You ain't lost, pal.*
Sep. 16th, 2007 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bending_sickleYou're where you are, and you have to make the best of it. It's all you can do.*
Oh dear, I've really left you all out in the cold for a few days, haven't I?
Le'see...
I've made my appointment with City Hall to register (October 4th), and checked with the Intl. Office that no, I can't pay or register as a student until I'm registered at the CH.
My group has turned in the Introduction and Materials & Methods section of our course ("Basic Research Skills") project on Friday, which meant a couple mornings of 5 hours straight in the freezing computer room.
I wandered around Amsterdam on Friday and watched Goodbye, Bafana the very day, coincidently, that I finished The Sentinel. It was nice, though I felt there was a bit missing on the Geoffrey & Mandela relationship front. Accents were interesting, and quite a bit different from LDiCaprio's interpretation in Blood Diamond - though, granted, his character'd been living all around by then. It's wierd to have four different representations** of South Africa and the apartheid-era in my head when up till a few weeks ago I had no idea at all. (Well, three, but I'm counting LDiCaprio as the fourth 'cause his character was an ex-soldier on the pro-white front).
Last week I watched Infamous, which was lovely, and I adored SBullock's accent to pieces.
I also bought 3 books for the price of 2, which are: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (reading it now - amazingly wonderful***), Neverwhere: Author's Preferred Text by Neil Gaiman (well, I just had to, you see), and Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (not Kate Moss, the model, as my brain keeps trying to say - this is one huge book, people).
Yesterday I went to Delft, where I got on the right bus going the wrong way, so took a little half-hour tour of one side of the city until it came round again and took me to IKEA. My gods, is IKEA a time-sucking black hole or what. Eventually, though, I bought stuff. Check it out. (First two pics.)
Today I've been whiling time away a bit since the morning, reading, watching a bit of Life on Mars - which is bloody fantastic and I think I adore John Simm now, as if his performance on Dr Who wasn't brilliant enough - and writing postcards. (And emailing address confirmation emails.)
You know, I've been thinking a bit about my choice of entertainment, and there seems to be a very big trend right now. To sum up: Dr Who, Life on Mars and The Time Traveler's Wife. They're all about the same thing, more or less. Seriously, you really could just fuse them all together, turning Harrold Saxon into Sam Tyler into Henry DeTamble, and it would work. Especially the Sam & Henry bit.
Links of the Day:
The Master fanvids (spoilers liek woah): I'm Going Slightly Mad, Take Me Out, If I Should Die, The Madness****, Poison, Sound of Drums, What I've Done.
Life on Mars: Fantrailer, so much better than the official one, outtakes, and fanvids All These Things I've Done (full series spoilers), Plug-In Baby
David Tennant Fanvid: Kiss Me All Over *warning: contents may be hawt*
* Nelson, Life on Mars
** The Sentinel, Goodbye, Bafana, that documentary on apartheid I linked to a while back.
*** And it's going to be a movie.
****Curiously, vanillaorchid on YouTube says, "Great song, but the Master isn't mad. He's a meglomanical, vain, egotistical sociopath, who ooozes charm and urbane sophistication. That's why I love him." And here I was thinking that sociopaths and megalomaniacs were commonly referred to, in the commoner's lingo, as "mad". *sigh* It's like saying, "That's not wavelength 625-740 NM! It's red!"
Oh dear, I've really left you all out in the cold for a few days, haven't I?
Le'see...
I've made my appointment with City Hall to register (October 4th), and checked with the Intl. Office that no, I can't pay or register as a student until I'm registered at the CH.
My group has turned in the Introduction and Materials & Methods section of our course ("Basic Research Skills") project on Friday, which meant a couple mornings of 5 hours straight in the freezing computer room.
I wandered around Amsterdam on Friday and watched Goodbye, Bafana the very day, coincidently, that I finished The Sentinel. It was nice, though I felt there was a bit missing on the Geoffrey & Mandela relationship front. Accents were interesting, and quite a bit different from LDiCaprio's interpretation in Blood Diamond - though, granted, his character'd been living all around by then. It's wierd to have four different representations** of South Africa and the apartheid-era in my head when up till a few weeks ago I had no idea at all. (Well, three, but I'm counting LDiCaprio as the fourth 'cause his character was an ex-soldier on the pro-white front).
Last week I watched Infamous, which was lovely, and I adored SBullock's accent to pieces.
I also bought 3 books for the price of 2, which are: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (reading it now - amazingly wonderful***), Neverwhere: Author's Preferred Text by Neil Gaiman (well, I just had to, you see), and Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (not Kate Moss, the model, as my brain keeps trying to say - this is one huge book, people).
Yesterday I went to Delft, where I got on the right bus going the wrong way, so took a little half-hour tour of one side of the city until it came round again and took me to IKEA. My gods, is IKEA a time-sucking black hole or what. Eventually, though, I bought stuff. Check it out. (First two pics.)
Today I've been whiling time away a bit since the morning, reading, watching a bit of Life on Mars - which is bloody fantastic and I think I adore John Simm now, as if his performance on Dr Who wasn't brilliant enough - and writing postcards. (And emailing address confirmation emails.)
You know, I've been thinking a bit about my choice of entertainment, and there seems to be a very big trend right now. To sum up: Dr Who, Life on Mars and The Time Traveler's Wife. They're all about the same thing, more or less. Seriously, you really could just fuse them all together, turning Harrold Saxon into Sam Tyler into Henry DeTamble, and it would work. Especially the Sam & Henry bit.
Links of the Day:
The Master fanvids (spoilers liek woah): I'm Going Slightly Mad, Take Me Out, If I Should Die, The Madness****, Poison, Sound of Drums, What I've Done.
Life on Mars: Fantrailer, so much better than the official one, outtakes, and fanvids All These Things I've Done (full series spoilers), Plug-In Baby
David Tennant Fanvid: Kiss Me All Over *warning: contents may be hawt*
* Nelson, Life on Mars
** The Sentinel, Goodbye, Bafana, that documentary on apartheid I linked to a while back.
*** And it's going to be a movie.
****Curiously, vanillaorchid on YouTube says, "Great song, but the Master isn't mad. He's a meglomanical, vain, egotistical sociopath, who ooozes charm and urbane sophistication. That's why I love him." And here I was thinking that sociopaths and megalomaniacs were commonly referred to, in the commoner's lingo, as "mad". *sigh* It's like saying, "That's not wavelength 625-740 NM! It's red!"
