ne of the nicer side-effects of the earthquakes is that because we lost almost all of the city’s arthouse cinemas, the mainstream cinemas have started showing a broader range of films to cater to some of that market. As a result, the local Hoyts is celebrating Diwali with a selection of Bollywood films, one of…
K, I get the hint Mum – time I posted something. My only excuse is my usual one: Honours is hard and I have no life. Yeah, I’ve been saying that a lot lately, but study is definitely taking up a huge proportion of my time, and not leaving a lot left for anything else….
That was cool. We just had the edge of a huge thunderstorm pass over (from the look of things, the main part went right over the city centre) – loads of thunder and lightning, which lasted about half an hour, and then, just as the lightning was dying down, we heard a strange roaring in…
(except I’ve updated here so irregularly lately that you probably didn’t even know I was away…) Anyway, I spent last week down in Central Otago at a conference (which was really interesting – lots of heated debates going on in the tea breaks, which is always a sign of a successful conference), with the bonus…
inally I’ve got my new computer! I almost had it a couple of weeks ago, but then I didn’t. But that’s a story best told with a ridiculous number of photos (don’t say I didn’t warn you). So, without further ado, how to build a computer: Except it wasn’t. Because that’s where it all started…
nd… it’s not working. The last of the computer parts arrived yesterday, so we (ok, mostly MrPloppy, with me looking over his shoulder going “ooh, what’s that wire for?” and occasionally actually being useful when my smaller hands could fit into tight corners his couldn’t reach) spent the afternoon putting it together. And the build…
really have nothing to say, but I just stumbled across this amazing site while searching for something completely different, and had to quickly post something just to have the excuse to use one of her gorgeous drop-caps. So I suppose I should think of something to fill up a paragraph or two to make it…
Work in progress (yes, it is as sticky and clumpy and hard to apply delicately as it looks): Design complete and henna dry, now I’ve just got to wait a couple of hours: And the end result: That was after 2.5 hours (I was aiming for 3, but I forgot the number one rule of…
I managed to get my essay finished (well, a draft, anyway – I’ve emailed it to my lecturer for comment before I hand in a final version), which was lucky because yesterday morning I got a phone call from my ESOL student inviting me to a henna party, the start of the celebrations for her…
This could be why I’ve got no life at the moment: I’ve taken the day off work to attempt to get an essay written, and that’s the reading pile I’ve accumulated for it (the books, though they look impressive, are not the biggest bit – most of them I’m only using one chapter from –…