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How did I manage not to listen to Jeff Buckley for over two years?

Just rediscovering 'Grace,' and - wow. It still lives up to the hype.

Today was very slow, but very soothing. I finally conquered my fear of my dissertation and did something by putting it onto paper - it's still only notes, but I am utterly confident that they will come together. I comfort myself with the idea that I failed Higher Music in my first term because I couldn't present my composition to the teachers in a ( Read more... )

In walked a man in the shape of a man ( Read more... )

I took a test, and watched as only one stripe appeared. Five minutes later, still only one stripe. I'm very happy about this ( Read more... )

Whenever I get overexcited, I ask my friends to sing me 'Jerusalem'.

If that fails, I move on to 'Danny Boy'.

If that, too, fails, I start singing 'Wild Mountain Thyme'. This has been known to happen to a bongo beat.

Yesterday I got sick of it all and booked some hasty flights back to Glasgow, just in time for Fifth Week Blues to kick in ( Read more... )

... that with 3 cups of coffee, very little food, a deadline, and a date pressing down one's neck, one can still achieve a 2,200 word essay.

This had really better be a *date* date, or I'll be a seriously unimpressed bunny.

Anyone know how I can lose 5lbs before 7:30pm, without losing a limb?

I am afraid of my own intellect. I don't trust it.
So I dismiss it, really. I let it sleep or amuse itself with cards or board games while mummy sleeps. She's had enough; she's exhausted and there is so much more to her that she enjoys.