Well, whaddaya know. I've been employed by the university. Research assistant for a trans-national Canada-Usa literature project. I'm in charge of ecological aspects in naturalistic and agrarian literature. Yes, I can see you yawning, please stop it ( Read more... )

I got bored on this wonderfully gray second day of the year and decided to play around with the camera for a while to occupy myself for a few precious minutes, and to put off cleaning the place up for a while longer. So here's some pretty pictures of my current living quarters.

( Photography is hard... )

I will have gotten a camera bis this time next week. Finally an opportunity to use Future Perfect ( Read more... )

Okay, so next Monday is my birthday. No big deal, I'm only turning 25, like, quarter of a century. But CLEARLY playing Wow is more important than that. If he had had the nerve to chew me out for not coming to a raid on my own birthday, I'd have caved his skull in there and then ( Read more... )

So, Switzerland has cemented its reputation as an isolationist, xenophobic bowl somewhere in the Alps. So what else is new ( Read more... )

After a little post by the esteemed miss Maryam, I remembered this little episode from one of my anthropology classes ( Read more... )

Okay, I went and watched the trailer for 2012. Then I blinked in disbelief, and watched another trailer. Then some random footage. I was thinking "Christ, it's an Emmerich film, the plot sucks, but it can't be bad all the way through, can it ( Read more... )

Yes, I know I'm losing geek cred because I only got around to finishing it 2 years after it came out, but I just finished Half Life 2: Episode 2. And all I have to say is ( Read more... )

Well, I found a funny thing, more like. I found my old installation of Sims2 which I had obtained entirely legal through a LAN-Party mistake caused by Swamp-Gas and anyway a wizard did it ( Read more... )

Read in the paper today that Doctors in Britain want to ban any and all advertisement or promotion of alcohol. While that is something I generally don't have an opinion on, I wonder how many doctors life up to the high standards to which they hold their patients...