*tacklehugs and kisses* Driiiiiiiiiii...............
considering it looks like we both took a holiday from the internet this weekend...how was your weekend?
I think it's the TranPacific..*l* I still need to make that icon...and get a paid account!
Spent most of the weekend reading a book my Aunt raved about, Planes, Trains and Elephants by Brian Thacker. I was killing myself with laughter by the end. From what I can surmise, there is no dignity in travel.
I want to read that book.....sounds interesting.
And so I spent the rest of the weekend thinking very hard about how I could live in London.
Well it'd be much easier for you to immigrate there than it would for me..I'm sure there's a way.
I'm still debating on going to grad school there..or in Sydney...in 2 years time(?) I'm not ready for grad school for awhile, but I do know I don't want to go to grad school here.
I swear sometimes i'm also a gay boy in a straight girl's body..esp. on those days where all I listen to is George Michael and Kylie and then preceed to read Oscar Wilde :p
Considering you started Burroughs, I'll start reading him before bed, which is....now!
considering it looks like we both took a holiday from the internet this weekend... Yeah, I noticed we did that little synchronicity again ... hee. Does this telepathy never end? :p
It was a good weekend. I think it was the first for as long as I can remember where I really really relaxed. And honestly, I think the big difference was the lack of laptop. It meant no LJ commitments, no art commitments, no writing, reading of fic or anything. Normally I lug my laptop home with every intention of catching up on fic, comments, icons/art, my own writing. It's not so much putting pressure on myself as just trying to take full advantage of free time. I kinda forget that it doesn't necessarily mean full relaxation.
This weekend, the only thing I had to do was finish the Michael Marshall Smith book and that I did Saturday morning ... also it's not like reading MMS is a chore. Heh. So, yeah, much0 relax0, the rewards of which I'm still reaping ... very very calm two days later.
think it's the TranPacific..*l* I still need to make that icon...and get a paid account! Cool. The TransPacific DriTina BookClub (TM) now in session! *bangs gavel on desk and flips book pages very quickly*
I want to read that book.....sounds interesting. Ah, I don't think it'll tell you anything you don't already know about London and Europe. But he's pretty cool, he covers almost every continent including Australia and no one gets off lightly. I gotta admit I love one of his little themes, Americans will believe anything, the evil things he says to the clueless American tourists he meets just kill me with laughter. He also covers possibly every bodily function which led me to the 'no dignity in travel' thing. *shudder* Mind you, I think he's gone out of his way to be undignified. Quite insane.
Well it'd be much easier for you to immigrate there than it would for me..I'm sure there's a way. I'm not worried about getting there. Getting there is fine. It's the staying there I'm trying to work out, how do I earn money, how do I keep myself fed and clothed with a roof over my head? Admittedly I have rellos there but she's a goddamned opera singer and I don't fancy living with her. That's when I realised there's a media monitoring company there, in fact a guy I used to work the night shift with at Rehame is working the night shift there in London. Unbelievable. So, yeah, I suppose if I swallowed my pride and tuned my ear to the variety of Hebridean accents, I could earn some dosh transcribing. *ponders*
I'm still debating on going to grad school there..or in Sydney...in 2 years time(?) Heh. I reckon if I saved well enough for two years, I could be in London at the end of those two years. Wouldn't it be funny if I went to London and you came to Sydney? My god, I hope the weather doesn't get me down.
Funny, though, with the postgrad thing ... I've been thinking maybe it's not for me. I can write just as easily on my own and prolly get far more insightful feedback from the writers and readers around me than with dodgy tutorials with reticent tutors. Mind you, that's based on one semester of a creative writing subject. Might be an entirely different case with literary/film studies subjects in another semester. Dunno ... the postgrad thing can wait but I'm not discounting it entirely just yet.
Why do you want to go back to uni? Or do grad school? *curious* I'm asking cos I've always known you do want to and I kinda know what you want to do ... but I've never asked why.
I swear sometimes i'm also a gay boy in a straight girl's body Heh, there's a lot of us here on LJ, especially in the slash reading communities ... but, ah, the many ways unpick that concept ... does it make us all the more heterosexual or just that little bit deviant? girls who like boys who do boys who like girls...
considering it looks like we both took a holiday from the internet this weekend...how was your weekend?
I think it's the TranPacific..*l* I still need to make that icon...and get a paid account!
Spent most of the weekend reading a book my Aunt raved about, Planes, Trains and Elephants by Brian Thacker. I was killing myself with laughter by the end. From what I can surmise, there is no dignity in travel.
I want to read that book.....sounds interesting.
And so I spent the rest of the weekend thinking very hard about how I could live in London.
Well it'd be much easier for you to immigrate there than it would for me..I'm sure there's a way.
I'm still debating on going to grad school there..or in Sydney...in 2 years time(?) I'm not ready for grad school for awhile, but I do know I don't want to go to grad school here.
I swear sometimes i'm also a gay boy in a straight girl's body..esp. on those days where all I listen to is George Michael and Kylie and then preceed to read Oscar Wilde :p
Considering you started Burroughs, I'll start reading him before bed, which is....now!
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Yeah, I noticed we did that little synchronicity again ... hee. Does this telepathy never end? :p
It was a good weekend. I think it was the first for as long as I can remember where I really really relaxed. And honestly, I think the big difference was the lack of laptop. It meant no LJ commitments, no art commitments, no writing, reading of fic or anything. Normally I lug my laptop home with every intention of catching up on fic, comments, icons/art, my own writing. It's not so much putting pressure on myself as just trying to take full advantage of free time. I kinda forget that it doesn't necessarily mean full relaxation.
This weekend, the only thing I had to do was finish the Michael Marshall Smith book and that I did Saturday morning ... also it's not like reading MMS is a chore. Heh. So, yeah, much0 relax0, the rewards of which I'm still reaping ... very very calm two days later.
think it's the TranPacific..*l* I still need to make that icon...and get a paid account!
Cool. The TransPacific DriTina BookClub (TM) now in session! *bangs gavel on desk and flips book pages very quickly*
I want to read that book.....sounds interesting.
Ah, I don't think it'll tell you anything you don't already know about London and Europe. But he's pretty cool, he covers almost every continent including Australia and no one gets off lightly. I gotta admit I love one of his little themes, Americans will believe anything, the evil things he says to the clueless American tourists he meets just kill me with laughter. He also covers possibly every bodily function which led me to the 'no dignity in travel' thing. *shudder* Mind you, I think he's gone out of his way to be undignified. Quite insane.
Well it'd be much easier for you to immigrate there than it would for me..I'm sure there's a way.
I'm not worried about getting there. Getting there is fine. It's the staying there I'm trying to work out, how do I earn money, how do I keep myself fed and clothed with a roof over my head? Admittedly I have rellos there but she's a goddamned opera singer and I don't fancy living with her. That's when I realised there's a media monitoring company there, in fact a guy I used to work the night shift with at Rehame is working the night shift there in London. Unbelievable. So, yeah, I suppose if I swallowed my pride and tuned my ear to the variety of Hebridean accents, I could earn some dosh transcribing. *ponders*
I'm still debating on going to grad school there..or in Sydney...in 2 years time(?)
Heh. I reckon if I saved well enough for two years, I could be in London at the end of those two years. Wouldn't it be funny if I went to London and you came to Sydney? My god, I hope the weather doesn't get me down.
Funny, though, with the postgrad thing ... I've been thinking maybe it's not for me. I can write just as easily on my own and prolly get far more insightful feedback from the writers and readers around me than with dodgy tutorials with reticent tutors. Mind you, that's based on one semester of a creative writing subject. Might be an entirely different case with literary/film studies subjects in another semester. Dunno ... the postgrad thing can wait but I'm not discounting it entirely just yet.
Why do you want to go back to uni? Or do grad school? *curious* I'm asking cos I've always known you do want to and I kinda know what you want to do ... but I've never asked why.
I swear sometimes i'm also a gay boy in a straight girl's body
Heh, there's a lot of us here on LJ, especially in the slash reading communities ... but, ah, the many ways unpick that concept ... does it make us all the more heterosexual or just that little bit deviant? girls who like boys who do boys who like girls...
So how are you finding Burroughs?
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