Imaginary Gardens

I have a stats exam Friday, for which I am woefully underprepared, so logically, I had tea, ate cookies, and made icons.

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1. Crowley, to Aziraphale, on Good Omens by TPratchett and NGaiman
2. DCI Gene Hunt, catch-phrase, Life on Mars
3. DCI Gene Hunt, 2x0?, Life on Mars (Image from Savage Chickens by Doug Savage.)
4-6. NGaiman, upon meeting John Simm. (Yes, I gave up on the image-and-text idea.)


Links of the Day:
BBC Radio Show The Verb, wherein, amongst other things and people, Neil Gaiman reads the first chapter of his upcoming children's novel, The Graveyard Book>** (with just 3 chapters left to write!).
Like sushi? Do you find yourself wishing for a sushi-shaped cushion? Yes? Well, you can buy it. (I'd heard of these via Neil ages ago, but now you know too.)


* NGaiman, ibid link
** This may not be the book's final title, but it's what he's been calling it.

Note to self: Slips of paper have a habit of getting lost.

Arg.

Further note to self: "Logical" hiding places are anything but.


Emailed K like the Dickens. Have decided to run away to Russia and sell shirts. (Okay, the Russia thing is new. So new, I don´t know where it came from.)

But if I made shirts, they´d have the following slogans:

1) "Kidnapped by octagons!"
2) "Statistically in danger"
3) "Culture shock: the feeling of coming home after a long trip and realizing that you don't fit in but everyone around you thinks you should and it's really all just weird"

Explanations:

1) Barcelona´s city blocks are octagons. Nuff said.
2) K´s comment regarding the abnormally high number of breakups this season.
3) Also K´s comment, re: her friend´s explanation of Culture Shock.


The creapiest thing I´ve ever seen in a trachea and pair of lungs (lamp, prob.) swinging on a hook between other trachea/lungs, perfectly still. And that beats out the day I saw a the half of a lamb´s head on my uncles plate.

Spain´s serious about it´s meat market.


Things that make me happy:

1) Hearing the song I´ve had in my head all day on the radio.
2) An honestly cheerful hello.
3) The sound of thunder at night.
4) The smell of wet concrete by a pool one hot afternoon.
5) Those heavy overcast days where it´s always just a minute away from raining.
6) Old books with yellow pages, with their particular old-book smell.
7) Coming home after a time away and smelling it´s particular home-smell.
8) Those days when, for no particular reason, you feel pretty.
9) The smell of dry hay and horse in a barn.
10) That first bite of a fruit you love and havn´t had in ages.
11) Familiar handwriting in the mailbox.
12) Juicy oranges.