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puddingcatJasper is a clockwise cat. On the odd occasion he curls up on me (read: balances his centre of gravity over me while I hold up the ooze either side) in an anticlockwise direction, he fidgets & rearranges himself properly within half a minute.
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Gave blood today. It usually takes ages (last time the bag only just filled before the 15 monutes cutoff time). Today it was positively squirting out, which might explain the way I almost passed out afterwards. Still woozy now.
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Not taking in the Mum thing. Thank you everyone who's commented (or wanted to but not known what to say). Have begun the process of Beating The Problem To Death With My Brain.
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Someone (thankyou,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vulgarcriminal) finally tagged me on the book meme:
1. Total number of books owned?
Um. Considering my spare room is 12' by 7' (ish) and has no wall space left, piles of books lurk around every corner and there's a full bookcase downstairs too... Well, there are 91 on a shelf picked at random, 15 shelf-equivalents, plus piles, plus those still in Hitchin. Over a thousand, easily.
2. The last book I bought?
The 10 minute Life Coach, something about cognitive programming (it's downstairs & I'm not), and a first edition (whee!) of Paul McCartney's Frog Chorus. Yes, really.
3. The last book I read?
Last one I finished: Geomancer (Ian Irvine). Currently reading: Quicksilver (Neal Stephenson). Last opened & used: Physics for Diagnostic Radiology (Dendy & Heaton).
1. With pictures?
Dendy & Heaton counts, in my book (oooh dear).
2. Nonfiction:
Hat trick on the answers, here.
4. 5 books that mean a lot to me
1. The Complete Saki.
HH Munro has (had?) my sense of humour. The Brogue, Laura, Gabriel Ernest - they're all so evilly funny.
2. Culpeper's Complete Herbal.
Varies from fabulous advice, through outdated oddities, to total lunacy. His notes and instructions are so chatty and rude to anyone without the same background as him.
3. Strong Poison - Dorothy L Sayers.
A superb murder mystery, with added codebreaking :) I re-read it at least once a year.
4. The Dark Is Rising, Susan Cooper.
I never thought of this as fantasy. The language is haunting, and poetical, and the characters are so *real* that the odd stuff seems seems inevitable and right for them. One of my daydreaming-myself-into-their-world books.
5. City, Clifford Simak.
Pre-moon landing science fiction short stories. Unlike Asimov, Simak never extrapolated reality - there's no way any of his stories could ever happen - but he makes them sound plausible without losing the magic.
I'm going to do another one instead of tagging people, cos you've all done it already:
6. The Aeneid, Virgil.
Translating this was so much fun :) The story's compelling, the characters recognisable, and the language my favouritest ever ;p Screw your mediaeval pseudo-Latin, I like the original & best.
(oh, all right then. I can't remember seeingphil_girl, westernind, bursargirl, nannyo or ulaidhan do this yet.)
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Gave blood today. It usually takes ages (last time the bag only just filled before the 15 monutes cutoff time). Today it was positively squirting out, which might explain the way I almost passed out afterwards. Still woozy now.
---
Not taking in the Mum thing. Thank you everyone who's commented (or wanted to but not known what to say). Have begun the process of Beating The Problem To Death With My Brain.
---
Someone (thankyou,
vulgarcriminal) finally tagged me on the book meme: 1. Total number of books owned?
Um. Considering my spare room is 12' by 7' (ish) and has no wall space left, piles of books lurk around every corner and there's a full bookcase downstairs too... Well, there are 91 on a shelf picked at random, 15 shelf-equivalents, plus piles, plus those still in Hitchin. Over a thousand, easily.
2. The last book I bought?
The 10 minute Life Coach, something about cognitive programming (it's downstairs & I'm not), and a first edition (whee!) of Paul McCartney's Frog Chorus. Yes, really.
3. The last book I read?
Last one I finished: Geomancer (Ian Irvine). Currently reading: Quicksilver (Neal Stephenson). Last opened & used: Physics for Diagnostic Radiology (Dendy & Heaton).
1. With pictures?
Dendy & Heaton counts, in my book (oooh dear).
2. Nonfiction:
Hat trick on the answers, here.
4. 5 books that mean a lot to me
1. The Complete Saki.
HH Munro has (had?) my sense of humour. The Brogue, Laura, Gabriel Ernest - they're all so evilly funny.
2. Culpeper's Complete Herbal.
Varies from fabulous advice, through outdated oddities, to total lunacy. His notes and instructions are so chatty and rude to anyone without the same background as him.
3. Strong Poison - Dorothy L Sayers.
A superb murder mystery, with added codebreaking :) I re-read it at least once a year.
4. The Dark Is Rising, Susan Cooper.
I never thought of this as fantasy. The language is haunting, and poetical, and the characters are so *real* that the odd stuff seems seems inevitable and right for them. One of my daydreaming-myself-into-their-world books.
5. City, Clifford Simak.
Pre-moon landing science fiction short stories. Unlike Asimov, Simak never extrapolated reality - there's no way any of his stories could ever happen - but he makes them sound plausible without losing the magic.
I'm going to do another one instead of tagging people, cos you've all done it already:
6. The Aeneid, Virgil.
Translating this was so much fun :) The story's compelling, the characters recognisable, and the language my favouritest ever ;p Screw your mediaeval pseudo-Latin, I like the original & best.
(oh, all right then. I can't remember seeing
phil_girl, westernind, bursargirl, nannyo or ulaidhan do this yet.)
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Date: 2005-05-20 07:59 pm (UTC)*almost spits out coffee with laughy*
Well wishes
Date: 2005-05-20 08:00 pm (UTC)I hate it when people take blood from me. It's mine and I've barely enough body mass with it!
To quote the ever-fabulous Manson (Shirley, that is):
And you can't see the point in going on
Well nothing in life is set in stone
There's nothing that can't be turned around"
P
xxx
cats/blood and books
Date: 2005-05-21 06:08 pm (UTC)Its really quiet here since the return of Daddylonglegs and the Demonspawn and I have just collapse every night when I've got in from work. After 9 months of dossing about I am now doing a really physical job that even tires out the teenagers so you can imagine how I feel physically. But the glass of Merlot is helping tonight!! Love and Hugs.