update

[fahye]

This isn't really a meme. I have adopted and severely mutated something meme-like in the name of keeping you, the interested masses, up to date with my life.

Reading

- The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. Near the end. I'm taking his assertions with grains of salt, but thoroughly appreciate the statistics and the advocacy of scientific thought & evolution.
- Running in the Family - Michael Ondaatje. This man can DO NO WRONG as far as I am concerned, and this is a lovely short family-and-self-portrait set in Sri Lanka.
- Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert. I will actually finish the trilogy! I will, I will!
- Pagan's Daughter - Catherine Jinks. Just finished, actually. Heavier on the historical details and lighter on the wit than the other books, and I don't like Babylonne quite as much as Pagan himself as far as narrative voice goes, but I'm glad we got a female perspective.

(Remind me one day to rant at you enthusiastically about why I am still buying/rereading the Pagan books when I started reading them at the age of...ten? eleven?)

Listening

Currently adoring: Missy Higgins' new album On A Clear Night, The Cranberries' best-of Stars, the latest Switchfoot album Oh! Gravity, and Something Corporate's North, which I never tire of.

Working on

An assignment on coxsackie-B virus and the immunopathology leading to heart disease, and another on the new neuroimaging techniques for lie detection and whether they should be considered valid legal evidence.

Wishing for

People in my close proximity with whom I could sit around and just read Shakespeare aloud with, and VIDDING SOFTWARE THAT IS A) USER-FRIENDLY, B) AFFORDABLE, AND C) ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, WORKS. Pitch in, vidders! What do you use? What should I use? I love my vid ideas too much to let the scarlet whore that is WMM defeat me with its crapitude.

Comments

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

People in my close proximity with whom I could sit around and just read Shakespeare aloud with

*yearns*

coxsackie-B

DIRTY.

That's all I've got, really.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

*reaches in vain towards Seattle*

Fucking around with text is exactly what I want right now. Wah.

(HAHAHAHA. I KNOW, RIGHT? I asked my parents if they knew of any exciting viruses I could research for my advanced studies course and my dad was all 'coxsackie!' and I was all EXCUSE ME, COCK WHAT?)

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

People in my close proximity with whom I could sit around and just read Shakespeare aloud with
CRYYYYYYYYYYY. I would LOVE to do this!!!!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I wish I could just subvert the laws of time & space and kidnap you, brynnmck and crazylittleme and the other Bard fans of my flist, and transport us all to a quiet retreat somewhere where we could have crazy dramatic readings of Shakespeare plays, and watch film adaptations and Slings & Arrows and other awesome things. It would be fantastic. Can't you just see us leaping around an outdoor verandah yelling MAKE ME A WILLOW CABIN BY YOUR GATE and getting chocolate finger-smears on our annotated plays?

*pines*

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Skype?

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Vidding huh? I take it you've got a PC? I'm probably going to be no help to you since I confess I got a Mac largely in order to be able to vid smoothly--I use Final Cut Pro and it's fab. The stories I've heard about vidding on PCs make me quake in fear but I know it can be done... good lucks!