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[xifeng]

Okay, so.

1.) Happy belated birthday to aeromancy. I don't think I've wished anybody a happy birthday on their actual birthday lately, but I could be mistaken.

2.) The weekend was fabulous. I did nothing but sit about and watch movies, since I came home in an incredibly bad mood on Friday night and wanted to be elsewhere and elsewhen. It is now Monday and everything has reverted to a giant puddle of Suck, which really blows because I was hoping this would be temporary.

3.) Need to finish working on site.

4.) Am not particularly fond of me right now but have arbitrarily decided that I cannot die until a.) I have finished re-reading Our Oriental Heritage and b.) after this week, because this week is the Fall Festival. YAY THINGS YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO EAT. After that, all bets are off. So don't get too attached to me.

5.) Mmm, chicken and noodles. Yay.

Comments

[tara]

DO NOT DIE. I WILL CRY.

D:

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

PLZ DON'T CRY. I WILL REMAIN ALIVE AS PER YOUR INSTRUCTIONS.

♥

(Besides, Our Oriental Heritage is about 900 pages long and I'm not even on 200, so you're safe from my death for another week at least *g*)

[tara]

I'll cross my fingers that you are distracted by another shiny book once it's done, then.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Probably. I loaded up on a bunch of books in Salem and I haven't gotten to read them yet, so.

[tara]

Oh yay. I also think you should visit another book shop this week :)

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

You are totally not in the pay of the book industry. Either that, or you are totally not trying to drive me into bankruptcy. I haven't decided which ;)

[tara]

I recommended an expensive book to someone last night, so it must be the former :D

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

OMG GO AWAY CORPORATE SOCKPUPPET!!!!1111!!!angst!!!1boycott!!!11

What was this expensive book? I am curious now. *g*

[tara]

*cuts and pastes*

"Bold in Her Breeches: Women Pirates Across the Ages, edited by Jo Stanley (Pandora, London, 1995)

Hopefully your uni will have it - it's in the 360s at Melb Uni. It's written by someone who openly calls herself a socialist feminist and although it occasionally gets a bit silly with that (ie. don't apply modern class systems to ancient greece kthx *g*) it's actually a really interesting read. I haven't finished it yet, because I borrowed it for one specific person and I've just done the sections relating to her, but it sets out to look at the reality of things behind the oversexualised idea of the 'bad woman' and such stereotypes. But yes, if you can manage to find a copy to borrow, I think you'd find it an interesting read :)"

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

I want to read that book now. Like I didn't already have pirate!issues.

Curse you, Tara ;)

[tara]

You might have a hard time finding it in a library. It wasn't in Jen's uni library :(

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Yeah, believe it or don't. I was surprised when I realized that the first week was going to be the feastival.

I think the year has run screaming in the opposite direction from me. :\