And now I have, albeit in the form of a haiku. Apparently my grandmother - in all her years of wisdom - has never finished the book either, which made me feel rather better about not reading an exam text.

But now, thanks to One Hundred Great Books in Haiku by David Bader, I can take IB English and pass. Or something ( Read more... )

Not, you may be pleased to learn, some hot chick I met at one of those European-style rave things. I don't go to those European-style rave things, and if I did, I'd be too scared to talk to anyone long enough to fall in love with them. I'm crap like that ( Read more... )

I've just been watching Choices of the Heart: the Margaret Sanger Story, a DVD I bought quite a while ago for about £1.25. Looking at the cover, after I paid for it, I admitted to myself that I had probably bought a "Lifetime Movie of the Week" rather than a hard hitting look at a woman's fight for the right to choose when and how many children she ( Read more... )

...forgot to mention I'm coming to York tomorrow, didn't I?

Or did I? I think I did, but last week my brain was all squish and nowhere to go, like when you compress a gas in a syringe in science, and then let go.

Anway, I'm arriving late tomorrow (Friday) and leaving a week on Sunday (6th Nov)

In other news, I'm closing down causticreviews because I write in ( Read more... )

I'd forgotten how funny Dave Barry really is, but I happened upon a book of his Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up (see, rummaging cleaning under the bed is a worthy and productive use of my time) and the davebarrycolumn. I've spent the last half hour giggling my way through some back colums at the Miami Herald. With comics. Mum think's I've gone nuts - she keeps ( Read more... )

Vols 4 & 5, for the curious. I got them a while back, but promised myself not to read them until I'd finished my work - the end of term, effectively. And (and!!!) I managed it. Woo! It's definitely been worth waiting for so far. :) Dream! Mmm ( Read more... )

I'm wearing contacts.

This is quite exciting as I haven't ever worn them before. They feel bloody weird, and I can't really see, but I'm assured that this, too, will pass. Thinking about it (which I hadn't done until now...) it's rather bad timing with exams & all, but never mind. It's a free trial and I got my new glasses half price (which is A ( Read more... )

Mum got me so much for the afterglow by Everclear, when she was here, and it is now on loop! I don't know why I haven't bought the thing before - I've wanted it for ages (think: years. Since high school, OK?). Oh well..It is now on loop! Yep, I'm excited. I remember watching the aptly titled Loser, which I found the name of (it was bugging me) ( Read more... )

...or maybe I'm just very badly organised. I suppose it was obvious to everyone else that everything would be shut this weekend, but I didn't twig. On the whole, it's lucky I tried to go to Costcutter on Friday, which made me check if the library would be open Saturday (it isn't) and saved me a wasted journey. Of course, I will now probably waste ( Read more... )

So: today's good news (apart from ridiculously cheap white wine) is that my bike is working again. I know most of you (especially those of you who saw me over the weekend) thought that that was last week's good news...well, OK, it was. My bike is crazy and I think it hates my work.
No, really. Want proof?
Got the bike...6 weeks ago, on a Wednesday ( Read more... )