tj_rowe | Entries tagged with holidays

My bike is still broken. No-one looked at the back wheel, but it turns out that the gear mechanism is also bent out of shape. They've attempted to bend it back, but the first two gears are still unuasable (if I switch into them, it jams between the spokes and stops the wheel), so I've taken it away today and I have to take it back on Tuesday, by ten.

So I must have an early night on Monday. If anyone sees me on msn past eleven, bother me.

Also: the Thing I mean to do the next time I'm in town is see if HMV or similar stock iPod chargers. The iPod itself is savvy to not-made-by-apple things, which is really annoying because I've been leant a generic one which, because of that, won't charge it.

I bought a new warm thing at the market. Alpapa wool!

ETA: Someone to the north is letting off Chinese Lanterns, and it seems like next-door and Yarbrough Way's fireworks are trying to shoot them out of the sky. O_o

Current Mood: sad
Current Location: Badger Hill, York
Current Music: EXPLOSIONS!

( Cut for a lonely Tamar, who is angsty about real life )

Well, anyway. I have rice, minced beef, an onion, kidney beans and the fixings for some kind of tomato-y sauc-y thing - and I can probably feed ~~three people including myself~~ ~~one more person~~ no more people! with it. ~~Any takers for tonight?~~

Edited to add: I'm tempted to run for web on the SF&F committee. Would this be a bad idea?

Current Location: Langwith A Block Ground Floor, University of York

Here we have a classic example of a holiday stripped of all religious significance until it, like the others, is another chocolate-eating holiday. It has the very slight edge of being more of a 'chocolate on pancakes' holiday, but still it is a chocolate holiday.

I mean, we all know the origins of Shrove Tuesday/Fat Tuesday/Pancake Tuesday/Pancake Day - to dispose of the 'rich' food in the house before Lent, and the associated fasting, starts the next day.

Some people still give something up for Lent, of course. But generally what they give up has nothing to do with pancakes at all. Yet still the pancakes persevere. More and more, a person will pig out on Pancake Day and then not act any differently on Ash Wednesday.

I find this strange, but entirely in keeping with what I know of people. -_-;;

*falls over with a headache* And a (probably dehydration) headache combined with using the new CD (Opeth) to drown out the Darkness song in your head is Not Fun. Oww...

So I've been plotting more, because it is Rude to even look like you are doing something else when visiting family members are in the room. ... Actually, I'm not going to tell you what I'm plotting, I'm going to moan at you some more.

Maybe not. Did anyone else watch Hogfather today or last week? I found it to be good. Not excellent, but good. I kept looking out for the Poker. XD And Banjo was so the best character. And the Dean's 'Born to Rune' robe! That was so left over from Soul Music. XD

My sister kept complaining of confusion, however. I reckon that, if 'Hogfather' itself had not been read, she should have read Small Gods and possibly Thief of Time or Reaper Man first - the former to explain the whole belief thing, and one of the latter to introduce Susan Death's family situation and the Auditors. I would say Mort too, but that was recapped in two sentences. (In the book, too) XD

... Okay, maybe there's no time for moaning because I'm in pain. Going to bed stop will post later maybe stop oh I must work on my exchange ficlet too because it's at like 200 words stop.

Current Mood: distressed

Well, while procrastination on my Rai/Clay/Jack fic and that genfic I've been meaning to write, I finished that Jack/Chase fic that I started yesterday. Now it just needs typing and beta reading.

Miss M. is organising a trip to Tanzania for some reason. I mean, going to Afria is something that everyone should do once, but I don't know whether I could cope. I'd get so stressed over whether or not I'd caught anything that I'd make myself sick and not enjoy it. And there's like 17 jabs that you have to have before hand. And I'd find myself missing Europe so much... especially as this trip clashes with the annual school skiing trip, which next year will be in Switzerland rather than the usual Italy. I do love middle Europe so... *le worry* Look, I'm doing it already!

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Tamar Joshua Rowe

Entries tagged with holidays

Wahh!

Angst and Supper

Shrove Tuesday!

Oh Christmas. Thank goodness the day is over.

Where is the Mythology Book? Right between the 'Good News Bible' and 'World Faiths', of course!

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