Ahem! I know it's late in Chicago, but hopefully you're still up. The nuns don't have you going to bed early, surely??? I'm posting from work, like the wannabe supervillain I am.

Anyway, talitha78, best of good buddies, a very happy birthday to you and many happy returns. This is a first installment of what I'm calling Twelve Several Days of Christmas ( Read more... )

Oh, how I loved you, Christopher Reeve. Thanks for being such an integral part of my childhood. And let's be honest, my adult life too.


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One of my favourite fallacies: after this, therefore because of it.

Here follows a list of recent events in chronological order:

1) Several Israeli citizens were wanted by the police in Australia, and by extension New Zealand, for dealing in counterfeit Australian and New Zealand passports ( Read more... )

I meant to put this all in one entry, but it doesn't seem to fit.

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A deal's a deal, and I never renege, so here's my picture for those who requested it. I am, however, not quite as au fait with the mechanics of the whole thing as you artistes are, so I've had to link to a separate page. I apologise for that.

arysteiaFor the record, I do, *occasionally*, open my eyes more than that. It was just a particularly ( Read more... )

April 25 1915 - New Zealand and Australian soldiers land at Gallipoli.

A teacher made me memorise Dulce et Decorum Est for the Anzac Day service when I was eleven years old. I didn't really understand it, all I knew was that it made me cry. As a teenager I fell in love with Rupert Brooke's beautiful face, and the tragic romance of his death. My ( Read more... )

It's strange the power an arbitrary date can have over us. I woke up this morning prepared to be miserable, and I was. My aunt died a year ago today, succumbing to cancer after a lengthy battle. My favourite uncle (her brother, not her husband) died four years ago today, of a drug overdose. Pretty crappy day in our family. I feel sorry for my ( Read more... )

This story is ridiculous, but true ( Read more... )

I can no longer deny it. My one true love for Lex and Clark's... one true love... has a rival. I dreamed about them last night!

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are my new OTP.

And I'll just take this moment (belatedly) to thank cruisedirector for the icons she made me. Big weevils indeed!

Apropos of nothing in particular, hums innocently I ( Read more... )