So, hey, I joined tumblr. And I'm loving it so far. Honestly I think that much of my lingering struggle with posting on lj comes from the fact that I used to use this so much when I was younger and teaming with teenaged issues. It means that talking about my ~feelings~ here and now just feels self indulgent, whether it is or not.*

Obviously, this is ( Read more... )

Internet? We Need To Talk About Books.
It's weird this, at once like and unlike Mole coming back to his dusty old house in The Wind In The Willows. Because, *swipes at cobwebs*, I think I'd quite like to live here again. I'm not really a water rat, after all. And so
( An Essays of Feelings, in which Almost Everything is Illuminated... )

At least, that is how it appears. Mostly because I seem incapble - still - of editting without having a major confidence crisis in the middle. Which I then divert by hiding on the internet. And it's stupid - I know it's stupid and I'm trying to fight it back - but it still means I've spent more time doing very little online & getting irritated by ( Read more... )

An inordinate amount of my flist are doing Nanowrimo. Unfortunately I am writing a dissertation and the two seem somewhat incompatible. I usually end up doing my own personal June nano anyway (two years running, ever since uni sucked me in) so its not a big thing, but it makes me feel somewhat miserable. So, yeah. There are three reasons why I ( Read more... )

And so I return to Cardiff. The city settles down, and Cathays stirs towards wakefullness. Its nice to be back. Mind you, bits of home were oddly nice too.

*Yesterday iltaru and I wafted around in re-enactment dresses at a medieval fair, hennaed my hair and exposed my family to our collected madness. When five people sit on one sofa all quoting QI, you ( Read more... )

I woke up at six twenty this morning.

Yippie! Shouts the motivated half of Lucinda's brain. More time to write in!

The still blue world outside glances at me. It tells me that I am insane. I ignore it, and wake up the computer...

I'm having trouble getting going, but I'm going to have a shower soon so that should help. I think its late enough now ( Read more... )