Hey internet! Today is my 19th birthday.

Things wot have happened already in the 24 hours which mark the transition from one Ella-year to another:

• K, the amazing boyfriend, has given me Meir Shalev's book, Mostly About Love, with a beautiful dedication and a letter attached. ♥
  
  
• His mother has given me a scarf!
  
  
• I have finished writing my ( Read more... )

So what's up with this year's Yuletide, anyway?

I should be doing three different kinds of homework right now, so obviously I'm writing an LJ entry. A link roundup of sorts.

LITTLE PEOPLE: AN ALPHABET, by T.W.H. Crosland. Last night I somehow got sucked into compulsively browsing Project Gutenberg again (also stumbling upon this treasure by Richmal Crompton, after reading Pratchett's Only You ( Read more... )

1. Have spent the entirety of January 1 passed out in my bed, sleeping like a dead thing, in recovery from a smashing night with lady_nimua which included huge Asian dinners, TV marathons, and seriously gay-sounding liquor. All in all, an excellent start to the new year. \o/

2. Unfortunately I will not be living abroad next year. ): I was found 'not ( Read more... )

1. It has been raining for the last three days, and tomorrow looks to be furiously stormy. Hey, winter, welcome back. ♥

(ETA: OH MY GOD YOU GUYS THE SKY IS FALLING. The storm hit earlier than expected and now everything is all BOOMING THUNDER and PELTING RAIN and FLASHING ANGRY LIGHTNING. It is like several dozen drumkits falling down several ( Read more... )

So I had a great big post all planned out, about my school shenanigans this year (junior book clubs! sith prodigy-hunting! geek empowerment!), but of course before I did anything about it, my immune system went completely pear-shaped. Currently I'm enjoying the lovely effects of a flu, apparently of the swine-ish persuasion. We're not really ( Read more... )

First day of school! This summer vacation I:

• Got a job
  
• Got scammed while finding a job
  
• Wrote a 60-page thesis about Norse/Jewish mythology
  
• Infuriated the entire Ministry of Education
  
• Was propositioned to join a threesome
  
• Translated 1/7 of a book about cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy
  
• Milked lots of cows
  
• Declined to be a pilot
  
• Had sex in ( Read more... )

1. The history final is over, and I want to WEEP WITH JOY.

2. Does anybody else have Stephen Fry's audiobook version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I've been falling asleep to it and that shit is AWESOME. His Marvin and Zaphod voices are to die for, seriously.

3. LO AND BEHOLD, I PRESENT YOU WITH:

THE QUINQUAGENARY COMMENT FIC MEME

anomylic ( Read more... )

Cause: Two days ago, a mighty thunderstorm came upon our quaint little valley, and a great bolt of lightning hit the kibbutz's main power line. The whole thing went KABOOM.

Effect: We'd have no hot water or electricity for the last two days.

FUN TIMES.

( It was an interesting two days of palaeolithic living. )

( SHOCK AND HORROR: no slash? what do you mean, 'no slash'? )