(Cross-posted to my blog.)

Rissa (marissa_leigh) has exerted massive amounts of peer pressure in order to get me to do this meme. Ahh! I give in, Rissa! Uncle, uncle! (It's actually quite a fun one, so it wasn't a huge sacrifice. Though it's more fun to pretend that it was.)

Post five things you enjoy, even when no one around you wants to go out and play ( Read more... )

Guess who managed to update Civility today?

I'm all for the small accomplishments.

And now I return to my papers. "Come, we must return. Those two fools who run my... um... scholarly attempts... will be missing you!"

I find myself oddly amused by this comic...

Academic Bullying at Oxford

Noah Webster's devious plans

Okay, being the P. G. Wodehouse *nut* that I am, I laughed out loud when I found, quite by accident, that there exists a College of Wooster. I'm not pulling your leg (it's November 1, not April 1)-- check it out for yourself.

Ah, the things I find when I actually mean to be searching for a journal entitled Eighteenth-Century Fiction.

Ah, the things I produce when I'm desperately procrastinating!

Instead of working on my Politics paper, as I ought to, I've instead created a LiveJournal community, austenicons. It was born out of my frustration in attempting to find good Austen-related LJ icons in one place ( Read more... )

And now, by popular demand... *clears throat and reads from cue cards*

"Gibson Chats make me happy!"(tm)

Thank you for your time.

P.S. They do, they really do.

I found this wonderful quote from the_rum_is_gone, a friend of nova25 (Milla's ( Read more... )

Via sensefille:

I'm guessing this is a good result?

( Results: I'm a Mountie )

I've seen news about the movie bouncing around the Net for a while now, but I never took any notice of Nanny McPhee until I just saw the credits:

Cast (in alphabetical order)
Colin Firth
Angela Lansbury
Emma Thompson

Can it get any better than that? I hardly even care what the movie's about, I'll see it just for the cast.

Thanks to mistacat at wodehouse, I present this wonderful bit of Wodehouse/Wilde crossover.

From Picadilly Jim by P. G. Wodehouse:
Ann smiled delightedly. It was so typical that his father should ( Read more... )