I haven't posted lately-it seems I just haven't had the energy nor inclination. It has been a pretty hectic week, and I sprained my ankle at work on top of everything else. When your job pretty much consists of standing up for hours at a time, this can be very painful. It's mostly fine now, but my Achilles tendon is still feeling pretty tender, so I'm being careful.

I think I did mostly okay on my finals. It's out of my hands now, at any rate.

I've caught up with Darker Than Black, at least up to episode 10. According to the animesuki forums (not the best of sources, but whatever) we should be getting Yin backstory around episode 14. MOAR YIN, PLZ.

Ordered a cute Archer x Rin doujinshi from jpqueen, which should be here in about four more days, since they're pretty reliable when it comes to that sort of thing. And hello, nekomimi!Archer always wins. ALWAYS.

Also speaking of Team Red/Black, ficrec for any Archer x Rin fans out there: this unnamed ficlet by annwyd is excellent. I really hope she writes more.

I'll be getting my paycheck Friday, too-a Very Good Thing(moreso than usual, I mean). Why, you ask? One word, friends.


Discworld.(Or, as Death would put it, "DISCWORLD".)


Yes, I finally, after all these years of putting it off, bought The Colour of Magic (An amusing if overly succinent summary of which can be found here0 8 days ago. Since then, I've bought eight more Discworld books, and will insatiably continue to devour more. Seeing as there are 36 in all, this is going to add up pretty quickly. Hence the necessity of getting more money. By far my favorite characters are Death and Rincewind, although there are many others I'm pretty fond of. Anyway, I really can't do a summary that'll do the series justice, so I'll just leave it to the wikipedia folks. This I will say: what I love about Discworld it's that it's fantasy with a nice healthy helping of snark-and well done snark at that- parodying everything under the sun, that nonetheless has it's moments of transcendence.

A book series just doesn't get much better than that. Now, to find the SkyOne adaptation of Hogfather.

But first: HAIL PRATCHETT! And some words of wisdom from the master himself, concerning:

MODELING...
I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course...

--Terry Pratchett learns Naomi Campbell has "written" a book

GOVERNMENT...
I must confess the the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occured to him.

--Terry Pratchett

HEALTHCARE...
I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.


--Terry Pratchett