Just got an email from my mother. Apparently my grandmother's neighbour (in a retirement village) committed suicide last night ( Read more... )

Jehovah's Witnesses at the door. They confuse me - I've only ever come across them once before, and I just don't see how they expect to convince complete strangers of the rightness of their path. I am now the proud owner of two pamphlets showing that we need Jesus to save the world ( Read more... )

Wah! dianorae, I've been listening to Shadow Stalker... *fends off Vanyel fever*

*Fails. Gets books down and cuddles them close.*

In spite of a really loaded timetable, random schedule changes for no good reason and an avalanche of articles to read every few days, I love my course. Why, you ask ( Read more... )

I could wax lyrical about the noticeable effect popular (and by that I mean widely read) reading material has on the standards of English grammar/punctuation, but instead, I would like to take this opportunity to quote from a book I feel I will be consulting very frequently from now on, "The Oxford Guide to Style ( Read more... )

It's been a stressful few days. Classes started Monday, and though they were all of the introductory type, I can already see that this will be a busy year. Lots and lots of background reading to be done, lots to be done in groups (which I usually loathe, as not only do I tend to work better on my own, I also very rarely have the same working hours ( Read more... )

It's a sad testament to the state of spelling nowadays that the mere sight of "minuscule" - note the correct spelling - can make me gloat and grin.

Sigh.

I've been very busy this last week - gone to induction, got my timetable (sucky beyond the telling of it), been shown around my campus (futile like you wouldn't believe), gone belly dancing, Scottish dancing (twice) and gone on a treasure hunt around Edinburgh. I'm exhausted ( Read more... )

Right, well, I'm in Edinburgh, settled and munie d'internet. All good things - now if only my university would supply me with my timetable! They've done the absolute worst possible thing: taken us through the credits, modules, amount of work necessary (mountains, apparently, such as would make the keenest rock-climber shudder in dread), told us ( Read more... )

Right. In a couple of hours, I'm off to Edinburgh. Wish me luck! I'm happier about it now that I've found what appears to be a really nice belly dancing group. ;-)

Packing books? Worst thing ever. I can only take one box of them, and how is one supposed to balance the books one needs to always have around and the books one wants, and new books as ( Read more... )