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*boasts* go here - lookit top rec - is me! *bounces*

um, yeah. it actually... when she feedbacked it, I couldn't remember which one it was, which tells you a little something about how I felt about it - I was never especially proud of it, or anything, I just... wrote it. um. yeah.

there was stuff I wanted to say, but I really can't remember what...

I have this damn talk to do, and now I'm supposed to "liaise" with three other people who are doing talks on the same area of astronomy to make sure our talks complement each other without too much duplication of content. oh. massive. joy. And given that I'm not really sure what I'm going to be talking about yet... *screams*

I don't care, I don't care, I just want to sleep... have had a few disturbed nights now and am just wandering around yawning. boo-hoo.

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Friday Five

1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)?

novels, probably. quite into poetry at the moment, but it's not so much of a long-term thing.

2. What is your favorite novel?

I have to pick one?
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. or possibly Crime And Punishment by Dostoyevsky. though both of them are quite pretentious, aren't they? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? Jane Eyre? um. can't think.

3. Do you have a favorite poem? (Share it!)

favourite of the moment is Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice

(my lack of punctuation - can't be bothered looking it up)
also quite partial to Cargoes (my mother's favourite) and various by Emily Dickinson, Rebecca Elson, Catullus... I'll stop now.

4. What is one thing you've always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read?

I have a couple of big novels that I haven't yet read - Vanity Fair and Anna Karenina - but I wouldn't say I'd always wanted to... 'cause I've read War and Peace and the Bible, and those are the two biggies, and... huh.

5. What are you currently reading?

re-reading LOTR. spending more time on fanfic than actual novels these days.


I give up. nostalgia_lj told me to.

I do vary wildly in my tastes. musically, literately(?)... everything, I go from crap to good and old to new and... the nice word for me is "eclectic"