It started at Louis Vuitton and it ended at the Russian Tea Room... yesterday was a day of delightful extravagance ( Read more... )

And you know the other thing I don't like about how busy I've been ( Read more... )

• Last night went for a little lie down after feeling a bit run down, woke up in streaming fever sweat. Decided to take the day off, mailed in and went back to bed, just woke up, body not happy and somehow have headache *in* my right eye.
• Berserk was excellent on Saturday night, probably the best night out I've had in months. New venue is odd but ( Read more... )

Presumeably the comparatively low rate of work in my new job, read not being worked like a dog, the lack of current Rivetting tours and the slow pace of production for Fiend 17 has lead me to have time to do things on the bus like read rather than frantically edit prose and talk on my mobile. Consequently though my rate of reading has far ( Read more... )

According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list. This is my list ( Read more... )

A slightly oddball weekend, free from significant trashbagging and filled with more relaxation than normal ( Read more... )

You might be a nerd if...

You go to the mall in your ThinkGeek shirt...

To buy the new Terry Pratchett book...

And come back with the book...

Plus a new DS case...

Plus new iPod cables...

Plus a 500GB portable hard drive.

Woops. On the plus side now I have somewhere to put all my mp3s.

• Work is really boring when Livejournal goes down; thank god I'd signed up for Facebook yesterday. I totally pwnz0r turner23 at Scrabble.
• We are bad nerds for having missed Pi Approximation Day. That said it is kind of fitting to have a slightly incorrect celebration day for an approximated geek holiday.
• It should probably worry me that my paperwork from ( Read more... )

• I have spent most of the weekend cleaning and moping instead of actually reading Harry Potter. The benefit of this is that if I only read on the commute then I should be able to make it last a few days.
• I have accidentally read multiple conflicting spoilers for the end of the book. I don't understand people's need to do this.
• No Hellfire Friday ( Read more... )

Various chains are selling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at the following prices ( Read more... )