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Today's thing of joy: a card through the door addressed to the women of the Mousehole (well, actually addressed to "my favourite house of inept lesbians"), containing a collective birthday present, courtesy of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jacinthsong and Oxfam. I can say sincerely and happily that it's just what I wanted.
Today's things of slightly less joy: I have exams in two days, my tutors are all out-of-office, the university's website (with, I don't know, past papers, syllabi, other trifles) has been taken emphatically offline, I know nothing whatsoever about anything[2], have not slept in what feels like weeks and my wisdom teeth have chosen this weekend for their biannual Extreme Pain Extravaganza.[1]
...how are you, dear flist? What are you doing today that isn't being fail?
[1] Like the Folsom Street Fair, but less consensual.
[2] Beyond, contracts, they're these things, right, that sometimes need signing and sometimes don't. And the EU, right, it stands for "European Union". It's big and does stuff.*
*Yes, I know I got my footnotes in the wrong order, that's because I'm just that fail.
jacinthsong and Oxfam. I can say sincerely and happily that it's just what I wanted. Today's things of slightly less joy: I have exams in two days, my tutors are all out-of-office, the university's website (with, I don't know, past papers, syllabi, other trifles) has been taken emphatically offline, I know nothing whatsoever about anything[2], have not slept in what feels like weeks and my wisdom teeth have chosen this weekend for their biannual Extreme Pain Extravaganza.[1]
...how are you, dear flist? What are you doing today that isn't being fail?
[1] Like the Folsom Street Fair, but less consensual.
[2] Beyond, contracts, they're these things, right, that sometimes need signing and sometimes don't. And the EU, right, it stands for "European Union". It's big and does stuff.*
*Yes, I know I got my footnotes in the wrong order, that's because I'm just that fail.
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Good things, good things..
-My parents bought me *the best jumper in the world* for my birthday (seriously, it's better than the giant pink monstrosity you saw me leaving the house in yesterday). I shall probably wear it tonight.
- The smell of golden syrup on waffles.
- The bath I am about to have.
-DAVID TENNANT'S LITTLE BELLY.
- You. You are a great thing.
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...how are you, dear flist? What are you doing today that isn't being fail?
I went on a walk. I looked at the frost and the mist, and I walked out, and I remembered to walk home again.
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OH GOD IT'S SO COLD
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... it's past nine o'clock, and I have done nothing which is not fail today. I want to go back to bed.
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Later, we go car-shopping... because Jim's car was totalled in a fender-bender involving an inattentive driver crashing into his car at 10 mph in a parking lot, which in itself is fail; but the insurance company taking care of things for us and us getting a better car is not so fail. Silver linings, yay!
Hope your teeth feel better. Sending you good thoughts for exams. You are made of win, not of fail, and you will survive this.
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The EU, err, has laws about skimmed milk powder? I feel that this is slightly more interesting than deontology.
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and, and, GET YOUR TEETH TAKEN OUT. i am terrified of the dentist however, my wisdom teeth used to do the same thing, and having them removed was very much a good idea. uncomfortable, but worth it in the long run.
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Yesterday I woke up at one friend's house at the top of a giant hill, took two buses to reach another friend's house at the top of a different giant hill, then caught a third bus to have dinner with two more friends who live on yet another hillside (Wellington has many hills, as you will have gathered). My lovely friend S had made me a fabulous chocolate cake for my birthday. Then we watched the first half of the BSG miniseries, which I had never seen and which I enjoyed. Then I caught the midnight bus home (it's always interesting being the only sober person on public transport...)
At all three households, my external hard drive was a welcome extra guest - I like to think that my friends are glad to see me, but their eyes light up in a certain way when I bring along my small metallic friend. There was the exchange of much music, and many TV shows and ebooks. My 500GB hard drive now has *checks* 302MB left on it (eep!), but I'd like to think that it's happy nevertheless.
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My not-fail of the day: I am on my break from work, but before I clocked out, I was sitting on the floor with two itty-bitty Aussie puppies asleep in my lap. Aussie puppies, for the record, look like this:
YES.
(Although neither of mine was merle so both of mine looked like the one on the left.)
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ps. yes, that Folsom Fair! How on earth did you end up there by accident?
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You do the math. \o/
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I have been failing to network with academics, and getting horribly patronised by posh white men. In SCOTLAND. In the RAIN. I am made of so much lose and fail.
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Chocolate-covered coffee beans are very much win and I agree with you on this point. I think, though, that I may not make it on Tuesday evening - because, I know I ought not to be cramming the night before, but, realistically, this is what will happen. I am really sorry; I did very much want to come and dance.
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It's a ridiculous thing to say, I know, but try not to study too hard, yeah? *hugs you*