The Joyclub really seems to be kicking off again. I approve.

Had a long day yesterday, but I survived in the end, and that's what counts. We read some poems in my first class yesterday. The most brilliant one was by Shakespeare. You can read it here. The girl next to me was frantically trying to analyse this sonnet; why did Shakespeare write such an ( Read more... )

Did an exam on King Lear today. It wasn't half as scary as I thought it would be. I think my main fear was that the passages we'd have to analyse would be some very obscure and difficult ones, but luckily they were just two of the ones we'd done in class.

During the break I was reading a few chapters from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? for a ( Read more... )

'Twas my day off today, so I used it to go to several libraries and managed to find books 9 and 10 from A Series of Unfortunate Events. I'll worry about number 11 when I get there.
Since I was at Kringlan anyway, and I wasn't sure when I'd have time for shopping again during the next week, I set out to find a birthday present for Mr Kristján, who ( Read more... )

Hahaha! My mother laughed when I told her that I read Shakespeare for my own pleasure ( Read more... )

Dad is watching Shrek and during the silence between two songs on my playlist, I could hear the cheesy "DuLoc is such a perfect place"-song from the living room. Hehehehe ( Read more... )

As you may guess after reading the title, I just came back from my Icelandic exam. I spent almost half of the exam time calculating scientifically how much I needed to guess, so I wouldn't fail. I found out that I wouldn't fail and that I would probably get a slightly better grade than last term (which was a 6). On some questions I guessed, some ( Read more... )