Just taking this brief opportunity to do a quick update...I've got a supervision in 20 mins, so haven't got time to restart staring at my computer screen aka writing an essay ( Read more... )

Basically...all is very well ( Read more... )

Well, I just thought update on the subject of the **driving test ( Read more... )

I went to see "Spirited Away," today on Shaftesbury avenue for LexP's birthday. I went along not knowing what to expect at all (deliberately not reading any reviews beyond what it said on the promotional poster) and it was vivid, deeply imaginative, funny, touching....it was just grand. I came out glowing with pleasure, you know that feeling when ( Read more... )

Having just watched yet another startlingly good episode of Six Feet Under I have come to realise, and this is the first time this has ever happened to me, that it is actually perfect. There is nothing I would change about it, and I don't think it would be possible for me to enjoy it more. Were I in the television industry, I would be feeling ( Read more... )

: re light sabre noise issue.

Make an inaccurate comment about something dear to all geeks' hearts with the extra twist of an element of challenge (aka throwing down the "gauntlet of geek" (aka mitten of minutiae)).

I will have to bear this in mind when writing my journal in the future.

I was going about my business around collier row the other day and heard one of those classic kids' games which basically consist of something like ( Read more... )

I just finished the Homer bit of my university preparation and I'm tired and for some reason feel like I haven't made contact with the outside world for a thousand years. Why is it that whenever you feel like that there's not even anyone on MSN? Must go shopping or something tomorrow or I might end up just squeaking out of existence altogether. ( ( Read more... )

Just received long awaited university bumf pack, and am now in state of mild panic for no good reason really. I got all this stuff about who my tutor will be and about the whole shenanigan, plus I've signed up to go to an "about to go to cambridge" Party in london on the tenth, which I'm now terrified about ( Read more... )

hurrah, douglas coupland tomorrow. I really just have no idea what to expect. What does an author DO when put on a podium in front of a bunch of people? I know part of it is a reading from his new book Hey Nostradamus! (which I've started reading but am never going ot finish by tomorrow what with other pressing matters to consider) but aside from ( Read more... )