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I'm a little over halfway through correcting the final exams of my only course this semester (yeah, yeah, I know, it's May Day, I shouldn't be working - grades were due yesterday and I procrastinated; so shoot me), and I've hit that point where I'm going "Nobody understood anything I told them! Either that or they didn't understand the test ( Read more... )

...and still totally pumped. I've been joking for weeks that all the other Marvel features in this 'verse were just extended trailers for this one, which proved to be not far from wrong. Joss Whedon pulls off a fully realized adventure drama with - finally! - an actual story arc and character development, IMO (well, for a certain Marvelesque ( Read more... )

Damn, LiveJournal is awfully slow today. I fear it may have something to do with the coming elections.

Guess I'd better suck it up and change my hated dorky Dreamwidth name to match my LJ one and start friending friends there...

My older cat, not quite 12, who'd been treated for kidney disease for almost 4 years, made his last trip to the vet yesterday. He was a sweetie.

The thing all great art really needs is this.

It's been almost exactly a year since I last took it into my head to change my journal titles, design, etc. The last line of Saki's "The Open Window" has been running through my head lately, so that was the inspiration and is my new friends page title. To discover what the journal subtitle means, you'll have to read the story, one of Saki's most ( Read more... )

Hi and Happy New Year to all my LJ friends. I'm at LaGuardia airport waiting for a flight to Washington, and thence home to Paris, after about 5 days each in Colorado Springs (with my dad), Fort Worth (with my mom) and New York (with friends). I seem to have acquired an extra bag - a tote bag my mom gave me, which is full of books and clothes. My ( Read more... )

Thanks to the magic of differing time zones, I'm only a couple of hours (instead of a whole day) late in wishing Happy Birthday to one of my oldest LJ friends, Thaddeusfavour. Hope it was a great one, m'dear.

On Saturday, after lunch at the Turkish restaurant Haz near St Paul's, we visited a photo exhibition at the Museum of London - street photography from the very earliest days of cameras that could actually be taken easily into the streets. Also, the medieval galleries, which were closed last time we were at the museum. Then it was on to the Barbican ( Read more... )