Me, arriving home from long day at College, pleasantly surprised to see him not horizontal: "Oh, hi, nice to see you up!"

TTB: "Actually, I've been up since 11ish. *pause* It was horrible."

Hope it's stellar!

gileswench gave me 'M':


1. Malcolm, 'Spooks' [Known as 'MI5' across the Pond - he's the one on the right in my icon, next to his best friend (make of that what you will, )Colin - sniff, sob]. Superbly intelligent, precise, cultured, loyal, resourceful, but a man who knows his limits: a good counterbalance to all the rampant egos on the Grid.

2. Maud - an excuse to enthuse anew about A.S. Byatt's "Possession", one of my all-time favourite books. Feminist, academic, intellectually, morally and physically courageous AND a snappy dresser, she gave the male protagonist a really good run for his money.

3. Macavity the Mystery Cat [T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats]. Just because I once learned that poem off by heart in an English lesson: lo, many blue moons and many miles away...

4. Methos [Highlander The Series]. Ancient, flexible (in several ways, hint hint, see The Postmodern Prometheus), the ultimate survivor. "Mi casa es su casa; have a beer."

5. And last, but by NO means least, "M", the Judi Dench version above all. Rock-solid, weary from experience, sharp of tongue but sound of heart and instinct; when I grow up, I want to be "M". I still need to write that Bond/M PWP fic...

Anyone care to be gifted with a letter who hasn't done this already?

For some reason the LJ Beast won't let me comment on your LJ from this computer, but I always read and enjoy your posts...

Home at the weekend, yay!

It's been a while, and although he hasn't been around as much to drop pearls of verbal wit and his own unique slant on life, there's always MSM:

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Dear Kim,


hope it's the greatest, like you :-)

Many Happy Returns to malnpudl! Wishing you fics and chat and dogs and merriment.

Have a more than spectacularly adequate day, dear empressvesica!

Well, yeah...

You Are Classical Music

You are a somewhat serious person who enjoys studying subjects deeply. Art of all kinds interests you, and a good piece of art can really effect you emotionally. You are inspired by human achievement, and you appreciate work that takes years to accomplish. For you, the finer things in life are not about snobbery - they're about quality.

Just read an interesting phrase (in an otherwise humdrum article - why do half the FT weekend columnists spend most of their *paid* column inches talking about themselves and their spouses/children? I don't know them and I don't care)- to the effect that they dislike shopping not because of virtuous non-materialism but because they doubt their own aesthetic judgement.

Yes, I think: this. How 'bout you folks?



This doesn't apply to books in my case, which represent a significant proportion of my spend. I think this may be because I don't doubt my judgement of what I might be interested in reading, mostly in private: and there are enough qualifiers in that sentence to insulate me from the putative criticism of others.

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WHERE I COME FROM:

See icon.

WHAT DO YOU CALL:

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?

A canal.

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called?

Mr Tweed. Failing that, a trolley.


3. A metal container to carry a meal in?

Microwave.


4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?


The holidays. Also, a frying pan.


5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?

Too big for our lounge.

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?

Drainpipe.

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?


The pub.


8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?


Pub landlord's proft margin.


9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?

Coffee.


10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?


Fish-and-chip-butty.



11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?


In some cases, Camoflage. In others, a Crying Shame.


12. Shoes worn for sports?

Smelly.

13. Putting a room in order?


A miracle.


14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?

Glow worm.

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball?


Woodlouse.


16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down?

Any park bench once the local oiks have been at it.


17. How do you eat your pizza?

Pinch some of TTB's.

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?


eBay.


19. What's the evening meal?


A cunning device to make sure people are downstairs before the washing up needs doing.


20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?

Archaeology.


21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?


Trafalgar Square

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 about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on tv, favorite type of underwear, stories I'm working on, travel, etc. Repost in your own journal so that we can all learn more about each other.

Except not the book thing as they're all tedious social science and psychology at the moment: and not Tv because I don't have time to watch and the box has been on the blink for a month anyway :-(

We have just been chatting on MSN and he's planning to go off to a big National LARPing event over Easter.

TTB: "Different backgrounds, sure, but we all interact as normal, we talk to people, and if someone pisses off someone else enough, or someone pays us enough money, out come the foam swords"


Just about sums it up, I think...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY mulrey!

Oh, and happy birthday Tony Head :-)

mad_with_july's book! Complete with signed, personalised author's note :-)
Squee. I was going to study this evening, but what the heck?
*Settles down with a glass of port and reads*

Oh, and thanks to Mr. July for postie duties ;-)

The estimable penwiper26 invites you to curse as creatively as you can...

I think this is a little Americocentric and, as has been commented elsewhere, more applicable to more recent times. This is not just to do with the wider availability of technology for today's youngsters, but because in the UK, relatively few people went to University until fairly recently, so you could be in a professional job and quite comfortably off without a degree. Certainly my parents' house was four times the size mine is :-(

That said,

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Wishing for you all the best of Christmases and a prosperous New Year!