I still need to develop a better resistance to amazon's you save X% offers, but at least I don't entirely regret buying the Smallville dvds, especially S3. OTOH, sadly so little of this show stands the test of a second viewing; I browsed through S2 with the finger on the fast forward button, stopping only (or almost only) for Lex, because while ( Read more... )

Hu. That must have been one of those quiet weeks, no posts since last Sunday... still not feeling particularly inspired or talkative ( Read more... )

# It's frustrating that when you snap a couple of pictures on your way home from work they actually turn out to be -- probably not good on any standards, but satisfactory to me, because I think I managed to capture a certain mood, or view --, but when you specifically set out to take photos, half of them are delete-worthy, and the rest is meh-ish ( Read more... )

My attention span is all but non-existent these days. Pathetic.

( During my one and a half week holiday I read... )

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[Damn. The cat apparently has adopted me. Willnotbuycatfoodwillnotbuycatfood...]

Slept in, read, wrote a little, soaked in the tub, made a birthday cake for M. (chocolate, almonds & nuts from the new Jamie Oliver cookbook, hopefully edible) and watched two weeks' worth of taped tv shows in between.

Andromeda, never the best show to begin with, ( Read more... )

Could Smallville be just a little worse? Not a rhetorical question, I'm merely looking for an excuse to stop watching.

( meep )

Spent an inordinate amount of time baking and decorating four bunny cakes (cake bunnies?) for easter presents, two chocolate-hazelnut ones with chocolate glazing, two a kind of marzipan-vanilla dough. Frustratingly, I don't find the result exactly aesthetically satisfying and certainly not in keeping with the amount of work that went into it, and ( Read more... )

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A dozen books begun or partially read, but lacking the focus or interest to finish them; rambling drafts for lj entries I can't bring myself to complete either... wrote down some sketchy thoughts about religion, violence and Mel Gibson's Christ movie today, but am not sure I'll still be sufficiently interested or satisfied to edit & post them ( Read more... )