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Right at this very moment, I'm luxuriating in that feeling you have just after you've read a good book, when you may not be actively thinking about it, but somewhere your mind is digesting it, and you still feel a little altered from reading it.
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Happy Birthday Dr Seuss...
...though for some reason I found your books inexplicably scary as a child. And also you're dead. It was mostly Green Eggs and Ham, actually. Don't ask me why. Just another children's book which mildly traumatised me and alienated me from my peers (don't even get me STARTED on when Atreyu's horse drowns in the Swamp of Sorrows *sniffle*)
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I expect I should comment on 2009 in some way...so Happy New Year, everyone!
I've never been someone who particularly feels the symbolic weight of it as an occasion; nonethless I hope anyone reading this has a wonderful 2009. Perhaps my happiness has been slightly dampened by disheartening speeches from the Pope, continuing economic crappiness and ( Read more... ) -
In which I ramble on, but don't necessarily make a coherent point...
It's not normal for me to have a bone to pick with Foyles. Generally, though it lacks the eccentric, shambolic air that defined it once upon a time, I like Foyles. It's layout is nice and airy, it always picks interesting, often obscure titles to put out on its tables, not just bestsellers or heavily promoted titles, and it's staff are intelligent ( Read more... ) -
Caligula would have blushed...
....though not at my escapades. My shenanigan rating is stuck at zero. That was a just a way to work The Smiths in to the title. All will become clear later.
I realised the other day that putting this livejournal under my 'website' on facebook was just asking for trouble. I assumed that it would be ignored, but it seems some people have actually ( Read more... ) -
What do you do with a BA in English?
Lately I've been musing on the future; specifically my future. I feel a bit dead-end-y. I completed my degree, got my first, did my MA, hated it, realised I shouldn't do a PhD...and for the past five months have been sitting at home, thinking. This said thinking has been interspersed by going out with friends, catching up on all the dvds and films ( Read more... ) -
In the words of Liz Lemon....
..blerg. I have a cold, and I hate, hate, hate being ill. It's going, but through blowing my nose so much I've developed this sore bump on the underside of my nostrils thus now making it impossible to blow my nose without suffering an extreme amount of pain. Double blerg,
On to good news. I spent roughly three pounds in a charity shop and got the ( Read more... ) -
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I'm going to stay round my sister's for the weekend, and am really looking forward to it. The only downside is that I've had not time whatsoever to write something for NaNoWriMo. Yesterday I spent the morning helping my mum out as she was having a 'one-dish party' as Asians call it. Do other people have it too? Basically everyone brings one dish ( Read more... ) -
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I'm just not very lucky when it comes to ebay. I've been screwed over a number of times, even when the seller has 100% postive ratings.
Now the postal strike has meant that a book I won that was posted on the 4th still hasn't arrived, but one that was posted on the 10th got here today. This does not bode well surely? Unless they're working through ( Read more... ) -
And here's where I don't unpack for, ooh, about a week...
Got back from Dublin today. I had a great time, it's a lovely city. It makes me wish I'd put a lot more thought in to where I wanted to go and do my Masters, because Trinity is lovely, and I can just see myself living in Dublin, it has that sort of vibe...If only I was doing a PhD (and yet at the same time, I'm glad I'm not ( Read more... )