Six boxes of fairtrade, organic Earl Grey tea arrived at my house. That's 300 teabags in all.

:) I'm good for a little while.

It's impossibly cold. I know there are colder parts of the world, but nobody really lives there except polar bears and Sarah Palin. It's too cold for human life here, forget any further north.
  So I spent all of tuesday ( Read more... )

This is as fun as that zombie question! Engaging Noir mode:

"The weak light from the streetlamp pooled on the sidewalk, like a stream of hope that had melted and trickled away, leaving only a faint mark to show it had been there. Much like my hope of ever completing this case. The memory of the Police Chief's smirk made my guts clench in helpless ( Read more... )

I have predicted the future of telephone customer services. This is set perhaps twenty, thirty years in the future.

From it, you will probably glean what kind of a morning I had.

( My Oracle )

I feel I must rant. It might help.

I'm doing a creative writing dissertation next year, and I'd like to do historical fiction set in ancient Rome. Obviously, makes sense to know what's been done, so I've started reading Conn Iggulden's "Emperor" series, about Julius Caesar. It's saved by the fact that it is historical fiction, and Julius Caesar had ( Read more... )

I've started up a journal,
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My sun-striped legs look less zebra-like today. I'm wearing trousers anyway, because the sun heard that
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If I had the internet at the flat, I could wave my opinion around every day. However, I do not, and must content myself with making one voluminous post with everything.

I just wrote this, and got all the way up to Sunday, then my computer blipped and lost it all.

I AM UNDETERRED! And boring! I will write it again!!!!

The presentation went…to plan. ( Read more... )

What a pleasant Sunday.

This means I didn't fall asleep through most of it, or panic about having too much to do, or lose out in the amazing preacher-lottery which is our church right now. In our months without a minister we've had some good folks, some dull folks, and some downright WEIRD folks, which is always fun, if not terribly productive. ( Read more... )