I now have a job which thus far bores me, takes an hour to get to in the morning, costs five quid a day in train fare and is located in a terrible depressing town in the middle of nowhere. I'm commuting out of the city. That's not right ( Read more... )

... stick thirty years and a long beard on George Clooney and you have Albus Dumbledore. He has THE TWINKLE ...

I have a job interview tomorrow that I was told about today for a job I applied for yesterday. Actually, it is tomorrow, so I guess I have a job interview today that I heard about yesterday for a job I applied for the day before. At any rate, I feel ill prepared. I also feel that I just got woken up by a sodding car alarm that shows no signs of ( Read more... )

So this is a thing that puzzles me. I just put a story on fanfiction.net, and, for reasons that escape me, ffnet promptly sent me an author alert email informing me that I had just put a story on ffnet. Why does this happen? It never used to happen, and its telling me that otherhawk has a new story. It seems to me, that at some point, presumably in ( Read more... )

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Ooookay, I think I may have ODed on snark. I've been reading the house_mst site rather more than can strictly speaking be healthy, (If you're interested, it's a community for making fun of bad House MD fanfiction in the style of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Yes, I know I just made something funny sound incredibly dull.) and I now appear to have gone on to ( Read more... )

This is a sentence from a book entitled 'Making sense of New Labour'

New Labour is developing a form of state practice centred on a particular method of media management and 'culture' oriented towards the production of consuming and self-capitalising subjects, able reflexively to integrate themselves into a modernised economy/society; the latter, ( Read more... )

Alright. So I haven't watched Star Wars in years. So why, as I'm writing an essay on the Liberal/SDP Alliance, am I thinking of the Rebel Alliance, and hearing the Star Wars themes in my head?

OK, now I'm annoyed. I was supposed to be meeting M. about our group project for the human rights class, but she didn't show up, or get in contact with me in any way ( Read more... )