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jadesfire ([personal profile] jadesfire) wrote2009-06-10 09:56 am

This icon is TOTALLY inadequate

Seriously, what is it with the weather at the moment? We had 4 glorious days (or thereabouts) and now? It's raining so hard on the windowed roof of the library that it's hard to hear youself thinking in the main reading room. Apparently the weather doesn't know that the library is a silent study area :S Still, we're water-tight for the moment, so that's something. The readers, on the other hand, are arriving looking like they waded through swollen rivers to get here.

[livejournal.com profile] white_hart, [livejournal.com profile] dyddgu, if it's still like this at lunchtime, I might be staying in the staff room...

In other news, I slept last night. Yes, yes, I know, generally that's news on a par with 'water wet, sky blue (or, you know, grey)' but for me at the moment that's HUGE. A whole night's sleep! From about 11pm to 5am. JOY! I also have some feedback on my Big Bang which makes me giddy-happy. I LOVE getting nit-picky notes where people make me really *think* about what I wrote and whether I meant it, and how I can re-write it so it works for both/all of us. Editing is much for fun than writing for me, which is probably why I plan to scrap the last chapter and start over. Nearly there! And we've had so many stories and so much art in already that it's AWESOME :D

No list today, because there's so much to do it seems largely pointless - I could do something off it by the time I've finished typing it! Instead, let me recommend Zoo Borns to you again and show you what I got in my email this morning.

Baby lemur on scales

Lemur! I love lemurs :)

Also, from the Telegraph this week:

Crow hitching a lift

How cool is that?


How's everyone doing out there? Less damp than Oxford, I hope! And just think, we're a day closer to the weekend. Woot!

[identity profile] dyddgu.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 09:51 am (UTC)(link)
What? weather? eh?
/has been in copying dungeon all morning

[identity profile] jadesfire2808.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, it's eased off now, but it sounded like the sky was emptying the Cherwell on the roof about an hour ago :S Hopefully it'll be dry enough to cycle to B'wells :)

[identity profile] with-apostrophe.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
That bird photo is awesome. Cheeky crow!

Thank you for telling me about that site. it's now gone on my list of "sites to check daily". I was even more happy when I found the baby otters. {Otters}

It's less damp here, but still damp.

[identity profile] stackcats.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
That crow looks like he does it all the time XD

Weather here is much the same as with you, although the sun is peaking out now that I'm indoors -_-