For anyone who cares, the author in question is Carol Berg. I'd just read an excerpt from one of her novels after Zhe told me that he borrowed a book of hers from the library. The following conversation ensued.

me: there was far too much exposition in it though, and i really hate it when authors come up with arbitrary units of measurement to make ( Read more... )

Allow me to introduce you to the concept of structure. This is where if your essay aims to discuss a single main point, going off on huge tangents mostly unrelated to the main topic and endless anecdotes that belabor the point are not good strategies for getting said point across. I shouldn't need to check back every couple of pages because I've ( Read more... )

I now present to you the saga of the dealings between me and one of my lecturers this semester, who just happened to be the lecturer in charge for two of my three subjects ( Read more... )

Because there's a couple of random Asian dudes sharing a computer next to me, and the second guy is sitting way too close to me. I can't concentrate on my assignment because of this guy sitting partly in my personal space. Grr

You know what really gets me? It's the way people are so damn stupid when it comes to being attracted to others. See, there's a mistake that almost everyone makes at least once. If they're unlucky or stupid then they'll repeat the mistake many many times, and if they're particularly moronic, it's a mistake they'll never stop making.

The mistake is ( Read more... )

The time was 8am. The actors, a 12 year old girl and a 40-ish ballet teacher. The weather on that day was, to put it lightly, brisk. The teacher, bundled up in jacket, scarf, and all manner of other clothing looked at the girl, standing at the barre wearing nothing but the standard-issue leotard, tights, and canvas ballet shoes, and shivered ( Read more... )

You may (or may not) have noticed that I stopped posting to LJ almost overnight, and then started again with a few extremely short posts. Well, the reason for this is that I ran out of IP quota at uni due to viewing too many webcomics, and now I a) have no gmail or msn access at all, and b) all my non-uni sites run extremely slowly. I could buy ( Read more... )

My tutor for Software Construction is a moron. Not only did he take forever to mark our assignments (and I use the word mark very loosely here), but then when teh results were finally released I saw that he hadn't reversed any of the results that the other tutors had reversed: (background: The lecturer in charge of the course tested for a number of ( Read more... )

I know I've ranted about this before but it's a recurring theme in my life, so wah ( Read more... )

You know what I really hate? At the moment, many many things. But for now I'll confine myself to these ( Read more... )