This convention was in mid-April, but I was so distracted by the House final arc after I got home that I never got around to posting about it. Now I'm trying to clean off my desk in preparation for the end of the financial year and I want to put my notes away ( Read more... )

I didn't really succeed in my Swancon goal of meeting more local Supernatural fans. I found a few Dean/Cas people who are a season behind, but was hoping to turn up more Sam/Dean fans who are counting the days until the next episode. The reactions of a few people I spoke to reminded me that expressing an interest in an incestuous fictional ( Read more... )

My cousin in the US, who for context is a doctor in her mid-30s at a California hospital, posted on Facebook two days ago: "Prayers, please. My grandma broke her hip and is now in hospice ( Read more... )

I went to hear her speak at a semi-public interview at a school that drew over 1,000 people tonight. She talked about how political correctness is sheltering terrible human (and particularly women's) rights violations, her view that Islam is entirely incompatible with liberal democracy, and the problem that there is no country in which these things ( Read more... )

I've been given a reprieve - I was supposed to do a final, full-day handover at Old Job today, but the data for the task I was supposed to show my replacement is late and by the time it arrives I'll be in New Zealand, so I'm off the hook.

Instead I'll catch up on something I've been meaning to post about since last month: the Global Atheist ( Read more... )

Under a strict interpretation of my rules I perhaps shouldn't count this, since I saw Bob Downe as part of a hens' night in Melbourne in 1997 and I also went to some fundraiser comedy night with bardiegrub and shortblack a few years ago, but this was the first time I'd actively decided to attend a comedy performance without some ulterior motive (other than to do a New ( Read more... )

My week has been thoroughly punctuated by House.

I discovered a vid on Sunday that I pretty much watched on and off all day: Slow Show by isaytoodlepip (unfortunately only YouTube quality). I love the song, especially the final third of it. "You know I dreamed about you...for 29 years before I found you." That would just about work with their canon timeline as ( Read more... )

( Satyrs & Centaurs lecture )

1. The one I was composing in the car this evening about my irritation with a (non-LJ) friend on the other side of the country. However, imagining the responses some of you might give me convinced me to take a more charitable view of the situation. Thanks for your advice ( Read more... )

I seem to be drifting away from LJ and I'm not sure whether or not that's a good thing. The other day I spent my free computer time happily writing an accounting procedures manual for a non-profit organisation, which is odd behaviour. Life is full and varied at the moment and maybe I'm getting everything I need offline? I still read everyone's ( Read more... )