I'm home!

It’s a long weekend here in FutureCat land, and theoretically I was going to spend the weekend studying hard for my Spanish oral on Friday. Theoretically. Of course, temptation got in the way of good intentions, so I spent most of Saturday reading, cross-stitching, playing Oblivion, and generally doing anything but study. I did spend…

Had our regular second-Tuesday-of-the-month meetup tonight. No lytteltonwitch, of course, because she’s in Australia on her way to the BC-AUS convention, but awhina and the kitten were there, and MrPloppy and me, of course, and Marcie130 turned up – she hasn’t been to a meetup for ages, so it was great to see her again….

We must be the only country in the world where the overwhelming emotion towards our national day is a vague sense of embarrassment. Most New Zealanders, if we stop to consider Waitangi Day at all (other than as a day off work and a chance to head to the beach and make the most of…

I haven’t posted pictures for a long time of the cross-stitch I’ve been doing for awhina‘s wedding, but I’ve been quietly working away at it: It’s looking pretty good, but my two big worries now are that I’m rapidly running out of time (the wedding’s on 7 April, and I’ve got to leave enough time…

Total: 140 books January (16) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Disappearing Rain by Deena Larsen (hypertext novel) Under the Duvet by Marian Keyes Diary by Chuck Palahniuk Clara’s Heart by Joseph Olshan The Color of Television by Stuart Moulthrop and Sean Cohen (hypertext novel) Joe’s Heartbeat in Budapest by Ruth Nestvold (interactive fiction) Star…

A little puzzle for you: What’s wrong with this picture? It’s a page from Shopping with Dad by Lesley Pether, a reader from the National Geographic’s “Windows on Literacy” series I borrowed from the ESOL-HT library. Spotted the weirdness yet? Have a closer look at this bit: It may be lost on my overseas readers,…