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The Read While Waiting Project

August 16th, 2008 at 5:46 am » Comments (2)

Found at Penni’s
While I would argue that the majority of time I spend daydreaming as I wait for something is usually cooking up blog posts, assembling lots of important ‘to-do’ lists, or even thinking about writing, I do see the value of such an exercise because:
Anything that advocates reading in general is a-ok in my […]


Dubious and dualing moralities in The Dark Knight *spoiler alert*

August 7th, 2008 at 8:43 pm » Comments (6)

This is the second subject I’m currently writing about offline.
I recently went and saw TDK and it is seriously one of the most impressive movies, script-wise, I’ve seen in a long time. Then I twittered this little piece and ever since cannot get it out of my head.
I want to ask all of you who’ve seen the […]


Loan me your lovely, plump cerebral cortexes. We’re having a flashback

August 6th, 2008 at 4:22 pm » Comments (11)

I’m currently writing an essay. Well, two actually, but this first one is on:
“Pictorial representations of freedom and desire in the pre-pubescent child”
Or:
“When you were a kid, what kind of posters did you slap up on your door/walls?”
[The first one sounds so posh, eh? You want to use it? Sure, okay.]
The trouble is, I can’t remember […]


Heads up: Sitemeter may be crashing your blog in Internet Explorer

August 2nd, 2008 at 9:44 pm » Comments (4)

I’ve spent the better part of this afternoon wondering why my blog wouldn’t open in Internet Explorer. All I got was an “Operation Aborted” message.
Frankly, it was really pissing me off.
Then my lovely husband got his laptop out and did some detective work and found that the Site Meter problem (it had also been down […]