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Hey, this is Shirley McAllister and I can't get to the phone right now. I'm either in class, working or having a good time with other people. Or the battery died because that happens a lot. Anyway, leave a message via text, voicemail or email and I'll get back to you soon!

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Hey, this is Shirley McAllister and I can't get to the phone right now. I'm either in class, working or having a good time with other people. Or the battery died because that happens a lot. Anyway, leave a message via text, voicemail or email and I'll get back to you soon!

[pause]

Emails and texts are quickest. I check those like they're going out of fashion.

[beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep]


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What do you think about Shirley?  Let me know here please.

All comments will be screened and anon enabled but if you want them to be unscreened then that's all good with me - I like back and forth.  I'm also cool with chatting about her on AIM and that's on my contact details post.

It's been forever since I last wrote anything and I apologise but I have my big exams coming up soon and that means study, study, study and lots of long nights spent in the university library. I've forbidden myself from switching my sidekick on when I'm studying there at night so I'll get work done instead of chatting all night long and during the day I'm so busy all the time with classes and seeing friends because of this ridiculous curfew! It's so unfair to shut us all in like this; some of us have actual social lives to attend to and it's a pain in the posterior to be shut in at 11pm. That was my bedtime back when I was fifteen! I do have to admit though that the thought of having mafia in the city is oddly exciting; mafia ladies have glamourous lifestyles don't they? It's been buzzing through the campus bar - still running and if you have ID you can get in or so I've been told because there are security guards on the campus proper - and everyone is claiming to know someone involved someway or another.

Mr Bovino~ I know I'm being very early but I will be jetting off home on the 20th of December and returning on January 3rd when I go home to see my mum, dad, brother and other sundry family members at the big Christmas dinner that mum is hosting this year. I've already arranged for my car to be locked in safely while I'm away so that nothing happens to her seeing as we have mafia men roaming the streets, killing people at parties! It's just bad taste and manners to off someone at a party and honestly, it reminds me a little too much of Cluedo. "The mafia man, in the tent, with the beretta" or whatever actually happened.

Now a quick question: it's a month till Christmas [the Santa Coca Cola advert is on the telly!], how far along with shopping is everyone? Let me know while I sit and stare at the reading for International Business: Globalisation and Trade.


[[ooc: I meant to say this on one of the posts I made yesterday but huge apologies for my inactivity. I was doing NaNo but just over a week ago my laptop died and my PC had been in need of repair so I've been so unbelievably inactive lately. Now though my PC is working again so I'll keep up with everything again!]]

I don't know where the hat is in this picture or why I'm crouching but here we go, a photo of me in my Holly Golightly outfit from before we made it to the square for the party. If you follow it there are some of me in full get up in the dorms and in the square itself. I had a fabulous time and Lambo you looked dashing in your pimp outfit and I collared one of the sciencey boys that works in the canteen and he explained the joke to me and I'm pretty sure it'd be higher than +4 with a feather like that.

Sadly, I think my wild nights out are over for a while; baby has to study for her exams coming up at Christmas time and she wants to keep up the high standards. I think the only time I'll see a bar is when I'm working and while that's practically a crime, it means no revision over the holidays so I'll be organising one of the big nights out for my class and anyone in the university who'd like to join us and then I'll be jetting back home to Baltic, dreary, miserable Scotland to see mum, dad and my twin Cedric. I just got my tickets in the post~

[[ooc: Zooey Deschanel is made of win. I discovered this picture after I had her go to the Halloween party as Holly Golightly. Please pretend there are several more photos of her in this outfit ]]

Now I understand that people get excited about Halloween, I really do.  It's a chance to put on a mask, dress up, go to parties and indulge in silly things and as a little girl I went out guising [that means Trick or Treating to the non-Scots] with my brother and our friends, dad tagging along when we were still very little.  However, we had to perform to get sweets; a joke, a short story, singing a song or doing an actual trick and if a child doesn't at least tell me a joke then he won't get any sweets from me.  That doesn't make me a bitch - I just believe in good value for money.

While I'm on the subject of Halloween I'm going to tell you what I hate about it: ugly, cheap, tacky costumes.  I know that for some costumes looking ugly is a requirement but really, why not just put on a mask of some description?  I think anyone who goes out as a goth should be shot: goths are ugly people who make it look as though they're being ugly on purpose; is that a look you should strive to attain?  I think not.  And vampires have been done to death [pun not intended] and if I have to see one more set of plastic fangs and fake blood, ridiculous capes and those Morticia Adams dresses I'll set fire to a costume shop.  It isn't hard to find a nice costume or to just adapt your existing wardrobe to find something suitable that looks nice.  Halloween is not an excuse to look like you've wandered out of bedlam.

I feel as though a story is needed so gather round children while I tell you about Halloween.  Halloween derives its roots from the Celtic festival of Samhain and it celebrated the ending of the harvest season and it was a time to slaughter livestock and take stock of supplies.  Rather like New Year.  The ancient Celts also believed it was the time where the boundary between our world and Otherworld [Orbis Alia] dissolved and people could become sick or crops could be damaged by the dead who were dangerous.  The festival involved bonfires and the bones of slaughtered animals were thrown upon them.  The tradition of costumes was to imitate or placate evil spirits and in Scotland young men would blacken, mask or veil their faces while dressed in white.


Long story short: Halloween has a long and noble history.  Show some respect and get a blood decent costume.  As for my 'costume' I'll either go as Holly Golightly or wearing a Venetian mask if I can get the right dress for it.

[The background noise of cars and busses and a low murmur of people talking along with the crackle of wind before Shirley starts talking.]

Buenos tardes city dwellers, ¿qué tal te va?

[A quiet laugh.]

Lo siento, I'll go back to English for the most part. As you can probably tell I'm out getting my essentials and I decided to walk because petrol is so expensive and you can explore more places by foot and it gives me the perfect opportunity to stop at a café to get a cup of coffee and some cake. Not that I honestly need an excuse in the first place but it's always good to have one if you need to justify something to yourself. So do tell, how is everyone out there in Beat City? Are you all enjoying the arrival of otoño? The weather is faring far better than it would be at home in Edinburgh. Hace frió; hace mucho frió.

And who all have plans for the weekend? I know that I do~ Tengo la intención de ir por la costa~

¡Hasta luego!

[She blows a kiss into the phone and clicks the end call button.]

[[ooc: Pretend this is an lj voice post. Feel free to ask her something if you can't understand her accent or her Spanish. Pretend this is around three in the afternoon~ Replies will be typed as she walks.]]
[[Translations: Buenos tardes - good afternoon; ¿qué tal te va? - how's it going?; Lo siento - I'm sorry; otoño - autumn; Tengo la intención de ir por la costa - I'm planning to drive along the coast; ¡Hasta luego! - see you soon.]]

Ladies and gentlemen and anything else inbetween of the internet and any cyber vagrants who might happen by this, I have fantastic news!  I have my first job in the City!    I'd like to thank Mr Lambo Bovino for hiring me to work at his club The Cow's Lick.  I am much indebted to him because my parents can't support me forever - not when they have my bone idle sloth of a brother at home - and I think it's high time I was more self-sufficient.  At least I can replenish the emergency cash fund that's primarily for Breezy in case anything happens to her and I'll be able to put a little bit away towards indulgences.  I've been rather abstemious lately because it's either food or luxury items and food generally wins out with me.

Speaking of food, because I am the favoured child in Casa de McAllister, I got a care package from my family!  Most of it is from dad because I am his little girl and he has spoiled me since the day I made my grand arrival into the world.  He packed me some Irn Bru, some sweets [soor plooms, lemon rock, sugar mice and Highland toffee], mum bought me a few books I'd been talking about.  Apparently these things are also from Cedric who couldn't even bother his backside to sign his own name.  Honestly, I have no idea where the recessive lazy genes came from because mum, dad and I are all motivated, driven people.

Now I must dash off so I'm not late for my lecture!  Everyone come to The Cow's Lick on Friday because I will definitely be there!

Character survey for Shirley to let you know a bit more about her.


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Ladies and gentlemen of the city, fellow students I, Shirley McAllister, have an announcment to make.  Weirdos need not apply.  Seeing as university is starting up again it's time for one last celebration and after chatting to the lovely staff there, we'll be descending upon the Peppermint Hippo for some drinks, snacks and one last fling.  The Peppermint Hippo is one of the more upscale clubs in the City and smart casual isn't going to cut it; in fact it would be downright reprehensible and if I spot anyone in jeans I will smack them.  Dress code is semi-formal; gentleman you may wear a shirt and smart trousers - remember that the iron is your friend.  Due to the Indian summer we're having a jacket is optional as is a tie.  Ladies we're going for cocktail dresses, heels and for make up less is more.  We're going to be dancing too so remember this when you choose what to wear.

I hope to see many of you there and that we all have a fantastic time.  Any questions then text me or drop me a comment and I'll put your mind at ease.  It's a party people, not Chinese water torture.  Hopefully my favourite mechanic will be there~


[[ooc: Text comments can be for questions and just general chit chat.  Action tags for the party but please indicate in the subject line~]]

Hello there internet people and possible pedos!  I'm Shirley McAllister but you can just call me Shirley or Shirl and I've just moved into my cosy little dorm room at Beat City University.  I'm here to study business and where better to study it than here?  I'm pretty impressed by the dorm here because it's a good size with a nice view of the grassy knoll - it is always a grassy knoll - in the centre of campus and not too far from the parking lot where Breezy is sleeping.  Breezy in case you were wondering is my gorgeous little lemon yellow VW Beetle and I adore her.  However, I believe she may be having problems with her clutch which is not a good thing because I don't do public transport now that I have her unless it's unavoidable.

Hmm...a bit more about me...well I have a twin brother called Cedric and my parents are Lachlan and Iona, I like going to see bands and taking photos and I love itty bitty baby animals and I cry at films.  I speak Spanish and a little bit of Gaelic and too much about English and psychology courtesy of my parents [mum is a writer, dad is a shrink] and I studied my arse off at school so I know what I'm talking about on certain subjects.  But I'm a nice girl unless you piss me off but you can earn forgiveness by saying you like my shoes.  Musically I'm all about Circa Survive, Taking Back Sunday, 30 Seconds to Mars - in fact that's in the little profile box thingmajig so you should check that out.

I think that's enough mad rambling for now and I hear the calls of nudie run so I'm going to go see if it's the fit lad from matriculation.

Bye bye!