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07 January 2010 @ 08:49 am

Abebooks has me on some kind of emailing list (I suspect I failed to uncheck a box at some point), and mostly their mailings are 'delete on server, yawning' stuff.

But I do rather like this (as opposed to special deals on a category of book in which I am not interested): Remaining Unread: The Top Ten Reasons We Don’t Get to Certain Books.

I think my own tbr pile includes entries in all categories.

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brisingamen

07 January 2010 @ 08:27 am

Small clarification

Slightly baffled by various comments on this post yesterday, I have realised that people may be thinking I am not going to talk about books in my own journal this year. I plan to discuss my reading here as usual, and am entirely happy with the comments I receive. What I wasn't planning to do was to cross-post my reading discussions to the 50 Book Challenge LJ community journal as in previous years, hence the comment about 'thousands of strangers'.

Now, back to work.

Tags: 2010 reading log

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oursin

07 January 2010 @ 08:21 am

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Happy birthday,

queen_ypolita!

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redbird

06 January 2010 @ 07:40 pm

bonus, etc.

Our company handed out bonuses earlier than usual, namely, yesterday. I think the timing had to do with the holding company doing a "prepackaged" bankruptcy, under which the people to whom they owe lots of money will get stock, and the current stockholders will get zilch. (Since the debt is from leveraged buyouts, this is unsurprising.) And we did better than expected, so I have been given 6.25% of my annual salary (the money I actually got yesterday is about half of the total, because the withholding is high on this, and I'll get some more back in 14 or 15 months when I file my 2010 income taxes).

Having gotten this, I was thinking "I should pass some of it along," and then an hour later had email from the people who run the summer math program I attended 30 years ago. So, $51 to Hampshire College, earmarked for the Summer Studies in Mathematics. I haven't decided yet whether to just put the rest in my savings account (which is what I did last time) or come up with a suitable fun/indulgent thing to do with all or part of it.

They have also reinstated 401(k) matching, so I need to find the paperwork and sign up for the 401(k) plan. (Matching was suspended a few weeks before I was eligible to join the plan, so I didn't, and put money in an IRA for 2009.) And we may get raises this coming year, since the salary freeze is going to be ended in March (making it one full year, so it should hit everyone exactly once). Most of this was announced at a meeting on Monday, while I was on an Amtrak train, but my boss filled me in. (The 401(k) stuff was actually announced at the holiday party, which I also wasn't at for unrelated reasons.)

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nosignalinput

06 January 2010 @ 11:34 pm

Holidailies May Be Ending, But Life Goes On

Today, unfortunately, marks the end of Holidailies 2009. Thankfully I managed to post on every single day during the period of December 7 – January 6, which is the basic rule of Holidailies. It’s a lot better than I did last year, as I think that was around the 15 mark. This is the catalyst I needed to get back into posting again, something that was a bit on the lacklustre side during 2009. I may not lead a terribly exciting life but I love writing and when I don’t write I feel more than a little down. I guess you can say Holidailies cured my intense writer’s block! I also got the reward of a ‘Best of Holidailies’ for my 'University Junk' post, and whether you say it or not we all loved to be praised for something we’ve worked hard on. It makes me more willing to write when I know that there are people out there who appreciate my work. I still prefer the 'Best of Holidailies' entry I did last year, although I should really finish that story someday.

It’s been a ride that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed, especially the challenge of coming up with something new to write about every day. I’ve also made a few new friends, and I now have a handful of blogs I want to follow. If you’ve been reading my daily ramblings then I thank you with all my heart. I hope you will continue to read even though the holiday cheer is over, and I hope everyone has wonderful a year that we’ll be writing about come Holidailies 2010.

So, what now? Since I’ve caught the writing bug again I’m going to try and post every day this year. Yup, you heard me right, every day this year. It’s going to be hard and I can’t be sure I’ll manage every day, but I’m going to try my best anyway. My iPhone 3G means I can post on the move, so it shouldn’t be a problem if I can’t get to my computer on any day. If I am going away I might have a few posts lined up that can be posted automatically, at a certain time, so I still fill the days in. It’s going to be one hell of a challenge, but I really want to do this. I can ramble on about pretty much anything if want to, but I’ll try to have mostly short posts for a week and one or two large ones. Too often I go on for ages and there’s this massive wall of text that I know I’ll probably never read again. However, there are still certain things you can’t say in only a few paragraphs.

Stick with me readers, for the journey is only just beginning.

This post was compiled by someone incredibly tired, so may be a bit rambling and not well thought out. The author wishes he would have completed this earlier when he could think straight, but knows there is nothing he can do about it now and that there will be plenty of time to write better posts in the future.

Tags: blog, future, holidailies, writing

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ceriselle

07 January 2010 @ 12:01 am

todays silly postings from twitter

06:46 No buses today from #firstbristol (or Bath or anywhere) - bit.ly/7dxpBl #
07:07 OK, now I'm all wide awake. Not fair. I'd like a snooze before I call the office to say I'm not in. #
07:33 Heeeee! Its still snowing. Love you snow. #
09:19 Paniced when I woke up from sneak nap, then looked out the window twitpic.com/wvzck #
09:29 Phoned work, had to leave a message, so back to sleep I think! Or shall I get up? #
10:10 The snow is falling from the phone lines, it looks so odd! #
10:24 I hate Sara Cox on the radio SO MUCH. #
10:33 I wish designers would give an approx cost for a design on their websites, just an estimate would help! #
10:43 Chocolate fudge cake. Is this the worst breakfast ever? #
12:00 I love my new desk, sitting in the bay window - I can watch the snow get worse :D #
12:53 Love the phone calls of people in the snow on Radio 1 - "yeah, its snowing, i'm going sledging!" #
13:40 Think my GMail theme (based on the weather) is a bit confused - I have a sunny giraffe instead of the snowman I had earlier@ #
14:31 Its raining! #
14:46 One laptop for job applications, one for watching HIMYM and a bed. Excellent snow day. #
16:02 Barneys prayer to God was awesome #himym #
19:08 New Echofon has lists! Yay! #
20:36 Why is jPod on the On Demand, but hasn't been shown in the UK? Never mind, I finally get to see the end episodes! #
21:03 Eyes are going cross eyed from looking at job websites...which ones do you all use? More specifically financial ones, but any will do :) #
21:15 It is all go in the @bookwormbecca/@NeilCrosby household ;) #
21:30 I may love this Lady Gaga conspiracy theory JUST because it uses the plot of Josie and the Pussycats. bit.ly/8axDU8 #
21:42 The newest anti smoking advert makes me want to hurt people. #
21:45 However the @innocentdrinks is AWESOME. Eeeee, bunnies! #
22:06 Family Guy: Blue Harvest is on FX. Even though I've got the DVD, I can't stop watching this #
22:42 Having a good chat with @hellybellybutt about stuff, makes me feel v. happy but miss her soooooooo much! #
23:34 Tired of forgetting about my wrist, then bending it backwards. Should a sprain still hurt, 2 weeks after my fall? #

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dorianegray

06 January 2010 @ 11:27 pm

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Can we stop having "real winter" now, please? It's freezing cold (literally; we've been getting highs of about 0°C; the snow from New Year has all half-melted and refrozen to render the footpaths Icy Slideways of Dooooooom; the roads are re-freezing overnight and the councils are running out of salt/grit to put on them, cue more Icy Slideways of Even Greater Doooooom because let's face it, adding motor vehicles piloted by people who have never driven on ice before to an Icy Slideway is a recipe for disaster; Dublin Bus had to cancel all services this afternoon because the roads were so bad...and generally, I'm sick of being cold and obsessively checking weather forecasts and the Dublin Bus website and having to walk Very Very Carefully on the Icy Slideways of Dooooooom. I want normal winter weather back. ::sulks::

( In which I wax lengthy on the subject of my latest dentist visit )

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coughingbear

06 January 2010 @ 10:50 pm

this and cat

Yes, well, I aten't dead. And I have most of a proper post, but in the meantime there is a kitten. And surely the internet was crying out for pictures of cats.

She seems to be settling in OK.

Tags: cat, house

current mood: busy

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brisingamen

06 January 2010 @ 09:45 pm

Krumpies meet snow, snow meet Krumpies

Snow has fallen this evening, an inch or more, and the Krumpies have finally ventured out to take a look. It is apparently a huge success. Nicodemus gamely tried to kill every snowflake in the garden, one at a time, and was last seen lying full length, apparently hiding behind a snowflake, waiting to pounce on Rosa.

Any minute now they are going to come in to tell us all about it. I must remember to take a towel to bed with me.

Tags: snowpocalypse 2010, the krumpies

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brisingamen

06 January 2010 @ 09:21 pm

2010 Reading Log

I shall be keeping a list of my reading for 2010 on this journal, as I have done in recent years, but I have decided not to participate formally in the LJ 50 Book Challenge any more. I still like the basic premise (and indeed will be setting myself the goal of getting through at least 50 books during the year, because it is always helpful to have something to aim for), but last year I began to wonder why I was listing and commenting on my year's reading for a large group of strangers, most of whom seemed to have as little interest in my reading habits as, frankly, I did in theirs. Having failed to come up with a useful answer, I decided that while 50 Book Challenge had served its purpose in helping me to develop the habit of regularly logging my reading, it was probably time I moved on.

Over the last eight years or so, most of my reading (putting aside the reading I do for work, and the less said about most of that in public the better, for all concerned) has been primarily directed by two things: my class reading lists (and I have at least been fortunate in having been contractually obliged to read all sorts of really interesting material), and the books I review. I don't review anywhere near as much as

peake does, and have indeed, in the last few years frequently distinguished myself by nothing so much as my failure to actually write a number of the reviews I was supposed to have produced (I'm not remotely proud of this and am still wondering how to expiate my quite considerable sins in that direction and do better in future, because I would like to continue reviewing). The rest of my reading has been rather arbitrary, mostly shaped by the books that PK gives me at various times during the year, which are things he's seen reviewed that he thinks I'll be interested in (he has a very good eye for the kind of non-fiction I like). There is rarely much time to simply follow my reading bliss.

I noticed something almost for the first time last year, perhaps because I had started reading more book blogs (hmm, reading about reading in lieu of actually reading), and paying more attention to other people as readers, and that was people actively planning their year's reading, creating reading lists, devising community reading projects. (I suppose 50 Book Challenge was a kind of community reading project but somehow it always felt different.) Honestly, it had never occurred to me to actively plan my reading like that, at least not since childhood, when I was a great reader of series, and compiler of lists of books read and to be read. I'm not sure why it hadn't occurred to me to organise my own reading, unless it is that I've been a slave to academic reading lists for so long. And in fact I did make some tentative reading plans last year, which I never followed through with, though I did get so far as to write them down in my desk diary.

Which brings me to back to 2010, and thinking again about reading resolutions. 2010 is going to be an interesting year reading-wise: I am about to to embark on my final MA module, which means after March I will no longer be following prescribed reading lists (although depending on what plans come to fruition later in the year, this may not be strictly true), but will then have to working on structuring my study reading for maximum effectiveness. But what happens after that? It was looking at Andrew Seal's 'Reading Resolutions for 2010' that really set me thinking. Oh how I want to join in with that grand project, and oh how unlikely it seems that I'll get anywhere near achieving it. I was similarly excited and depressed by

coalescent's 'Some Books I Want to Read in 2010'.

So what to do? To be honest, I'm not sure. I love reading as much as I ever did, and books excite me as much as they ever did, and yet, at times, like Marley with his chain forged from cash boxes, I feel I'm weighed down by the thought of everything I want to read. I did a calculation the other day, on the basis of my living another 30 years and reading 50 books a year, and realised I might have only another 1500 books to read (actually, I think I'm probably good for several thousand, but even so ...). So, reading projects seem to be the way forward.

Except I have discovered, belatedly, that I'm rather better at sticking to resolutions and intentions if I don't tell people about them and just do them (last year's reading plan failure notwithstanding). This seems utterly counter-intuitive and counter-productive, I know, but it seems to work, so I'd rather not break the charm.

Which I suppose means that this isn't a post about what I'm planning to read in 2010. At least, not yet. Or, perhaps, it's a post to invite people to play along and guess what my plans are as the reading unfolds.

Tags: 2010 reading log

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carandol

06 January 2010 @ 06:45 pm

Travel problems

I'm supposed to be going round to Pete's tomorrow to do some work on Clockwork & Chivalry. The pavements round here are covered in packed snow, and many of them resemble ice rinks - this being Lancaster, mostly sloping ice rinks. The route I normally walk via back streets is, says Pete, more or less impassable, since there are lots of hills which have had no treatment at all. It seems the only safe way is via taxi, which can go the long way round on roads that have been cleared.

The Greens on the city council have quite rightly been having a go at Lancashire County Council, who prioritise major roads for snow clearance and leave pedestrians stranded; apparently lots of other councils do hilly pavements as a matter of urgency. Makes you wonder how much the council saves with this strategy, compared to how much the NHS spends on treating broken bones.

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brisingamen

06 January 2010 @ 06:27 pm

Snow? What snow?

Snow is not happening here in Folkestone. It's extremely cold, there have been a few fluttering snowflakes, and I hear it's very rock and roll out Maidstone way, and up on the M20 (a snow plough out on the motorway at Ashford, no less), but there's nothing going on around here at all. Actually, there really is nothing going on around here. I've no idea what it's been like in town, but Brisingamen Road and its environs have been extremely quiet, and it's clear that a lot of commuters have not bothered railheading into Folkestone today, and consequently, streets around the Central station are a lot quieter. We went out for a brief walk this afternoon and saw very few people and very little traffic.

Meanwhile, I cannot resist linking to this little BBC Archive compilation of snow reports over the last 45 years. Note how good old Ashford railway station yet again has a starring role.

As for me, I have established that the parental units are very happy under their eight inches of snow in Oxford (my father was apparently out in the garden with a ruler, measuring it, before going out to shovel snow off paths); PK is rather glad that he made arrangements to work from home, and the cats have decided that staying in is absolutely the new going out (as indeed it was the old going out as well). I decided not to venture to campus today but my spies tell me that the Gulbenkian Café is currently shut for refurbishment (the floors are being replaced, which was very necessary, but a pre-holiday warning might have been helpful, and one does query whether January is absolutely the best time to replace floor coverings), leaving one with only the Templeman Library café (which does not do lunch, closes early, and the coffee is not so good, although somewhat cheaper).

And more snow is of course threatened, so I'm not sure what I shall be doing tomorrow. Or indeed for the rest of the week. I am undecided about going to campus tomorrow, though I think we need to go and find cat food, milk, various basics If the weather remains bad and/or the revised rail timetable is still in place on Saturday, I am not sure whether we'll be travelling into London for cultural activities and

fjm's party, but we'll see how it goes. For now, I'm baking jacket potatoes for dinner, doing some editorial revisions, and will then be curling up with Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands for the rest of the evening. I am also particularly glad that PK has been home all day, not least because he made cheese on toast for lunch and it was delicious; sometimes, it's the small treats that best assuage the jangled nerves (and I do find this kind of weather nerve-jangling, not so much for is happening as for what might, and are we prepared, etc.).

Tags: snowpocalypse 2010

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oursin

06 January 2010 @ 12:25 pm

And the relevance to the Victorian era is precisely what?

Latest 'link exchange' spam, in which they allege that they have found my website (actually, the Victorian subset of it):

While browsing and find the website resource Section quite interesting and relevant to one of our business partner's websites.

Please consider posting a link to the below mentioned website under your "Links/Resource" section.

My website detail is given here.
[Redacted]
Description: - [Redacted] provides a fantastic opportunity for your friends and family to earn extraordinary income. [Redacted]gold team is a leader in Internet marketing and works with you to get your [Redacted]business off to a great start.

Unless their special marketing opportunity is Soluble Urethral Crayons or similar, I think not, rly. I've looked on the link given and the main site appears to be selling antiques and collectibles, but the links are what is technically known as A Right MishMash, most of them of no apparent relevance to the world of antiques and collectibles (?'Bestiality Sex'??)

Though on link exchange emails, I was taken aback by one recently which suggested that I was 'at liberty to include' link to their spa-products site.

I suppose this strategy must work in a sufficient number of instances to make the procedure worthwhile?

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redbird

05 January 2010 @ 07:45 pm

New Year's in the not-so-frozen north

I am back from Montreal, tired and happy and still thinking about plausible ways to deal with there being more cool things to do than energy to do them with. It didn't help this time that when I listed them in order from lowest to highest interest, the one I would most readily have done without came first. Meaning that on Friday afternoon, I thought I had the energy for that outing. By Sunday noon, I suspected I didn't, but couldn't resist, and got fuzzy enough not to follow through on the fallback of "I can do half of this and then go home and have a cheese sandwich or something." Still, plants and dim sum and spices and good coversation, and I didn't get sick (we had a bug going around). Not getting sick may also have been a drain, though less of one than being sick would have been. What I think I need to do is make a plan and stick to it, including sticking to the "I will sit with a book and a teakettle" part.

I should write more later. I have photos to get off the camera, and smoked pepper and grains of paradise to experiment with, and lots of chocolate. I have had some really good conversations with

nancylebov for the first time in too many years, as well as catching up with

jonsinger and spending time with

papersky and

rysmiel and Z and his girlfriend and Rene who lives next door and

rezendi (who is almost never in Montreal when I am, even if he has to visit New York or Harare to achieve that). I also have lots of chocolate.

It was cold when I got there, but warmed up quickly (we were getting highs just a couple of degrees below freezing), and the snow came in relatively small chunks, well within Montreal's ability to clear quickly. It was colder last night when I got home to Manhattan than it had been when I walked out the door in Montreal at 8 a.m.

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Tags: food, montreal

current mood:

tired

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ceriselle

06 January 2010 @ 12:00 am

todays silly postings from twitter

06:51 I really need an early night tonight :( my sleep patterns are so messed up - 6 hours sleep is not a good thing. #
08:22 Using a ski pole to walk to work - that's a little over the top, yes? #
08:25 I'd love to know how #firstbristol came up with the "noone uses the buses in the morning" thing, because every bus gone past has been full. #
12:24 Lady Gaga Barbies. I kinda want one bit.ly/8L9Q86 #
13:18 Snow from the Heights twitpic.com/wrljp #
15:33 Shit. May have quit my job. Anyone got a temp job to start Monday? #
16:09 Quitting job: yes, on purpose. FD is supposed to be talking me out of it, but will finish on fri #
18:13 So FD persuaded me to stay till end of month at least. Sigh. Am idiot. #
18:16 I realised I've been there 5 months. Five fucking months of bullshit. #
18:48 Ffffffffffffeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Is it too early to go to bed? #
19:11 Two choices of what to do tonight: mope or do stuff #
19:11 Mope: Pros: Its easy. Cons: I fuck even myself off when I'm like that. #
19:12 Do stuff: Pro: Its all proactive and shit. Cons: 1) I'm not as angry as I was, so unlikely. 2) I'm lazy. #
20:05 Oh,am not getting paid this week.Because I didn't fill in an official form.Because making sure the agency's logo is on the page is important #
20:27 The advert for Weird Science on Comedy Central is like a movie Pop Up Video. 'mazin' #
20:30 I dont even know what I am good at. If anything. (oh fuck off moping, have a brew and apply for jobs you silly bitch) #
21:03 Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I love the bit in Family Guy when Chris ends up in the a-ha video. #
21:04 Got bored, did the same thing as everyone else: bit.ly/5GOHId Go ask me random anonymous crap. #
21:22 Have died from the shock of @nixgeek actually cooking during the week. #
22:10 Bristol people, is it snowing? I'm too lazy to look. #

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nosignalinput

05 January 2010 @ 11:12 pm

Snow Day

I didn’t manage to get into work today due to the heavy snow that greeted me as I reluctantly climbed out of my nice warm bed. None of the usual buses had come by while I got ready for work, so I wasn’t really hopeful that mine would keep to its schedule either. Sure enough I was right, and after half-an-hour standing outside my house (I decided to wait to see if the next bus would come along. I would have been late for work but at least I would have got there) I called it a day and went back inside. I called work and they said they were fine with it, telling me not to bother trying to get there if it was too much hassle. Craig catches the same bus as me so he couldn’t make it in either, and apparently some people didn’t bother taking their cars and just walked. I live too far away from work to make walking a viable option, and it wouldn’t be worth slipping and getting soaked even if I decided to brave the distance.

The downside is, of course, I miss out on a day’s wages. The days when I was excited when it snowed because it may mean we had a day off school are long gone, and now the snow is little more than a burden. Thankfully I’m ok on the money front at the moment, so the loss of one day’s wages shouldn’t hurt me too much. I guess I should be lucky that I still live with my dad.

The weather forecasts say it will drop to about -4 around here tonight, and will be colder than today when the sun rises. Thankfully the snow is supposed to be moving on down south, but supposedly we’ll get some more later in the week. As long as the buses are relatively on time then I’m not too fussed about the snow. Even if I’d had the insurance sorted out for my car (which I paid for in full the other day, filling in the new owner form and receiving all the documents) I wouldn’t have risked driving because I simply haven’t had any experience outside of my driving lessons and tests, so starting to drive again when it’s snowing isn’t a great idea.

Strangely enough I’m actually more tired today than I am when I’m working. It’s possibly because I’ve been doing little more than sitting on my arse, which has made me very lazy. Either that or the three or four cups of coffee I sometimes have at work actually do work.

Tags: holidailies, weather, winter, work

current mood: tired

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oursin

05 January 2010 @ 10:04 pm

Difference between love and admiration

I'm chewing over possible ideas for suggesting as Wiscon panels, and one that came to me in the stilly reaches of last night was the difference between writers/works one loves and writers/works one admires.

The latter are the ones who one's intellect and critical judgement recognise as excellent, serious, the sort of writer, perhaps, that one would recommend to a non-sff reader who thought it was all talking squid and ray-guns in space. That sort of thing.

And the ones one loves are the ones one rereads over and over again, especially when feeling low or suffering from the ick or the lurghi. Which one might not quite so readily put out there as the representative of What The Genre Is Capable Off in literary terms.

(There are also, I just realised, books with whom one's relation is, not love, possibly not even liking, but the equivalent of somehow always ending up after the office party snogging them in the stationery cupboard...)

It's entirely possible to both admire and love certain writers/works, I'll concede, but it's also possible to love certain writers/works even while being aware of their weaknesses and flaws.

I'm not sure where I'm going with this. I just wanted to get the ideas out there and see if anything happened, whether it was discussion or just something going click in my own thought-processes.

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rosefox

05 January 2010 @ 11:50 am

"It's hot in here!"

( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

Tags: body.awakeness, body.body clock, body.sleep, food

current mood: sleepy

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oursin

05 January 2010 @ 01:47 pm

But this started *before* Mercury went retrograde

Have been having a month now of losing stuff, forgetting things, breaking things, and things not working or stopping working (we returned to work to find that a core piece of software No Can Haz at the moment, grrr).

I am trying rather hard not to find this obscurely symbolic and a metaphor for something, though I know not what.

Not as though there have not been things on the more positive side of the equation.

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Tags: adversity, annoyance, coincidence, computers, database, forgetfulness, frustration, irrationality, life, me, software, work

ceriselle

05 January 2010 @ 12:08 pm

Lavender Blonde

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I love that lavender blonde / The way she moves / The way she walks

I am as vain as I allow / I do my hair / I gloss my eyes

Oh my gosh! How awesome are these dolls? These Barbies were created (created? amended?) by Veik, who prefers to refer to himself as a “doll player” rather than designer. He’s done quite a few different types of looks, but I love his Lady Gaga dolls!

Check out his Flickr for more pics or read this interview!

Tags: barbie, daily, fashion, lady gaga

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