I floated around in a sleepy dream, where somebody took me to dinner, and I scampered around the walls of Christchurch scaring people. Then I slept in a sleepy dream. Then the philologists took me out to lunch, and then I went home and slept some more. Then I returned some library books, and went to a party where I watched Warrior's Gate for the ( Read more... )

What is wrong with Cryan and most people, said Byrne, is that they do not spend sufficient time in bed. When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is the ( Read more... )

A friend and I were musing about 'requirements' for long-term partners, and how they apply in real life and how they end up in relationship adverts. Does the man really have to be taller than you? Does he really have to love books? And how do you really define a GSOH? (To give examples). And I realised that once my potential partner isn't massively ( Read more... )

I followed a link to Fandom Superlatives. Where the phrase "the entire GQMF cast of Star Trek IX" was used without explanation. Then I googled gqmf where again, star trek links with no explanation.

Answers.yahoo.com has this:

Question: What does GQMF stand for and why the ties to Star Trek ( Read more... )

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Mine will be the ones in the regulation plastic folders with shiny multicoloured stickers on top announcing my examination number and the examination title. This is assuming that I finish these works of multicoloured art ( Read more... )

Jane does not take her husband's name and goes by "Miss Bloggs" throughout her married life ( Read more... )

Something extremely bad has been happening in my life, which is now fixed.

Yay!

That is the first line of a traditional Mongolian folk-tale, which I was shown today in a linguistics seminar.

A lucrative line of greetings cards may be born.

SO YOU HAVE EXAMS!/ SO YOU'RE MOVING COUNTRY!/ SO YOU'RE PREGNANT!

Good lu...

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Om. Let there be felicity.Kevin's team would definitely have won the greeting cards task last year in ( Read more... )

Yes, you heard that right. I am taking three exams. ALL of them are scheduled for Monday 16th June at 9:30am. *fumes ( Read more... )