Best of luck! May you heal swiftly and completely.

Just started season 3 of Justified, which I believe is considered one of the lesser seasons? I'm liking it fine so far though.

It's basically this guy

Happy belated birthday!

Still on An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears, which I'm enjoying a lot. While it does have an actual plot, it feels like the author was mostly interested in conveying the 17th century mindsets of his point-of-view characters, the first of whom is a physician. Some of his ideas are quite hair-raising even to me…

You're probably smarter than I was and already know this, but: if you need to buy sheets, for the love of god do not just buy them and put them on your bed without washing them first. I did that when I moved into my flat, and within three days I was sleeping on a scummy film of grossness because all the chemicals that…

I read Goon Squad a few years ago. I remember being underwhelmed at the time, and that is the only thing I remember about it now. (OK, that and something with PowerPoint slides).

Demore Barnes too! And Jonathan Tucker is in it. All my favourite nutjobby Hannibal guest murderers!

Fuck this endless sinusitis I appear to have contracted.

Really sorry to hear this went so shittily south.

Whoah. I'm a little annoyed that I may end up footing part of the bill for the headstone for my estranged alcoholic aunt (long story; also, it's not something I can easily afford), but surely, some things you just have to do, as a matter of basic respect. Your great aunt's kids sound like weapons-grade tossers.

Finished Angels by Denis Johnson, which I ended up liking more than I thought I would, but it's still a very bleak, very 1970s sort of book that didn't really come together for me.

Sorry to hear you're having a rough time, MLA. Hang in there, and don't hesitate to remind yourself that you've achieved something really fantastic over the past 0.82 years/9.95 months/304 days. (Giving cookies to homeless people is another of the many things that make you a great person - put a smile on my face to…

Good luck!

It really is. Then again, calling a referendum, then flailing wildly to oppose a proposition that wouldn't be out there if they hadn't made it, all while squabbling amongst themselves like three-year olds fighting over a toy truck, seems about par for the course for our chinless wonders of a ruling class.

That sounds awful, my sympathies.

Still reading Angels by Denis Johnson. Still finding it a little too 70s for my taste, but the plot has picked up a lot, and it's not unfolding quite as I'd expected, so I'm getting on better than I thought I would. I doubt it's going to be a favourite, mind.

Fuck this project I'm stuck on. It was initially supposed to last three weeks, which was a short but manageable timeframe for the amount of work it was expected to require. Instead, it's now dragged on for six weeks, including an entire week during which I sat around doing nothing and not being able to do any other…

What the fuck do we have an opposition for, I sometimes wonder. I could have sworn they used to, y'know, oppose things, but nowadays they just seem to wave everything on through. Fuckers.

I'm afraid it does, yes. But hey, those people are at least theoretically allowed to vote. As a long-time expat living elsewhere in Europe, I'm not, although the outcome could actually affect people like me a lot more than people who live in the UK.