which way is up or which way down

I am in the medical school computer lab, where I expect I will remain for the next five hours or so.

I have to write a four-page summary paper on ADHD and a five-minute oral on lifestyle factors affecting fertility in Western women, research regulation of lactose intake in bacteria and start looking up statistics on schizophrenia in Australia.






Surely someone, somewhere, wants to comment-chat and distract me.

quick Boomer fic

ETA: OMG LOOK WHAT CALEB MADE ME *beams*

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I want distraction, and Ji wants something beautiful.

Luckily, we share a flexible definition of 'beautiful'.

( Starbuck is spinning a pen on the table. )

books. everyone loves books.

Alright, so we're playing the 15-books-I-would-take-away-to-college (or get stuck with on a desert island, whatever) game. This is an interesting exercise, because this isn't my 15 favourite books. (I love Good Omens to pieces but know it back to front by now.) My list reflects the books I'd read again and again and again and again, mostly because they have had - and are still having - a great impact on me and my style, and because reading any of these invariably makes me feel like writing. That's something precious.

Comment with your own list? I'm curious. And always on the lookout for new things, despite my staggeringly long existing to-read list.

( Ten novels, one course-in-philosopy-cum-novel, two plays (in a manner of speaking), one short story collection and one book of essays. )