"This is double-plus-un-not-annoying!"

[usuallyhats]

What I did at the weekend:

- Cut my hair! Well, actually, I had it cut on Tuesday and I really liked it, apart from these two long bits at the front which were driving me mad because one of them flicked out and the other flicked under, as my hair does, so on Saturday I grabbed a pair of scissors and just hacked them off. Possibly I will regret this but for the moment I am v. pleased.

- Cleared out my flat a bit more, sadly I am so slow at this that by the time I have done the last bit the bit I did first will need redoing. I have sorted out a few things (mostly books) to go to the charity shop, but if any of y'all want them I am happy to post 'em to you instead, they are: a Pigeon Post mug like so (which I am only getting rid of cos I have two of them); The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt (full disclosure: I only managed sixty pages of this); Excession and The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks; Storm Front, White Night, Proven Guilty, Small Favour (hardback), Blood Rites, Death Masks and Summer Knight by Jim Butcher; and two stand-up comedy CDs, one Alan Davies, the other Mitchell and Webb.

- Finished The West Wing season two, cried my eyes out even though I knew full well what was going to happen. I didn't know all the details, but as soon as the Pres told Mrs Landingham to drive back to the White House after picking up her car I knew he was going to regret saying that :( It really was a fantastic last episode; I think this is pretty much also a KNOWN FACT like CJ's awesomeness. I don't have much to say about it other than !!! so I will stop typing now. Annoyingly some rotter had borrowed season three before I could get to the library so I got the first season of Mad Men instead.

- Read Knife, by rj_anderson, which was terrific, I thoroughly recommend it to anyone who likes YA fantasy. I loved the characters, particularly Thorn: they all felt very realistic (er, except for the "being faeries" thing) and I loved how the faeries were neither twee nor gratuitously vicious, it made a nice change! I have a feeling that I read somewhere that there's a sequel in the works; I hope this is true.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I was going to look and see if the public library has 'Knife' but the library catalogue's down, annoyingly! *pouts*

[usuallyhats]

Argh, how irritating. I expect they'll have it; if not, you are very welcome to borrow my copy!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll get back to you on that one once the catalogue's back up.

[the-smut-fairy.livejournal.com]

Bagsy the Banks books. Not sure if I have those two at home, but I can give them to a charity shop if I do. Bring them on Thursday?

[usuallyhats]

Will do. They're quite pretty editions!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ha! I've cut annoying bits of my hair like that. My hairdresser doesn't seem to notice, or she's too polite to say so. :-P

There are Swallows and Amazons mugs! Properly used around a camp fire with bun cake, of course. Nope, I can't get yours or any others: the freight's too much. If you don't want two (which would be a set) I assume you have the others. All of them?

Someone else I know also really liked Knife. I should see if the library has it.

[usuallyhats]

I only have that one, alas, but I have two of it and I prefer all my mugs to be different! Also, the only way I could fit a new mug into my cupboard would be to break one of the old ones :/ It's a shame the shipping costs are so steep.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You don't want to break one! I hope it goes to a good home. :-)

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

West wing: Yeah! CJ is always cool.
Hair: Well..? pics?

[usuallyhats]

Every time I watch an episode I am reminded again how marvellous she is :D

I tried to take some pictures of my haircut, but alas, none of them came out particularly well :(