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Miscellaneous diversions
Jul. 10th, 2003 03:45 pmI'm reading Oryx and Crake. Not now, because I'm at work, but generally. I've only read a very little bit of it so far, but I'm excited about the rest. I'm also reading Bill Bryson's Troublesome Words. It's just a usage dictionary, but his writing is so much fun, and I'm interested in words, so I'm enjoying that, too. I love his travel writing, but his language and linguistics is much more 'my sort of thing'. It's just a shame there's not more of it. I read Mother Tongue on holiday in Dijon earlier in the year, and now I want to read more like it. Fun and work and study all rolled into one! I'm lucky it's possible for them all to overlap, I guess, but I wish it happened more often.
As you can see, being at work at the moment doesn't mean I'm doing work. There is hardly anyone in - term's over, so no students, and my colleagues are on holidays and at conferences and in meetings. The other girl in the office is playing Tetris, so I'm not too worried about LJing.
Computer updates from yesterday: Quark (the DTP software, nothing to do with elementary particles or cheese) still won't work, so I'm using my laptop for that, and my desktop for everything else. Why the crashing program couldn't be one that doesn't require a large screen, I have no idea. It hardly seems fair ;-)
I've discovered that the world of cartoon 'dollz' is scarily addictive. I might be getting carried away making them, and I'm trying to think of something else to do with the damn things once I've made them. There's only so many LJ icons a girl can use.
Still wallowing in post-Buffy blues. I'm watching series 3, which is currently showing one episode a day on Sky (although I missed Lover's Walk, which I'm rather gutted about), forming plots to acquire all the DVDs without spending a fortune, and after speculating with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
secretrebel the other day about what all the characters do after the show finishes, I now want to write fanfic.
Tonight I'm hoping to christen my new Mah Jong set, and tomorrow to christen the newly arrived first series of Six Feet Under. Hooray!
As you can see, being at work at the moment doesn't mean I'm doing work. There is hardly anyone in - term's over, so no students, and my colleagues are on holidays and at conferences and in meetings. The other girl in the office is playing Tetris, so I'm not too worried about LJing.
Computer updates from yesterday: Quark (the DTP software, nothing to do with elementary particles or cheese) still won't work, so I'm using my laptop for that, and my desktop for everything else. Why the crashing program couldn't be one that doesn't require a large screen, I have no idea. It hardly seems fair ;-)
I've discovered that the world of cartoon 'dollz' is scarily addictive. I might be getting carried away making them, and I'm trying to think of something else to do with the damn things once I've made them. There's only so many LJ icons a girl can use.
Still wallowing in post-Buffy blues. I'm watching series 3, which is currently showing one episode a day on Sky (although I missed Lover's Walk, which I'm rather gutted about), forming plots to acquire all the DVDs without spending a fortune, and after speculating with
secretrebel the other day about what all the characters do after the show finishes, I now want to write fanfic.Tonight I'm hoping to christen my new Mah Jong set, and tomorrow to christen the newly arrived first series of Six Feet Under. Hooray!
