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At last, after all these years! Welcome, comrade, welcome. Sit down. Rest your weary elbows!

I’m Katie and I’m eighteen. I still find it weird that the thing I identify myself by is shared with so many other people. There’s four of me on the local library computer records. Four people with my name in this tiny town. How weird is that?

I like books. Comedy is my north, my south, my east and west. I also very much like TV-shows, especially funny ones. I also like Criminal Minds. Buster Keaton is the prince of everything, as far as I’m concerned. I like quiet, still and funny films, things by Wes Anderson and Alfred Hitchcock, anything starring Jimmy Stewart or Ben Whishaw, Labyrinth and The Princess Bride, Hammer Horror, The Muppets, Little Miss Sunshine and foreign language films whose names are in a language I shan’t even attempt to replicate here. But they are very good, even if I don’t understand them without subtitles. I don’t understand most things without subtitling them in my mind anyway.

I always wished I knew more magic tricks. When I was small I wanted to be an escapologist. I don’t know what that says about me. I grew up a bit and wanted to be an illustrator or a writer, a costume designer or a prop maker or a comedy commissioner or an interior designer. Now I don’t know what I want to do, but I’m sure when I figure it out it’ll be great.

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February 20, 2012
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I genuinely don’t understand why everyone finds the London Underground system so confusing

I mean I can kind of get it but it really is rather easy if you think about it logically

And I didn’t grow up with it or anything

It’s just… the map is pretty simple to follow and they all link up so it’s not like it’s such a disaster if you go wrong

Really I just don’t get how people get so lost and puzzled

Notes:

  1. justcira said: The London tube is incredibly easy to understand. If you have trouble understanding it, then you are in deep sh*t if you ever try taking the underground in Germany. Still trying to wrap my mind around the NYC system though. Wonder what Paris is like.
  2. disastergirrl said: To be fair… It took me years to work out how the tube worked and I sort of did grow up with it. However, I am spectacularly unobservant when I want to be, as I’m sure you know.
  3. jermey-hoover said: i think it’s just that people see all of the coloured lines and they all mesh into one
  4. johnnynopulse said: yeah, same here. I mean, my parents started showing me properly around 14 or so, so I got used to it, but it’s pretty simple if you just read the signs and maps
  5. misterquark said: The underground is so much fun. Working out where you need to go and how to get there is like maths. (What? Maths is fun.)
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