Lather, rinse, repeat. Check in every month or couple of months to apologise re. absence and maybe whine a bit in the process, and disappear again. ::sigh ( Read more... )

I was planning on updating more regularly once I was done with the ECDL exams, but now I'm sitting here over an entry I've kept adding the occasional half-line to for the last week, and it feels like I've lost the knack of writing completely. Damn.

# Rewatched Casanova, which I actually enjoyed more than the first time, when it took me a while to ( Read more... )

# Met with R. yesterday, had a coffee (or hot lukewarm chocolate in my case) and then saw Another Year, which R. picked, because it was her birthday ( Read more... )

I have to say I was a bit underwhelmed by the Europeans this year, there wasn't anything that really grabbed me except maybe a couple of the pairs' programs, and those only slightly, but Florent Amodio's reaction to winning the gold medal is just adorable. You can't watch that and not grin.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Is it just me, or did Ice Dance get really boring somehow? It used to be my favourite discipline to watch, and I was bored to tears watching the fee dance. Granted, I missed the short dance, perhaps that was different, but it was all so... same-ish, all in the elegant to cute range. And painfully gender normative to boot. It's as if everyone is ( Read more... )

I love the internet. ;)

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For those interested in figure skating/figure skaters: Plushenko, Lambiel, Weir & Joubert group hug, completely adorable. (Via lambiel_ru and this entry, scroll down to the last picture.)

Hm, I just watched Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet movie, all four hours of it, and now I'm feeling bad for having complained about David Tennant. I think I've simply fallen out of love with the play as such; I'm not really getting anything out of it any longer. There still are a few quieter moments where I can recapture some faint echo of my original ( Read more... )

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I know I've said it before, but I really hope the Olympics will work out for him, especially with the health problems he had/has. Now I doubt he'll be able to beat Plushenko, unless Plushenko makes a couple of mistakes and Lambiel absolutely none, which realistically is something he's not been all that great at even in the past, which made ( Read more... )

Fantastic. Utterly beautiful. I so do hope un-retirement and the Olympics will work out for him.

*fangirls wildly*

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