Stuff

Hyper finished exams on Thursday, so we went and got trashed Thursday night with Loud and Nora and met up with Wry-Guy and crew. Drank way too much beer (James Squires on tap). Stumbled out. Was almost nauseous already. Once outside, Loud suggested we go to Borscht, Vodka and Tears. We had absinthe shots and then baby jesus's. So bad. But we all got to sleep in except Loud who had to get up at 6 to go to work.

Friday I hung out with Fleur. Was a bit hungover all day. Nothing too bad, just that detached OOBE feeling. We went for coffee, then did a bit of shopping. Later we went and met up with her friend Ocky, visiting from the City Beneath The Mountains, and took her to two cocktail bars. Was supposed to go out with Haclev later, but couldn't be bothered.

Slept most of Saturday away. In the evening I met up with Ellen and Ophelia and Ellen's friend Blister, up from The Island and had pizza and a couple of drinks, then we found a fantastic warehouse party up north in the more recently Boho-hippy areas. There was an excellent jazzy band. There was a guy dressed in a bunny suit. There were several people glammed up in super 80's freako gear (gold lamé turbans, much make-up, etc.), and there were also several people in bathrobes and shower caps, and then there were two people with walking sticks and smoking pipes. And the dj's played some nice toons, etc. Had an excellent dance till the early hours.

Sunday - more sleeping...

Monday - went to the NGV and saw The Impressionists exhibition. Which I'd like to wax about, but am all written out for today I think. Overall: not as overwhelming as I'd hoped. Some good stuff, but not the big names really, and I think if you hadn't been to the Musee d'Orsay, you might've been disappointed (lack of context?). They had ONE Monet Haystacks, which was good of course, but just so didn't have the impact of even the Monet tour a couple of years ago which had like 3-4 Haystacks? It's just so much more impressive when you can see the massive changes in colours and light and shadow. There was limited Cezanne, but I was happy to learn about cloisonnism and Bernard and seeing the progression to Gaugin. It looked like they tried to push the role of women in forming the Impressionist movement with some Eva Gonzales and Berthe ... Morisot? um... in the first gallery, but they couldn't keep it up for the rest of the rooms. There was also a fair amount of pretty non-impressionist paintings, like pre-impressionist I guess (Tissot, um, that other first one), with some context and relationship to the roots of the movement, but which seemed kind of out of place. I liked Courbet's beach at Tourville, Russell's Garden at Les something? Corp-Sainte, Sisley's Snow at Louveciennes and Denys' kind of art deco style Ladder in the Leaves. They also had an interesting earlier Degas (the Opera Orchestra) which showed an orchestra in the opera pit painted very much realistically and in detail, but then in the background in the upper quarter of the canvas, you could see the legs and skirts of the ballet dancers in that classic Degas impressionist style.

10:45:00 PM

 
Um, haven't update on weekend *before* last. Saw LTJ Bukem on Sunday night and had a good boogie. Met some of Haclev's friends. He seems to be a bit of a hub.

Am sure I did stuff Fri and Sat too, but can't remember what!
7:51:00 PM

 
And they still haven't gotten to my report :)

Life good.

Last Wed I went to a rather cool Japanese bar in Fitzroy called Ume (Umé?) for going away drinks for Ophelia (Loud's arty friend). They had a range of sake, and a rather enticing menu. Although I'd had dinner just an hour earlier, I was easily convinced to share a bowl of noodley soup. Will have to go back and try some of their other dishes.

Thursday night I went and met Ellen and Della at a little bar in the city underneath Ellen's studio. She's been working ridiculous hours all semester (working part-time as an engineer and starting this new architecture degree), often going without sleep. But she finished this semester on Tuesday, so had time to stop for a drink. Made her some brownies, plus some for Della who's been v good at taking care of her and making sure she eats, etc. (which I'd fully intended to occasionally do, but hadn't). Then had late night dinner at funny old school late night Italian café.

Friday night I went for some more going away drinks for the Organometallicist (only going for a conference and break, back in a few weeks) at the Lambs Go Bar. Drank too much. Baaad. Then hung out with Haclev and went to Cookie. Got the Pom and his girl Ida to meet us at Loop for more drinks. Hoegaarden on tap. And Haclev started us on cocktails. Very bad. Home by 5ish I think.

Up at 1pm. Not too bad. Must've remembered to rehydrate. Call from Laetitia and Time (yes, the newly married couple) who scored some of those $48 flights over from the West and were staying with me for the weekend. They said they'd make it round in a couple of hours. So (after hot shower and amino acid rich brekky) I did a slightly frantic room clean (finally! have been meaning to do that for a couple of months!) and dust and fresh sheets - didn't manage to vacuum before they arrived, but room looked the best it's been in a while. They'd had the red-eye flight and not slept and been catching up with rellies all day and were massively tired, but wanted to stay up, so we went for coffee on local yuppie strip and had a catch up about their new house reno's and wedded life and mutual friends, etc. Afterward, they really needed a nap before dinner, so they snoozed while I ran some Saturday errands and arranged dinner.

We met up with Fleur and Neiman at Thy Thy, a divey bustling cheap and popular Vietnamese place in Richmond. Oredered a stack of food. Had beers. Caught up some more. Then back to Fleur and Neiman's around the corner for more beers, and some Aussie hip hop (which Laetitia has been into for like a decade).

Home by midnightish, and they went straight to bed, but I stayed up with Hyper and watched bad tv (Scarface) until the early morning and then Nora came over too and they kept me up till like 4am. Which was a little annoying as I had to get up for brekky at 8! But the too early half-priced brekky at a place called Red Orange (just around the corner from me) was pretty good. Will have to do it again some time.

Then a big day of shopping! Tim appreciated the company while Laetitia showed some stunning shopping stamina. We did Bridge Road rather thoroughly for a good couple of hours. Then up to Brunswick Rd. When Laetitia flagged, we stopped for lunner at the Veggie Bar, which was excellent as always. After that we caught up with one of L's friends working just over at Kathmandu on Smith St, where they were having a sale and I picked up some bargain thermals (which I'd been meaning to look into).

Home and hung for a bit. L and T out to try a Lebanese restaurant, but I was all fooded out, so I stayed home and hung with the housemates. Then after dinner F and N came over and we all went to a rather flash cocktail bar near their place called Der Raum. An excellent range of martinis and cocktails and liqueurs and other rather upmarket (and up-priced) drinks. I tried a Haiku (based around nashi pear and ginger) and a Manzana de la Fuego (based around apple and jalapeno!). Both good. But home all too soon, and then sleep, and then up early to say bye to L&T as they left for their 9am flight back west.
7:06:00 PM

 
Yes! Still no word from funding body about that report :) Could go home now!

But maybe updateage first.

Also, latest reading:

Hunting Party Elizabeth Moon: Trashy mil-SF, quick to read, quite enjoyed, will prob read rest of series if at library;

The Blank Slate Steven Pinker: Actually only 3/4 way through, but someone recalled it at library :( Will have to borrow again. Preface v offputting with straw men about how the mind is viewed as a blank slate in modern western society, but really good for most of rest, and lots of good arguments and logic and proper data and refs;

Philosophy: The classics Nigel Warburton: Really good summaries of some of the classics in philosophy, which will help direct my further reading. Also really enjoyed cos at the end of each chapter it has a section on the main objections other philosophers have had to the arguments of the classic philosphers, and I almost always manage to come up with the same objections before reaching that bit - is all nice and common-sense-ish;

A new spring Robert Jordan: V trashy fantasy. And a little boring.

As it said on the list, just a few weeks ago I read Gaudy Night by D.L. Sayers;

40 signs of rain Kim Stanley Robinson: ok, not gripping. Mars way better...

Am sure I've read more trashy SF, have returned books to library like twice... but what could they have been?

8:26:00 PM

 
Report submitted last Friday. They haven't read it yet. So will have to come in tomorrow to check. Have had good weekend. Esp brunch on Sunday for Oliver [update: argh, somewhere along line I changed blognym to "Oat", so hard to keep these straight - maybe rename "Renaissance Man"? More memorable...] which went from 11am to 5pm. Yum. And really like Oliver, wish we hung out more.

From Exp_err, much much too long, tempted to cut it off at 200 (and so omit some of the more embarrassing things I've read), but...:

- bold those you've read
- italicise started-but-never-finished
- underline those you own but haven't gotten to yet

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller (I read the ending though)
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson may have been kids abridged version...
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell again possibly the abridged...
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky started sooo many times...
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Suskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett (on pile at moment though)
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome took me so long to finish...
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker abridged...
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
48. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley abridged?
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, V.C. Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Raft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Black Bird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Jester
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setter's Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookman's Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magic's Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magic's Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magic's Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison.
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
302. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lion's Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu reading this now actually!
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith's Brood), Octavia Butler (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago)
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
322. Beowulf, Anonymous
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magic's Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O'Neill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L'Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
336. The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
343. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
350. Time for bed by David Baddiel
351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
353. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
354. Sewer, Gas, and Electric by Matt Ruff
355. Jhereg by Steven Brust
356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
367. Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner
368. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
369. Dreamhouse, Alison Habens
370. Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
371. Prospero's Children, Jan Siegel
372. Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers
373. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
374. Enchantment, Orson Scott Card
375. Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
376. Beauty, Sheri S. Tepper
377. The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector
378. The Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett
379. Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
380. A wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le'Guin
381. Assassin's Apprentice, Robin Hobb
382. The Axis Trilogy, Sara Douglass
383. Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
384. Sabriel, Garth Nix
385. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
386. The Silence of the Lambs, Robert Harris
387. The Hot Zone, Richard Preston
388. Talking to High Monks in the Snow, by Lydia Minatoya
389. The Women of Brewster Place, by Gloria Naylor
390. Their Eyes were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
391. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Bird
392. The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
393. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
394. Bridget Jones - The Edge Of Reason, Helen Fielding
395. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK Rowling
396. I Never Promised You A Rosegarden, Hannah Green
397. Fool's Fate, Robin Hobb
398. A kiss of shadows, Laurell K. Hamilton
399. Sacajawea, Anne Lee Waldo
400. The Red Room - Nicci French
401. The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin
402. Dragon Wing - Weis&Hickman
403. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
404. The Runaway Jury - John Grisham
405. Catch Me If You Can - Frank W. Abagnale
406. How to Make an American Quilt - Whitney Otto
407. Mary, Called Magdalene - Margaret George
408. The Iliad - Homer
409. The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
410. Native Son - Richard Wright
411. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
412. The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
413. The Dead Zone - Stephen King
414. Dragons of Autumn Twilight - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
415. Way of the Peaceful Warrior - Dan Millman
416. The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis
417. In my Brother's Image - Eugene L. Pogany
418. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
419. Memory Sorrow and Thorn - Tad Williams
420. The Things They Carried - Tim O?Brien
421. Kushiel's Legacy Trilogy, Jaqueline Carey
422. Pattern Recognition, Willaim Gibson
423. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino
424. Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut
425. A Light in the Attic, Shel Silverstein
426. The Science of Superman, ?????
427. The Shining, Stephen King
428. The Black Gryphon, Mercedes Lackey
29. Stupid White Men, Michael Moore
430. Ploughing the Dark - Richard Powers
431. The Dark is Rising sequence - Susan Cooper
432. The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
433. Dissolution - Richard Lee Byers
434. Treachery and Treason - (ed.) Laura Anne Gilman and Jennifer Heddle
435. The Robots of Dawn - Isaac Asimov
436. I Robot - Isaac Asimov
437. Elric of Melnibone - Michael Moorcock
438. Redwall - Brian Jaques
439. The Deverry Series - Katherine Kerr
440. Dragon's Blood - Jane Yolen
441. The Silver Metal Lover - Tanith Lee
442. The Antichrist - Friedrich Nietzche
443. Galilee - Clive Barker
444. The Revenger's Tragedy - Cyril Tourneur (or Thomas Middleton)
445. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
446. They're A Weird Mob - Nino Culotta
447. The Borribles - Michael de Larrabeiti
448. Only Forward, Michael Marshall Smith
449. Illuminatus!, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
450. Blackburn, Bradley Denton
451. The Road to Mars - Eric Idle
452. The Shape of Snakes - Minnette Walters
453. Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams
7:41:00 PM

 
Friday night we went to a restaurant where Nora's brother is head chef. Nora (who has been 'seeing' Hyper since a certain dinner party) drove me and Loud and Hyper there. It was out in the boonies, but quite posh, and also quite large (seats like 100+). They also had Hoegaarden on tap. They gave us some very good local olives, and pomme frites with mayo while we were waiting for everyone else. Nora had mainly organized people from her lab (which is also WryGuy's lab), so met a few new people, plus caught up with WryGuy and girl and his sister Darla. Also Metro, and Euan (who I think was in my room a couple of people before I moved in). One girl was about to finish her phd and already had a job with some ultracool lab in NY. One guy was a watchmaker. Another guy regaled me with some Freudian psychoanalysis of The Hobbit which he'd just been reading involving the Oedipal castration anxiety of Bilbo toward Gandalf. I also went and watched a tiny bit of Collingwood vs West Coast on the screen around the corner with Darla (mainly so I could text speshal_k). Alternated Hoegaarden with Kronenbourg 1664? 1667? and Stella. Got a little bit trashed. Had an excellent sumac salad with roast vegetables and a pomegranate dressing (pomegranate was a total gimmick, a few seeds, but not particularly pome-tasty), and tried some of Loud's mussels, and then shared a waffle with chocolate ice cream for dessert. Was all good.
1:22:00 AM

 
Report still not finished, but is getting pretty close - finally! Office v quiet at moment. A couple of people at conference over in Middle Earth. Is also study break, so campus is quiet.

News, my exhousemate Daria just rang me, she just found out that she got the transfer she's been angling for at her company from the branch Out West to one over here which specializes much more in her other/previous degree! And next year she has a one year spesh/prestige associateship before going back to that branch.

Other news, Sam is also coming out here for three weeks in a couple of weeks.

Also, weekend just past was So Damn Good. Hyper and Loud have made up and all is well in the house. Nora's kind of kidnapped Hyper a bit though, and I kind of miss hanging out with him (although really, haven't been home much to do so). Knutter's exams have just finished, so she'll be less stressed. Unfortunately, the Pom is going travelling in 6 weeks time - so time to look for a new housemate :( Don't *think* Daria would want to have to handle this level of sharehousing... And, well... not sure if I want her to move in again, I've been so lucky with the calibre of housemates, I want to push it and get another shiny new one. But it would be less stressful for everyone if I *did* get her to move in...
10:26:00 PM

 
I haven't been able to find any googlebombs for Tiananmen - can't find a more official Chinese Government Homepage anywhere :P And should probably link to China.
4:53:00 PM

 
Um, then slept most of Sunday too. Got up, made chicken korma. Hung out. Went back to bed.

The week has been pretty blah so far. Really really really need to finish this project this week. So hanging out for weekend.
12:07:00 AM