Am home sick today (stupid IBS) and had the time to finally transfer photos from my camera to my computer. Including the geeky batch of gingerbread E. and I baked two months ago. I figured I'd show you the pics, as examples of how to make gingerbread baking more fun - even if the outcome is still weird lumpy things.

( Cut for people not interested in geeky cookies )

There's a bit in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which I really love (okay, there are lots of bits I really love, but never mind that right now), where Ford Prefect contemplates human conversation:

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the ( Read more... )

I found this ad for Lärarförbundet (the teachers' union) and was moved to tears as I remembered some awesome teachers I've had. Even looked up one of them on Facebook and sent the link to her. I think I've come to appreciate the awesome ones even more now that I'm working in a school and know how freaking hard it can be to do things right (and how ( Read more... )

Thanks to handyhunter, I found this post: Whatever Happened to Rufio?: The Non-Asian Ideal of Masculinity


My immediate reaction upon seeing the link was OMGRUFIOOMGOMG<3! and I was twelve again ( Read more... )

Upon closer viewing of Sherlock Holmes, I realized that the sharp-eyed ficcers were absolutely right:

( Lord Blackwood's real superpower. )

I have now finished reading A Study in Scarlet - so much for getting off the high before I submerged myself in canon. It was a very fun read, and I'll be right off to the library after lunch for more.

( Thoughts under the cut. )

Thing that makes me happy #1: A hamster in a glass.

Thing that makes me happy #2: Nemi being so wonderfully herselfThing that makes me happy #3: Feeling like a 14-year-old again ( Read more... )

Nobody wanted to talk to me about Lene Kaaberbøl's Shamer chronicles. I am sad. (jadelennox, have pity on me ( Read more... )

I've been playing with Marvel's Create Your Own Superhero toy, and first made an avatar (okay, then, a Mary Sue) of myself:

( Behold Librarian Girl )

Eid week is a strange time to be at work. Stranger still for the teachers, who have to sit in nearly empty classrooms; at least I'm used to having low-stress days from holidays and such. Still, it makes me think school off-days should be more moveable - what's the point in having a school day if most kids aren't in school ( Read more... )