upon The Sugar Club, and having figured what was on previously, just knew I'd be found there. The thing is, she was there with people from my work, some of whom I was only introduced to for the first time that night. With crazy blackened eyes and fake blood plastered all over my chin. I make one hell of a first impression.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fredlemonade.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Frocky-horror-contraband-whiskey-show.html\u0026amp;layout=standard\u0026amp;show_faces=true\u0026amp;width=450\u0026amp;action=like\u0026amp;colorscheme=light\u0026amp;height=80\" style=\"border: medium none; overflow: hidden; width: 450px; height: 80px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3892761098803945716\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/rocky-horror-contraband-whiskey-show.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/3892761098803945716"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/3892761098803945716"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/rocky-horror-contraband-whiskey-show.html","title":"The Rocky Horror Contraband Whiskey Show"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TNGbAl6fQ2I\/AAAAAAAAA-Y\/A0QvyBrxefs\/s72-c\/1920s-1.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970712784003281497.post-5298567104506015441"},"published":{"$t":"2010-07-27T19:30:00.005+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-07-27T20:06:27.286+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Blogging"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Holiers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Telly"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Work"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Amsterdammit"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TE8uATb-utI\/AAAAAAAAA0I\/oYkfuNQg2zE\/s1600\/spartacus.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 226px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TE8uATb-utI\/AAAAAAAAA0I\/oYkfuNQg2zE\/s400\/spartacus.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498664252795173586\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EThe Bear and I got back from Amsterdam yesterday, having survived seven days of Dutch shenanigans. The subsequent time has been spent in a heap on the couch, catching up on telly (\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EBritain's Next Top Model\u003C\/span\u003E, \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EThe IT Crowd\u003C\/span\u003E and the really quite good nudey-fest \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ESpartacus: Blood \u0026amp; Sand\u003C\/span\u003E), other blogs and finishing the Steig Larsson books (which I am loving despite myself and my previous condecension for this idiot Girl Who Plays With Matches and Kicks Bees In The Face. I'm totally sold). Between that and being practically asleep at my desk for the most of the morning today, proper blogging will have to wait just a little longer. Soon my pretties. Soon."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5298567104506015441\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/amsterdammit.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/5298567104506015441"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/5298567104506015441"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/amsterdammit.html","title":"Amsterdammit"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TE8uATb-utI\/AAAAAAAAA0I\/oYkfuNQg2zE\/s72-c\/spartacus.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970712784003281497.post-3988606456698671376"},"published":{"$t":"2010-03-04T17:33:00.005+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-03-04T18:38:52.190+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fashion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Graphic design"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jessica Fletcher"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Work"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"She Works Haaard For The Money"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"So I've only gone and got myself a job.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's right, a JOB! Fancy that!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite the fact that an hour before the interview I managed to get trapped in a dress in a Penney's changing room in a panicked I-need-a-different-outfit-because-the-one-I-was-going-to-wear-is-actually-WAY-too-short situation. That'll teach me to live in torn jeans and dresses that turn out to have much too high a hemline. When I finally figured out that the zip had only gone down halfway I managed to free myself from my floaty floral prison, buy the damn thing and make myself look as presentable as I could manage. Armed with insider information that the organisation I was to be interviewed by loved the Obama campaign, off I went on my nervous way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S4_8hJAXvRI\/AAAAAAAAAqk\/dP3nRq2NOm0\/s1600-h\/hellokitty.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S4_8hJAXvRI\/AAAAAAAAAqk\/dP3nRq2NOm0\/s400\/hellokitty.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444848120797576466\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EThis is the flowery trap I got myself in.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe've since become friends and I quite like it now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E(I don't actually have a giant Hello Kitty head in real life. Not all the time anyway.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI met the Bear for lunch right afterwards and tried to relay what they had asked me and what I had said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI had no idea.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll I did know was that I rambled like fuck on some answers and praised the bejaysus out of the Obama campaign design, retrospectively hoping that I hadn't gone all \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_Dr1sgcC6k4\u0026amp;feature=related\"\u003ERandy Marsh\u003C\/a\u003E on their asses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S4_zhSTiicI\/AAAAAAAAAqc\/k453uvRg5kE\/s1600-h\/Picture+1.png\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 310px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S4_zhSTiicI\/AAAAAAAAAqc\/k453uvRg5kE\/s400\/Picture+1.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444838227689245122\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ECHAAANGE!\u003Cbr \/\u003E(This is actually hilarious if you've seen the Obama episode of South Park. Really.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnyway I somehow managed to pull it off and am now jobsharing with another designer, leaving me with 2-3 days off a week during which I can watch a fuckload of Murder She Wrote, thanks to the witchcraft contained in the digital tv recording box we now have.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeries link?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy yes. Yes in-motherfucking-deed."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3988606456698671376\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/she-works-haaard-for-money.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/3988606456698671376"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/3988606456698671376"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/she-works-haaard-for-money.html","title":"She Works Haaard For The Money"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S4_8hJAXvRI\/AAAAAAAAAqk\/dP3nRq2NOm0\/s72-c\/hellokitty.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}}]}});