-
There's A Certain Slant of Light
Taken yesterday by NASA's Terra satellite. As beautiful below as it is from above and responsible for my highly-productive two-day week!
( Read more... ) -
The Ghosts of Hamlet
“Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery.” (III-ii-366)
One of the bonus rounds on a recent episode of University Challenge centered on Shakespeare’s “problem plays”. Hamlet is so called because it does not explicitly turn our ( Read more... ) -
Life & Times
1) I went in to school to collect my results on Thursday. The headlines that morning ranged from "12,000 A-Grade Students Will Not Get University Places This Year" to "Monkeys Could Pass A-Levels" - all very encouraging and supportive, but there is melodrama of this sort every year. I did well, though! Meaning I can go ahead with my applications ( Read more... ) -
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
Happy 41st birthday, Gillian! May your endearingly quirky and giggly demeanour, unrivalled talent and stunning looks (and honourary Brit status) remain for many years to come.
Know also that my unconditional, fangirlish adoration is unyielding:
[A conversation between myself and a friend re: his current X-Files rewatch]
E: Didn't you see GA in ( Read more... ) -
Tagging Meme
aloysiavirgata made me do it. (Reposted due to serious journal malfunction/my own technological incompetence.)
Tagged - mildlyconfused , namarie24 ,
( Read more... ) -
The Big Questions
I was just about incapable of function or communication for three hours yesterday evening studying my newly-bought copy of The Complete X-Files. I was close to simply cutting it, snorting it and blissfully OD'ing on all the pretty. For me, its most evocative photograph is a double-page glossy of the young, serious and dark-clothed Agents Mulder and ( Read more... ) -
Circles of the Intelligentsia
My lecturers at Oxford last week all appeared to be these insanely well-connected friends to the published and (in)famous. At the end of an incredible (incredible!) lecture on Joyce's Portrait of the Artist, the lecturer casually asked whether any of us were Harry Potter fans. A lot of the room shifted in their seats and discreetly attempted to ( Read more... ) -
Terms of Endearment
The point at which it becomes necessary to discuss the minutiae of IWTB in order to stave off serious MSR cravings appears to have been reached. Check out this video (or alternatively watch the Bedroom Scene on your well-used IWTB DVD) and listen carefully at around 1.40 or just after Scully mentions William.
Does Mulder call Scully "honey" or not ( Read more... ) -
From the City of Dreaming Spires
I'm in Oxford for a week attending the University's English lit summer school, alone apart from a blank journal, a Joyce novel and a volume of Wordsworth. Packing yesterday, I reached automatically for M&S (in their plastic incarnation) to fold into my “Good grammar costs nothing” t-shirt. But I stopped myself ( Read more... ) -
Not Just A Fluke
Thought I'd finally get around to kicking this journal off. Everything posted here will generally be dedicated to all things obsessively Phile-y, fandom-y and fangirly. You have been warned.
So since we first had news that there was to be a second X-Files film people have begun to talk, write and think about The X-Files in a way that they haven't in ( Read more... )