Today is a good day. They had nice icecream on half price (so I bought two) and I bought a cheesecake for Thursday's game ( Read more... )

Reading Fantasies of Feminine Evil made rereading King Lear sort of horribly fascinating. It's amazing how critical approaches can change your attitude to a text, and its characters, so dramatically.

I love English Literature, I really do.

First of all, re: previous entry. Thank you for the comments and to the people who came up and went, 'hey, why the cryptic LJ?'. I'm fine, everything's cool, I mostly posted it with the mental tone of wry shout out at taking steps forward. And I am ( Read more... )

Just wanted to say a quick apology to the players that I'd agreed to go out with on the choose-your-own. I slept right through my alarm and didn't wake up til 12. Hope everyone had a really good time nonetheless and got many things achieved. :)

I remember how great break time used to be in primary school. Running around the playground like a loon, playing Bulldog and grazing my knees and pretending to be an eagle ( Read more... )

"That's weird. I don't remember eating a placenta."

(Because it's always better to laugh.)

I recently rediscovered this song:

They Gave You All The Blame by Minuteman

I only know of it thanks to a rather random HMV playlist CD I got free at some point. There was a real mix on there, and this was one of them.

'Cause it's such a fucking shame
That they gave you all the blame
'Cause it always ends the same
When people play their games.

Even though I was very good and left the room promptly at seven to go and get more work done, I confess, I didn't reach the library until eight ( Read more... )

I am feeling overwhelmingly tempted by the idea of a nap in the learning zone ( Read more... )

I JUST HANDED IN MY DISSERTATION ( Read more... )