planning the revolution

So, apparently, LJ does work on this connection. Awesome. I'm not going to complain. I am going to complain about life above the store, though, because there is NO FUCKING SPACE JEEBUS. Seriously. I just want somewhere to read!

I have been reading. I've finally picked up House of Sleep and I now only have a little more to read. Over in one day tch tch. I'll talk more about it when I'm done with it. Then I have poetry to read for class and I should really start doing actual work but we all know that I'll be leaving that for at least next week.

Ah, Christmas hath happened. Before I move to that, I'd like to wish hestia8 a belated happy birthday! I hope you had a lovely day and weren't cheated out of giftage just because you were born so close to Christmas :p *celebrates*

OK, so, we went to Surrey and spent the day with the cousins. There was food (none of which was eaten by me, by the way; I never put on weight at Christmas. I am the only person to lose weight over the Christmas break. Seriously) and there was drink (I had a bit of baileys but my tastebuds are still shot to hell so I ended up ditching that, too) and there was much talking. Endless talking. There were also gifts. tigertrapped, thank you! I'm going to take those back to uni with me to put on the minifridge that I have to take out of my cupboard sometime soon. My cousins got me a box of brainteasers that we started to work through on Christmas day, the rents bought me a poncho, a scarf brooch, a shaver (hehe, weeeiiird) and stuff; I got DVDs from P and V, Happenstance from crouchingmajor (thank yooou!) and candles from Baby Cousin et al. Nice homey stuffs. Awww.

Ooh, I have random squeeage! One: OMGBSGYAY! Two: OMGBSG SPOILER PIC YAY! Three: OMGDONEPPESYAY! Four: OMGNEWSPNYAY! And Just Like Heaven is out next week, huzzah! I have been film crazy recently. I've watched Dogma, Snatch, Chronicles of Riddick and TV films. Tonight BBC is showing Signs which I will be watching if I manage to (a) finish House of Sleep and (b) can stay awake. Being teh sick means that I'm totally knackered all the time.

Lastly, whoever it is that gave me the orchestral cover version of Metallica's Nothing Else Matters is my very bestest friend because it is too awesome! iTunes also informs me that I have vocal versions by Lucie Silvas (meh) and Bif Naked (w00t!) but this version (Apocalyptica???) is by far the very very best. And no words! Huzzah!

ETA: Oh, how could I forget? It's been snowing. A lot. Be a dear, snow, and fuck off. Hate.