o.k. i'm not sure

how this is gonna work but here's the link to the illustrated freier's new home...

k.

upper lip, get ready

if any of you are visiting Alnwick Station, Northumberland, UK in the near future you must get me this poster. i will love you forever if you do, i promise.
today is one of those days when i feel like i really could do with one hanging over my work desk.

k.

mr. sandman, you shyte

for those of you who've heard of my bed mistress, insomnia, this is hardly surprising but here is a mini essay i found on one of my favourite blogs, varieties of unreligious experience
it describes the experience in a sophisticated way ( i never could). there's also a quote from e.e. cummings, which i think carrie might enjoy.

oh, and don't get me wrong, i'm not at all gloomy about it. just resigned. the only thing that really worries me? the throngs of clever young kids with perfect sleeping patterns i have to compete with for a place in academia;-) mind you, they might be talented, but i'm bloody determined. so there you have it.

hope you're having a really enjoyable and calm long weekend.

k.

more about vday

long day, but fun. work went swiftly, filled with pink and white icing, coffee, and, well, work.
then on to the galaxy in the afternoon to see "pan's labyrinth". extraordinary film. brutal (and i'm not necessarily talking about torture scenes) and gripping, beautiful. i mean, REALLY beautiful. i cried myself into gross snottiness, the only person of course.
and my heart is still pounding.

k.

V

in which she is moved to tears, the silly sod

dear friends,
i'm happy to announce that one of my oldest friends (in this country anyway), u., has just produced a brand new model citizen, a baby girl named suzanne grace.
!!!!!!!
*HAPPY SOB*
the wee redhead (yes!) arrived at precisely 5:59 am, on feb 10th, says her grandmother. i can't share the pics yet as i have not spoken with u. yet.

holy rattles and rubber duckies, i got to go shopping!

k.

new thinking cap

i blame the fever...this head cold doesn't seem to ever leave completely, lurks and then hits again every couple of weeks.

and then unplanned, crazy things appear at the end of my knitting needles...
k.

f***ing february

the longest shortest month of the year.
but there's hope for the likes of me, nisse just called with news of masterpiece theatre producing the first of the four sally lockhart mysteries ! she's going to tape it for me.
what a sweetie:)
some of you know i have a thing for anything philip pullman. i mean, he's the person who got my brother reading milton's paradise lost, for heaven's sake. now to think of it, he got me reading milton as well. again.
anyway, we are scheduled for viewing tomorrow night after yoga.
till then,

k.

happy bday dad!

today is my father's birthday. he does not carry a gun and does not own a guitar.
though apparently during his mandatory army service he got up to all kinds of mischief...
that was before he met my mother.

k.

all the good things

finally fixed the sewing machine...

aaaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

my tv just died. it just died.
no more movies, no more bbc canada, no more 'rome. season 2'!
help.
somebody.
'-((((((

k.

@home, sick, trying valiantly to work

here are links to two artists currently on my 'i vant'-list:
http://www.amywinehouse.co.uk/
http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.php?id=1291

not suprisingly, i found out about them from strombo. as i don't get out much and am only going out with him, it isn't that unexpected really that i like what he likes...
my primary boyfriend doesn't know, but there you have it.

i guess i should think about cooking up some lunch for today and tomorrow. oh yea, i've started working part time for an archy consulting company, which makes everyone happy as little pigs and lets me sleep at night, which keeps me on good terms with boyfriend no. 1-thesis, which makes everyone who knows me happy as little pigs.

crap, the heating is not on, must go turn on the oven.

k.

new blogger amongst us

welcome BelNor to our cybercommunity!
it's about blinkin' time.

three cheers!

k.

keeping up the fight

i'll illustrate, if i may

oy vey, it's xmas!

just so you all don't think i'm permanently stuck in the hobbit hole waiting for the cab...
arrived safely. parental unit and sibling overjoyed. don't know what to do with all the food. preparations are continuing. will culminate in tonight's big supper. taking loads of pictures to share with you later.
must go. mother yelling for me to come back to the kitchen ("do you think you're on holiday or something?").

write and tell me your version of the above,

huging you in a xmasy way,
k.


ps. the weather is middle eastern, or else on holiday from cornwell.

jetseter i am not

5 bollocking am.
not impressed with flying time at the moment.
waiting for cab to arrive.
where the bloody hell is my coffee?
tim's better be open when i get to airport.
grrrrr.

so tired, tired.

see u in t.o. time zone. (this blog is already there)

k.

packing for the big city

very excited indeed! or maybe it's just the coffee and lack of sleep.
anyway, i hope the british weather now residing in ontario holds up 'cause i'm bringing my dancing shoes.


k.

annual archy dept xmas party 2006

the usual success, with more food than anyone has seen in months. the secret santa gifts were even more creative than last year, and the wrapping techniques simply inspirational! (mine was sealed with duck tape;-)
this is what i got

8-D
i'm really, really, really hoping it's NOT because someone thought i look like dustin hoffman!
(o.k., some of my clothes are a bit crazy).

good times in geekland.

k.

kitchen secrets 1.2

i've spent the morning and early afternoon shopping for groceries with nisse and then making chanukkah crepes while listening to the rigoletto on the wireless.
i am soo weird.

and as always when i make holiday food my grandparents were on my mind.


still to come: "which dress to wear?!" and "the annual archaeology department xmas party extravaganza 2006".

k.