happy birthday, Jenn!

* * *A very happy birthday to dear jenfr!!!* * *

Better late than nevah! :-)

happy birthday, isis!

* * *And a very happy birthday to dear isiscolo!!!* * *

I'm late to the party but I'm throwing confetti! Confetti: ***********

:-)

Kaka's family

I am shameless. But, by popular demand (well, mainly by digdigil's demands...) I bring you some more pics of Kaká and his famblee.

Hm. Where did all my scruples of yore go? Well, these pics don't look as if they're candid so.

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Basically, what this betokens is that I have no spare time, hence I waste it; I have no office because my Institution, in its wisdom, decided to make me and my colleague move offices, for no discernible reason, and haven't connected our phones, computers nor provided shelves for our books; I had an argument with t'h and feel drained and annoyed. So this is all repressive activity. Even as I realise this, I cannot help but do it.

Argh. sheldrake, help me! Stop me from image-googling footballers all day!

ETA: The parents are beautiful and have produced a beautiful son. The younger brother is a bit of a dag. This also proves that Kaká will lose his hair by the time he is forty and be a stylish Zizou.

amitabh bachchan signed photo

Did I forget to mention that t'h brought home last night, after our do, a signed black-and-white photograph of Amitabh Bachchan? It says 'T'h & Lobelia love Amitabh Bachchan, Sept. CB 18, 2006'. Of course, it says our real names, not t'h or Lobelia, *g*.

I squealed when I saw it!!

no wonder i'm out of touch with media culture

These days, I like to get in 8 hours sleep. As fretting about my horrible job tends to take up some of my nights, I need to get started on the sleeping early. Also, since last Thursday I've been training myself for when teaching starts again by getting up at 6.30 am so that I can get in half an hour's work on my book before my day starts.

This means, basically, that I need to go to bed at 9.30 pm. Which is now. As t'son gets picked up at 6 and then I cook and then hang out and put them to bed and then SHINE MY SINK, clean the cat loo, feed the guinea pig, stack the dishwasher, keep the laundry ticking over, read to t'son, clean up the cats' piss in the t'sons' bedroom, debate cleaning up the cats' piss, google 'cat odour urine how to remove', help t'son do homework, help t'other son do homework, hunt down t'son's P.E. shorts, get the frozen sandwich (made with amazing foresight on the weekend) and slip it into t'son's lunch bag, set the table for breakfast, rinse the thermos, update LJ, this leaves no time for TV-watching, DVD-watching, downloaded vid-watching or any type of interaction with popular media at all.

I do get to read in bed, though. Am starting Adam Thorpe's Still. I did try watching SGA eps in bed but this caused me to stay awake at night even more so I ain't tryin' that no more.

How do other people fit in hours of telly viewage? It baffles me.

Also, P.S. Why does LJ these days ask me to 'update captain's log'? And then says 'aye, aye' when I've posted?

Die Mark fällt groschenweise (how do you say that re euros?)

So I finally got it. Duh.

And found this:



And I get the line across our user icons! They are not a new hairstyle nor a hideously disfiguring scar: they are pirate's eyepatches!

But I still can't see the ship on the navigation page. Possibly because I don't know what a navigation page is.

Hm, what happened to my Wilde 13 icon?