All Uncombed

heddychaa @ 2010-01-01T10:58:00

2010-01-01T17:58:16Z

So, it is the new year. This is actually an excitingvyear for me, because for the first time in a long time, the new year brings real changes. This is the first year of my life since my childhood that I won't be going to school, for example. (Well, except to teach.) I'm also planning on applying for my first real job next week. Yes, I do sub, but I discovered that is less like teaching and more like babysitting for 200 dollars a day. Blech. There's an opening at the high school in town for a temporary part time position teaching socials and English 11, and planning 10, a course which requires no planning, no instruction, and no marking. You just watch kids use computers. No problemo. Actually, I'd be a good candidate because I am more computer savvy than 99% of teachers and might be of some use in such a classroom. So anyway, basically I'd be teaching two classes with effectively two prep blocks, which takes a lot of the pressure off me as a first time teacher. So I think today I'll brush up my cover letter and resume so that they can go in straight away Monday. There's a lot of competition, but I think growing up here, doing my practicum here, and having the skills/knowledge I do puts me at an advantage. I hop, haha.

So the other big thing in the new year will be hopes of our own house. Declan is off to do Canadian certification at the end of January which, god willing, should bump up his wages, and if I get this job, we already have a budget (a grueling budget) in place to save a down payment by summer.

Since I have a ton of free time, too, I'm going to go back to weight watchers with Erin, to the gym with Declan, continue with my writing, and maybe take up knitting with mum, who is having Penny over now for weekly sessions. Erin should be pleased!

When Declan and I get our own place, I'd really like to take up my painting again too. Haha, I totally forgot what it was like to do things other than schoolwork. Anyway guys, wish me luck with this job, because everything hinges on that. It'd be a great foot in the door come September when they start offering all those new grade 10 positions.

My inlaws, two generations, have joined in on the "where are our grandkids" trend. Best get my fertile ass moving.

Day 7: A Photo That Makes Me Happy

2009-12-19T17:30:24Z

Day 7: A Photo That Makes Me Happy

I have no idea what is going on in this photo, but it makes me laugh every time. Declan was very, very drunk. Shortly thereafter, we tried to get into a stripclub that charged 20 Euros cover, and his drunk friend got chided by the bouncer: "You better keep an eye on that guy", after trying to convince the bouncer that we shouldn't have to pay cover for their shitty bar. Good times.

Day 1: My favorite song
Day 2: My favorite movie
Day 3: My favorite television program
Day 4: My favorite book
Day 5: My favorite quote
Day 6: My biggest pet peeve
Day 7: A photo that makes me happy
Day 8: A photo that makes me angry or sad
Day 9: A photo I took
Day 10: A photo of me taken over ten years ago
Day 11: A photo of me taken recently
Day 12: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 13: A fictional book
Day 14: A non-fictional book
Day 15: A fanatic
Day 16: A song that makes me cry
Day 17: An art piece
Day 18: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 19: A talent of mine
Day 20: A hobby of mine
Day 21: A recipe
Day 22: A website
Day 23: A You Tube video
Day 24: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 25: My day, in great detail
Day 26: My week, in great detail
Day 27: My month, in great detail
Day 28: My year, in great detail
Day 29: Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30: Whatever tickles my fancy

Day 6: My Biggest Pet Peeve

2009-12-18T17:08:51Z

Day 6: My Biggest Pet Peeve

People who speak to me, or others, condescendingly. I hate, hate, HATE condescension from ANYONE, and I find that those most likely to speak condescendingly, have the least right to do so.

It was the worst in Subway. Knowing that I was 6 credits from having a degree, and being talked down to like I had an IQ of 43 by some fake-titted Roxy-wearing patch wife whose biggest achievement in life was laying on her back and getting knocked up by a guy rich enough to buy her an Escalade/Hummer REALLY stuck in my craw in the worst way imaginable.

A close second would be texting on a cellphone during: class, while at dinner with people, while hanging out with friends, etc. Seriously, you are surrounded by interesting, engaging, and sometimes emotionally close people, and you'd rather type "LOL WHUT U DOIN NOTIN IM IN CLASS LOL LOL LOL" brings me to the brink of strangulation. It's the height of fucking rudeness.

Day 1: My favorite song
Day 2: My favorite movie
Day 3: My favorite television program
Day 4: My favorite book
Day 5: My favorite quote
Day 6: My biggest pet peeve
Day 7: A photo that makes me happy
Day 8: A photo that makes me angry or sad
Day 9: A photo I took
Day 10: A photo of me taken over ten years ago
Day 11: A photo of me taken recently
Day 12: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 13: A fictional book
Day 14: A non-fictional book
Day 15: A fanatic
Day 16: A song that makes me cry
Day 17: An art piece
Day 18: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 19: A talent of mine
Day 20: A hobby of mine
Day 21: A recipe
Day 22: A website
Day 23: A You Tube video
Day 24: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 25: My day, in great detail
Day 26: My week, in great detail
Day 27: My month, in great detail
Day 28: My year, in great detail
Day 29: Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30: Whatever tickles my fancy

Day 5: My Favourite Quote

2009-12-17T16:57:19Z

Day 5: My Favourite Quote

"The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but why history matters. How to ignite the first spark of the will o'the wisp, the Jack o'lantern, the ignis fatuus [foolish fire] beloved of poets, which lights up one source of history and then another, zigzagging across the marsh, connecting and linking and writing bright words across the dark face of the present. There's no phrase I can come up that will encapsulate in a winning sound-bite why history matters. We know that history matters, we know that it is thrilling, absorbing, fascinating, delightful and infuriating, that it is life. Yet I can't help wondering if it's a bit like being a Wagnerite; you just have to get used to the fact that some people are never going to listen."
- Stephen Fry

"History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured."
— Kedar Joshi

"But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind."
— Stephen Fry

Day 1: My favorite song
Day 2: My favorite movie
Day 3: My favorite television program
Day 4: My favorite book
Day 5: My favorite quote
Day 6: My biggest pet peeve
Day 7: A photo that makes me happy
Day 8: A photo that makes me angry or sad
Day 9: A photo I took
Day 10: A photo of me taken over ten years ago
Day 11: A photo of me taken recently
Day 12: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 13: A fictional book
Day 14: A non-fictional book
Day 15: A fanatic
Day 16: A song that makes me cry
Day 17: An art piece
Day 18: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 19: A talent of mine
Day 20: A hobby of mine
Day 21: A recipe
Day 22: A website
Day 23: A You Tube video
Day 24: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 25: My day, in great detail
Day 26: My week, in great detail
Day 27: My month, in great detail
Day 28: My year, in great detail
Day 29: Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30: Whatever tickles my fancy

heddychaa @ 2009-12-16T21:42:00

2009-12-17T04:42:19Z

http://asgard.prn.bc.ca/career/career.taf?_function=detail&job_posting_uid1=4945&_UserReference=B20E62F3270E120D4B29B3B2

Time to apply for a job?

I honestly feel kind of overwhelmed. I know that I am (soon to be) certified, and I've completed my education and I have technically trained for this job, and even so, the thought of actually being responsible for three classes for a full semester seems really overwhelming and frightening. Might as well put my name in, since I imagine there'll be a fair bit competition anyway.

I actually have a big pit in the bottom of my stomach from this. Durr.

heddychaa @ 2009-12-16T11:33:00

2009-12-16T18:33:15Z

I left the house this morning and said to myself: "Wow! It's wonderfully mild today!"

It was -20C.

FML

heddychaa @ 2009-12-16T11:05:00

2009-12-16T18:05:24Z

Day 4: My Favourite Book

Never Let Me Go
For being purely life-changing, and having an emotionally gripping story and characters.

Outlander
For re-readability and endless enjoyment.

Day 1: My favorite song
Day 2: My favorite movie
Day 3: My favorite television program
Day 4: My favorite book
Day 5: My favorite quote
Day 6: My biggest pet peeve
Day 7: A photo that makes me happy
Day 8: A photo that makes me angry or sad
Day 9: A photo I took
Day 10: A photo of me taken over ten years ago
Day 11: A photo of me taken recently
Day 12: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 13: A fictional book
Day 14: A non-fictional book
Day 15: A fanatic
Day 16: A song that makes me cry
Day 17: An art piece
Day 18: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 19: A talent of mine
Day 20: A hobby of mine
Day 21: A recipe
Day 22: A website
Day 23: A You Tube video
Day 24: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 25: My day, in great detail
Day 26: My week, in great detail
Day 27: My month, in great detail
Day 28: My year, in great detail
Day 29: Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30: Whatever tickles my fancy

30 Days Meme: Day 3

2009-12-15T17:00:10Z

Day 3: My Favourite Television Program

There are four that I watch regularly, and plan to watch.

South Park, no question. It can get a bit preachy at times, but man when it is good it is GOOD.

House MD. This season's premier was effin' amazing. I really love all the characters, I love the moral dilemmas, and I love the dialogue.

This is definitely my guilty pleasure! I love the crazy photoshoots and all the drama between the girls. The Canadian version is really good too. :)

And finally, my all time favourite reality show. I know Gordon Ramsey totally plays up the drama for his American audience, but I don't even care. I canNOT miss this show when it's on!

Day 1: My favorite song
Day 2: My favorite movie
Day 3: My favorite television program
Day 4: My favorite book
Day 5: My favorite quote
Day 6: My biggest pet peeve
Day 7: A photo that makes me happy
Day 8: A photo that makes me angry or sad
Day 9: A photo I took
Day 10: A photo of me taken over ten years ago
Day 11: A photo of me taken recently
Day 12: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 13: A fictional book
Day 14: A non-fictional book
Day 15: A fanatic
Day 16: A song that makes me cry
Day 17: An art piece
Day 18: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 19: A talent of mine
Day 20: A hobby of mine
Day 21: A recipe
Day 22: A website
Day 23: A You Tube video
Day 24: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 25: My day, in great detail
Day 26: My week, in great detail
Day 27: My month, in great detail
Day 28: My year, in great detail
Day 29: Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30: Whatever tickles my fancy

30 Days Meme: Day 2

2009-12-14T22:21:10Z

Day 2: My Favourite Movie

Ah shit, this is a tough one.

On pure rewatchability and joy?

I love the music, I love the imagery, I love the story, I love the characters, I love Nicole Kidman's breathy performance. . .

Day 1: My favorite song
Day 2: My favorite movie
Day 3: My favorite television program
Day 4: My favorite book
Day 5: My favorite quote
Day 6: My biggest pet peeve
Day 7: A photo that makes me happy
Day 8: A photo that makes me angry or sad
Day 9: A photo I took
Day 10: A photo of me taken over ten years ago
Day 11: A photo of me taken recently
Day 12: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 13: A fictional book
Day 14: A non-fictional book
Day 15: A fanatic
Day 16: A song that makes me cry
Day 17: An art piece
Day 18: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 19: A talent of mine
Day 20: A hobby of mine
Day 21: A recipe
Day 22: A website
Day 23: A You Tube video
Day 24: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 25: My day, in great detail
Day 26: My week, in great detail
Day 27: My month, in great detail
Day 28: My year, in great detail
Day 29: Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30: Whatever tickles my fancy

30 Days Meme: Day 1

2009-12-13T21:10:48Z

What was that, flist? You don't think I post enough? I have an idea: jump onto the bandwagon of this overly complex meme that everyone is doing!

Day 1: My Favourite Song

Without question, it is . . .

Or, conversely:

Or even:

It was played at the bar my first night in Ireland, Declan proposed to me in Galway, and it got played maybe. . . three times at my wedding. Every time I hear it I can't do anything but smile.

Of the moment, though?

Total guilty pleasure, lol. What can I say, I love:
- sexually blatant songs
- Lady Gaga
- heavy beat
- is that Native singing? LOL WHUT

Day 1: My favorite song
Day 2: My favorite movie
Day 3: My favorite television program
Day 4: My favorite book
Day 5: My favorite quote
Day 6: My biggest pet peeve
Day 7: A photo that makes me happy
Day 8: A photo that makes me angry or sad
Day 9: A photo I took
Day 10: A photo of me taken over ten years ago
Day 11: A photo of me taken recently
Day 12: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 13: A fictional book
Day 14: A non-fictional book
Day 15: A fanatic
Day 16: A song that makes me cry
Day 17: An art piece
Day 18: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 19: A talent of mine
Day 20: A hobby of mine
Day 21: A recipe
Day 22: A website
Day 23: A You Tube video
Day 24: Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 25: My day, in great detail
Day 26: My week, in great detail
Day 27: My month, in great detail
Day 28: My year, in great detail
Day 29: Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30: Whatever tickles my fancy

Check out my Wizard Pairings

2009-12-08T21:20:18Z

Grad

2009-12-04T18:00:43Z

Well, I am officially graduated! Having a nice lie in this morning before I do paperwork all day. Gotta apply to the BCTF for my license but also for a job as a sub with the district, especially since Derrick is gone most of the week and wants me to sub: Good money!

I still can't believe it's over, to be honest. I kind of felt like this day would never come.

Grad

2009-12-04T18:00:43Z

Pointless Update

2009-11-24T22:09:53Z

Took a sick day today. Woke up this morning with freaking terrible vertigo, as in every time I moved, my whole body set off spinning. No fun.

So anyways, spent the day in bed sleeping/reading. However, since my mother doesn't understand the concept of "sick day" I still have to get up and shower sometime soon in order to take her dog for a walk. Just what I need. Anyway, I need to have a shower regardless because I smell like vomit. (I'm a charmer, I know).

At least I'm done the teaching portion of my practicum and all I've missed is an observation day. Two more weeks of school until grad!!!

heddychaa @ 2009-11-07T22:17:00

2009-11-08T05:17:51Z

Hey sup lj! Through a crazy ass twist of fate i now have an iPhone! My hamfists make it hard to type on though. Also I am way too old for this double thumbed typing shit.

Two weeks left of teaching, and only 4 days of that is full time! Soon I will finally have a life again. First order of business, a big trashy romance novel for a much needed brain break!

Wth this thing just suggested the word "'nosh" to me. Does anyone even say that?

Neville Chamberlain

2009-09-27T20:52:40Z

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2132258&id=116201685&l=313400dcbb

heddychaa @ 2009-09-26T09:57:00

2009-09-26T17:00:54Z

Declan and I are headed out today to get snowtires, check up on my engagement ring we left to get repaired, and then off to the SPCA to find ourselves a new cat! I'm hoping to find a young-ish cat that is sweet-tempered and very snuggly, and will share the bed with us. I'm ready to welcome a new cat into my life, and love it as much as I loved Molly. Hopefully we will find the right one, today.

It's a sound byte of his accent

2009-09-01T18:39:18Z

My husband is basically amazing.

"Self Portrait", David Whyte

2009-07-24T20:07:36Z

It doesn't interest me if there is one God
or many gods.
I want to know if you belong or feel
abandoned.
If you know despair or can see it in others.
I want to know
if you are prepared to live in the world
with its harsh need
to change you. If you can look back
with firm eyes
saying this is where I stand. I want to know
if you know
how to melt into that fierce heat of living
falling toward
the centre of your longing. I want to know
if you are willing
to live, day by day, with the consequence of love
and the bitter
unwanted passion of your sure defeat.

I have been told, in that fierce embrace, even
the gods speak of God.

heddychaa @ 2009-06-01T14:05:00

2009-06-01T21:06:18Z

The other day Alison called my laugh a "chortle".

I'm bored. Don't make fun of me.

2009-04-25T21:05:24Z

Things that make me inexplicably happy.

2009-04-24T17:25:00Z

From the crazy, crazy man who put this together:

This is dedicated to all fans of Queen and hey let's not forget about Mike Myers and Dana Carvey of Wayne's World. No effects or sampling was used. What you see is what you hear (does that even make sense?)

Atari 800XL was used for the lead piano/organ sound
Texas Instruments TI-99/4a as lead guitar
8 Inch Floppy Disk as Bass
3.5 inch Harddrive as the gong
HP ScanJet 3C was used for all vocals. Please note I had to record the HP scanner 4 seperate [sic] times for each voice. I tried to buy 4 HP scanners but for some reason sellers on E-Bay expect you to pay $80-$100, I got mine for $30.

I keep hearing parts of the song are out of tune. Keep in mind the scanner and floppy drive are not musical instruments. These are mechanical devices whose motors tend to drift and can cause some notes to be out of tune.

Two Poems by Miklós Radnóti

2009-04-17T19:08:38Z

Clouded Sky

The moon hangs on a clouded sky.
I am surprised that I live.
Anxiously and with great care, death looks for us
and those it finds are all terribly white.

Sometimes a year looks back and howls
then drops to its knees.
Autumn is too much for me. It waits again
and winter waits with its dull pain.

The forest bleeds. The hours bleed.
Time spins overhead
and the wind scrawls
big dark numbers on the snow.

But I am still here
and I know why and why the air feels heavy -
a warm silence full of tiny noises circles me
just as it was before my birth.

I stop at the foot of a tree,
Its leaves cry with anger.
A branch reaches down. Is it strangling me?
I am not a coward. I am not weak, I am

tired. And silent. And the branch
is also mute and afraid as it enters my hair.
I should forget it, but I
forget nothing.

Clouds pour across the moon. Anger
leaves a poisonous dark-green bruise on the sky.
I roll myself a cigarette,
slowly, carefully. I live.

Jun 8 1940

The Terrifying Angel

The terrifying angel is invisible and silent
inside me, he doesn't scream today.
But then I hear a slight noise,
no louder than a grasshopper's jump.
I look around you and don't find anything.
It's him. But he's cautious now. He's getting ready.
Save me, Oh you who love me, love me bravely.
He hides when you're here. But as soon as you leave
he's back. He rises from the bottom of the soul,
screaming. And screaming he accuses me.
This insanity works inside me like poison.
He doesn't sleep much, lives both in and outside of me,
and when the moon is out, and in the white darkness,
he runs through the meadow in whistling sandals.
He searches my mother's grave an wakes her up.
"Was it worth it?" "Was it worth it?"
He whispers to her about rebellion, about giving in.
"You gave birth to him and he dies of it!"
Looking at me, sometimes he tears off
the pages of the calendar too soon.
"How long" and "where to"
depend on him forever now. Last night
his words fell into my heart
the way stones fall into water,
forming rings, wobbling, and spinning.
I was just going to bed, you were already asleep.
I stood there naked when he came in
and started to argue with me quietly.
There was a weird smell, his
breath chilled my ear. "Go ahead!"
He urged. "Skin shouldn't cover you.
You're raw meat and bare nerves.
Tear it off! After all, bragging about skin
is like bragging about prison,
it's crazy.
That thing all over you is only an illusion.
Here, here's the knife.
It doesn't hurt. It only takes a second, there's only a hiss!"

And the knife woke up on the table and flashed.

Aug 4 1943

BOOK MEME

2009-04-17T06:22:24Z

1) What Author Do You Own The Most Books By?
KA Applegate. I own all but a handful of the "Animorphs" series. SHUT UP, YOU DON'T KNOW ME.

2) What Book Do You Own The Most Copies Of?
Probably "Outlander": I think I have 3 copies of that.

3) What Fictional Character Are You Secretly In Love With?
Secretly? Not sure. Not so secretly? Jamie Fraser, fo sho. And Septimus Warren Smith. (How's that for a juxtaposition?)

4) What Book Have You Read More Than Any Other?
"Outlander". I probably read it 2-3 times a year. It's the book I read when I need to thoroughly escape the world.

5) What Was Your Favorite Book When You Were 10-Years-Old?
"The Giver" or "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry. I was a huuuge Lois Lowry fan. Well, I still am. =P

6) What Is The Worst Book You've Read In The Past Year?
I never finish bad books. Right now, I'd have to say, the Hannah Howell romance "Highland Bride" which was literally so awful that even the fact that it was about a Highlander couldn't force me to read it. I got to the part where the heroine was talking about how ashamed she was of her "huge milky breasts and tiny waist" and put it down. Which is really too bad, because Howell is super prolific and I am always on the prowl for series. Right now I'm also reading "Fallen Skies" by Phillipa Gregory, which is about the love between an innocent flapper and a shell-shocked soldier, which should be right up my alley, but honestly all of the characters are so unsympathetic I can't even tolerate it. I read that the protagonist, the shell-shocked soldier that the back cover leads me to believe I'm supposed to pity, is actually an abusive, manipulative fuckwit. Not exactly the tale of redemption I was hoping for, and I don't know if I really want to read something miserable just for misery's sake.

7) What Is The Best Book You've Read In The Past Year?
"Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro, although I actually first read it a couple of years ago. It's seriously fucking fantastic. I bawled forever at the end.

8) If You Could Tell Everyone You Know To Read One Book, What Would It Be?
I couldn't even say that, because I know very different people and thus would make very different suggestions. "Never Let Me Go" is magnificent, but I'd probably hawk "Outlander" because it's pretty multi-faceted.

9) What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read?
Challenging intellectually, or emotionally, or just damn hard to get through? Intellectually, probably anything by Virginia Woolf. Emotionally, "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood: I read it in a marathon read over two days, and then couldn't sleep afterwards. Damn hard to get through, "Lord of the Rings". BOOOOOO-RING.

10) Do You Prefer The French Or The Russians?
Can't say I'd be able to distinguish (hangs head)

11) Shakespeare, Milton Or Chaucer?
Shakespeare's a great go-to guy for plays (especially his tragedies because I am secretly forever a teenage girl), but Chaucer has a GREAT sense of humour.

12) Austen Or Eliot?
Eliot, I guess. I'm not going to try and pretend to be a big fan or anything.

13) What Is The Biggest Or Most Embarrassing Gap In Your Reading?
Like shibaiko, definitely the 19th century, which is made even more embarrassing by the fact that Victorian England was kind of my focus for History.

14) What Is Your Favorite Novel?
I can't even answer that, man. Different novels for different reasons.

15) Play?
AGH. "The Ecstasy of Rita Joe". Not exactly a tough pick, seeing as I'm not really all that much of a theatre buff. But that shit was great on paper: not sure how I'd like it performed, if it's followed literally.

16) Poem?
Still "Sunflower Sutra" by Ginsberg.

17) Essay?
Not my area.

18) Short Story?
OOOOH shit: Eden Robinson. "Queen of the North". Blood and guts in that one, man.

19) Non-Fiction?
I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on "A Pint of Plain" by Bill Barich, all about the evolution and commodification of Irish pub culture. (drooling sounds)

20) Graphic Novel?
I'd love to use "V for Vendetta" as a teaching tool, but I honestly prefer the movie esthetically. I think novel and movie interact in a really interesting way though.

21) Science Fiction?
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". . . but NOT BLADERUNNER. Oh, and "Oryx and Crake"

22) Who Is Your Favorite Writer?
I dunno, I like books, not really authors. I like Diana Gabaldon alot, but at this point in the "Outlander" series I think she's starting to suffer from Anne Rice syndrome, but without the ego. But the "Lord John" books have gotten progressively stronger. (The latest one was fucking fantastic, okay).

23) Who Is The Most Overrated Writer Alive Today?
All of the authors I really hate aren't really "overrated", they just have disproportionate popularity to their talent: Dan Brown and Stephanie Meyer, to beat a dead horse.

24) What Are You Reading Right Now?
"Fallen Skies" by Gregory, and "The Serpent's Tale" by Ariana Franklin.

25) Best Memoir?
Can't say I have ever (or will ever) read one.

26) Best History?
Like, in general? Shit, IDK, I read alot of that shit. "The Jacobite Song" was pretty rockin', but that's not really popular history. I'm really trying to get a hold of Niall Ferguson's book on WWI, which Rob praised endlessly and it seems to have a delicious anti-British thesis which you KNOW I am all over haha.

27) Best Mystery Or Noir?
I don't know if they count, but I like Ariana Franklin's medieval mysteries, and Diana Gabaldon's pseudo-fantasy mysteries with Lord John, although I like those more for the human element of the character than for the actual mystery component (which I can take or leave).

heddychaa @ 2009-04-13T16:58:00

2009-04-13T23:59:40Z

Declan is home for the evening so I am making:

http://elise.com/recipes/archives/000457roast_beef.php
http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/007348yorkshire_pudding.php
http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001823turnip_and_potato_patties.php?Layout=Printer

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