Reread HP1.   Am now reading Life the Universe and Everything.  Still reading Stalingrad and The Dead Sea Scrolls.  Will likely die before I finish the last two.  Le sigh.

So... there's about fifty things I have to say about this video.  First, it's fucking Scandinavia.  Put a shirt on or something, dude.  Second, please don't invade my village and burn down my house.  Third, THIS IS THE FUNNIEST THING EVER.  Fourth, why are those people following this random crazy shirtless dude?  Fourth, THIS IS THE FUNNIEST THING ( Read more... )

Holy crap!  Maybe it's one of Kat's soon-to-be stepkids?

Ah.  Still having a bit of trouble with the Internet and LJ.  It seems that whenever the ads come up after login, that somehow prevents me from being able to click any links after closing the ads.  *Muses*  Anyway, I can't stay, because I'm going to work at six this morning (meh), but I must share this.   Both last night and the night before I have ( Read more... )

My back hurts.  Like, not a little hurts.  Like, is worst (sustained) pain I've ever felt, excepting maybe a couple of the really nasty migraines.  It's the upper left quarter of my back, which on good days just hurts when I inhale deeply.  On bad days (or, really, for a period every day) I get a freezing pain that turns into some sort of spasm ( Read more... )

Sorry, guys.  I have not been ignoring you, but my internet has.  Or rather, my internet has been allowing me to pull up the LJ webpage, but not to click on the links ( Read more... )

I finished an absolutely delightful book, The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova.  In fact, I would describe it as delicious, except I think that people who describe books as "delicious" are totally pretentious.  Anyway, it is a not-sleazy, not-emo vampire novel, with lots of history and travel and geography and linguistics and culture and politics.  ( Read more... )

Snow!   Holy crap!  Snow! 

Freshly completed book:

Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams.  That makes for a tally of four so far.

1.  Breaking Dawn
2.  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
3.  The Return of the King
4.  Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Currently (and still) reading:
1.  The Dead Sea Scrolls
2.  Stalingrad
3.  Critical Mission

Yay.

I just finished reading The Return of the King (finally; I started reading the Lord of the Rings in August).  Currently, I'm reading:

1.  The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation, by Michael Wise, Martin Abegg, Jr., and Edward Cook
2.  Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943, by Antony Beevor
3.  Critical Mission: Essays on Democracy Promotion, by ( Read more... )