Thanks to aellia for pointing this out to me:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5124184/the-russian-bear-slashes-a-social-network

I really really hope it doesn't mean the end of LJ, especially as I just bought a permanent account.

snagged from aellia

Happy Birthday azhure!

Donate rice and improve your vocabulary at the same time. My score averaged 45-47 with a high of 49.

1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top ten results


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There's a wasp in my room.

This is a time when I really miss having someone around to call on to deal with that sort of thing, I'm terrified of the little bastards. My Finnish housemate apparently doesn't mind em (but she does hate spiders which I can deal with, so we can swap), but she's away in Mexico atm.

I don't want to go to sleep with it still here...

Anyone want to come over and remove it? Please?

I've just spent the evening at a free jazz festival at the Old Duke. Now jazz isn't usually my thing, but the last two bands on tonight were excellent. The first one** were kinda trad jazz, with a swing feel to them - they were very funny, and I really enjoyed it, and didn't think it could be topped. The last band however blew them out of the water. My colleagues have been banging on about Gypsy jazz for ages, and now I see why. A 5-piece band consisting of fiddle, flute, guitar, double bass and drums, Sheelanagig had us dancing on the tables* to their bouncy renditions of Hava Nagila and various eastern european drinking songs!




*not as easy as it looks!

**ETA - the Zen Hussies, according to the listings. Apparently I've seen the singer play before, at Cafe Delight when mjlaw played.

So funny!

Yoinked from wyvernfriend. Supposedly, if you have seen more than 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, go to your own account, paste this as a note. Then, put x's next to the films you've seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun.

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WHEEEEEEEEEE! I have broadband at home!! Shouting at Tiscali must have done some good, cos I've come home from town to find I can get on the internet!

Finally!

ETA: of course this now means I'm reluctant to leave my computer to drive back to Worcester. But I do need to pick up more stuff. Hmm... could do it tomorrow I guess...

Finished reading

Sword of the Land
Blood of the Land by Noel-Anne Brennan

and of course:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

And I've been rereading some of the earlier HPs - halfway through Goblet of Fire when I put it down to read Bk7.

Well, the flat-viewing was a bust, I turned up to find a note taped to the door saying it had already been taken. Nice of them to let me know in person. After I'd already spent 20 mins walking round the area thinking how nice it was as well. Dammit.

Went over to Stu's for a bit of cheering up, ended up staying for 6 hours while we watched Spaced and a movie (Severance, a black comedy/horror film that was pretty darn gruesome in places, so much so I was hiding behind a cushion for half of it!) and got a take-out curry.

Yesterday was spent doing shopping and and feeling horrible all afternoon cos it was soooo sticky! I hate humidity.

I have another bedsit to go and see tonight at 6pm, but I'm not holding out much hope cos apparently it's very small, and it's pricier than I'd like (depends on whether bills are included or not, but I'm willing to bet they're not).