Okay, I am off to York for an archaeology dig for the next week. So, if you send me a message and I don't respond... don't take it personally. I'm not ignoring you, I'm just digging with a trowel.

Someone steered me over to the website about science tattoos. Some were impressive, some made me smile or roll my eyes. Still haven't worked my way through all of them...

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/science-tattoo-emporium/

Me, procrastinate during uni? No! /sarcasm

Muppet's Christmas Carol is one of my favourites. I always like 'Miracle on 34th Street' too.

It's not a movie or TV show but my family reads the poem 'Night Before Christmas' every year on Christmas Eve.

Damn laptop has died.

Or rather, the powercord has which means I can't even plug the laptop into the wall or recharge the battery. I knew my old cord was dying, so I went and bought a new one on Friday. Took in the laptop and tested the new cord out. It worked fine, took it home and it started being twitchy but the new one came with a variety of plug attachments so I fiddled until I found one that worked. Laptop was charging all saturday but stopped working on Sunday. Wouldn't work at all on Monday unless I physically held the plug in the laptop with my hand, which started to cramp after 5 minutes so I definitely wasn't leaving it there all day!

*sigh*

Went back this morning to discover the store I bought the new plug from is closed for Christmas and won't re-open until the 11th January. Thank god I saved all my work to USB, so I can still read articles and play around with data. It just means that I no longer have a home computer (except to occasionally check dhaliom's). So, if I seem absent for a while it's not just Christmas, I may be in internet withdrawl...

Currently English and Indonesian. If I could learn another language at the moment, it would be German. I have picked up random words and phrases from watching tv shows like Kommissar Rex and Bronski und Bernstein. I have some language books but I haven't really made a decent effort... yet.

Okay, I'm off to Rottnest for a conference for a week. Serious upsides to this and I'm going to be ignoring the stress associated with the talk I actually have to give myself.

Bring on the quokkas!!

From zoi_no_miko. I'm going to be keeping this short as I'm still incredibly behind on NaNoWriMo but I need a break. Some of these cross-overs are sowing seeds of inspiration but I cannot write them until after NaNoWriMo and Yuletide are finished with.

1. Write down the names of 10 characters.
2. Write a fic of fifteen words or less for every prompt, using the characters determined by the numbers. Do NOT read the prompts before you do step 1.

1. John Winchester (Supernatural)
2. Richard Moser (Inspector Rex)
3. Selene (Underworld)
4. Tom Quinn (Spooks)
5. Gene Hunt (Life on Mars)
6. John Shepherd (Stargate Atlantis)
7. Ellie Simm (Spooks)
8. Maisey Simm (Spooks)
9. Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG1)
10. Cal Lightman (Lie to Me)

( 11 Combinations )

My first instinct is to say, absolutely none! Certainly not on religious grounds (e.g. Harry Potter or Twilight). I can maybe see the grounds of banning pornography and things that are already fairly restricted in general distribution. There was a book on drug-taking that we read in 1st year university that was quite disturbing but it was quite educational.

Mostly censorship of books makes me think of the high-school that my brother and sister went to, where they'd probably try and ban books for talking about 'evolution' as science...
Occasionally I fantasize about a reality where books on 'intelligent design' are banned - but then I feel guilty about being prejudiced.