I'm Kirsty. I'm not that bad as far as people go. I like laughing, books, writing, music, live art generally of the fringe variety, that moment when someone says something and you smile because you just know they're your sort of person, subculture in its many forms, un-pc humour, acceptance, honesty, extremes and contradictions. I don't really like disillusionment, being proved wrong, the lurching in the pit of your stomach when you open a text and it isn't from who you want it be from, orange squash (why?) labels or benchmarks. I am in love and very much taken. I believe I'll get mine. Eventually.

My experiences:
My Job Or My Labret - Guess What I chose?

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I really hate being poorly...have had a bad throat for a few days and disturbed sleep/weird dreams, but it's really taken it out of me. I'm glad I'm not working right now as I'd only have to take time off.

Also found out today that Mark's (my ex) uncle Pete has passed away...I knew he had cancer a long while back, I can only assume that's what caused it, but it's made me pretty sad. He was a lovely guy, very into the arts, but he moved to Canada several years ago. I think the reason was that his family mostly just didn't get him, didn't understand how important art is to some people and how it really is necessary for them to survive. He was happy there, had a good circle of very cultured friends who apparently adored him, but it's still a shame when your family can't accept you for what you are. I suppose that's something that a lot of people here on IAM struggle with.

Anna Paquin - yes, she's been quite good in previous roles. But she actually makes my skin crawl in this, her accent is awful and, hate to say it but she's looking fairly gross much of the time.

Stephen Moyer - he isn't good looking at all, he just looks like a cracked-out white man. Again, ridiculous accent (is the director aiming for a parody or what?) and the characterisation is really weak...not only would I not want him to come to my rescue, I doubt he could.

Storylines - I know that people need constant banging to keep their attention, but at what point do the audience go "oh, come on, that's just silly now!" ? Plus some rather important things seem to just disappear or get explained away very vaguely.

All of the maenad stuff - the most sensationalised, inaccurate shite I've ever seen. Occult myths are actually really fascinating, and don't need to be watered down/embellished as required for this show. Robin of Sherwood did a fantastic job of demonstrating this.

There's more, but I'm aware that I'm probably alienating most users of IAM with this post, so.....

I have decided I may as well re-open my labret and have even bought the internally-threaded stem that means I can put tiny balls on instead of the standard ones, which were a bit too big for my face. The exit hole is clearly visible but I basically lost the entry hole inside my lip, there seems to be a thin membrane which has grown back. I gave it a shot to open it myself using a needle (yes, sterilised) which totally failed so I aborted mission and am hoping it won't blow up. Now I need to have it pretty much re-pierced, but am not bothering to use Cold Steel in Camden where I originally did it back when it was a good shop.

Question: where can I get it done? Is anyone on here local to London/West London a qualified piercer? I'd like to avoid paying out the 40 quid to do what I've already done in a shop.