How Much?
Extra tickets for my graduation (after 2 complimentary) are £15 each. £15 to sit in a different room and watch via video link.That is disgusting.I feel like setting loose my keyboard of wrath. I think...
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There's no official word, but the Times has announced that Carol Ann Duffy will be the next poet laureate.The One Show listed a few possibilities, bizarrely including Benjamin Zephaniah. He's extremely...
View ArticleBut it's for my essay....
You know when you're looking for something and start repeating the mantra in your mind? 'Hairbrush hairbrush hairbrush' etc. And then if you can't find it you end up murmuring it and eventually saying...
View ArticleThis is geeky, but...
Following up from the Gown of Humility stat points, I was playing Morrowind last night and using my slightly disturbing new dagger that administers frost damage for quite a long time. Ten seconds,...
View ArticleIt's the Cirrrrcccllleee of Life
So this is Migratory's Theory of Shakespeare Appreciation:Teenager - Shakespeare's boring.Adult - Shakespeare's obviously great. I don't actually read any, but everyone knows he's the best.First year...
View ArticleWow.
Degree results are in. I scraped a first.My family are very happy. I'm currently still bit numb, having spent so long preparing myself for the probability that I'd just missed it. I would have been...
View ArticleHappy
I graduated today :-)I wore a silly gown and hat. I let my family try on my hat. I spread the wings of the gown in order to look like Batman. We ate Italian food. Champagne was consumed in moderation....
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What of dignity, honour, self-respect?
I find myself rather attracted to a man I know with a gold tooth.I think that ratcheting sound was my standards lowering. Must be the approach of my 25th birthday.Anyhow, in other news...I have a flat!...
View ArticleSomewhat recursive
I've been working ~6 days a week for the zoo for the summer. Which is all well and groovy and somewhat part of the territory with this sort of position. But it gets kind of weird when on my day off,...
View ArticleLast Chance to Overuse Superlatives
Last Chance to See is getting better and better. Entertaining, educational and yet not worthy or preachy. I don't know how they do it, but I think the wonderful Mark Carwardine is something to do with...
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I've been able to catch some of the current BBC adaptation of Emma, and I have to say it's excellent. Really well done, and Romola Garai makes a wonderful Emma. It's not my favourite Austen, but it's a...
View ArticleDave Da Vinci
It turns out then when you don't top up your mobile internet, it doesn't give you internet access. Also it turns out that when you're swamped at work and painfully tired, NaNoWriMo seems like a bit of...
View ArticleOxfordia!!
That's right, ladies and gents, for one day only Migratory herself will be appearing in Oxford! Starting with a cup of tea with some writers in Borders, she will then venture into the local retail...
View ArticleIf you've done six impossible things before breakfast, why not swing by...
On top of my regularly scheduled duties (quite a lot at this time of year), I have to write our guidebook by mid-January.Bar the odd bit I've written here and there, that's a whole (small) book in a...
View ArticleOh No!
I found out how to get out of going back to work for a few more days.Food poisoning, yay!Oh. Wait. No, it's very much worse than work. And all my own fault as well.
View ArticleSqueaker squeak squeak squeaken?
I've postponed the flat inspection. If I do a room a day over the next week I should be fine.Then I can ask permission to keep a hamster. Truth be told, I get a bit lonely here sometimes, so a little...
View ArticleOops
Sorry if anyone's receive a dodgy email purportedly from me today. I've now reset my password.
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How is it October?As an upate, I have a clean bill of health, my workfriend has handed over two copies of SFX magazine and it's my birthday in one month and two days.
View ArticleSad News
Diana Wynn Jones died yesterday. Big loss. Books like Fire and Hemlock and The Lives of Christopher Chant really are magical, and for me they're part of my university memories. Neil Gaiman's tribute to...
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