She's frequently kind and occasionally cruel
It appears that it's been rather a while since I made any post that contains what we usually refer to as 'content'. In a conversation the other day, sir_rosealot was querying the status of the word 'content' in this context, as it was confusing - surely everything is content? Yes, I am trying to include lots of words with 'con' in the title, for no apparent reason. Anyway, a post that isn't just posting something off the internet. Although, to be honest, I've hardly posted at all recently. I'm sure I've waffled about it before, but I suspect I use livejournal as a dumping ground for random thoughts, and so it tends to get the most use when I'm lacking other sinks for random thoughts. At the moment, of course, have parents and the like, and during term I tend to have housemates and things, so lj has taken a dip this year. Not that it really matters, I suppose.
Today, I have become obsessed with the song 'She's always a woman', which is rather pretty, and after actually listening to the lyrics turns out not to be about transgenderism, which I'd originally suspected. Interestingly, the category of songs which I've initially thought were about transgenderism is not limited to this one - I always thought it went "Jojo was a man who thought he was a woman." Ho hum.
I made a CV the other day. Well, over a couple of days. I now have a nice CV style file for LaTeX, if anybody's interested. Strangely, there's not really one out there on the internet. I even looked at some jobs. New thingymabob of life, whatnot, end of an era etc etc. Vaguely exciting? Hmm.
Lots of people keep posting interesting things, and I feel I should comment, but rarely do.
I have read many books - including 4 of the 5 books on the OUSFG shortlist, and about 3 chapters of the 5th (whilst sitting in Waterstones in Cheltenham as Rose had her interview), so I may actually be eligible to be on the panel this year. It seems to be a strong field - I thought that 'The Atrocity Archives' was rather good, so it's juggling between that and Lies in my head for first place. Wasn't at the discussion meeting, so I can't remember if that's the one people were saying had similar support to Lies - if not, may volunteer to champion its cause anyway, since I doubt that Lies will lack willing advocates. The Fourth Bear does seem rather fun - would have purchased it, save that I know I have book tokens in Oxford.
Speaking of the place, shall be coming up on Saturday, I think. There is a vague plan for revision - well, to be honest, there is theft of Rose's plan - if I follow her to libraries with notes and actually work through them, I suspect I will achieve about 10 times the amount of revision I've managed in previous years, which is probably good, isn't it? And I imagine Lost Hope will be full of people revising, so maybe some of that will rub off. Also, there is finals trivial pursuit. Ah, talking about all this is practically as virtuous as revision itself, isn't it?
Blah blah blah blah.
I do not know why I wrote that.
If I were amusing, I might tag this with a witty line like "I don't require any subjects - I have minions!" or something similar. Instead, being just sad, I'll just write this paragraph entirely as I have done (are doing).
Oh, anybody who wasn't seen it should go to http://limerickdb.com, which is rather fun. As he hasn't gone to the effort of posting it, I take no qualms in pointing you all at one by footnotetoplato, which I think is rather spiffy.
Today, I have become obsessed with the song 'She's always a woman', which is rather pretty, and after actually listening to the lyrics turns out not to be about transgenderism, which I'd originally suspected. Interestingly, the category of songs which I've initially thought were about transgenderism is not limited to this one - I always thought it went "Jojo was a man who thought he was a woman." Ho hum.
I made a CV the other day. Well, over a couple of days. I now have a nice CV style file for LaTeX, if anybody's interested. Strangely, there's not really one out there on the internet. I even looked at some jobs. New thingymabob of life, whatnot, end of an era etc etc. Vaguely exciting? Hmm.
Lots of people keep posting interesting things, and I feel I should comment, but rarely do.
I have read many books - including 4 of the 5 books on the OUSFG shortlist, and about 3 chapters of the 5th (whilst sitting in Waterstones in Cheltenham as Rose had her interview), so I may actually be eligible to be on the panel this year. It seems to be a strong field - I thought that 'The Atrocity Archives' was rather good, so it's juggling between that and Lies in my head for first place. Wasn't at the discussion meeting, so I can't remember if that's the one people were saying had similar support to Lies - if not, may volunteer to champion its cause anyway, since I doubt that Lies will lack willing advocates. The Fourth Bear does seem rather fun - would have purchased it, save that I know I have book tokens in Oxford.
Speaking of the place, shall be coming up on Saturday, I think. There is a vague plan for revision - well, to be honest, there is theft of Rose's plan - if I follow her to libraries with notes and actually work through them, I suspect I will achieve about 10 times the amount of revision I've managed in previous years, which is probably good, isn't it? And I imagine Lost Hope will be full of people revising, so maybe some of that will rub off. Also, there is finals trivial pursuit. Ah, talking about all this is practically as virtuous as revision itself, isn't it?
Blah blah blah blah.
I do not know why I wrote that.
If I were amusing, I might tag this with a witty line like "I don't require any subjects - I have minions!" or something similar. Instead, being just sad, I'll just write this paragraph entirely as I have done (are doing).
Oh, anybody who wasn't seen it should go to http://limerickdb.com, which is rather fun. As he hasn't gone to the effort of posting it, I take no qualms in pointing you all at one by footnotetoplato, which I think is rather spiffy.