Everyone has pretty snowpictures on their ljs but up here in freeeeeezing Scotland...
less than a lousy centimetre and now mostly melted.

C'mon!  snowsnowsnowsnowSNOWSNOWSNOW!!!

and it's ssssoooooo cold...
bleh

Was on the phone to my dad yesterday and asked when he was planning to come up to Edinburgh:
- Oh, after your mum comes back from Beijing and..
- Mum's going to Beijing?  When?
- ... next week, didn't she tell you?

Last time I talked to mum, she was far too tied up with telling me which duvet to buy (goose feather or duck down, which number code thingy ( Read more... )

No, not quite Polish.
See, some similarly loony people and I organised a flashmob 'backward walk' down Princes Street last Saturday.
At the sound of the one o'clock gun, everyone involved walked backwards for (as it turned out) a whole block.

I had quite a lot of mixed responses trying to get people to join in on this:
from
"Wow, cool!  I'm coming!"
to
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Finally finally finally finished the last essay for the first half of this semester! I think I only have one or two more later on in the term, but I'm free for January (and most, maybe all, of Feb at any rate)! Aaaaaah ( Read more... )

...lyrics from Let Me Go Wild in the Snow, by Cui Jian.

Which can only mean one thing...
I've finished my rocknroll in China essay!!! :D

Will probably still read through it once or twice for general sprucing.. but 'tis done!  Including all the lyrics translations, which were actually a lot of fun to do, even if muttering them under my breath in cafes ( Read more... )

Currently working on my Chinese studies essay - 3,000 words on (almost any) chosen topic.  I'm not sure if I've ever had to do more than 2,500 before, so am slightly scared.

The topic I'm doing?
Chinese rocknroll!

I mean, look at this guy...


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Too much
*nod*
*blanksmile*
yeah, uh-huh, anyway...
today
:(

But littlethings can make up for it...

I like the rumply bits at the bottom of trouserlegs, especially denim or corduroy and forming the letter 'e' or 'f' or capital 'J'. I also like looking at big ripply puddles that cover half a road and reflect the sky.
Also overheard anecdotes about ( Read more... )

I'm not proud of this, but I needed it ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening was lovely - supper with David and friends at MC's flat, in a part of town that reminds me of a coastal Spanish or Italian village but with big-window'd houses and old men in peculiar hats sitting in cavernous sitting rooms reading the Saturday papers.  The evening ended in a hilarious game of team-Cluedo.  I lost track of the ( Read more... )

I'm currently sitting in the middle of the floor in my Edinburghflat surrounded by piles of luggage.
I'm also wearing a cape :D

Wonderfulfantasticamazing 
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