I've got a principle part in a G&S production for the second time this year!  After being King Gama in the university society's Princess Ida, I'm now to play Lord Mountararat in Iolanthe with the St David's Players.  Much happiness!

I could almost imagine that I'm getting not-too-bad at this sort of thing.

That's an almost-literal translation of the name (Kagop Buyí si) of the village where my novel starts. Not quite - a kagop is a "land-nose", generally a spit of land or peninsula near a river mouth (they share the mouth metaphor with us, though Imperial sees things quite another way, and the "discontented" is clearly feminine, "river" understood. ( Read more... )

I've just had the insight that the trouble I have with my life generally is that the things I enjoy, the things that give me a feeling of accomplishment and the things that earn me money have practically no overlap. What I've done in practice is to take a part-time job so I'll have time to do the things that will give me a feeling of ( Read more... )

At the last election, the people of the UK had to choose between the evil and the incompetent.

The people of the US didn't have to make the choice.

The strange thing about this test is that it put things in such a strong form: "am passionate", "love" and such - that I disagreed with almost everything. In fact, I don't think I selected the top two ratings for any question, and had the feeling that I was answering questions based more on the wording than what they were trying to get at. But it ( Read more... )

Well. Though I think it's interesting that I got this result by rating very low on both: I answered "sometimes" to most questions. Which, come to think of it, probably shows a lack of self-confidence, which is probably traditionally feminine, so fair enough.

Feminine
You scored 20 masculinity and 53 femininity! You scored high on ( Read more... )

So, the noticeable effect of the terrorist attacks it to change the dull black state of alert sign at work to a much prettier amber.

And I suspect that's mostly because they think the population will be less anxious if they pretend they're doing something. At least they aren't aiming for the ciimate of fear here....

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