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housepiglet

Almost Sunday evening

Jul 01, 2007 16:58

Well, it's 1658 hrs according to my clock, so soon early Sunday evening will be upon me. Or late Sunday afternoon. One of them, anyway. In either event, the point is that Monday will soon be here, and with it will come WORK. AAAAAAAGH..............

( Blah, blah, blah... )

france, ficrec, smoking, books, myers-briggs, walking, food, o'brian, work

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t_eyla July 1 2007, 17:34:54 UTC

If you're still reading you deserve a medal and must be terminally bored!
... or procrastinating preparing a presentation for tomorrow ;).

I really hope for you that your trip to France will bring you about twice as much joy as you seem to be expecting! From what I've heard over the last couple of weeks, you've definitely earned yourself some vacation :).

When exactly are you flying out? And are you still changing planes in Munich?

housepiglet July 1 2007, 17:42:08 UTC

Hello :)

Thank you :) I do expect to have a wonderful time in France. Last August was one of the best times of my life - it was just so unutterably beautiful! And I certainly do need a break before I go right round the bend... *g*

I'm now flying a week on Thursday rather than this Thursday, and sadly I'm no longer changing in Munich :( KLM turned out to be the best option in the end, so I've got an hour or so in Amsterdam (not quite long enough to go and check out that interesting cake stuff I've often heard about). It cost me £120 extra to change my flights (shriek!) and Lufthansa would have been even more, so I had to settle for the Amsterdam option. I'm really very annoyed with myself now for not having gone for 12th in the first place, as I could have done 3 weeks or so ago when I first booked with Lufthansa. Grrr...

housepiglet July 1 2007, 17:47:23 UTC

Presentation, btw?? For uni?

*goes to make coffee*

I'll be on AIM soon if you're around :)

drunken_hedghog July 1 2007, 19:42:00 UTC

Yup, just finished reading and not bored in the slightest (although I will admit to scanning a few things rather than reading them!).

I'm not into the audiobook thing but my Brother loves Audible. He's in his car a lot so it's perfect for him.

That hotel looks lovely and sounds very accommodating, is it reasonable as well?

Congratulations on the smoke-free days. I admire your willpower (or should that be won't-power). Have you thought about goign to the doctor for an alternative anti-smoking therapy? Because that stuff you're on sounds awful.

Btw, I saw you asking what the fandom wank that's going on is about. The best synopsis I can find of it is basically this post by Moony - http://moony.livejournal.com/1197843.html
and this response by Leiascully - http://leiascully.livejournal.com/519347.html

housepiglet July 1 2007, 20:20:36 UTC

Hotel's not bad at all :) 55 Euros per night. I think if I'd got in sooner I might have got it for 47. So, can't really complain, right in the centre of a lovely place like Toulouse. Especially since the rest of the nights are going to be spent in my little tent :)

Many thanks indeed for those links to the fandom wank debate. I had no idea what licia was referring to, but I see it now. I never know what's going on!

Oh, and thanks for the encouragement re: the smoking thing too. The stuff I'm taking - I asked the GP to prescribe it, because it's the new anti-smoking Wonder Drug :) It's a bit unpleasant, but these things are all swings and roundabouts, and if putting up with this for 12 weeks gets me back of the evil lung rotting, health sapping, finance destroying crap that is nicotine then it'll be well worth any sacrifice involved :)

alex51324 July 2 2007, 09:06:23 UTC

I am even more behind things than you--I didn't know about the burning drama in the H/W community until I read about it here. :) Saw your questions to Moony. What I think raelly happened is that she thought, "Oh, I know, it would be just lovely if there was a community that posted *only* the things I personally want to read. I'll start an exclusive LJ comm, and I'll let other people watch it too, because I'm sure most of the fandom shares my taste!" And she was shocked--shocked, I say! to find out that other people didn't feel she was Speshul enough to deserve her own private, self-updating archive containing everything she wanted to read and nothing she didn't. So now she's backpedaling furiously in an attempt to create something vaguely similar but less obviously selfish ( ... )

housepiglet July 3 2007, 21:15:25 UTC

Hmmm... I'm not entirely sure what Moony's motivation was. Either way, though, I can't see how it can be anything other than divisive to start a new community by referring to a desire to avoid the 'crap' on House_Wilson. Tbh, I find it very difficult to read that as anything other than deliberately provocative. Maybe I'm too old and cynical though :)

That sounds like a very weird thing re: the RPG! Rather mean. Takes Moony's ankle in wee snout and worries it a bit.

I've been tempted to write a little meta!fic about it all, but that would probably look like shit-stirring so I prolly won't. It could be funny, though :)

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daasgrrl July 2 2007, 01:11:43 UTC

Interested to see what you think of the Pullman trilogy. I enjoyed it, but was kind of over it by the end of the third book XD

Grrr. Work.

housepiglet July 3 2007, 21:17:00 UTC

How do I miss all these great books, eh? Sigh... Still, better late than never :)

Yeah, work.... grrr.... *bites it*

wihluta July 2 2007, 09:45:21 UTC

I'm procrastinating Berkeley-reading, so I read the whole thing. And I am not bored. Rather intrigued. How does one dehydrate food??? (If it's not too hard to explain)

Plus: For reading in the tent I'm taking Philip Pullman's Northern Lights (which I think might be titled The Golden Compass over in the States). It's the first in his His Dark Materials trilogy
GOOD for you. Those books are fantastic. I read them in german first, but bought them all in english (and read them) during my england-year. They're sooo worth it!

About the Myers-Briggs. I did the test three times: 1. I was INFP 2. INTJ 3. INTJ again. weird...

BTW: YAY to your upcoming holidays.

housepiglet July 3 2007, 21:24:45 UTC

*waves ( ... )

wihluta July 4 2007, 08:57:45 UTC

Thanks a lot for the explanation. I think I'll go and see if I can get one of those dehydrators. I like to cook and usually it's rather big portions and then I have to eat the same stuff for 3 days, because I don't have a freezer, only a tiny fridge. But when I can dehydrate the stuff then I could store it and eat it later. :-) YAY

it's not at all uncommon now for my pals to pull out bags of home-made virtually gourmet stuff in the middle of nowhere and feast That sounds yummi and like lots of fun.

You finished your essay stuff now?
not quite. I'm only missing a few conclusions to some quotes and I think I'll get it done over the weekend (I have to work all day the next three days) Luckily my lecturer has given me till 20th July to get it done. :-)
Otherwise use every free minute to study for my philosophy exam on the 18th. I'm sure that it will go well. :-)

housepiglet July 4 2007, 16:28:44 UTC

*wishes you luck for the remaining studying*

It'll all be over and worthwhile soon :)

I'm sure you'd get on really well with a dehydrator! The one I've got is here, and that's where I bought it. (The peeps who run that site are good friends of mine--in fact, I think I took some of the walking piccies--and the service is The Best.) I'm sure you can find them in Germany too, though. They're absolutely perfect for what you're describing, and the food lasts ages. I've eaten food dehydrated by Bob and Rose (they run that site) that was a year old, I think, and it was perfect. Don't hesitate to drop me a line in email if you want to chat further about it :)

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