"A long, freshly sharpened pencil between his fingers, the young man studies my face for a while.  The pencil is yellow, with a rubber at the end.  The man's face is on the small side, his features regular.  Pretty, more than handsome, might describe him best.  He's wearing a buttoned-down white cotton shirt and olive-green chinos, with not a ( Read more... )

...I won second place for the "G" drabble challenge on Nicluvly's OHSHC FanFiction Contest.

But My Eyes Still See was my entry.

Tea can never get old.  Never!


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...before I went to the cinema again.

This time, I went to see Source Code.  I saw the trailer during my penultimate visit involving The Adjustment Bureau and immediately had it down as a movie I wanted to watch.  So I turned up yesterday afternoon, early enough to avoid the noisy kids and moody little teenagers, and prepared myself for a pleasant ( Read more... )

...I won second place for the "F" drabble challenge on Nicluvly's OHSHC FanFiction Contest?

Don't You Know That I've Cursed You was my entry.

I hear the kettle boiling...


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...The Adjustment Bureau.

Despite the guilty part of her that wanted to see Battle: Los Angeles, she went instead to see a film based on Philip K. Dick's short story "The Adjustment Team".

Now I haven't read "The Adjustment Team", and I don't know why I began this post in third-person either, but I daresay the film was enjoyable - even more so with ( Read more... )

...I have started to watch Dora the Explorer with subtitles.

And so far, I have mastered very little.

Fear sneachta means "snowman".

Samhradh means "summer".

And puimcín means "pumpkin".

Thanks, Dora!

So useful...

Like the Spanish phrases which the English subtitler couldn't understand, writing only what they thought the monkey was saying.

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...I won tied third place for the "Commoner's Coffee" Wild Card challenge on Nicluvly's OHSHC FanFiction Contest?

Coffee: The Commoner's Way was my entry.

Waiting for the kettle to boil so that cup of tea can be drunk!


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...delete the apostrophe in "Coffee: The Commoner's Way"!!!

Oh god, but I can't... not until the votes are through!

Whhhhhyyy... it's still there... the stupid, dancing, winking little bastard...

TAUNTING ME!!!

...what makes life so interesting.

The people.

...I won tied second place for the "D" drabble challenge on Nicluvly's OHSHC FanFiction Contest.

Shizuko was my entry.

Drinking tea with pleasure.


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