Sweet. This meme comes with its own built-in cut tag! It sure is nice staying in touch with all of you. Total comments: 4331 1 gerisullivan 748 2 mjlayman 177 3 minnehaha 165 4 kip_w 105 5 debgeisler 92 6 Anonymous 85 7 maruad 81 8 lsanderson 67 9 jbru ...

Today is my penultimate day in work. My desk is almost clear, other than typing a summary of what I've covered so far in the digital photography class and completing the assessment task sheets from yesterday, I have nothing else to do. So I'm fiddling around on the interwebs and I've brought in my Welsh books to do some homework for the class. Speaking of typing, via ellarien 67 words ...

ellarien has done a round-up of books recently read, among which we find: Chaz Brenchley, River of the World Spectacular sequel and conclusion to Bridge of Dreams ; wrenching and satisfying. That's the kind of mention that we like. 'Specially on a Sunday morning, midway through that difficult middle book of a trilogy, when nothing I do can ever come to any good...

Via ellarien , baaaaby animals sleeping! It seems that lions are very good at sleeping . Web cam at a zoo in Norway. And here's video of the zoo staff weighing the little cubs in a bukkit (I'm sure the lolrus is looking for that!) and giving them cuddles. Awwwwww!

"Just as a reader projects an internal and unique film of the novel he or she is reading - imagining rooms, faces, gestures - so the traveller brings home from each journey a landscape that is selective and personal, influenced by expectation, mood, the weather, a romantic encounter, a great meal, a terrible one." "As tourists, we pay attention with a rigour that would paralyse us at home. The man...

. Big bunch O icons -- my FL in graphic form. [forgot to say: gakked from meggins ] As I say, it's for my own reference as much as for any other reason. My LiveJournal Friends akavivian alanro calimac enegim ...

I have really serious doubts about the comments meme working the way it should. For one thing, I apparently never comment on phoebesmum 's journal. However, for the record, the meme results are Total comments: 1692 1 lil_shepherd 575 2 john_booth 181 3 melodyclark 69 4 smtfhw 63 5 purpletigron 62 ...

Sweet. This meme comes with the lj-cut already embedded. Total comments: 3084 1 gerisullivan 464 2 minnehaha 123 3 mjlayman 89 4 kip_w 79 5 debgeisler 71 6 jbru 63 7 Anonymous 63 8 huladavid 61 9 judith_dascoyne 57 10 lsanderson 55 ...

"If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life." -- Evel Knievel Post your word count for Sunday, December 23. --xxx-- It's time for the Moment of Truth. If you started on August 1 and wrote 500 words per day, by the end of today you would have written 72,500 words. Whatever your goals for the week, did you meet them? If you started later or modified...

I found a bijou little reviewette of 'Bridge of Dreams' , which I cannot forebear to bring to your attention. Money shot: "Gorgeous fantasy that somehow manages lushness and bleakness at once". I like that.