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trying, trying, trying to write that The Problem With Tina post
which for some reason is being very, very difficult - seriously, I started trying this two years ago, what's the issue?
I'm searching out Proper Science to help me point out how incredibly, incredibly wrong the idea of faking a stutter because they're shy and don't want to deal with people is (because, I mean, seriously, THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A ( Read more... ) -
So today I...
...went to listen to renaissance music - including costumes and dancers! - and, during the break, got to try to play a rebec and what I think was a viol [eta: I googled some more because "viol" didn't look quite right and it looks as though it was actually a vielle]. (the rebec was awesome. mini-violin! :D) I think my favourite instrument of the ( Read more... ) -
Chocolate making picspam and instructions part I: set-up and decorations
A week or two ago, I made chocolates! And promised Sciatrix I would take pictures of the process and post about it afterwards since she couldn't be there. SO.
(apologies for bad image quality, I used my phone.)
( picspam, description, tl;dr instructions under cut ) -
an assortment of things
(1) My talk went very very well indeed! :D I did screw up the bit I was worried about a liiiittle, but the actual important bits were fine, the talk lasted pretty much exactly one hour, people laughed in the places I wanted them to etc. etc. etc. yaaay ( Read more... ) -
advice pls?
okay so there is something really fucking weird going on with the power supply in my flat ( Read more... ) -
fandom and writing and maths and SJ and breaks? maybe?
Something that has not come up a lot on this blog, recently, is this ( Read more... ) -
I should probably just build that bloody fort and stop poking at this, yes
Okay, in my worries about The King's Speech? This is the kind of thing I am talking about.
(Transcript starts at 1:12 and is up to 1:47 because even in good video times I don't have that many spoons, okay.)
Tom Hooper, director of the King's Speech, talking about the way the stutter's presented: "...although the causes are psychological, it's ( Read more... )
