"Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many ( Read more... )

 I saw Dark Knight last night at midnight - my first midnight showing, which was exciting (aka the first midnight showing my parents have let me see... and they didn't even care when I asked this time. So help me, I don't understand them). Ordinarily probably not a movie I would have seen at midnight but my boyfriend and a couple other (guy) ( Read more... )

I got it on Tuesday I guess (so long ago?) but only really got it working and onto the internet this morning. I QUITE like it, and from what I've seen I like Windows Vista too - has many more options than XP. It's an HP Pavilion, 200 GB, 3 GB RAM, 15.4 in - widescreen, which makes looking at familiar websites strange... posts on the Downs look ( Read more... )

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

38 for 100

1 ( Read more... )

Well, I started feeling pain in my stomach about this time last night. By about 8:30 it was very decidedly localizing to my right side... and around 9:10 I started throwing up. Do you see where this is going ( Read more... )

A link a friend showed me, rather mind-bending: The Tenth Dimension.

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Creek or stream.

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Cart.

3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunchbox.

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan.

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Couch.

6. The device on the ( Read more... )

 None other than Johnny Depp, not two miles from my house ( Read more... )

I was trying to think of the word for the act of having obtained something... logically, it should be "obtention" (retain-retention, detain-detention), and while it does appear to be a word in the English language officially... it isn't exactly really - i.e. on merriam webster online it's only in the unabridged dictionary, ergo I do not have access ( Read more... )

 (You know the kind, where you wake up just not feeling good, and now because of daylight savings it's not only dark but it feels like an hour early...)

Got an acceptance from Rochester today!!