| avoiding homework! ahahahaha. |
[Apr. 19th, 2008|04:35 pm] |
meme: Comment to this post with a subject for a top five (ships, songs, books, etc). I will reply with my answer.
fandom or non-fandom, whatever works. |
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| constrained optimization hurts my head |
[Apr. 14th, 2008|02:26 pm] |
Poll #1170871 neutrality is not an option
Open to: All, results viewable to: Allcalculus: strong sunlight: birdsong in the mornings: small talk: any hard liquor, neat: postmodern academic prose: |
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| say that i was foolish/say that i was blind/never say that i got left behind |
[Apr. 12th, 2008|10:12 am] |
Oysterband - We Could Leave Right Now
a rather straightforward folk rock song, i suppose, but there's something compelling about it. the insistent, almost grim hum of the strings, perhaps. we can forget our names/forget each other's faces/don't be afraid/don't be afraid
Oysterband - Bells of Rhymney
a cover of a folk rock song which originated from a ballad about the hardship of miners. ...it's a good song, okay. :\\\ the little guitar melody is strangely catchy.
Oysterband - Granite Years
and if you didn't download this the last time around, here's your chance. this is the song which got me interested in the band -- youth and not-sepia nostalgia. |
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| becoming a regular at the local crêperie |
[Apr. 10th, 2008|03:48 pm] |
edit: and by 'salty' i mean, of course, 'savoury'. -_-;;
Poll #1168913 guess what i've been eating
Open to: All, results viewable to: Alldo you like crêpes? if you absolutely had to choose, sweet or savoury? which of these sweet fillings or toppings (for crêpes) do you like? which of these savoury fillings (for crêpes) do you like? favourite type of crêpe? when typing the word 'crêpe', do you usually bother with the accent? do you make the crêpe/galette distinction? |
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| jaffa cakes, alas, are not biscuits. |
[Apr. 4th, 2008|04:21 pm] |
in sainsbury's the other day i noticed a sign apologising for a fig roll shortage across the industry.
Poll #1165754 a nice cup of tea and...
Open to: All, results viewable to: Alldo you often eat biscuits with tea/coffee? which of these biscuits do you like? are there any important biscuits missing from the above list? do crackers even count as biscuits? have you ever eaten a fig roll? if you have, did you like it? what's your favourite type of biscuit? do you find the exclusion of cookies from this post distressing? |
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| [meme] things i do not blog about, 3/3 |
[Apr. 3rd, 2008|08:58 pm] |
[initial post]
this post's title notwithstanding, feel free to suggest more topics. i'm not likely to post any proper unprompted content in the near future, after all.
from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) feliciter: ( what would make me stop listening to Kent )
and on that note, here's my favourite song from their latest album:
Kent - Våga vara rädd
upbeat, catchy, and just generally fun. <3 it even has happy trumpets! |
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| not the most exciting of returns |
[Mar. 30th, 2008|12:28 am] |
back! terribly belated congrats and good luck to the one-year-younger people (i feel so horrendously obsolete now), wherever you may be going or choosing to go. :D
and because my posts have been even more content-free than usual this year, a meme which may counter the trend, at least for a while:
Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post or comment about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc.
i promise replies of reasonable length, a relative lack of evasiveness, and proper capitalisation. |
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| happiness is |
[Mar. 3rd, 2008|12:58 am] |
i haven't been very good at being... well, at being, lately. probably won't post again until april (and won't be commenting from friday onwards), so: have a lovely spring, for those of you who do have spring, and all the best to the now-j3s who are waiting on results of various kinds, and all the best to everyone, really, whatever you are doing now and wherever you are or are going.
on that cheerful (?) note, a meme from wao, because i like this sort of thing.
Comment and I'll give you a letter (if you want); then you have to list 10 things you love that begin with that letter. Afterwards, post this in your journal (if you want) and give out some letters of your own.
( i received the letter j. ) |
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| memery |
[Feb. 6th, 2008|04:01 pm] |
koped from xsmoonshine -- i don't usually post things like this, but the result this time amused me:
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tagged by erushi.
The rules are easy, just post 10 things that recently made you happy! Then tag 10 people and force them who may then, if they so please, choose to post this meme on their LJs. Because it is good. Everyone needs a little happiness once in a while.
(i am taking 'recently' to mean 'in the past week or so', because without constraints i could go on and on.)
1. sunlight. sunlight sunlight sunlight. good weather makes me ridiculously happy, and when walking down the street on particularly fine days i tend to be grinning inanely to myself. it's especially lovely because it's oxford: the green of the quads, the way the warm light brings out the blond stone of the buildings, the radcliffe camera against a bright blue sky.
2. conversation over food and/or drink. it doesn't happen that often, because i am fairly non-social when eating in hall, but when it does -- over drinks in a pub, or waffles in someone else's college, or lunch in my own -- then it is most enjoyable.
3. food. i shall spare you the details.
4. having fellow anime/manga fans with whom one may interact offline. and the anime-watching sessions themselves. hurrah for audience reactions and viewer comments!
5. small unexpected kindnesses.
6. receiving awesome things in the mail from very kind people.
7. really good lectures in which you not only feel that you've learnt something, but also enjoy the time spent doing so.
8. feeling CNY-festive despite the general lack of CNY decorations/music in shopping malls/acknowledgement of CNY's existence. although my college is holding a small drinks party for the Chinese students tomorrow evening, and serving Chinese food in hall, which is nice of them.
9. spring coming in: snowdrops and crocuses (i think?) and daffodils and the first pale-green buds on the trees.
10. how bright the stars are on a clear night.
tagging: 1156, acanti, anappletree, bangendedscoot, egelantier, lesstraveled, rost, tsuei, ventriloquy, wao |
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| shockingly enough, this is not a food poll |
[Jan. 27th, 2008|08:19 pm] |
Poll #1128242 the thirty-two thousand dollar question
Open to: All, results viewable to: Alldo you say/write 'a historian' or 'an historian'? which is the more common expression, where you are?
BBC uses 'an historian', for the record. |
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| food poll of the week |
[Jan. 17th, 2008|01:49 pm] |
Poll #1122698 freshman fifteen
Open to: All, results viewable to: Alldo you like nutella? how do you pronounce the first syllable? have you ever eaten it straight out of a jar with a spoon? nutella or peanut butter? do you like almonds? do you like marzipan? what's your favourite stone fruit? (of the Prunus genus) |
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| avoiding work, but of course. |
[Jan. 9th, 2008|10:22 am] |
meme: If you had me under your command and could make me write anything, regardless of whether or not I know the fandom or if anybody even writes fic in that fandom and no matter how crack-addled it might be, what would you love to see me write?
I'm not actually going to write any of these (unless something strikes me), but I am curious.
specifics are entertaining! |
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| mmmmmm |
[Jan. 6th, 2008|07:00 pm] |
Poll #1116591 incredibly important questions
Open to: All, results viewable to: Allwhich of these options best captures your preferences re: milk and dark chocolate? try to pick one even if you don't really care about chocolate either way. how do you feel about discounted food in supermarkets? of the near-expiry sort, not just food that happens to be on sale. which (found in singapore) chinese new year goodies do you like? (as opposed to 'will eat if it's there, but if not, no big loss'.) do i ask about food too much? |
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| interest-picture meme |
[Dec. 30th, 2007|06:52 pm] |
an extremely overdue meme for egelantier.
1) you comment on this post;
2) I choose three of your interests;
3) you find pictures that you feel illustrate these interests and post them to your journal.
( all found via google, naturally. ) |
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| :D :D :D |
[Dec. 25th, 2007|01:16 pm] |
i received a really awesome Bartimaeus trilogy* fic for ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) yuletide! it's first-person-POV and pitch-perfect -- Bartimaeus's narration was the main reason I liked the books, i won't lie -- and works so well and oh, Bartimaeus-Ptolemy interaction, be still my heart. :D :D :D
feliciter also wrote me awesome epistolary Mushishi fic. *_*
*the Bartimaeus trilogy is a YA fantasy series; possibly the first i have read since secondary school, picked it up after prompting from a friend. it isn't high literature by any measure, but it does have one of the best/most entertaining narrators (who is also an unreliable one, yay) since Kyon. also, alternate history 'verse with magic in!
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edit: now with aforementioned epistolary fic by feliciter!
( in the bleak midwinter ) |
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| 'tis the season? |
[Dec. 24th, 2007|04:52 pm] |
holiday greetings have been appearing on my f-list, so -- merry christmas to all, and all the best for the new year! here, have a completely unrelated Kent song, while i'm at it:
Kent - Tick tack
off their new single, Columbus. catchy, though the lyrics are not particularly cheerful. :D;; |
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