ME: ...anyways, I might be a bit sleepy because I'm going to a CD release party the night before. There will be much awesomeness, and also, music.
MUM: Food and drink as well?
ME: Well, drink, anyhow.
MUM: Ah! Straight to the essentials, I see!

"So tell us, do you have any experience doing corporate fundraising?"
".... um, no?"
"All right, then!"

So.... no.

The other thing about my landlords' vine and fig tree, unfortunately, is the fact that the figs right now are both very large and very ripe, which means that they fall off the tree when you're crossing the driveway and hit the concrete with a resounding splat, and the next thing you know you're up to your ankles in fig goo and the bees adore you ( Read more... )

Okay. So, moosefluff, who is awesome (and had a birthday yesterday! Yay, moosefluff!) gave me a shirt some time ago which says, 'Viol players have the best fantasies' on the front, which is a joke about the number of pieces called 'Fantasia' written for viol consort. I love this shirt, and wear it quite often (the best part is that the back says, cheekily, 'Want to ( Read more... )

Today, I graduated from UBC as a Master of Arts! Excitement. I got up at 5:30 a.m. so I could be on campus for 7 to gown (why? why?), and it was all over by 10:30 and I have no idea what I'm going to do with the rest of the day. However, that is okay, because I am now in possession of one (1) stupid hat, one (1) fuzzy purple scarf, one (1) grad ( Read more... )

Today - yesterday - I was carrying one of theseGIRL: *gets off bus ( Read more... )

So I was complaining to algae_al_fresco today because I want to do a lot more performing than I am doing right now (which is not much at all, just to put that in perspective) and I don't currently have my life set up to do that, what with the whole "just finished grad school" thing and all. Which, as problems go, is a pretty minimal one, but it's been eating at ( Read more... )

Linkage!

A very interesting article on Secrets of the Phallus: Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, AKA the question that's been keeping you all awake at nights.

It is really interesting, seriously, at least if you have a minor interest in evolutionary biology. Also, hilarity:

Even the most well-endowed chimpanzee, the species that is our ( Read more... )

Today I purchased, at a used bookstore, a copy of the Origin of Species, because I'm an elitist intellectual snob and it seemed like the kind of thing I should have. On the first blank page at the front, someone wrote the following:

Christmas 2002
Merry X-mas
Dennis
God or evolution?
You decide
Paul & LinaJudging from the fact that I now own ( Read more... )

The production of Jesus literature was a Christian growth industry in late antiquity.

--Aune, David E. The New Testament in Its Literary Environment, p. 68.

Bloody comps. At least they'll be over tomorrow.