First of all, Bristol is a nice place to be*. There are lovely people to dance with and to play music with and talk science with and talk nonsense with. Recently I even found a lovely person who I can talk books with and fling the contents of my bookshelf at. Yes, I have just ended sentences with prepositions. Cambridge must be wearing off ( Read more... )

I read American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

Why, why have I waited this long to read it?!

The problem with book adoration is that, of course, I need to go and find every other book Gaiman ever wrote and until I do so life is slightly unsatisfactory. *sigh*

In other news, this was amusing.  The Unsuggester informed me repeatedly through book titles that "no, ( Read more... )

Giant galloping killer bunnies.  I must have this film.  I must have it.

Look at the bones!  Get out the holy hand grenade!  Hit me if I make another Monty Python reference!

Sometimes I feel like such an annoying person that I'm surprised anyone wants anything to do with me.  I think this comes from a strong suspicion that if I met myself, I'd want to shoot a tranquiliser dart at me to shut me up.  *sighs*  There's no way to make this less adolescent sounding, but honestly, this isn't actually angst, merely an ( Read more... )

So I was trying to work out where all my time had gotten to this holiday...
And it was the malevolent Wikipedia Fairy all along!

Oh, and also the Report of Doom ate time.  2000 words of mostly re-wording papers and Wikipedia, so far.

A fly decided that my planned time of waking of 6.30am for an exam-day was not responsible enough, so it buzzed in my ear until I got up at 6am.  I've been trying to KILLIT all day, but it appears to be outwitting me significantly.  News on a slightly larger scale:  exams!  Could probably have done better on both papers so far, but still feels a ( Read more... )

I saw this in a shop window, and for some reason it made me terribly happy:


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My three most recent dreams:

- my terrifying mole-like Theoretical Chem lecturer/supervisor performing open-brain surgery on me, without anaesthetic.  I can report that having your brain exposed to the air was odd, but not too unpleasant. On the other hand, Moleman holding a scalpel in his hand with a gleam in his eye...

- acquiring wedding rings ( Read more... )

After typing in "Isla needs" into Google, this is what I got out:

"Isla needs to be short" - ??!
"Isla needs her Raisins" - depends on what raisins are a metaphor for.
"Isla needs to invest $1G or the plant will become obsolete"
"Isla needs you!!" - probably.
"Isla needs to also be seen during the day." - nights will also do, depending on who you are ( Read more... )

Waking up after the manic episode that is term is always a strange feeling. It's not been an unpleasant manic episode, though, although still a hop-step away from being actually pleasant. Doing lots of stuff to avoid thinking and to force self out of bed is just about sound until the lots of stuff end, when the Heavy Thump to floor-and-reality ( Read more... )