I found myself rereading two lj friends' fics and they were so good I realised I needed to pimp them to you and pimp them good. :D

If you're keen for a bit of off the wall reading, I strongly recommend you give two of cikka's fics a read. They're quick but packed with the most fascinating of characters!

The stories are related, so read in the following ( Read more... )

Just finished marking 80 assignments. Then, I have to pick up 25 new assignments on Monday to mark, followed by 45 counselling tapes, transcripts, and essays on Tuesday. I'm hoping to have them all marked before the exams flow in which is in about 3 weeks time.

Err, yeah, it's not going to happen. Plus I'm already as tired as buggery. (An Aussie ( Read more... )

It's much like when a 5 year old runs towards you, waving a piece of paper in their hand, excited to share with you a few scribbles they've just drawn--"See? See? That's a house! And, and that's... a tree!"

It's best to just nod and say, "That's nice, dear."

( Get ready for the pain that's sure to come )

The Mighty Boosh might be my new love. I stumbled upon it one night while flicking through the sad offerings on TV, and just based on this small snippet (which is actually from episode 3, season 3--I don't know if we got the earlier episodes here in Australia, but I'm going to hunt them down!), I fell in luuurrve.

Here it is for you all to enjoy. ( Read more... )

Probably because... they're not even getting to the recreation of the big bang until weeks (or months) from now. Wasn't the first use of the Hadron Collider just to send a particle around one way? To test it out? And then, in a few weeks, they'll send a particle around the reverse way, to test that out too?

I'm no physicist, but I'm guessing turning ( Read more... )