Somehow I volunteered myself into doing coffees for a Breast Cancer Awareness breakfast at uni tomorrow. Two hours of frantic coffee-making interspersed with pancakes. I'm happy to get more practice and it's for a noble cause, but I'm under no delusions that this is anything but (yet another) method of procrastination.

Things To Procrastinate About

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Apparently the lab isn't due until the 18th. This means that I must go over it and write it properly, since I can't use the last-minute-I-know-it-fails-but-at-least-it's-in excuse. Er... yay?

In other news, I have joined the
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Argh, how long has it been since I updated my
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 My timetable woes are all cleared up, thanks to juggling the subjects and flexible Latin teachers. I haven't even met them yet and I already love them.

In other news, it's pouring rain and I really should learn not to wear thongs in such weather. I've also finished number 17 on my 50 books to be read: The Assassins: The Story of Medieval Islam's ( Read more... )

14. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
15. Elizabeth's Spy Master: Francis Walsingham and the secret war that saved England
16. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

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12. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
13. Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker

Blarg. I am tired and my brother is sick. Plz to be sending us virtual chicken soup, per favor?

10. The Messenger by Marcus Zusak
11. The Mating Season by P. G. Wodehouse

Jeeves and Wooster are so many flavours of awesome. PG Wodehouse, where have you been all my life?

Now I'm on to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and goddamn, it's the size of a brick. Lucky it's not due back until February...

 Thanks for all the book recs, guys! I'll go and plunder my local libraries as soon as possible.

Books read:

8. The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion by Loren D. Estleman
9. Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail by Stephen R. Bown

What I learned from reading the books:

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 I'm going to read fifty new books this year, and I'm not letting myself give up. But I need inspiration, and here's your chance to rec the books you love. Tell me what to read! As you can see, I'm on a fantasy kick right now, but I'll happily try non-fiction. I love Bill Bryson, and even biographies - to my own surprise, I enjoyed Mao's Last ( Read more... )