My parents had their 30th anniversary recently, and I gave them tickets to a concert that I knew would be right up their alley: violin and piano playing Bach, Debussy, and Franck. This concert took place a week ago Thursday (on 29 January), and when they wrote to tell me that they'd really enjoyed it, my mom also related to me their exchange with a ( Read more... )

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I don't really have anything to say, although I thought earlier today that I might. BUT! But here is a link to follow:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/medieval/

Have fun, kids!

ETA: This is very beautiful, in a way: Shopkeeper foils crossbow raider.

Two of them in fact. I have claimed my bookshelves and brought them home! Just in time for another trip to Ikea...but the point is that I finally clean out that corner of my room because I will have somewhere to put everything I sort through and decide to keep! Many thanks to the HofC for lovingly housing my bookcases until I could retrieve them ( Read more... )

Awarded to luckyrocketship for answering a cry for help. I thought it deserved a nod.

So, anybody who's looking for a fun and socially useful activity tomorrow (and some baked goods of some sort, I'm told) should consider congregating to move morfudd and one of her new apartment-mates in. The items need to move between pittenweem's generously loaned basement and an apartment near College and Beverley. Anyone with an automotive vehicle is especially ( Read more... )

In this case, reasons why wild animals should not be your pets. It's like that guy, Timothy Treadwell, who cleverly managed to record his girlfriend and himself getting mauled and eaten by bears.

Yuck.

I am *so* going to finish my hundreds of pages of reading before class!

E the Excellently Reading-and-Noting
(Basically, just E the Excellent. Let's face it.)

Thank you, BBC News, for blowing my mind in a totally disturbing way.

[EDIT] It gets better! As if it could.