Things I am enjoying today:

I'm not 'scene'. I don't have any tattoos. I don't listen to hardcore, I'm not straightedge. I don't like emo. I've never willingly been in a moshpit.

I don't even know what these things are called, but this is my collection. The top one is about 2mm and plastic. I bought this in Covent Garden last May. I was in Covent Garden because I'd been watching Sleater-Kinney by myself the night before. I'd had (semi) stretched lobes before this, but I had thought I'd grown out of all that after college. Apparantly not.

Still, I resisted any further change until January of this year, when I (re)discovered the blue thing in the middle. It's blue glass and a quite uneven 4mm. In theory this is too big a jump (from 2mm to 4mm), and I'm not recommending it unless really bored whilst writing essays.

But I am quite fickle, and I've been getting bored of the blue thing for a while now. I like it in aesthetic terms, but it seemed a bit prominent sometimes. It probably wasn't, because not one single person has ever commented on it, but still. I wanted a change. Luckily, Wildcat have a really ace selection of body jewellery and the best delivery ever.

So, now, I've got the bottom 5mm matt black glass spiral in my little earlobe. Black, I thought, would be less noticable, but also more classy if it was noticed. And, I like it, even though I was worried at first because it looked comparatively huge! Everything was fine though because the hole in my ear is huge, too.

And, that's it! Other people who wear these things piss me off because I hate all that poseur stuff (and the fact that they often have dreadlocks which I never had the guts to do).

Still, at least I'm not straightedge, right.