Hello 
I'm Siobhan Curran/Kisa Naumova, and this is my weblog. I tend to write about stuff like crossdressing, Macs, code, cats, wine and Second Life, but in general it's just an ongoing conversation about all sorts of stuff. If you'd like to know a little bit more about what this all is, I recommend starting on this page which has a little bit of info on who I am, and what I'm trying to do — or you could dive into my five years worth of archives if you like.
Otherwise, feel free to close this box and explore...
Four Things
Crap. I hate Memes. I fear them like I fear the pus-filled pores that occasionally appear on my arse. They are insipid, festering boils on the butt-cheeks of blogging — lazy parasites that feed off the creativity of our collective authorship-talents, sucking every last shred of originality out of our hand-crafted CMSes, and show us all up for the lazy sods that we all are.
But then, of course, all of that fades into insignificance when someone like Jon Hicks
perks you up from a moment of pre-going-to-bed-word-slurring and prods you to answer questions 
(God, I'm just a bloody fangirl aren't I? Inbetween my incessant "no, you plug this in here" advice to Jon, and my "Pleaselikeme! Pleaselikeme! Pleaselikeme!" IMs to his nibs, there is just a vacuous space of self-loathing filled only by naval gazing and the odd pun.)
Being meme-tagged is like being spanked — you have tops and bottoms. In a sense, weblogging is just a textually-based BDSM forum.
With less gas-masks.
...
Sorry where was I?
Four jobs I’ve had in my life
Barmaid
Literally — I used to serve behind the bar at a recently refurbished pub in Lancaster dressed as a wench
Student Newspaper Editor
The pinnicle of my ego — being elected by a landslide majority of over two thousand students, only to piss the budget up the wall and fail my exams, and as a result, getting sacked after three months.
Ironically, I just redesigned their website
Graphic Designer
Yes, well, that was expected wasn't it?
I used to run a very small — very small — studio here in Lancaster. I hated it — the hours sucked and the pressure was too much. I jacked it in and went back to university.
Senior Lecturer In Contemporary Media And Graphic Design Within The Contexts Of Contemporary Creative Practice
(Because I so love it when I actually get the chance to say my job title in full)
Four movies I can watch over and over
(Ah, Ladyhawke. A shite film that can still make me cry. Rutger Hauer without a pretentious pint of Guiness in sight. Or evil robots for that matter. The first time I watched it, I cried for a week. The second time, I cried for a month. It's something I've got under control now though)
Four places I have lived
- Belfast
- Paris
- Ambleside
- Lancaster
Four TV shows I love to watch
- The New Yankee Workshop
- The Simpsons
- What The Papers Say
- QI
(In fifth place: Mind Games — or basically anything with Physics-pinup Kathy Sykes in it)
Four places I have been on vacation
- Atlanta, Georgia
- New York, New York (da da dah-te-dah da)
- Paris (again)
- Moscow
Four of my favourite dishes
- Anything with Duck in it
- Anything with Beef in it
- Anything with Lamb in it
- Cheese on toast
Four websites I visit daily
(There are, obviously a lot more of these. Wishing that there was some kind of blog-wide equivalent to Flickr's "comments you've made" section, I have to manually check a lot of blogs. I have a tab in Safari that I load occasionally to see if anyone has chortled themselves to sleep because of something witty I said. Therefore, I visit about 20 sites daily hourly.)
Four places I would rather be right now
- Lying on my back on the Champs Elysee, brie in one hand, wine in the other, singing La Marseillaise
- Standing on the Cliffs of Moher, 16 years ago, on the brink of discovering what sex was.
- Back in John Peel's car
- Exactly where I am right now
Four bloggers I am bitch-slapping tagging...
This is the hard bit, isn't t? Having declared my unilateral hatred of memes, imposing such a thing on other people amounts to sadistic torture.
Therefore...
And (drumroll)...
Twice, as it happens
The second time had more sex in the itinerary — but that's a story for another day
I need to get more sex in the itinerary...
I did not just say that.
Someone forgive me at this point.
Er...what did you think of everything?
What did I think?!
I thought "More lube! That's what we need"
Sorry 
(don't you love it when you catch me in these "last minute before I go to bed, yet at my most honest" moments?)
I mean...did you go to the museums or anything?
Silly.
Allons enfants de la patrie, le jour de gloire est arrivé...
I'd rather be in the City of Lights any day. For some reason, I can just see myself...well, like you said. Singing "La Marseillaise" with wine and brie (except under La Tour Eiffel). And crackers. I can't have brie without crackers.
Might inhibit the singing voice. But whatever. I think I need to do that whole European backpacking thing and then I'll know life as it ought to be.
And I definitely love the honest answers.
And be quiet about the sex. I've had it on the brain for four days, and that's not helping.
Miss K
Aargh!
If tradeoffs are allowed, I'll do it. (Even though no one reads me...)
Aargh!
Mwah ha haaaaar!
And (drumroll)...
Dan
Typical. You sit in a pub on your own, you start drooling visibly because you've realise no-one's looking at you — mumbling on about your own face, and suddenly you get pointed at from the far end of the bar.
Goes off to write interesting responses
I can see reason with all these but New Yankee Workshop, NO that is wrong, why!!
Sorry Siobhan, I'm so shallow that I only do memes when asked by someone famous. 
Ah, touché
Doing lists is a very bloke thing, but it is fun to see other peoples.
Ah now Kathy Sykes, now your talking, super intelligent, good looking and she just flirts like mad!! I liked the cooking bits she did once on some science show, the body language was better than the actual cooking bits though!
jenna
Kathy Sykes, mmmmmm. The thinking mans Melanie!
Alli' Cat'
Wow 
— and there was me thinkingg I was the only one in the world to have a bit of a Thing™ about her...
Kathy Sykes! I've just worked out who you meant, and that she's not Kathy Staff!
And having just worked out who Kathy Staff is, can I please assume that you only briefly thought I might have a thing about her
OK. I did my worst
You'll thank me in the long term. Perhaps.
Nope, She really is the thinking persons thing. Put her in a TV program and I'll watch it regardless of content. Scrumptious!
jenna
I have been judged, and found unworthy
Designated Driver
(via flickr.com/people/si08han) 
I suppose it can't be true that guys who like wearing skirts like girls who do Physics? The balance of nature is restored.
Susan
Serving Suggestion
(via flickr.com/people/si08han)
When colleagues come home from the States, they bring me treats
The pictures are getting better. A nice change from the stripes. The last time someone brought me 200 cigs as a present I'd just quit.
Susan
The warnings are really getting bigger, aren't they?
...and yet people keep smoking. Hm, As my psychology professor, an ex-smoker, said today, "I knew people who smoked four and five packs a day. I guess they just really want to die."
When you smoke those words read "Smoke contains wibble, oohlalalala, foreignholidayforme? and high fibre" Once you give up you think... "Oh err maybe not such a good idea, smoking"
And then magically we have a hookah in my dorm room.
Mmmmm, hydrogen cyanide!
Alli' Cat'
I heard an irritating Radio 4 play the other day, where someone posh went out for a fag, and some equally posh type said "imagine, a lump growing inside you..." etc. Nice.
Haha. You went to Atlanta on vacation? I totally live there now.
I love getting out in the city.