Good stuff: Tom Waits playing here in July ( Read more... )

I have been studying for exams, mostly. Plenty of lunches and coffee-breaks with people last week to make staying all day in college less of a killer. Spent 9 hours in the library (well, with a half an hour coffee here and an hour-and-a-half lunch-wander-anythingbut-books-please there) on Tuesday, then went out to Aisling's for coffee and Desperate ( Read more... )

I adore studying neuroscience (only, y'know, when there's no exam pressure) because you can link an awful lot of the facets of being to the physical brain. Speculatively, all facets. A lot of people think it's reductivist and scary to be able to say that everything we do and feel is dictated by a mass of cells, but I certainly wouldn't call it ( Read more... )

This summer I am going to try to find every episode of The Clangers. It's a current mini-obsession ( Read more... )

This good weather is a bloody distraction.

( Of exams, tin grin-less-ness and cages )

I was familiar with most of the writers on my Romanticism and Revolutions course before the lectures on them - Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, William Blake - and even when I had no previous experience of their work, their names weren't new to me - William Godwin, Thomas Paine. However, John Clare was completely new to me. New and ( Read more... )

This week has been very schmeh, not because it was a bad week in itself but because my mood has been fluctuating a lot and I worry about holding my life together sometimes and striking the right balance. I've been working hard at college, going into the library every day, and I've seen a lot of people this week - lunch with Jason and tea with ( Read more... )

I figured I'd start using this yoke-a-majig again because I like reading about strangers' lives (I find it inspirational, or it satisfies the stalker urge, or something) and I figure, I may as well throw mine into the mix too for link-wanderers and people who enter randomised names into LJ to find ( Read more... )