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Yay! Replacement copy of the DFC heading my way. An what a nice reply I got from them.

"We are so sorry that this misfortune befell your Issue 37!"

( World Domination Meme )

Heading to a pervasive games night tomorrow, with hawkida and potentially a few Joinees.

I told a story about getting in trouble in at school to hawkida, purplecthulhu, major_clanger, tanngrisnir, and Alice WIPIOLJ,AQPOMFL,BIANS¹.

It seems that offensive_mango has declared this to be a meme today, so I'd better share.

I went to a fairly relaxed senior school. On lunch time a bunch of sixth fromers found a supply of parcel tape somewhere. So naturally taped a guy to chair and took him out to a the school roundabout. After flailing for a bit he managed to tip the chair over to the amusement of the younger school kids who's started watching. A teacher marched over, picked the chair up, put it back up right, and left him taped to it.

I only got in serious trouble twice.

The first time I got sent to the head's office for fighting (there are over 1500 students there, so this really is a rarity). I was probably in year 9 was playing football against a bunch of year 7s. One particularly little one had decided he had something to prove, so was trying to pick a fight with the tallest guy there. Me. Now I was really scrawny, and have never been a fighter, so he'd have better off trying to wind up almost anyone else.

Eventually he got to me though. When he pulled yet another two footed tackle after I'd passed the ball, rather than dodge, I let him take my feet out, and promptly fell over. On his face. Elbow first. And got caught out by dinner lady.

The other time was a my only ever detention. I was sitting the middle of the room in front of the teacher. On either side of the classroom where a couple of seat warmers who were decided to have elastic band / paper wad war. Being directly between them I got hit a fair few times, so discreetly returned fire. But the grey matter deficient guy on the left took umbridge at the class geek joining in their game, so walked over and socked me one. Right in front the teacher. All three of us paper flingers got detention.

I was at least allowed to serve it separately from them. I spent a couple of evenings stacking chairs with a nice kid, who been caught picking the lock on the vending machine restock cupboard.


¹ Who I presume is on livejournal, and quite possibly on my f-list, but I am not sure.

Finished my Christmas shopping yesterday. Phew!

Oh, and read a Buffy comic. I found 7 of the old graphic novels in a Crouch End charity shop for a pound each.

I was looking forward to being able to put down dinner with some of my old corridor mates from Uni tonight as the final entry in the happy meme thing, but that's been postponed now.

I was tagged by raven_mocara and I like the idea of this.

The rules are that for 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day. Tag 8 people to do the same.

I'm tagging: blacktimberwolf, odacamilla, arborophile, pinkhebe, watervole, darth_tigger, bugshaw, sharikkamur, andrewducker as they are the last 8 people to leave comments.

I ought to write about the Random Act of Kindness march up Regent Street on Saturday, as that was really great fun. But I have something else to post for today, that I think I'll put behind a filter.

I've seen a few of these Wordle Clouds today, so here's my effort:

That's 7 months of facebook status updates. I appear to have spent my time eating, drinking, reading, heading out in London, going to Canada, and going Woo!

Sounds about right.

Did anyone hear about the mobile Sci-Fi library associated with the Folkestone Triennial on the Today show this morning? I can't find much about it online, and it sounded interesting.

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The zombie apocalypse if it's not only humans affected.

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( Zombie meme )

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( LJ 'You may also be interested in' meme )
I think I prefer the original one. I'll probably add a few to my list. Although I'm not sure why. I've never been able do any sort of search based on it. I wonder who my humanist friends are?
seen at Rhionnach's

These are the top 106 [EDIT: I count 105 here] books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you own but have not read.

Seen at offensive_mango

( Unread book meme )

I really ought to do a recap on my new years resolutions soon. Get back on target.