Crazy world of internets, I am back... THIS TIME FOR REAL, I hope ( Read more... )

Well, I've dropped off the radar and probably will remain off the radar for another while. I am living in Essay Town atm (actually I'm doing one right now: to what extent do you agree that the Pastoral is fully understood when the reader appreciates that the Pastoral is written from the perspective of the sophisticated? GAH) and have exams coming ( Read more... )

Right, so! These seem to be all the rage and I'm making one for myself because I never do and I tend to forget things. Yeah, organisation! To be done before the end of the Easter holidays:

1) Reread Tess of the D'Urbervilles and write out quotes.
2) Reread As You Like It and write out quotes.
3) Write out project review for the extended project.
4) Jog ( Read more... )

Most of you probably know that I am a total London nerd. In my writing, whenever London is involved, it's one of the few things I write with as much accuracy as possible (and man, some of the time-travel discrepancies I have in Timeless is... well, it hardly bears thinking about!). Today I was so glad to go to London, and more than that, all by ( Read more... )

Nephron! That's a word with promise. What could it be? Some sort of element found on a distant planet? A device that dissolves people into flower petals? Some sort of archangel that protects the living from the dead? A unit of measurement that is approximately two-thirds of a lightyear?

Actually it's in your kidney, and I studied it today. In a ( Read more... )

I'm not even a troublemaker, it's just well-known fact that my biology teacher picks on me. It's not like I'm particularly loud or misbehaved or anything! Anyway, my it's-snowing-and-I'm-in-college mindframe led to this delightful conversation the othe day. We are studying classification.

Him: Sooo, Nina, why would you classify a mole as an animal?
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Here is the news vis-a-vis my very first university offer:

UNCONDITIONAL OFFER!

Not for my top choice, true, but Brunel University looks pretty awesome and it means that hey, at least I've got in somewhere! What am I even talking about? What I really mant to say was:

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
 In ( Read more... )