Mar. 15th, 2006
I've shaved my head again. I shall be Picardy for a few days and then furry. Someone remind me to clip it in a couple of weeks.
A minor entry in the Jack handbook, which doesn't have any major faux pases[1]. When you see me, positive or negative comments are great. Surprise or no response are fine. Normally everyone gasps and makes a joke or states the obvious, and it gets a bit repetitive, but today no-one seems fazed at all.
[1] Pronounced "foh pars" :)
ETA: It feels good. Whenever I feel slightly tired or headachy, any hair always feels like a weight pressing on my brain. No hair feels breezy and light, though the pillow feels funnily skull-shaped :)
A minor entry in the Jack handbook, which doesn't have any major faux pases[1]. When you see me, positive or negative comments are great. Surprise or no response are fine. Normally everyone gasps and makes a joke or states the obvious, and it gets a bit repetitive, but today no-one seems fazed at all.
[1] Pronounced "foh pars" :)
ETA: It feels good. Whenever I feel slightly tired or headachy, any hair always feels like a weight pressing on my brain. No hair feels breezy and light, though the pillow feels funnily skull-shaped :)
Warning: May cause secret flames of Anor.
Warning: Narya may lead to harder rings.
Warning: Do not use to taunt Saruman.
Warning: Flammable
Warning: Inflammable.
Warning: Wear on finger only. Not to be taken internally.
Warning: May cause bursting balls of blue and green, or after thunder, golden showers; come falling.
Warning: May cause people to think your finger is a stellar object.
Warning: May cause addiction and/or wasting.
Warning: Invisibility and unnoticability are intended properties of Nenya's subtlety and not grounds for a refund.
(Not tagged, because normally memes are 'gakked' but this actually isn't :) Nor is it life, fic, wittering, work or introspection :))
Warning: Narya may lead to harder rings.
Warning: Do not use to taunt Saruman.
Warning: Flammable
Warning: Inflammable.
Warning: Wear on finger only. Not to be taken internally.
Warning: May cause bursting balls of blue and green, or after thunder, golden showers; come falling.
Warning: May cause people to think your finger is a stellar object.
Warning: May cause addiction and/or wasting.
Warning: Invisibility and unnoticability are intended properties of Nenya's subtlety and not grounds for a refund.
(Not tagged, because normally memes are 'gakked' but this actually isn't :) Nor is it life, fic, wittering, work or introspection :))
Usage question "any" - paging copyeditors
Mar. 15th, 2006 04:12 pmCan I say "My book doesn't have any major mistake?"[1] I'm suddenly unsure, and google doesn't help because 'any' is too common a word. Andor does anyone have OED?
[1] Originally 'faux pas', but that's confusing because it's spelt the same in singular and plural.
[1] Originally 'faux pas', but that's confusing because it's spelt the same in singular and plural.
CTS dinner and songs
Mar. 15th, 2006 04:21 pmOn tuesday was cts filk night. Billed as like our regular reading evening (bring along an extract of tolkien and show people how good it is) but with songs and poems it initially looked like people might not be bothered, but then it took off as people embraced the 'not just from tolkien directly' idea. There was mainly CDs and singing, of Tolkien singing himself, and renditions of famous songs from the works, and Tolkien-related parody songs. We were as jolly as we ever get on alchohol just on ridiculous lyrics.
And rochvelleth got to the first CTS thing for ages by hosting, which was lovely.
On sunday was the CTS agm and dinner. I got everything wrong at the agm, but it was fun, and the dinner was very nice. The food was vegetarian, nice, and slightly spicy. There was port (and New Hall porters sell college port till 11 if you run out), and chat and toasts and cuddling and aftermath at emperor's.
Inbetween we watching Rankin/Bass's ROTK. Oh my god. It was... amazing in a way. Animated like a cartoon, with charactertures and big noses -- Gollum looks like a gecko with a sore throat -- and with comic song interludes ("Where there's a whip there's a way, wt-tsch, We don't wanna go to war today, But the lord of the lash says nay, nay, nay!") it's hard to take seriously. But you have to see it.
And rochvelleth got to the first CTS thing for ages by hosting, which was lovely.
On sunday was the CTS agm and dinner. I got everything wrong at the agm, but it was fun, and the dinner was very nice. The food was vegetarian, nice, and slightly spicy. There was port (and New Hall porters sell college port till 11 if you run out), and chat and toasts and cuddling and aftermath at emperor's.
Inbetween we watching Rankin/Bass's ROTK. Oh my god. It was... amazing in a way. Animated like a cartoon, with charactertures and big noses -- Gollum looks like a gecko with a sore throat -- and with comic song interludes ("Where there's a whip there's a way, wt-tsch, We don't wanna go to war today, But the lord of the lash says nay, nay, nay!") it's hard to take seriously. But you have to see it.