Hi! Rare public post ( Read more... )

I still don't know who to vote for. I'm stuck between the Greens and the Lib Dems. I would offer to let anyone try to talk me into or out of voting for either of them, but I know that everyone will just tell me the Lib Dems are very sensible and the Greens are a load of hippies. Which I know. But the problem is that I agree with them on an awful ( Read more... )

Recently the UK government has decided to introduce a whole raft of legislation making it more difficult for foreign students to get visas (they now need to prove they have £800 a month for maintenance on top of fees), soon introducing id cards for foreigners including students - yet to see if this includes my dad, who's been here since he started ( Read more... )

 Ooh. So many things to do. So much sleep to have. Workshop this evening, three hours of free Body-Mapping, whatever on earth that is. Run by my flatmate for her Masters, and also to qualify her as a teacher. 2 more sessions this week. I'm hoping it'll sort my back out a little, not that it's bad, but just that it's never perfect ( Read more... )

Anyone know any good mobile phone deals ( Read more... )

I just walked all the way up to the station (25mins each way) in order to book my tickets home. This is due to repeatedly failing to book them on line for no apparent reason (sorry you don't exist, someone else is you, your card is broken, etc etc). I can't get anyone else to book them for me either as I don't trust the post - various things have ( Read more... )

I have just received a parcel containing excusively fish recipes from my mother. This is following my discovery of a good fresh fish stall in the new bit of the Arndale Centre in central Manchester ( Read more... )

 Ah well. I was going to spend this evening doing lots of useful and rather important violin practise. No matter. I walked into the practise room to discover one of the college's best grand pianos had been left unlocked, with an abandoned copy of the Schumann Piano Concerto. I've never actually heard the piece before, but I decided it would be a ( Read more... )

 
The list is the 106 books most often noted as unread by Library Thing users. Bold is for books you've read. Italics for books you've started but haven't finished. Strikethrough is for books you found unreadable.

I've starred the ones I've seen the films of.


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina *
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22 *
One Hundred Years ( Read more... )

I just ate a real, actual whole slice of bread. With butter. This may not sound like much, but it's the first solid food I've eaten this entire week. I am ecstatically happy. :D