Oh lord, what fools we mortals be...
Mar. 8th, 2004 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadnanHo hum.
Accomplished precisely two things this weekend: a hangover and a significant improvement in the cesspit into which my flat had been descending.
Had I been writing this on Sunday evening I would also be able to say I had accomplished the rebirth of my laptop. Unfortunately, shortly after doing so I did something so abysmally stupid that I shudder to think about it, and the end result is that the bastard machine has had to go in for repairs anyway. Significantly more cheaply than originally quoted though: thank something for small mercies. In the meantime I am reduced to borrowing one of the clerks' machines on which to work when there's one free, for the next couple of days. Bugger.
Had there been a Midsomer Murders on last night I wouldn't have been pissing about on the machine while logged in as root and my life would be improved beyond measure. Or possibly somewhat, anyway. So I blame the ITV schedulers. And Janet Jackson, obviously.
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Last week's case did make it into The Times... I had rather hoped that when a case of mine appeared there it would be in the Law Reports, for arguing a novel and interesting point of law, not in the news section.
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Still, there are good things in life. They include comp. tickets to the pre-Raphaelite landscapes exhibition for tonight, and a copy of Joan Aiken's penultimate novel. They don't seem to include free sex, free intoxication or free holidays somewhere hot, but I'm sure that's only a matter of time.
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I just re-read Barry Unsworth's Songs of the Kings and Dan Simmons' Ilium in quick succession. Though both are very good books I don't advise it: I managed to rather confuse myself on which book was which. I'm quite keen to see the Troy film, though I'm not sure Brad Pitt is really going to cut it as Achilles and I forsee another dose of Clash of the Titans/Jason and the Argonauts style lunacy. (I'm pretty sure Simmons references those films in Ilium, by the way.)
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Date: 2004-03-09 02:32 am (UTC)RSVP: No. I am rubbish. The Reply is an enthusiastic yes and the card has been lodged in my notebook with other Important Things To Do since it arrived. I have no excuse and if I behaved like this in my professional life I would expect a negligence action. If I loan you the Aiken would it make up for it?
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Date: 2004-03-09 03:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-09 09:10 am (UTC)Hmm. I think I might stick out at a hen night.
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Date: 2004-03-09 06:10 pm (UTC)b) Rob needs the emotional support.
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Date: 2004-03-10 10:42 am (UTC)(b) oh, ok then. When?
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Date: 2004-03-12 08:26 am (UTC)