YES! IT'S EUROVISION TIIIIIIIIIIIIME! Join me to gasp, cry at the best party in Europe ( Read more... )

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Oh yes, I'm carrying out the ye olde tradition of live blogging the Eurovision Song Contest (I wrote 'context' three times before I got it right, too used to using that word in academic context *g*) on my journal.

Here's the Lego Tribute to hold us over until the start.

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And here's the awesome Finnish entry that didn't get through the semi- ( Read more... )

Heads up folk! I'll be live blogging the awesome cheese fest that is the Eurovision Song Contest! So, pull on your diamonte cat suits and leather capes, and grab snacks and alcohol (lots, and lots of alcohol) and prepare to be dazzled, awed, entertained, confused, disturbed and vaguely aroused.

( IT'S EUROVISION TIME! )

O HAI!

I've had a week off from teaching/thesis work so actually opening the thesis chapter draft today counts for something, right? Granted, most I've done today is copy-paste some paragraphs around and feel detached about the whole concept of academia. Submitting PhD thesis before Christmas? Pfft, piece of cake. Presenting a conference paper that ( Read more... )

Have wine, fluffy socks, sleepy kittens and the cracktastic eurowreck of a "song" contest on the telly. Awesome. Come talk to me about the ridic outfits and incmprehensible choreography (oh please let there be naked fiddlers) if you're watching live. Or come talk to me about any random things. What's awesome in your life at the moment flist?

EDITING ( Read more... )

 After watching the Eurovision semi-finals last night and mourning the fact that neither the Swiss vampires or the Danish drag-queen qualified, I decided it was time to catch up with the Winchester brothers. And also to resist the horrible crack-bunny about Sam and Dean trying to exorcise Lordi but we won’t talk about that. Ever.

Oookay, even if ( Read more... )

Hi you all,

I've been away for a few days so have some bulletpoints of all the really important things.

• RL: still a charity case, teaching finished, research fucked up in need of replanning, work for next term sorted but no accommodation yet.

• I'm feeling slightly emo about... things.  And how there are so fucking many things I need to deal with and ( Read more... )