My friend is just so wonderfully odd, and amazingly adept at cheering me up.

In response to my telling him about my problems upgrading my phone, and this comment of mine: “Bah, relativity is boring :p I prefer to talk in epic sci-fi space opera terms.” he wrote me this: (I'm Margham btw)

[Start of Sci-fi Opera]

Margham earlier yesterday:

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I have discovered a new fantasy author whose work doesn't make me despair and eat my own corneas in revulsion.  Remember I mentioned my trip to Oxfam where I picked up a couple of fantasy books?  Well, the K.J. Parker one has turned out to be really rather good.  This is an exciting moment.  Not only do I have this trilogy to read, she has written ( Read more... )

Hmmm, I wish I knew french. I did German at school. When I say 'did' I mean, we gave our German teacher a nervous breakdown in year nine and then proceeded to see off fourteen substitute teachers before failing our GCSEs. Ich ... er, nicht .. sprechen ze deutsch or something or other, but I do have a good grasp of how to send someone insane. Ah ( Read more... )