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Today I have achieved the following:
  • Updated a bunch of lectures on Frankenstein to add new and interesting verbiage on the topic of Milton's Paradise Lost;
  • finished annotating the third draft of this Masters thesis I am supervising;
  • marked a batch of student exercises on space opera, with surprisingly little swearing given that they're third-years and still plagiarise like little fiends;
  • spent a happy hour doing academic literature searches on a variety of topics;
  • supplied my long-suffering HoD with a list of current academic projects, armed with which she plans to assault the financial fortresses of the faculty and, by hook, crook or leverage in disreputable faculty secrets, extend my contract for another year;
  • read Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (it's like Anne of Green Gables, only more so;
  • laid finally to rest my Falkenstein campaign, which I decline to DM any further on the grounds that I have currently lack both brain and energy and am doing so appallingly badly and to the despair of all beholders, particularly me.
I have also acquired the following:
  • Yesterday, actually, a new office chair from the Evil Landlord's fast-disintegrating place of so-called work; I can now whizz madly across my study floor to look up obscure Pratchett quotes;
  • a new mattress for the spare room bed, on which I am currently sleeping owing to the fact that the rising damp in my bedroom is giving me lung rot (this was a proxy acquisition, the Evil Landlord went forth and hunted it down, presumably in the marshes of Squornshellous Zeta, to my eternal gratitude as the old one, having demurely trashed his back two years ago when he was sleeping on it, is now demurely trashing mine);
  • a new quilt for my bed, in a pleasing shade of green Thai hand-appliqué which tones beautifully and more or less accidentally with the walls, pictures and curtains (this was courtesy of a Naga half-price sale and stv's persuasive salesmanship, so yay jo&stv);
  • also courtesy of half-price Naga seductions, a new ring with an interesting twisty design which probably binds my soul eternally to the service of some fearsome Cthulhoid deity, but looks wicked cool.
I should add for the record that I am currently suffering a recurring desire for a digital camera, with which to take and post a random selection of images relating to the above. On the Tshup Aklathep* principal, y'all can be really grateful that I am, as usual, broke.

* added pointless points for recognising the really obscure Pratchett reference.

The pearls, they call me

Date: Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] first-fallen.livejournal.com
I blame Naga for my new-found love of dangly earrings. I seem to be obsessed with one particular pair of reallllly long (like, over the shoulder) silver ones with black and white pearls on the ends. I always try them on and then don't buy them because a) they're quite pricey and b) when would I ever wear them? Yet they haunt my dreams, I tell you. One day, maybe. Then I'll prance around in a glam disco outfit and flaunt them at passing birds or something.

Re: The pearls, they call me

Date: Wednesday, 6 September 2006 05:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] extemporanea.livejournal.com
Well, now's your chance to be a glam vamp at half price! they call you... can't you hear them? Succuuuuuuuuumb...

(I think you'd look cool in long dangly ear-rings, for the record).

Re: The pearls, they call me

Date: Wednesday, 6 September 2006 08:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] first-fallen.livejournal.com
What, do you get commission or something? Perhaps paid in stock?

Re: The pearls, they call me

Date: Thursday, 7 September 2006 05:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] extemporanea.livejournal.com
Nah, no stock options, I just get a vicarious pleasure out of seeing other people acquire the shiny, pretty things I can't afford myself. Especially long dangly ear-rings, which I love on aesthic principles, but which don't really suit me at all. Besides, the more people who spend money on the Naga sale, the less guilty I feel about the money I spent on the Naga sale :>.

Date: Wednesday, 6 September 2006 02:48 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I tried on a Red Dress (floor length, clingy and flowing in all the right places) like that (impractical entirely, but a haunter of dreams, that is) last month. (sigh) It was so cool, and I didn't look anything like a worn-out mother-of-two... ;)

everymoment.

Let's hear it for the slinky red dress!

Date: Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:10 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Oh my. I of course think you should buy it, if only because it makes you feel like a slightly different you. Who can put a price on changing your entire reality?

scroob

Date: Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:14 am (UTC)

Date: Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] extemporanea.livejournal.com
I think you'd look stupendous in a long red clingy dress. Tell your nice husband he needs to manufacture an excuse for you to wear it, pronto, so that you have every reason to go out and buy it. Mothers-of-two deserve pampering.

The latest crop of photos on your blog is very cool, btw!

Date: Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolverine-nun.livejournal.com
I must admit that a Naga sale is very tempting. There's that bracelet I've been eyeing since their opening function. And all those emboidered and brocaded throws. Mmmm.

sh...

Date: Thursday, 7 September 2006 08:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maxbarners.livejournal.com
...iny!

woo!

Stv
Naga Salesdude

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