Author: theazureshadow

So, this girl in my flat has had a rather small box of tea bags in her cupboard since September. She mentioned it today when I was brewing some cheap Assam, saying that she thought that she drank tea all the time. Apparently not. I think the British don\’t so much adore tea as drink…

Today\’s weather was unpredictable. The sunny afternoon was interspersed with furious hailstorms and pelting rain. After one such outburst died down, I started walking into town with the vague hope of getting to a bookstore before the next one began. I made it, but as I walked into the bookstore I could see another front…

So I\’ve been looking at old chat logs. Found this conversation between me and… myself. It\’s a bit odd. Session Start (AIM – insanityisall:enthupaul): Sun Jan 04 23:24:00 2004 enthupaul: Hey. *** Auto-response sent to enthupaul: Calculus excercises the brain and I\’m working up a mental sweat. insanityisall: Hello. insanityisall: I see you\’ve gotten a…

New best article title: \”For Frog-Licking Scientist, the Tongue Says It All\”. \”[But] I don\’t recommend this,\” the biologist cautioned, \”because if you lick the wrong frog it can be very bad.\” … By 1990 Valerie was entering her hand-raised frogs into local jumping races. When a photo of her blowing on her favorite frog—to…

To celebrate the Leap Day today, I finished a book and read three more. But for you, I will share something I read on Steven Brust\’s online journal: Leap Day has a tradition going far, far back in time. In ancient Sumeria, it was considered a day for taking chances–for doing things normally considered too…

I\’d appreciate comments on this poem I wrote for my class today. Nectarines I said I preferred peaches, but you wanted a nectarine. So we brought it back and you portioned it out and I found it wasn\’t better — only different. You went back to your city, and I held the taste in my…

Norwich just had an earthquake. As soon as I felt it, I poked my head out the door and found Tom and Remy doing the same. There was a chorus of \”sweet!\” and related terms, and we went back inside. I estimate between three and four on the Richter scale (3.6, to be precise). My…

I just went to London again. And I\’m re-reading Neverwhere with a few friends. It\’s so cool that I now have first-hand experience of where some of those locations are. My hotel was very close to Oxford street, and became one of the big landmarks for getting back there from other parts of the city.…

I pulled a poetry all-nighter last night, getting my poetry portfolio done for class, and submitting some random stuff to Reflection. I\’m really tired now, for some reason. Tomorrow I bus to London for the weekend. Hopefully I will come back with pictures. Hopefully I will make it back. If I do, I\’ll keep you…

Because I\’ve been too lazy to post hardly anything about my travels so far, I\’m going to give you three photosets. Some of you may have seen them on Flickr already, but many of you probably haven\’t. There are a lot of pictures up there. Peterborough This is the town in which we had our…