Miscellany

[raven]

I'm having one of those weird nights when I'm afraid to sleep, and as well as that, with twenty-two hours to go, my remix is still about 2000 words off finished. ARGH OMG, etc. (Also, it's terribly bad, but I am resolutely not thinking about that.)

So in the interests of keeping me up and at it, a meme, seen everywhere but most recently with slasheuse and absinthe_shadow:

We all have things about our friends that make us slightly envious.

Not in a bad way, but in a 'Wow! I wish I had that person's hair/eyes/money/relationship/toenails/whatever.'

So tell me what about me makes you envy me. . . then post this in your LJ and see what makes me envious of you.

(It sounds like good fun, but it worries me that all the Oxford-types on the flist are in particular need of affirmation the week before term starts.)

And so this post has some non-self-obsessed content, have pretty music! I love this song with a passion right now: Vienna Teng - Lullaby For A Stormy Night.

I really ought to scribble a bit more about my last days in New York, actually - mostly spent wandering around Central Park, andI had a lovely dinner with musesfool - and the couple of days I spent in London - I was with Claire and Ben, and we went to see Guys and Dolls (two musicals in a week! terribly decadent, I know), and after that I went to an open day with a City law firm and felt quite harrowed by the propect of My Future and My Career-type things, and so on and so forth.

Argh, no. Remix.

Comments

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

1. Your icon is so beautiful. Did you make it?
2. I envy you your humour. You make me laugh in the best of ways, and you seem to find humour in all sorts of wonderful places. This comes across in your writing and I envy that as well. I envy that you get travel so much. I envy you Oxford, of course, because you make it sound like such a wonderful, challenging, interesting intellectual experience and it makes me salivate a little. I envy you your second language. I envy how you write; you make whatever you're writing about come to life on the page. It's as if you're creating entire worlds in your prose.
3. Of course, envy could be replaced with all sorts of more positive words such as "adore" and "think it's so cool that you have" and similar. I think you're fantastic. You are one of my favourite people. Hands down.
4. And I can't wait to read your remix.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

1. No, I didn't, but the sheer pretty stuck with me too. I love the image.
2. I envy you your fluency in two languages! I could never compare literature the way you do. In fact, I could never write about literature the way you do, full stop.
3. You are AWESOME. And I had to make a list of World's Fabbiest People, you'd be right up there. You are just that awesome.
4. *groan* Oh, dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear.