It's been pretty busy since I last got round to updating, with quite a few social and cultural things going on.

[Cut for length.Content as per tags]The Lego Batman Movie turned out to be rather better than I had hoped, with a lot of very entertaining villain cameos (including one group which remained un-named for what I strongly suspect to be for reasons relating to intellectual ( Read more... )

I ended up not getting round to doing a diary-type entry on Sunday, but I guess I can get the week's new things into a January round-up/stock-take sort of thing.

[Cut for length - content as per tags]The week's main non-work activities were going to see the Trainspotting sequel and finishing my second book of the month, Station Eleven by Emily St.John Mandel ( Read more... )

Today is back-to-work day, as I ended up actually taking a full ten days off this year. That was definitely a good plan ( Read more... )

So, it's ten days since my last post and I am due to start my jury service tomorrow.

I'm quite pleased with how much (paid) work I've gotten done so far this month, in preparation for two weeks of not having anywhere near as much time as usual for it. If I didn't have a possible fortnight of nearly full-time public service ahead of me, and cover ( Read more... )

It's not been the most action-packed of weeks, but I figured I should try and get back in the habit of updating semi-regularly again ( Read more... )

Once more, it’s weeks since my last update, and I’ve still got a load of reviews not written (the oldest of which dates back to February. Oops).

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We've been back a few days, but this is the first time I've had the time, energy and peace and quiet to write an update about our visit to York for my birthday.

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I'm feeling pretty meh at the moment. Hair dye is currently percolating (technical term...ish) because I had planned on going clubbing tonight for the first time this year, but I'm feeling tired and fed up and I don't think I can actually be bothered.

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I've been meaning to post all through the weekend, and kept being too busy with Stuff, so I thought I'd better do it now - since tomorrow will be an utter write-off due to getting up at the crack of dawn to be in South London by 8.30 for my volunteer thing. I'm really glad that's nearly over: I hadn't realised just how early the early starts were ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty good start to the year, albeit rather a busy one.

So far, it's gone like this:

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