Had a needlessly blah night last night, what with the moon-cycle putting my midsection firmly in the "bloaty & discontented" corner from mid-afternoon onwards, and feeling a stranger in the house that I live in, and generally looping back to "Oh god how am I gonna make it out the other end of this month?" every five minutes and wanting lots of ( Read more... )

Two of the builders finally finished the front room of the house today. That's one down . . . the rest of the three stories to go (@3@);; Right now my old room in the witch's tower is still off-limits 'cause they need to finish re-tiling the moldy roof & insulating the attic spaces. And they wanna move everything from the den, where I'm sitting ( Read more... )

Unsolicited Advice of the Day: if you're going to go to a picnic wherein the foodstuffs consist entirely of chocolatey baked goods & confectionary, for the love of all that is holy don't have anything to do for the next two days (x___x) My body is still reeling from sugar-shock. Totes worth it, tho.

( now time out for that spring cleaning I never actually finished... )

Yussterday I had Christmas (Eve) dinner with the housemates, who FINALLY made it back from Germany at 2 am after a gauntlet of bureaucracy-induced delays which were backlogged from the weather-induced delays that deprived me of a merry-ole-English holiday with my parents (goddammit, United Kingdom, EVERY other place in the northern hemisphere that ( Read more... )

END OF TERM TODAY /o/ I rocked a presentation on Lacan for French literature seminar. Transitioned seamlessly from first classmate's pres. on Freud & latent dreamstuffs, AND brought in examples from the texts we've been covering. Oh yeah ( u w u ( Read more... )

Wasn't home Friday night, thus didn't get to post doodles from the pub: windows, and a patron's incredibly derpy yet oddly pathetic-cute-ish pug puppy ( Read more... )

( Reading Week edition, alternately subtitled What Del Does Instead of Her Practice Essays )

In my little Japanese coastal adoptatown of under 9,000 people, I could make me a bowlful of delicious, greasy, spam-fried ramen for dinner, get a monstrous craving for ice cream afterward, and satisfy that burning physical need by walking 10 minutes to the Circle K konbini. Any time of the night. It was 8:30 in the evening when I stepped outside ( Read more... )

Why did you leave meeeeeeee D ( Read more... )

The verdict is: I can't tell because this stuff takes so damn long to cool off D8 My tongue has just barely recovered from burnination at Saturday's Bollywood film discussion / cultural exchange event, I don't want to lose those taste buds again.

Edit: Okay sippable now. Too much brown sugar, not enough other brown things. Still a pass, though, ( Read more... )