Does this indicate anything about me reading tastes? :)
1. The Lord of the rings, J.R.R. Tolkien*****
2. The Foundation Trilogy, IsaacAsimov
3. Dune, Frank Herbert
4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Leguin
6. Neuromancer, William Gibson
7. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
8. Do Androids Dream of ( Read more... )

Home sick and fatigued with some bad strep throat.
Cannot be an effective teacher today.
Ach well.
More time to be with the glorious belly my daughter inhabits.
*bliss*

Being Scottish from Glasgow,does this result make any sense?

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: Boston

You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Of course, that doesn't mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine.
The Midland

Philadelphia

The West

The Northeast

North Central

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Some downtime from teaching ( Read more... )

Just got off the Internet blower with the Glasgow Registry Office of Deaths and Marriages ( Read more... )

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20548077-13762,00.html

For years, he was the booze-soaked bard of the barstool, the keeper of 'a bad liver and a broken heart'. But Tom Waits was saved by his wife, hasn't had a drink for more than a decade and, at 56, is making the music of his life. Interview by Sean O'Hagan ( Read more... )

Tumbled out of bed this morning into complete darkness ( Read more... )

Spent yesterday and today giving superb Vranac wine(bought in Serbia from Montenegro) to all my students(14 of the buggers) bringing a great deal of surprised pleasure to all of them ( Read more... )

Was at the parlament(hungarian spelling there) earlier to celebrate/commemorate the failed uprising of "56" with Hungarian citizens and was much disgusted to find a HUGE exclusion zone manned by riot police and foreign security muppets all around the parlament ( Read more... )