Rufus Wainwright is playing mournfully in the background - oh how I love Hallelujah.

I'm sat here with my mastercard planning on doing some insomnia induced shopping.  If it could speak it would say "repugnantia futtilis est" I'm quite sure.  The weather was so miserable today that I refused to go food-shopping and so bought all £50 of groceries ( Read more... )

Yes, that is right, I am a revolutionary with many thoughts...
Current thought: why is there no complementarity between my brain and Cicero's Pro Caelio. [complementarity: n. a complementary relationship]
Thought before that: propanone (CH3)2CO contains a permanent dipole and as such can undergo nucleophilic attack from say cyanide ions [CN-] in ( Read more... )

Just been informed that yesterday night was the hottest night ever recorded in England, with most regions staying above 20 degrees - and yet today is possibly the soggiest, most miserable monsoon-like day I've seen in ages. I don't think it's stopped raining for the past 7 hours or so phht ( Read more... )

I suppose this is the equivalent of Skunk Anansie's "Post Orgasmic Chill" - it's quite wonderful how venting one's spleen can make you feel better (although technically I do have cause so I don't know what the term is - app. to vent one's spleen is to scold or chastise something without due cause ( Read more... )

I am convinced in my current pedantry - that's the state of being pedantic btw - that some people have no regard for their own language ( Read more... )

I've just discovered a palindrome in Latin thanks to Bill Bryson's fantastic book "Mother Tongue The English Language".
in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni - we enter the circle at night and are consumed by the fire - personally I think this is wonderful as it is describing moths attracted to torches set up in Roman gardens. As you may have ( Read more... )

My darling Robert, [me btw]

To let you know that I'll Be There For You I have written this Rhapsody In Blue; and to let you know You've Got A Friend In Me. You know Somewhere Beyond The Sea you'll find someone and have a Perfect Day - maybe you'll ask them "Will You Marry Me" in time. Until then you'll just have to be the Queen Of Sheba. You ( Read more... )

Of all the irksome, nasty things to do - a housemate has just decided he no longer wants to live within our little family of love - and as such, we are a housemate down and seriously need to find somebody before the next rent is due ( Read more... )

Far be it from me to slander one of the earliest written works of man, but, and you so knew that "but" was coming, it's sooo dull - at least the director of Troy had a little fun and rearranged the story so that any person about to sit exams about the blasted thing was bound to fail - fortunately I am wise and am not lured into said trap... however ( Read more... )