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Monday, November 12th, 2007
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6:36 pm - Okay, so I'm really bad at keeping up with this
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Just think, if I'd left it another week it would have been a whole year since I last posted. Doesn't that make you feel loved?!
Well… since my last post I've changed jobs slightly - still a prod ed, but now working on a computing magazine. So I get to be all geeky and sub copy about computers, which is pretty interesting. I still keep up with the whole crafty side of things though - charting and stitching for Cross Stitcher, plus plenty of my own projects when I find the time.
As it's November, I'm also back into NaNoWriMo, which is going incredibly slowly this year. I really need to buck up a bit (read: a lot) if I'm to have any chance of completing it. Though Neil's doing it as well, which means that hopefully my competitive streak will kick in and I'll finish it just so that he doesn't beat me.
I've been off work ill today - feel pretty crappy. We're on deadline as well, so it's the one week of the month I don't want to be ill. Hey ho…
current mood:  crappy
current music: None, sitting in silence with the TV off
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| Sunday, November 19th, 2006
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12:26 am - Book list meme thingy
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I nicked this off someone else's blog. Apparently they're some magazine's top 100 books. The ones in bold are ones I've read, a * at the beginning means I liked it, a - means I didn't. There are children's book lists, and Sass did her own one, as well. I might do those later if I feel like it.
The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
* Animal Farm - George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
*Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
The Assistant - Bernard Malamud
At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
Call It Sleep - Henry Roth
* Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
* The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
* A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
A Death in the Family - James Agee
The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance - James Dickey
Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone
Falconer - John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
Herzog - Saul Bellow
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas - V.S. Naipaul
* I, Claudius - Robert Graves
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Light in August - William Faulkner
* The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
* Lord of the Flies - William Golding
* The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Loving - Henry Green
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Money - Martin Amis
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
Native Son - Richard Wright
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
* 1984 - George Orwell
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
Possession - A.S. Byatt
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions - William Gaddis
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carre
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
* To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Ubik - Philip K. Dick
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise - Don DeLillo
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
- Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
So I've only read 13 of the top 100 books. Considering I consider myself a reader, that's fairly depressing. But there's a million and one other books I want to read before looking at the rest of these.
current mood:  tired
current music: None, just finished watching Sideways
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| Sunday, August 20th, 2006
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12:33 pm - Happy first wedding anniversary to me!
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I've been married for a whole year now. It's weird, I'm just getting used to idea of being married (and called Mrs!!), now I'm having wedding anniversaries as well? When did that happen?!
Had a nice morning lie in. We got lots of cards from relatives, plus Neil got me chocolates, a tropical plant (to remind us of our honeymoon) and a gorgeous notebook to write my first novel in, covered in prints of Charlotte Bronte's handwritten Jane Eyre. A proper paper present for our paper anniversary! I got him PL Travers' biography, plus the little scrapbook of our wedding, which was finished in the library yesterday.
Now we're going to look through all our wedding pics, be very soppy and romantic all day, then go out this evening :-)
current mood:  loved
current music: Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack
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| Friday, August 18th, 2006
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11:22 pm - Funny things to do
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(to explain, my husband's name is Neil).
If you go on the forum at Neil Gaiman's website, there's lots of threads with titles like 'Neil's the coolest person in the world' and 'What's wrong with Neil'. :-)
Well it's funny if your husband's name is Neil.
current mood: amused
current music: None, watching series 5 Buffy
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| Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
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10:02 pm - Hot water is a minor miracle
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We have hot water again! The boiler broke on Saturday, so it's been freeeezing cold showers for a few days. It got fixed yesterday though, so today I had my first pleasant shower since last week.
My life is just stitching at the moment... stitching for work at home, stitching one thing for myself on the train and another at lunchtimes. It's all to do with which frame will fit in which place. At some point, surely, I'm going to get sick of it. Well it's not like I don't have other things to fill my time. I'm trying to make a little scrapbook for our first wedding anniversary, and it's crazy how long you can spend just printing out a few photos. Plus I've still got to cut them all out and make them look all pretty on the page. By Sunday. Hmmm, not sure I can see this working.
It's slightly weird to even think of having a first wedding anniversary - surely I'm too young for that? At work I'm the youngest person on my team, and I'm also the only one who's married. Just lucky I suppose - once you know you're with the person you want to spend your life with, why wait?!
current mood: accomplished
current music: Bob Dylan - Things have changed
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| Sunday, July 16th, 2006
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10:15 am - Not enough time!
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There really aren't enough hours in the day. It's really busy at work at the moment, so really I need to work late, and then I'm coming home and doing freelance stuff, and the time just flies by!
Will be taking a break later though, going round a friend's house to watch Superman (in preparation for seeing the new one), then down to the cinema for the film quiz. I really hope we win this week - it's the last one with the usual guy running it. We don't know if they've found anyone else yet.
Anyway, I should be getting on with work, and not wasting time on here shouldn't I?
current mood: tired
current music: Luxury - These Days
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| Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
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5:19 pm - Blah
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Off work today. Feel crappy, yet very bored. Lots of stuff at work I want to do, lots of stuff at home I want to do. Can't do any of it as barely have the energy to stand. Blah.
What a cheerful first post!
I'm currently reading The Algebraist by Iain M Banks. Have to admit it's pretty disappointing. I've read a lot of 'meh' reviews of it, but was convinced they must all be wrong - I'm a big fan of his. Unfortunately they were right. It's not bad, just really not gripping enough to make me want to read it, which means it's been a month now and I'm still only half way through it. I have to finish it though before I can read anything else! Anyone want to reassure me it gets better?
Choices for next book: War and Peace (no really), The Crow Road (Banks again, I've been assured it's a brilliant one), or the Science of Doctor Who.
current mood: tired
current music: Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
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