... website, and even went to freshers' LGBT drinks for an hour. (Edited to add: Queer Drinks was actually great fun. The lovely slasheuse mingled and socialised and made sure everyone was happy whilst jacinthsong, lizziwig and I stood in the corner and pretended to be Lesbian Ghetto Items of Furniture.)This, I guess, is what happens: I'm Cerberus Triarch, I'm contributing features to Cherwell, I'm ...
I mentioned this idea to jacinthsong last night, and she suggested I post it, so here goes: The 9th Doctor's accent has always irritated me. Not because it's Northern and I'm some kind of intolerant London-centric snob (I actually rather like the sound of Ecclestone's voice), but because it's inconsistent - it doesn't really make sense that 9 Doctors should have more of less the same ...
The first thing I remembered when waking up this morning: we're out of coffee . In retrospect, I should've known it might not shape up to be a good day. ...sigh. Anyway. That sort of day, so this sort of post. Things that are indeed good about life: 1. The fact that the Wednesday market stall that sells the industrial quantities of sugar is back, and the drawer next to my bed is actually, ...
... and made me happy - shimgray did Bonsai Kitten impressions, Maria made tiramisu, deepbluemermaid presented me with lovely lovely minty chocolate and told me stories about New Zealand. My lovely wife jacinthsong came and we sat almost a metre apart and were not co-dependent, and lizziwig gave me the BEST CARD EVER. It is enormous and made of and with love, and I...
...the time? I do, and I did, and that's my final word on the subject. Secondly, OULES. The panto - Aladdin - started on Tuesday, and I was a pirate. Well, no, I was Thief #8 and jacinthsong was Thief #7. ("But you're the first one to speak! What happened to Thieves 1 to 6?" / "Oh, they dropped out in third week.") But it's apparently a little-known axiom of formal logic that thieves and...