a for angst.

as popularised by carroll, not mayer.

turns out i’m alice — flaky dreamer extraordinaire, and possessor of the original overactive imagination.

check out which character from the classics you might be, at oxford world’s classics.

here’s the new upgrade for your vocabulary. please download, install, and use. (or at the very least, laugh.)

salmon day: the experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream, only to get screwed and die.

sinbad: single working girl - single income, no boyfriend, and desperate.

percussive maintenance: the fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

beer compass: the invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after a pub crawl, even though you’re too drunk to remember where you live, how you got here, and where you’ve come from.

tart fuel: bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.

and, my favourite…

picasso bum: a woman whose knickers are so small for her, that she looks like she’s got four buttocks.