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Bored, depressed, feeling lost
Posted Jul 24, 2007
But at least my teeth are sound.
Douglas
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Opaque brown bottle
Posted Jul 23, 2007
I've just cut the grass. I took Miah out with me, and she's still out there somewhere, making up for being stuck inside last night. Miah didn't enjoy her trip to the vet, and it still shows (ah, the faint but lingering scent of scared cat glands!)
Pasta for tea tonight. Susan will be late home - she has to go out of her way to pick up some stuff for the shop.
It has been an OK day. I have been doing some preparation for a lecture I have to give on Thursday. I'm doing Donoghue v Stevenson, the snail in the bottle case, as in...
http://www.scottishlawreports.org.uk/Resources/keycases/dvs/mrs-donoghue-journey.html
I need to get out of the house tomorrow. Somewhere on my bike.
Douglas
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Limp
Posted Jul 22, 2007
Miah has been limping. Her front left paw is sore. Susan noticed it on Thursday evening, since when it has got worse, but not massively. She isn't in pain, and still wanted out last night (aye, and didnae come home 'till after 4, on a cauld dark windy rainy night).
Anyhow, Susan has taken her off to the vet. Susan and I are supposed to be lunching at my mother's today. Hopefully, the vet won't take too long.
I'm still half-tempted to go to see Hairspray today. I was dubious about the thought of a remake - how to improve upon, if not perfection. then, at least, CLASSIC Gonzo) - but then I saw the pictures of Travolta...
This morning is pretty much the same as last night, except with a wee bit more light.
Douglas
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Bonny day - Shopping - Grass cut - Bike serviced
Posted Jul 15, 2007
NFM
Douglas
PS. Yesterday's pizza was a flop. I didn't put enough water in the dough. The seagulls didn't mind though. Bagels n' rasp jam for breakfast. The sun brought everyone out onto Union Street. I followed some of the Dog Days threads in TA yesterday - a goodbye cruel world cum deathwatch thread, and a huggy wuggies thwead which prompted a spectacular piece of nastiness... When did Madeleine McCann drop out of the news? Oh yes, I watched a film that I'd downloaded from archive.org a month or so back - http://www.archive.org/details/Day_Of_The_Wolves.avi - which turned out to be a rather enjoyable early blend of Reservior Dogs and Dashiell Hammett's The Gutting of Couffignal. Things have gone the way I suspected re. Peet's broadband, and he is raging. The key learning experience from the whole farrago would have to be 'when you get in letters re. important matters, check them, no matter how sure you are about what's happening.'
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I'm in
Posted Jul 14, 2007
http://music.brilliantclassics.com/epages/joan.storefront/4698dd51003db651271dd5d385f406ca/Product/View/8635
£50 in HMV; £45 with student discount. Madness, I know - the 'Canon' for £45 - and the idea of a complete Haydn is just toooo tempting...
I have just had a very welcome e-mail from the Uni. re. my LLM funding. The Law School were offering me £X. Well, the College of Arts and Social Sciences (which is the faculty that the Law School is in) have offered me an additional £X x 3.5. I can now safely accept the place that has been offered to me, and will now focus on putting down roots in my cubby-hole so that I don't get moved into something naff in September - the rule for research students is '3 to a room', but I can argue that I will be teaching, and possibly even marking, this coming year, making me a special case (!)
HP5 was rather good last night. More of the same, really, if perhaps a shade darker. Harry was all twitchy, jumpy, pale-faced, paranoid and prey to mood swings with big circles round his eyes (and, doubtless, hairs on the palms of his hands, all from excessive tossing in bed and wand-manipulation - either that or he is on crack). Imelda Staunton was EXCELLENT. The best bit of the film was the Weasley twins' broom flight to freedom. Helena Bonham-Carter was wasted. One of the new characters - http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0373889/Ss/0373889/HP5D5741r.jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Lynch,%20Evanna - reminded me of composite of the Cusacks. The whole cinema laughed at the "how was your first kiss" dialogue.
I will have to read the books sometime. Susan has read them all to date. I'll be buying her Deathly Hallows next Saiturday.
Pizza for tea.
Here's a prediction - Peet will be howling in his journal tomorrow that TalkTalk haven't reconnected his broadband.
Douglas
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