Cranky, gloomy... that just about describes me. I am not a nice person to know when something hurts *and* things are getting me down. One of the two at a time, I can handle *g*.

Will surface again eventually, no doubt.

End of wallow.

I've had some weird spam in my time, but this takes the biscuit.

Subject:
Greetings
Date:
Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:21:01 -0500
From:
"Ba"
To:
Dearly Beloved ( Read more... )

has a silhouette of Hitchcock with one of his birds on his head in place of one of the letter 'o's. It's rather cute.

Dunno if it's the anniversary of his death, or of when the film was realised. But hell, what a film it was.

Er... oh. Birds with *wings*.

Just been browsing the post by, and replies to, thamiris on the subject of fiction awards (waves). Made me kinda glad I wasn't writing Smallville stuff, to be honest. Only joking. Or well, only partly joking. And judging by what I've heard about Stargate awards, that's a minefield too. Took a peek at the CBFFA stuff and it's not exactly a bowl of cherries ( Read more... )

... it made me giggle

Ok, so it made ME laugh anyway :)

Well well. Or should I say 'tiens ( Read more... )

Just had a snippet to translate (for the refugees and asylum dept. of the region... not sure how they got it but... well).
It's just so... so... SWISSIt sure makes a change from other stuff I've been doing too. In fact it's humbling and entertaining at the same time. I suppose it's needed in English to remind all the wicked, nasty foreigners of ( Read more... )

"Writing a book is an adventure; it begins as an amusement, then it becomes
a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant." Winston Churchill

Right. And the 'tyrant' phase is one I'm getting highly familiar with.

Why didn't I find a less tyrannical hobby? Hm.

I don't often get this blown away by poetry. But somebody sent me this and it is... strunning. It takes a lot - and I mean a LOT to make me cry. But this did. Even cynical old me. The poet is from New York ( Read more... )

Now, if Corrector from Hell does his usual thing and changes my upper case letters to lower case ones and vice-versa, just to flourish his red pen... it's going to get interesting when he gets onto the 'coke / Coke' bits.

And question for anyone out there, pretty please. D'you call drinks with mixers.... drinks with mixers or 'mix drinks' as this ( Read more... )