But is probably not as interesting as that makes it sound. Yesterday was the last day of the school term over here, and school finished at 11 o'clock. About two classes' worth of people were spotted afterwards wearing tacky sombreros. I'm not sure why, but who needs to know the reason behind all of life's mysteries? That would ruin the fun. So ( Read more... )

SO I GUESS I haven't been around much lately OH LOOK OVER THERE, WHAT'S THAT ( Read more... )

( as many mixed signals as a schizophrenic giraffe )

( Well, you can say that, but much like saying that electrons are lies wrapped in cake, it doesn't make it true. )

The sky is distant, vacant, as if it wants something to believe in. It's the mystery of public transport, sharing body heat with strangers. Frost at the side of the tracks. Bracken and glass. Morning ( Read more... )

( Book meme! )

Original - PG - a little personal. Had bad dreams after writing this, but I don't expect you will after reading it.

( 'You're getting carried away,' she said. 'Not that that's a bad thing, but you haven't even proved yet that multiple worlds exist, let alone that it's possible to travel between them.' )

About tinnitus: "Maybe you were in a tank for the first eight years of your life."

A boy, in a tone of great enthusiasm: "I've got shoes now!"

A four year old in the bus: "My Daddy has lots of penises!"

You don't get to learn what the stupidity is.

In English we are studying the film The Lives of Others. Das Leben der Anderen. It's an amazing film and I highly recommend it. A warning: it is a tragedy ( Read more... )

General anaesthesia has some very odd effects. For example, one can have perfectly sensible and lucid conversations while waking up and be almost completely unable to remember the content of said conversations half an hour later ( Read more... )