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[minervasolo]

I'm going to be smug for a moment ^_^ The guy who tried to sell me the iPod has since been suspended from eBay for having his account hacked, or missusing it himself. I think I made the right call there!

Olly's mum has gone home now. It's strange, but nice, being alone in the house. Pity the others are coming back so soon! I've learnt many things, I think. A little bit of Greek, for a start, and that I actually prefer cooking in the kitchen to going out, and that Bill Oddie transcends all language barriers. Yay B'loddie! (you know, I used to think his name really was one word). I relearnt that stress and pressure puts me in head-in-the-sand mode, as evidenced by the fact I ignored both my essays and my reading in the name of 'antisocial', yet spent hours online doing much of nothing (and accidentally purchasing iPods).

Print office haven't got back to me yet, so basically I'm sticking everything as is on a disc and turning up. Then to town for things like haircuts, and possibly boots I can't afford but would look gorgeous with my new skirt, and hey, I need more winter shoes since all my trainers are falling apart and so what if I ought to buy hte black ones because those I need for work? ^_^

Lost is evil, and I adore it. I see and love the Charlie/Claire, and now want an icon with "I came off drugs, I can deliver a baby!" on it. The cliffhanger was truly cruel, and makes me appreciate how well made the show is. It may be slow, and formulaic, and they never run out of makeup, and a lot like Gilligan's Island, but there's some sharp marketing minds behind it.

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[rhube.livejournal.com]

Le sigh. No Lost for me :o(

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

I have last night's Lost on tape (since I was at the station) if you want to borrow it. The reception in my room's not great, so there's wiggly lines through it, but it's definitely watchable.

[rhube.livejournal.com]

Hmm, appealing, but I fear I have generally missed too much. I think I'll just have to borrow it when someone buys it on DVD (as someone inevitably will).

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

enyay seems to have the whole first season on DVD which he's offered to lend us

[rhube.livejournal.com]

Ooo, this sounds appealing.

[enyay.livejournal.com]

If you want the rest of the series of Lost now... I have it! I can drop it round with Series 4 of Family Guy if you want. Believe me, it just gets better...

And yeah, that cliffhanger was ace. :)

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Ooh, so tempting. Definite yes! ^_^ I think Mike and Ol get back either today or tomorrow, and Toast on Saturday, if you want to drop by this weekend. I'm afraid I'm rather in essay-hibernation until then.

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

Is there anything else you need me to do magazine wise? If not I'll just get on with freshers fayre stuff :)

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. I took it down, filled out a form, and all fingers crossed (with the presumption they have some common sense down there) we should have a magazine quite soon!

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

OMG squeeeeeeeeeeee!

ahem

*hugs* You're amazing for getting this done :) And thanks for the software too. I've laoded it all successfully and the illustrator one is so much fun! I should have been working but instead I was putting butterflies over everything...

[rhube.livejournal.com]

You found it then? :o)

[rhube.livejournal.com]

I *really* hope it works out OK and they prove sensible generally. I'd hate to do all this and discvoer we're all back to front and sideways, but I'm probably just being paranoid.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

The exterior cover should be obvious, as should the centre pages. I guess there's a possiblity the internal cover might end up hte wrong way round, but as long as the words face the right direction that's really only a minor issue!

[franky-spade.livejournal.com]

i got all scared, in fact i was still scared when i woke up this morning. don't kill charlie, he's too cuddaly. and she's got frekishly blue eyes i noticed. u can't help but stare at them

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Charlie's great. I don't think they'll kill him off any time soon (in fact, I'm almost certain, but not for good reasons). All snuggly, and so adorable with Claire, who's just sweet as sweet!

[jossish.livejournal.com]

I watched the whole first season while I was in America. *gloats*

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Hehe. I keep getting mixed up on my FList, with half chatting about the middle of season 1, and the rest discussing the beginning of season 2. Chanell 4 haven't been too bad though, in terms of getting hold of it quickly.

[jossish.livejournal.com]

I just work on the basis that I don't want to be spoilered, so I don't follow anyone's cut-tags!

I'm thinking about coming to Creative Writing this year, but haven't written anything in eons (and it was Harry Potter fanfic when I did write, as well you know!). Will I be frightened off by scary people? Will I have to cling to you in a 'I only know one person here!' kind of way?

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Come, definitely come! you don't have to bring anything to read (there's some members I've never heard anything from, but we love them nevertheless!) and we're really not that scary. There's a lot of scifi and fantasy love (and Lovecraft love), and you'd be far from the only fanficcer. Most of us are on lj, actually, if you want to get an idea of who we all are. yorkwriters is the community, though it's not in frequent use.

^_^ It feels like I'm collecting people for writers soc at the moment. I have minions!!

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

If you're around at the moment, and want to come to a more informal meeting (by which I mean fewer people,since it's hard to gt more informal that your usual creative writing meeting), there's one tonight at 7:30 in Vanbrugh GCR, which is roughly above the porters lodge.

[jossish.livejournal.com]

Oh, tempting! I'm sure you're not looking at the intarweb right now, but I'd like to register my FEAR at a group of new people. :) You'll see it at some point, although if I do turn up I'll let you know about it in person, and if I don't turn up this comment will let you know why!

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

There's always monday's meeting too! And it's not a big group of people (usually about five or six, at this point), and you wouldn't be the only new person. irisbleu only arrive in this country last Saturday!

It's a pity you didn't come yesterday, though. You missed another installment of Armitage Shanks and his Living Hair, by cuthulouis, which is quite possibly the maddest thing ever written.