Sustained Criticism

Ok, I owe memes. I've not done anything with them for weeks, so I figured it's about time. Hopefully, we'll be going to London for five days in a few weeks. I'll be the dedicated tour guide, I expect. It is inevitable.

I'll leave the first one uncut, and you'll have to click for the longer one. Stolen from necropalice.
Answer this, repost to your journal and fun will be had all around.

1. Name:
2. Do you read my journal often?:
3. What makes it especially good or bad?:
4. An interesting fact about you:
5. Favourite lyric/quote:
6. The best time of the year:

RECOMMEND
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A band, a song, or album:

PLUS
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Look at my friends-list and tell what you like about one of our mutual friends:
4. Oh, show me a picture of yourself! Cause I'm nosy like that:
5. Put this in your journal so that I can tell you what I like about you. I clipped it right down, cos some of the questions were proper lame.

( Moar memes behind this )

Oh, Gods, I miss the internet when I'm away. I'm back home for 14 approximate hours, trying desperately to catch up on my RSS, twitter, LJ and everything else. Thanks to 35 degrees inside, there is no way I will sleep tonight, anyway; barely type and keep the laptop in my lap. I've been strolling around in my underwear, indecent like nothing else, but I can't take clothes. Bugger clothes. Back to the water.

The YSL cage boots are surfacing on fashionistas' feet. They are still divine, but look horrid with leather. Wear them with something sweet instead.

I was mistaken for a native speaker today, by our phonetics teacher. The woman has an MA in phonetics, and asked if I am a native speaker! Cue joy, furious blushing and stuttering answer. Compliments like that make all these boring obligatory courses worth it. TIME wrote that Updike died recently, and quoted an image of his: two people in a ski lift, "laughing vapour". It has stayed with me, through -13 degrees today. It's so beautifully phrased.