Everyone has abandoned me and I have the office to myself which is making concentration difficult for two reasons- firstly people keep phoning and I have to answer all the calls and two it's just HARD to keep focussed when you know there's nobody around to care ( Read more... )

So I think I am officially splitting up with Downton Abbey for good and maybe I should have done so a while ago but [last night was the last straw...]last night was the last straw ( Read more... )

I put this on facebook & twitter last night but in case you missed it/aren't on those sites Vi Hart's latest video is fascinating and slightly mesmerising and if you're interesting in music or maths or patterns (or copyright law) I'd recommend finding the 30 minutes needed to watch the whole thing.

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This afternoon has been full of petty (and not so petty) annoyances and I have been creating a little list (and they'll none of 'em be missed)...

So instead of bitching about it on LJ I thought why not share some of the things keeping me (almost) sane... (and yes these are 90% nicked from tumblr)

( Happymaking pictures & gifs )

Today is being one of those all-over-the-place sort of days. Everything I start gets interrupted by half a dozen other enquiries/problems. Still most of them are also important?

So here is a post with a structure as fractured as my thoughts are right now (that sounds almost poetic doesn't it?)

In the shoes of … Ela Farrell | Specialist in ( Read more... )

So apparently it's Award season already and so my head is a little bit filled with 1) pretty dresses 2) awesome suits 3) YAY THEY WON/GOT NOMINATED 4) BOO HOW DID THEY NOT WIN/GET NOMINATED 5) why are those two random awesome people hanging out together!

Actually that's a lie. Right now my head is filled with DARCY LOVES LIZZIE SOOOOOOO MUCH <3 ( Read more... )

So this holiday season I am mostly doing absolutely nothing and it is blissful.

Well. I did briefly do some Guide admin (but that's sort of never ending as far as I can tell) but mostly I have been reading (both books and yuletide <3 recs to follow when I'm further through the alphabet)(oh and my recipient commented on my fic and appears to like it so ( Read more... )

I have been so incredibly useless this weekend. I've done none of the things on my to-do list but instead fallen into a series of YouTube spirals (LBD rewatch followed by a Vlogbrothers rewatch followed by a little tour around random YouTubers which has led to a whole bunch of subscriptions (I gave in and subscribed to CharlieIsSoCoolLike and ( Read more... )

It was gorgeous and sunny earlier today, now it's all cold & grey, I might need to dig out a thicker jumper before I go out this evening ( Read more... )