To me, today hasn't so much been Halloween as The Day In Which It's Nearly November But Not Quite. As such, I've made plans and visited the NaNoWriMo website and am going to inadvisedly attempt to write a story of over 50 000 words over the course of a month. For my attempt at a novel this year, I want to write something fantasy-based and silly and ( Read more... )

AFAIK this was first brought to light here and in the second bullet-point in this post. Apple, known for being as proprietary a platform as you can get, has seen fit to approve the addition to its iPhone stores an application called "PeekABooTranny". What this seems to do is add alarming caricatures of trans women to any photographs you take. ( Read more... )

I keep telling myself to update this more, because I made this journal in order to make some kind of a record of my mental processes and interests and worries and fears and enthusiasms about life. So far, I've failed at that, I think because I have the idea it's only worth writing long things and little notes are a waste of time ( Read more... )

I have just got back from holidaying with my lovely Cambridge neighbours - we went to the Lake District, and played cards and made brownies and admired the pleasingly named and very pretty surroundings, and walked and picnicked and read books and did crosswords and generally had an excellent time! Also, importantly, the only time it rained was when ( Read more... )

... But, for anyone who might be interested, here's some stuff I read on the internet regularly. I like finding new webcomics, so I'll put this out here in the hopes of repaying favours I owe to the internet... I read xkcd and Girl Genius, but I'm assuming anyone likely to like those knows of their existence already. Here are a couple of other ( Read more... )

... My 5000word dissertation, it is printed and READY TO HAND IN. As the Original Composition stuff also due in tomorrow morning now is.

That's 1/7th of the stuff I'm getting graded on for the last two years, so, yay. And long may I not have to think about 1833->modern day workstuff. That is all.

Well, shit! It's two minutes past twelve as I start writing this, so I've failed my update-every-day plan already. Oops ( Read more... )

'kay, middle of the night isn't normally a good time for new starts, but this is my resolution for the day ( Read more... )

Rarely has this actually happened to me before, but over in Cambridge, the first of March coincided with an amazingly nice day, and so despite my Monday 1st March being full of deadlines, it had redeeming features for me. As most people likely to be reading this probably know, Cambridge is little but pretty well-endowed with green spaces, and this ( Read more... )

So, I went to my 11:00 supervision with The Guy Who Doesn't Answer Emails. I got there a few minutes early and waited. At 11, I buzzed the buzzer to his room. No answer. I waited. At 5mins past 11, Matilda The Frequently Late, my rarely punctual supervision partner, showed up. We waited. It snowed, in a pretty half-assed sleety but nonetheless cold ( Read more... )