| Yahoo |
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Has anyone else noticed a problem with Yahoo mail? All my emails except for the most recent ones show up as having no content and no subject when you click on them. |
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| Knitted breasts |
[Jul. 8th, 2008|09:02 pm] |
I was sent this today AS PART OF MY WORK. Only mine had bigger, better pictures.
Sometimes my job is great.
So, should it go on the front cover of the Journal? |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 20th, 2008|07:54 pm] |
Turned on the radio at random and heard the following quotation, which turns out to be from the Woman's Hour Drama, Sister Agnes Investigates:
"Well, obviously she hasn't killed anyone. She's a LIBRARIAN."
Little do they know the rage and the horror... |
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| popular culture help needed |
[May. 5th, 2008|02:40 pm] |
Help! I am having a lack-of-popular-culture-knowledge moment and I need to know who this is. Another photo here. I need to be absolutely sure as it's for my magazine (boo to authors who don't label their photos...)
Thanks in advance! |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 3rd, 2008|12:10 am] |
| [ | music |
| | jarvis - cunts are still running the world | ] |
I can truthfully say that I actually AM leaving this benighted, God-forsaken metropolis now. Well, in a couple of months. Good timing, eh?
For more thoughts see the 'music' bit. |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 19th, 2008|08:48 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  ecstatic | ] |
I GOT PHD FUNDING YAY YAY YAY!!!!!
And Liz also got PhD funding which makes it extra brilliant because we'll both be in Sheffield, doing what we want and there for each other.
And we both got studentships, which means that we don't have to wait until the end of August to find out.
And apparently it is quite rare for two people in the same department to both get a university studentship, which just goes to show how brilliant we are.
And it means I will be in Sheffield again, so I can move in with Matt and we will no longer be restricted to only seeing each other when exhausted after rushing several hundred miles.
And I will almost certainly see my London friends MORE when living in Sheffield than I have when living in London, because I will no longer be exhausted and tied to stupid working hours, and I can come and stay with them.
And other unideal situations will also cease to be.
I can't believe I got PhD funding. It is one of those things I always dreamed of doing but secretly feared I might die without ever managing, like writing a children's book. And I am also doing something ground-breaking which will actually make a difference to people's lives (library services for LGBT young people and parents). I can't believe it. I can't believe it!! |
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| PLJ |
[Jan. 28th, 2008|12:23 pm] |
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| |  jubilant | ] |
I'm the new editor of Public Library Journal! This is the leading professional journal covering public library issues. Unlike some other publications of this type it also has a reasonable amount of academic credibility. |
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| Taxis |
[Jan. 10th, 2008|12:47 am] |
Just had the following conversation with a taxi driver:
Me: Can I go to Blackhorse Road, please?
Him: Near Tottenham? How did you end up here?
Me: No Victoria line. Buses would take ages and I have an 11-hour day tomorrow.
Him: An 11-hour day? So, when are you going to become a billionaire?
Me: *laughs hollowly*[1] Oh, I don't think that's very likely. I'm a librarian.
Him: A librarian?!! Oh, Jesus Christ.
After this edifying encounter he then explained to me how the only way we could save the planet was to work a 2-day week (hang on, not all of us are taxi drivers...admittedly I was IN the taxi at the time, but I don't think I cause that much more environmental damage by recycling books for an extra three days a week...) and told me his views on vegetarianism ("Not natural for chickens to lay eggs twice a day...chickens lay eggs ONCE a day, more than that's not natural.") When I said I was a vegetarian and bought free range organic eggs he said he "wished" he was a vegetarian. Yeah, well done there mate.
Journey cost me £25.
Worth it to see friends for once though.
Also, just seen The Golden Compass... Going to remain quiet on all the obvious ways in which it differed from (and was worse than) the book, but more importantly: Lord Asriel's research proposal was CRAP!! If I was Dean of an Oxford college there's no way I would have thrown away research funding on him, even if he did wear a convincingly professorlike lumpy tweed jacket.
[1] I've never actually heard anyone laugh hollowly in real life before. I was quite impressed with myself. It just sort of came out naturally. |
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| reading |
[Aug. 7th, 2007|11:00 pm] |
Arthur and the Minimoys - Luc Besson [dreadful, he should stick to the day job]
Roots - Alex Haley [amazing]
Here Lies Arthur - Philip Reeve [not as good as the Mortal Engines etc series]
Hello, Groin - Beth Goobie [dissertation-related gay teen lit]
The Boys and the Bees - Joe Babcock [ditto]
Totally Joe - James Howe [ditto]
So Hard To Say - Alex Sanchez [ditto]
Geography Club - Brent Hartinger [ditto]
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea - Shyam Selvadurai [ditto]
Out of the Shadows - Sue Hines [ditto]
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun - Jacqueline Woodson [ditto]
Jack - A.M. Homes [ditto, but this one was actually good]
Weetzie Bat - Francesca Lia Block [ditto, despite mad title this was also actually good]
Persepolis: Story of a Childhood - Marjane Satrapi [hugely recommended]
Toby and the Aqualung - Beatrice Drewe [a poor sequel to a childhood favourite]
Skellig - David Almond
Gideon the Cutpurse - Linda Buckley-Archer
Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce
Witch Week - Diana Wynne Jones
Persepolis 2: Story of a Return - Marjane Satrapi [not quite as good as the first one]
Catcall - Linda Newbery [excellent, IMO should be at least shortlisted for this year's Carnegie]
Arthur and the Seeing Stone - Kevin Crossley-Holland
Sisterland - Linda Newbery [another excellent one, really good new author discovery here] |
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| Reading |
[Jul. 15th, 2007|09:14 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  listless | ] |
I have been very busy but have managed to read a lot and call it "stock awareness". Apologies once again for lack of contact and not even managing to reply to LJ comments, but rest assured that I do read them and love them. I am just trying to write a dissertation while being chronically ill. Tonight the illness is uppermost so I am doing this instead.
The Hobbit - Tolkien [dramatised version, on tape]
Harding's Luck - E. Nesbit
The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
A Land Without Magic - Stephen Elboz
Lady: My Life As a Bitch - Melvin Burgess [this is fab!]
Cat Among the Pigeons - Julia Golding
Unheard Voices - Malorie Blackman (ed.)
We Couldn't Leave Dinah - Mary Treadgold
The Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander
Framed - Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Magic City - E. Nesbit
Witch Week - Diana Wynne Jones [on tape, abridged]
My Swordhand Is Singing - Marcus Sedgwick
London Orbital - Iain Sinclair [the man is massively overrated, and I never want to hear the word 'liminal' again]
Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy
Danger by Moonlight - Jamila Gavin
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler - Gene Kemp
Montmorency and the Assassins - Eleanor Updale
Montmorency's Revenge - Eleanor Updale
The Lives of Christopher Chant - Diana Wynne Jones
The Wool-Pack - Cynthia Harnett
Ruby Holler - Sharon Creech
The Year the Gypsies Came - Linzi Glass
The Borrowers - Mary Norton
Conrad's Fate - Diana Wynne Jones
My So-Called Life - Joanna Nadin [this is brilliant! the next Louise Rennison!]
Luuurve is a Many-Trousered Thing - Louise Rennison
Annie On My Mind - Nancy Garden [classic YA lesbian lit, made me cry]
Just In Time - Meg Rosoff
Tales Before Tolkien - Douglas A. Anderson (ed.)
Postcards From No Man's Land - Adrian Chambers
The Little Bookroom - Eleanor Farjeon
How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff [excellent, better than Just In Time which just won the Carnegie]
Lilith - George Macdonald
The Dark Lord of Derkholm - Diana Wynne Jones [griffin-related, if I ever want to do anything to tie in with the Enfield coat of arms]
A Swift Pure Cry - Siobhan Dowd [better than Just In Time, best of the Carnegie nominations that I've read so far]
The Palace of Laughter - Jon Berkeley [disappointing, needed a good editor]
Toby and the Treasure - Beatrice Drewe [a childhood favourite] |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 22nd, 2007|07:35 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | pleased | ] |
Mini Grey has won the Greenaway, yay!
All is going well in liz world for once. I attended a three-day international conference for free (when I say international, I mean Manchester, but it was international for some people) and then I handed in an amazing 95-page piece of research (an essay which got out of hand) which my supervisor says I should publish in the Journal of Documentation, one of the top UK journals in the field. I shouldn't show off about this but actually, it was a VAST achievement, so I am going to anyway. For my next trick I shall attempt to break the world record for sleeping.
Sorry for lack of replies to comments, and indeed any communication at all, I was writing a 95-page piece of research. |
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| reading continued... |
[May. 26th, 2007|09:53 am] |
Vienna Blood - Frank Tallis
The Story of the Amulet - E. Nesbit
The Railway Children - E. Nesbit
Phantastes - George Macdonald
The Twelve and the Genii - Pauline Clarke
Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett
Last Bus to Woodstock - Colin Dexter
The Shell House - Linda Newbery
The Crown of Dalemark - Diana Wynne Jones
Donne: The Reformed Soul - John Stubbs
Jacky Daydream - Jacqueline Wilson
Endymion Spring - Matthew Skelton (the other one)
Castle in the Air - Diana Wynne Jones
The Enchanted Castle - E. Nesbit
Maus - Art Spiegelmann
Oswald Bastable and Others - E. Nesbit
Charmed Life - Diana Wynne Jones
Tamar - Mal Peet
Blue - Sue Mayfield
The Illustrated Mum - Jacqueline Wilson
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
Thud! - Terry Pratchett
The Ordinary Princess - M.M. Kaye
The Magicians of Caprona - Diana Wynne Jones
The House of Arden - E. Nesbit
Lionboy: The Truth - Zizou Corder
Montmorency and the Assassins - Eleanor Updale
Serendipity: The Gay Times Book of New Stories - Peter Burton (ed.)
Plus about a million books and ten million articles for university, but I can't be bothered to write all those down, I'd be here all day, and there is management to do. And stats! |
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| things I have been reading |
[May. 26th, 2007|08:50 am] |
Paris, France - Gertrude Stein
The Little Grey Men - 'B.B.'
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
The New Treasure Seekers - E. Nesbit
The Wind Singer - William Nicholson
Tiger, tiger - Lynne Reid Banks
The Diamond of Drury Lane - Julia Golding
Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter - Richard Platt and Chris Riddell
Sugar Rush - Julie Burchill
Spellcoats - Diana Wynne Jones
Varjak Paw - S.F. Said and Dave McKean
The Outlaw Varjak Paw - S.F. Said and Dave McKean
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
The Voyage of the Narwhal - Andrea Barrett
Bumface - Morris Gleitzman
A Hat Full of Sky - Terry Pratchett
The Other Side of Truth - Beverley Naidoo
...to be continued... |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 17th, 2007|09:01 am] |
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Oh my god. I got a copy of Maus from the library and it has been annotated by a Nazi. I mean literally a Nazi. It has stuff about how racist stereotypes of Jews are accurate and how it was right for the Europeans to reclaim Europe and how writing about the Holocaust is simply a "world-class whinge". |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 15th, 2007|10:01 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  productive | ] |
It's a good job I have the ninja hat. Maybe I'll make it its own icon. Yes, that would be a productive use of my time. |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 15th, 2007|09:59 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | happy but with a lot to do | ] |
Sweet Jesus! I really do have a lot to do. |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 11th, 2007|01:23 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | happy | ] |
I want to go here
I seem to be utterly incapable of doing any work today. I must pull myself together because I need to do 3 job applications in the next 24 hours. |
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