i have rediscovered le tigre.

That is all.

I get the feeling that if someone handed me the keys to a university and said "go ahead, just sit here and learn for the next fourty years", I'd be the happiest person on the planet.

LM-putaindelamerde-ing-AO. I found an old school report from P1 (ie, when I was five years old), and amongst the usual crap the teacher says:

"twiggy_twee makes some phonetic attack on words"

which has been tickling me / amusing me / killing me with laugher ever since. I'm not sure why but this is officially the funniest thing I've ever heard said ( Read more... )

Woo! Would you believe me if I told you that I've FINALLY found an adult beginner's gaelic class?! Like, ten minutes from work?! That starts in a few weeks?!
*dances*

So, I have about a gazillion books that I need to read, and not enough time to read them, yet I am craving something new. I want advice! 
Recommend me a book, about anything at all, and [assuming it is in print and not £100 a copy] I will read it by the end of the year.

Hit me with it!

Today I feel waaaay more positive, thanks largely to some of the awesome people on my flist who not only indulge my tantrums but listen and take on board what I am saying. Thank you <3

The smallest thing can reassure you sometimes. And it has. And I'm grateful.

I'm also hugely relieved because - somewhat miraculously - I finished alllll my studying ( Read more... )

Saul Williams! Dublin! May!

Happy!!

"this book is dedicated to
freedom, although it comes at a cost.
Don't steal it, y'all
("steal" shoud read "find" if the subject is
white, in which case the subject is free
to help himself)"

- Saul Williams, The Dead Emcee Scrolls

I was googling like a happy camper and found this on wiki:

"They are generally thought to be called wisdom teeth because they appear so late-much later than the other teeth, at an age where people are wiser than as a child, when the other teeth erupt.

The English wisdom tooth is derived from Latin dens sapientiae."

Apparently its shared by like ( Read more... )

So I've been thinking about it all night, feeling miserable and worrying about various (very possible) eventualities, but I've made my decision ( Read more... )