Some Ireland related news ( Read more... )

I was having lunch and a drink with a future classmate when sw_aadisht called to ask where I was. I told him, told him what time I'd be home, and hoped to have a nice conversation with him online in the evening.

I got to talking with K (future classmate) about him and said I didn't know when I'd be seeing him next and really wanted to before I left (I leave ( Read more... )

Bat Thing


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• Five books
• Camera
• Camera case (separately, because when I take pics I just shove the camera back in the bag)
• Wallet
• Spectacle case

Lunatic in My Head - Anjum Hasan
Katherine Swynford - Alison Weir
The Awful End of Prince William the Silent - Lisa Jardine
Checkmate - Malorie Blackman (the third book in the Noughts and Crosses series)
The World According to Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith (which must be read before The Unbearable Lightness of Scones comes out)
St. Lucy's Home for ( Read more... )

Would any of you mind if I occasionally posted entries both here and at my other blog?

I've generally tried to divide posts into "personal" and "not", but it isn't working. There are a lot of posts that wouldn't be out of place on either my journal or my blog, and I mostly end up putting them here, because if I didn't the only thing my LJ friends ( Read more... )

It's just been a horrendous month. Things are looking up now, so I'll be back (and posting! about my life!) soon.

From this interview:

elimae: I have written, in reviews, of your work as "Modernist". Does such a label disturb or please you in any way? Does it seem at all accurate?

Alan Garner: The French analytical linguistic philosophers irritate me, since I don't like to be defined, and thereby limited, for the reader; but it is no more than that. If they ( Read more... )

....the bright orange one I obtained from Alie and Koos during the 2006 World Cup.

Recent experiences with males who either (a) felt the need to explain sports to me (b) treated the fact that I sometimes watch sport as evidence that I am unique and special (with or without any evidence that I actually know anything about said sport) have embittered ( Read more... )

I want this dress. I really do. I would wear it with my pretty new red stilettos and make babies cry.