My roommate. She is scaring me. She brews coffee through a t-shirt sleeve because she is lacking in filters but needs her fix. The coffee maker is making all sorts of odd noises that I do not think are normal.
Really hoping dorm does not burn down nor coffeepot explode.

In other news Tolkien class has ceased to be second favorite (behind Old English ( Read more... )

I'm on some awful antique right now, on Internet Explorer 6.0, (yes, that's before the advent of tabbed browsing)
rather hating this small little regional library branch. Because they're technologically incompetent I can't have WIFI?

It's in thier brochure! ALL branches provide WiFi! (They thought it was slowing down thier computers) Now I'm stuck ( Read more... )

I just had my most spectacular bike crash EVAR. I was returning from my doom of a Japanese test, unconcerned, la de la de la -- when I encountered a bike on the closed road between two buildings. We both turned to miss each other, but alas! we were not on the same page, I and he both swerved to my right and our front wheels connected!
I
 flew clear ( Read more... )

Saw some  ribbon in a bag on the garbage pile -hey I could use that to decorate Christmas presents - um no, -it's a whole SARI.  WTF?! but also Yayzorz!!! Needless to say, I am very pleased with my aquisition.
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As both a fan of Christopher Eccleston and The Dark is rising, the first 33min4seconds of "The Seeker" are fine. Chris looks beautiful with that cloak with all the little shocks of fabric streaming behind him as he rides his horse and now, he's impersonating a doctor.
Will's mum actually said 'hello doctor' and he's got these absolutely adorable ( Read more... )

My plan for today:
Wake up - read the end of beowulf - get ready -  leave dorm on bike - grab breakfast from Blocker - get to class.
What actually happened:
Wake up - read the end of beowulf - get ready -  leave dorm on bike - grab breakfast from Blocker - get to class. Get pulled over by a frickin bicycle cop for going up a oneway street

(I got a ( Read more... )

A most  blah day is today.  I wake up around six 'cos the power and therefore the A/C is off. Listened to a Doctor Who radio play. 
You have to make rapid raids on the fridge so things won't spoil in the heat.  That's how one gathers up some sandwitch fixings for lunch. 
I read some interesting new-to-me-blogs like mad, was startled to learn that ( Read more... )

Back again after three pages to say that this article started out with me cheerfully gloating and ended with me in chilling distress.
http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EElFpFFkkAuWTmkIqK&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyle
It's about how Doctor Who and Torchwood boost BBC profits but that the BBC is getting poorer and poorer relatively ( Read more... )

I've found a new small mini-fandom to adore - The Scarlett Pimpernel. 
A&E/BBC did a small series of Pimpernel in 1998 with Richard E. Grant that I was surprised to find quite delightful. I can see why two different production crews thought REG would make a good doctor - far more when I look at this performance when compared to Withnail and I... ( Read more... )

Today we were fed doughnuts for breakfast and got to see all our favorite returning teachers at the faculty staff meeting. I'm staff. How cool is that?!
But anyway we could have learned exactly the same things by just reading the packed that was read aloud to us. It was dead boring except for the bits where doctor Brannon talked, she's such an ( Read more... )