Library problem solved, thankfully. I had a horrible feeling the "your request could not be processed" bit that the online catalogue did both yesterday and this morning might have something to do with someone else having reserved all the relevant journal issues (essentially got them out of the library, although you can't actually remove them from ( Read more... )

Argh! Stupid National Library. All I want is 8 measly articles to read, and can I request them? Can I heck. "Please contact a librarian," it says. croydonjohn, you're a librarian, any ideas? I would go up and see the librarians at the National Library, but the whole point of their magic computer system being available on the internet is that I can sit here ( Read more... )

Had a lovely thought this afternoon, whilst buying chocolate biscuits from the scary health-food shop (I needed more pondwater tea*, and the biscuits were looking sorry for themselves) - if you can buy them from the health-food shop, they must be good for you! Am not going to use this as an excuse to buy the health-food shop out of chocolate ( Read more... )

1. It's been freezing cold today - condensing breath, numb ears, glove-wearing cold... and yet there was a woman walking down the hill in shorts and flip-flops. I don't understand how she wasn't blue ( Read more... )

Hurrah! Portfolio is finished, apart from the odd bibliographic detail, which will be fixed once I've braved the cold and been to the National Library in a bit. Not quite the earliest I've ever got one finished, but pretty close! Will post the poems from it at the_aber_years later ( Read more... )