Abigail Brady

zeitgeist ii went pretty well, considering. a few bands i shall be looking up on interweb. a few i shan't. my head hurts now. :/

oh. and i finished Frankenstein now. not sure what to read next. i really should make a start on some of these recommendations really. ;)

and happy may day!

and a further addendum: when i got back into my building late last night i was greeted by a cloud of dust which made me choke and i could barely get through. some idiot appears to have let off most if not all of a powder fire extinguisher in the entrance area. rah!

back from mudmeet. rather entertaining. also knackering. finished The Catcher In The Rye up there, and then started Frankenstein on the way down. the rather dissimilar textual styles (although i note they are both written as first-person narratives/correspondence) have vaguely tempted me to rewrite Frankenstein in a more modern mode of speech. Robert Walton's first message to his sister could be thus:

Hi Maggie. Got into St Petersburg yesterday, very cold. Planning to discover Northwest Passage. Been whaling lots, even got hired as first mate. Off to Arkhangelsk in a couple of weeks! Will keep in touch. x Rob.

Except translate that to txt.

upcoming week currently rather quiet:

• Cafe Scientifique (urban foxes) on Tuesday.
• Zeitgeist II on Sunday.

you will note absence of any form of pub quiz. :( I'll be happy to do Thursday's again if other people go, though don't want to turn up there on my own.

Happy birthdays to doctor_tron and to William Shakespeare!

psychocandyclub was good. seem to have failed to do any christmas shopping again weekend. oh well. amazon finally sent me Ministry of Space.

Quite a bit better now. Seems to have been a combination of migraine nausea, uncomfortable levels of wind and probably not having eaten enough the last few days. Still have quite bad headache but the other problems are now mostly gone.

I had been planning to return to work Monday, and possibly be well enough to do things this weekend (like actually move into my flat). We shall see.

Continuing to read Sandman. I was particularly amused by the guest appearance in Three Septembers and a January.

I am much better today than I was yesterday on one level. However, I am really knackered and have been all day. At this rate I will be lucky to be able to return to work this week.

Read much of Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman now. Interesting book. Shall have more to say about it when I've finished.

now finished reading HP4 and HP5. wow, that woman needs an editor. snape confuses me.

Watching live8 and reading Misspent Youth now (which was recommended by milkyeyes). Sci-fi set in Rutland (I see the author is from there). Mentions of Oakham and Uppingham and Stamford and Peterborough and Melton Mowbray and the A47. I suspect if Leicester itself is mentioned though it will be in a bad way... they don't like us, those Rutlanders.

Update (at 0840am) : Finished this now. Quite a fun light read. Ending was obvious. Not convinced by characterisation of Jeff Baker, he seemed in the end not really any different to Tim and his peers. Is the moral that experience doesn't really affect you?

well, getting near the end of the week now and glad of it!

read first few chapters of American Gods (recommended to me by landvaettir). so far is very good, and i am intruiged!

is anything exciting going on Friday evening? after this long annoying week i think i just want to get so busy i forget how awful it was...