infection & immunology

...wow, I fucked that 60% exam up but good.

Ugh. And I was in such a jubilant mood last night.

I'm off to study for the two neuroscience exams now. If anyone wants to comment-spam me with joyful screencaps or tiny snippets of fic or babble about characters that I love, that would be really nice.

ten books I like

While I wait for my articles on the evolution of language and arithmetical representation in the brain to print, have a meme. It's like that guess-the-lyrics one, only even more obscure! These might not be my exact ten favourite books, though I think most of them come pretty close; I just sort of wandered past my shelf and pulled off ten books that I love to pieces.

1. One warm April evening in 1984, in a pleasant suburb of Cairo called Zamalek, three exquisite young men with knives tried to kill me.
2. He leaned forward, his breath the smell of whiskey drunk straight from the bottle.
3. "I once played Romeo and Juliet as a one-man show," I said.
4. Shadow had done three years in prison.
5. In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three.
6. From a distance only the light is visible, a speeding gleaming horizontal angel, trumpet out on a hard bend.
7. They put the behemoths in the hold along with the rhinos, the hippos and the elephants.
8. She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance.
9. It is freezing, an extraordinary -18°C, and it's snowing, and in the language which is no longer mine, the snow is qanik - big, almost weightless crystals falling in stacks and covering the ground with a layer of pulverized white frost.
10. Some years ago a young man and a boy of fifteen were talking along the banks of a river, looking for a good place to fish.

...I feel as though I should ban schiarire from playing. GET IN QUICK, BEFORE JI DOES.