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My journals: let me show you them. All forty-nine of them
This is evidence, I think, not so much of me being a prolific writer but of my obsessions being consuming: yes, the first of these journals is from 1998, so I've been doing this for eleven years, but even so, starting the fiftieth volume of my journal at the relatively tender age of twenty-two frightens me.
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TiLTing it up, baby
- Finding my travel mug and taking a travel mug of tea everywhere with me
- Downloading new music and playing it on repeat
- Watching the hens getting tamer and tamer
- Making my own food - the cupcakes are now perfect, and the scones were nice, but needed a little work.
- Hearing from my favourite person ever, especially when I don't get to see him any more ( Read more... )
- Finding my travel mug and taking a travel mug of tea everywhere with me
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TiLT (although it's late because I didn't remember until late last night!)
- Free rosaries in the post
- Moo.com stickers
- Frederica (rat) coming running when she's called
- My new Joules polo shirt
- My animals constantly being in the background/foreground of my photos
- Reading other people's TiLT lists and feeling happy for them, too!
- Free rosaries in the post
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On appearances and realities: thoughts on hair dye and body modification
This post is an extension of a comment I posted over at dyed_hair. My thinking got a little carried away from the initial question, hence my reposting it as a separate essay over here ( Read more... ) -
TiLT
Things which have been rocking TTK-verse this week:
- Discovering that I'm actually qualified for a lot more than I'd thought I was
- Zoe the hen starting to lay eggs - I got one today and one yesterday.
- A brown wriggly dog curled up on a white fluffy rug watching the rats
- The way Mousey reaches through the bars with his paw to grab his post- ( Read more... )
- Discovering that I'm actually qualified for a lot more than I'd thought I was
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How depressing
In lieu of the longer, more time-consuming post I’m half working on at the moment (in addition to refining the argument of my dissertation, and planning an article), I present you a rather depressing statistic.
This is the percentage of students studying in each subject group:
1. Medicine & dentistry 2.4%
2. Subjects allied to medicine 12.8%
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Books Meme
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well, let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon ( Read more... ) -
The pleasures of fourth year, and the tribulations involved in the study of English literature
I'm aware that it's a little early to be making this post just now; the academic year hasn't finished yet, so technically I'm still a third year. However, I have ordered the books for next semester, and that's what I'm currently referring to. Usually my books for one semester cost me between £70 and £100, a fact which seems to constantly amaze and ( Read more... ) -
‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ - Oh, wait...
Firstly, apologies primarily for the appallingly obvious title (poor Shakespeare must roll over in his grave every time someone misuses Sonnet 18. It’s a pity, because I do like that one, although it’s not as good as Sonnet 135, which is my favourite because I’m immature and filthy minded. Segwick does a wonderful reading of it in Between Men, by ( Read more... ) -
It's always the be-spectacled ones
Taking classes in the Gothic is interesting. It helps, of course, that it’s taught by Amusing Professor (my pseudonyms could use some work, perhaps), who, despite being brilliant in her field, screams and drops things a lot. (Example: when fast-forwarding a DVD, she went past the scene she needed, screamed and dropped the remote control. Last ( Read more... )