Annoying day is annoying. Students are disorganised and late and don't read or listen properly, and think they are entitled to whatever they want. There is a certain vindictive satisfaction in forcing them to come to terms with reality (for their own good! because helicopter parents can't shield them indefinitely from the Total Perspective Vortex ( Read more... )

There's a new OK Go music video. I disseminate it mostly for stv, because it's full of incredibly cute, happy and well-trained dogs. And a goat. Watch out for the goat. (The goat's for schedule5).

I love OK Go.

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In other news, I am eating strawberries and cream for breakfast. Half of this is to content my mother's desire for me to eat more fruit in the ( Read more... )

It's a beautiful spring day in Cape Town, and the intermittent sneezing which attends this time of year (I think it's the oak trees which fling pollen at me) has backed off a little, hooray. We've just been out to Tokai to the whole-earth market, which is full of excellent food and friendly people. There's a foot-high pile of as-yet-unmarked ( Read more... )

We've been a scannerless house for a few years, and I finally caved and acquired the cheapest scanner I could find, the better to facilitate various French legal document-providing wossnames as well as my obsessive blogging pursuits. Ceremonially, I have scanned the first photo. Inevitably, it's a wol.


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Hmmm. Another addition to the disgracefully long list of Things That Randomly Make Me Cry: baby moose playing in the spray during a heatwave. Apparently.

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The Evil Landlord has given me his bloody cold. I am snuffly, trippy and cross, a situation only partially mitigated by baby moose, and unmitigated in any way by the fact that I have to spend ( Read more... )

My favourite Xmas moment for 2007: my Evil Landlord gave me a set of kitchen knives, lovely ones in a bamboo stand. The gift tag was two plasters, with "TEH DOC" scrawled across their back in marker pen. I think stv's getting to him. But I went "awwwww ( Read more... )

My favourite World Cup1 story: one of the parents of the Toddler Horde2 yesterday was limping rather severely. His wife, in tones of miff, was recounting to all comers the source of the injury. Hubby, plus two friends (also male), allowed themselves to become (predictably) very inebriated during the World Cup. Afterwards, in celebration of our ( Read more... )

1. Tokara. Now starring as my favourite Cape Town restaurant, not that it's actually in Cape Town, but hey. Stunning setting and views down the valley from the head of the Helshoogte Pass above Stellenbosch. Incredible food. The red wine sauce on the fillet of beef was possibly the best I've ever tasted. Thanks, Tinnimentum. You can visit any time ( Read more... )

Our nice cleaning lady has just wandered in and informed me that there's a strange grey cat sleeping on the Evil Landlord's bed. This is, in fact, Ounce, who has developed neurosis and rapid stealth response to the point that, although said cleaning lady has worked for us for eight years and Ounce has lived with us for about five of them, this is ( Read more... )

I have a new hobby: collecting undergrad student T-shirts. I gave curriculum advice (on a particularly tangled curriculum) yesterday to a large, muscular young man wearing a pale pink T-shirt emblazoned "TOKYO LAUNDRY", which, if it's a contemporary pop cultural reference, goes right over my head to the extent where it's completely surreal. The ( Read more... )