Book of the Week: Dammit already…
Today marks a celebration and a milestone.
Happy 30th birthday! (You know who you are.) I wish for you the fulfilment of all your wildest, dearest, most compelling dreams; friendships that bind hearts and minds; an abundance of love and joy all your life; and a dog to make your life complete.
It was also exactly two years ago that I arrived in Glasgow to read for a master’s degree. And today, I live and work here! (Scotland, I mean, not Glasgow.) It took a leap of faith, and I have been very blessed.
Factoids of the Day:
The building of Hadrian’s Wall began on September 13 122AD.
Michaelangelo began work on ‘David’ on September 13 1503.
Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner on September 13 1814.
Hannibal Goodwin patented celluloid photographic film on September 13 1898.
On September 13 1899, Henry Bliss had the dubious honour of being the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
The temperature (in the shade) at Al-Aziziyah, Libya reached a world record 57.7°C (135.9°F), on September 13 1922.
Chiang Kai-shek was elected president of the Republic of China on September 13 1943.
Super Mario, the best-selling video game of all time, was released on September 13 1985.
Famous people born on September 13 include Milton S. Hershey – founder of the empire of the taste of evil (1857), J. B. Priestley (1894), Claudette Colbert (1903), Roald Dahl (1913), Maurice Jarre (1924), Richard Kiel (1939), Peter Cetera (1944), Jean Smart (1951), Michael Johnson (1967), Shane Warne (1969), Goran Ivanisevic (1971), Stella McCartney (1971), Christine Arron (1973), and Fiona Apple (1977).
And a throw-away birthday one: Ingrid Bergman, Corrie ten Boom, Betty Friedan, King Mongkut, Raphael and Pompey all died on their birthdays.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
For The Sake Of Posting
Book of the Week: This is getting embarrassing... (see last post... AGAIN!)
I got my second front-page lead last Thursday. The interview with Paul Gudgin was very cool. Even better was beating the BBC to the story – their write-up only showed up on the website at 3pm the same afternoon. Apparently, the Scotsman and Herald had also been hankering after the story. So it was sweeeet.
Gareth made monkfish tails wrapped in prosciutto on Saturday. Went to see the Simpsons movie (finally!) and got caught in the stoooopid bridge tailbacks for about an hour and listened to the first half of the Scotland-Lithuania match on the car stereo. Total sports-mad weekend, with Euro qualifiers (all GB countries in action), Monza, rugby World Cup (with the USA this time, the cheek!).
Which reminds me – seems like it was just yesterday that Jonny Wilkinson drop-kicked the Aussies into rugby back of beyond. And six years to the day since Gareth called from work to tell me to turn the telly on. It’s quite odd – don’t know if it’s media overexposure or because so much has happened in my own life since then, but 2001 seems so much longer ago than, say, 1996. Maybe I’m just getting old. Getting to the stage when I can remember further back in time better than I can yesterday. (I had to think really hard what we did over the weekend.)
I really need to get a credit card. So many great deals on Ryanair! Could go to Krakow for £20 in December. Ditto Budapest. Barcelona for £30. Might go check it out on my days off this week. Have to grab all the opportunities I can in my two years here. Don’t want to go back to Malaysia and look at the Ryanair page and think, if only. The two saddest words in the English language.
Don’t know if it’s because I’m lazy or just plain fed up with working (it can be really depressing some mornings getting up to go where I do five days a week these days – Tuesdays are the worst) but I’m thinking of quitting. Yes. Chuck it all in to travel round the world. Would love to do that. Just that the logistics make my brain hurt. I love the timetables and schedules – but the money bit kills me.
I really need to win the lottery.
Factoids of the Week:
The world’s longest place-name is now the world’s longest domain name (though this is unverified). A right mouthful. http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.com/
Another stupid one... but calls itself the world’s longest alphabetical e-mail address. http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/
I got my second front-page lead last Thursday. The interview with Paul Gudgin was very cool. Even better was beating the BBC to the story – their write-up only showed up on the website at 3pm the same afternoon. Apparently, the Scotsman and Herald had also been hankering after the story. So it was sweeeet.
Gareth made monkfish tails wrapped in prosciutto on Saturday. Went to see the Simpsons movie (finally!) and got caught in the stoooopid bridge tailbacks for about an hour and listened to the first half of the Scotland-Lithuania match on the car stereo. Total sports-mad weekend, with Euro qualifiers (all GB countries in action), Monza, rugby World Cup (with the USA this time, the cheek!).
Which reminds me – seems like it was just yesterday that Jonny Wilkinson drop-kicked the Aussies into rugby back of beyond. And six years to the day since Gareth called from work to tell me to turn the telly on. It’s quite odd – don’t know if it’s media overexposure or because so much has happened in my own life since then, but 2001 seems so much longer ago than, say, 1996. Maybe I’m just getting old. Getting to the stage when I can remember further back in time better than I can yesterday. (I had to think really hard what we did over the weekend.)
I really need to get a credit card. So many great deals on Ryanair! Could go to Krakow for £20 in December. Ditto Budapest. Barcelona for £30. Might go check it out on my days off this week. Have to grab all the opportunities I can in my two years here. Don’t want to go back to Malaysia and look at the Ryanair page and think, if only. The two saddest words in the English language.
Don’t know if it’s because I’m lazy or just plain fed up with working (it can be really depressing some mornings getting up to go where I do five days a week these days – Tuesdays are the worst) but I’m thinking of quitting. Yes. Chuck it all in to travel round the world. Would love to do that. Just that the logistics make my brain hurt. I love the timetables and schedules – but the money bit kills me.
I really need to win the lottery.
Factoids of the Week:
The world’s longest place-name is now the world’s longest domain name (though this is unverified). A right mouthful. http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.com/
Another stupid one... but calls itself the world’s longest alphabetical e-mail address. http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/
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