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Baking Until I Drop

Okay
Maybe technically she’s sorta been back already but she said a word!

From differentSky, webjones and MaThiBus
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence on that page.
4. Post the text of the sentence to your blog, along with these instructions.

‘Blast!’ he muttered, staring at the ground.

From, the first (??) UK Edition of Jasper Fforde’s The Well of Lost Plots.

Note to Jamie: I’ll finish it soon…I promise!!!

Diana Wynne Jones is one of my most favourite authors and I love Hayao Miyazaki too.

Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Just don’t go to Cardiff
Just don’t go to Cardiff

World of anime

Andrew Osmond
Wednesday September 17, 2003
The Guardian

Hayao Miyazaki, the director of the acclaimed Japanese animation film Spirited Away, has been busy since completing the Oscar-winning film over two years ago. An avid reader of children’s literature, he has settled on Howl’s Moving Castle as the basis for his next film.

but I am still alive though having trouble breathing.

On a not so related note I didn’t go to the gym today because I was sick and if you don’t believe it, well I had the greatest impetus possible to get myself to the gym but …

Now I went to Northampton on Saturday and visited my favourite bookstore The Space-Crime Continuum and bought the latest volume of the Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 4 The Ironwood Tree by Tony diTerlizzi and Holly Black so I am very happy.

It’s a quintet of books for children about faeries and other such creatures.

After their parents’ divorce, three children and their mother move into this old house that belongs to a member of the family. In it, they find a secret room and a book with the secrets of faerie. From then on, the faerie try all methods possible to try to get the book away from the children.

It’s very good light children literature :-)

Amazon.com: Books: Piled Higher and Deeper: A Graduate Student Comic Strip Collection

I finally bought my copy and I got it with me! Woohooo.
It’s a pretty awesome comic strip written by a Stanford PhD student (well, I think maybe he graduated finally).

It’s funny and very true to life about graduate student life (well at least for the sciences). But as I said it’s funny and true which makes it sad and depressing.

I’m laughing at the stress these people are going through and I’ve been through it myself. Makes it even more depressing.

But it’s nice to know I’m not alone.

Anywayz, if you go to PhD Comics you can actually read all the archives from the get go. The link is also there, along with Calvin and Hobbes.

Enjoy!

Oh! I think the book is only the first 5 years of the strip :-)

king, maximillian, alexander, dragons
or maybe i’m confusing it with some history
man and dragons fighting, ended up blowing each other up…some versions blowing up caused sons to be killed (?)
other version, they just killed each other, son moved in to take over and well it was pretty violent on those mountains but they were happy cuz they had freedom they thought but never really knew what freedom was
okay
i’m not sure but…need to sort this out..very disjointed, can i make this private?

oh…and of course guy who goes to war, almost drowns sees something, valuable jewellry perhaps, gets it gets out..etc
then asks someone what they’re thinking of when telling said story and gets told above…

hehehe

this was a follow up