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Jan. 6th, 2004 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadnanI still haven't quite got the hang of this back to work thing... I do actually have something relatively simple and straightforward to do, but I'm feeling highly unmotivated.
Inspired by my sad inability to think of a "best of 2003"* list for the Culture, I'm intending to try and keep a record of books read, and films seen, here this year. It'll be more for personal use than anything else, and therefore more likely to be sketchy notes than proper reviews; but I think I shall probably leave them public: I shall put them behind a cut and keep them separate both from my normal wittering posts and from my attempts at semi-serious commentary. I have vague intentions to try and make more of a distinction between those, and write more of the latter too, but I suspect that all of this will go by the board by the end of January anyway. Anyway, it isn't a New Year's Resolution. It can't be because I Don't Do New Year's Resolutions.
I'm going to an Oxford Gaudy on Saturday. I fully expect poison pen letters. Sadly, I suspect Harriet Vane will not be present, nor are the President and Dean of Corpus Christi quite up to Sayers's standards. However, this does mean I shall be around in Oxford and free on both Saturday afternoon and some of Sunday, if anyone there wants to meet for a drink.
*Best Films: City of God, Nine Queens, Pirates of the Caribbean. I do think that LotR as a whole was extremely good, almost as good as it could be, but insofar as it's actually sensible to consider them separately RotK is the weakest of the three. I haven't really got anywhere with Best Books, but remind me to say something about Cup of the World by John Dickinson (children's fantasy) sometime.
Inspired by my sad inability to think of a "best of 2003"* list for the Culture, I'm intending to try and keep a record of books read, and films seen, here this year. It'll be more for personal use than anything else, and therefore more likely to be sketchy notes than proper reviews; but I think I shall probably leave them public: I shall put them behind a cut and keep them separate both from my normal wittering posts and from my attempts at semi-serious commentary. I have vague intentions to try and make more of a distinction between those, and write more of the latter too, but I suspect that all of this will go by the board by the end of January anyway. Anyway, it isn't a New Year's Resolution. It can't be because I Don't Do New Year's Resolutions.
I'm going to an Oxford Gaudy on Saturday. I fully expect poison pen letters. Sadly, I suspect Harriet Vane will not be present, nor are the President and Dean of Corpus Christi quite up to Sayers's standards. However, this does mean I shall be around in Oxford and free on both Saturday afternoon and some of Sunday, if anyone there wants to meet for a drink.
*Best Films: City of God, Nine Queens, Pirates of the Caribbean. I do think that LotR as a whole was extremely good, almost as good as it could be, but insofar as it's actually sensible to consider them separately RotK is the weakest of the three. I haven't really got anywhere with Best Books, but remind me to say something about Cup of the World by John Dickinson (children's fantasy) sometime.
