The Happiness Thread

Mike McCarthy might be available soon, too.

 

what book(s) got you interested in going for graduate studies in Gothic Studies?

do you dress all in black?

 

Given a quick look, and based on the Gothic period dress probably not.
Seems that during that time people still wore colors.

 

look at this dapper em-effer. who WOULDNT want to emulate him?
hashtag: stylin'

 

You can be gothic and not wear necessarily black. For example, some wear pastels but wearing black is the norm for being gothic.

 

@EFMingo, if you come across some particularly interesting book or theme or theory, please do share!

and again congratz!

 

Well done! It sounds like a really interesting course, actually.

 

I've just been asked to join the review team for a UK-wide traditional music magazine I subscribe to, based on an unsolicited review I just sent. I felt quite chuffed, as the editor said: "It's obvious you can write!" This means freebies ...both CDs and books. I think this is going to be fun. They don't thrust stuff on you to review, but simply list what's available and you get to choose. Slowly, but surely, I'm putting my toe back into the traditional music waters that originally brought me to Scotland. After a LONG break. It feels good to be listening and enjoying it again.

I burnt out on traditional music back in the early 1990s, due to the fortnightly folk music magazine my husband and I produced at the time, plus my duties as TMSA National Secretary, attending umpteen folk clubs, festivals and concerts, etc. It got to be too much—and when my husband packed it in, so did I. I'll be careful this time, not to take on too much.

 

Don't forget, “This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it.”

- Neil Gaiman

 

It's snowing!!!!

 

i'm starting to get this "adulting" thing down.

I just moved a basket of laundry i washed 2 weeks ago up from the laundry room and into my bedroom. Sure, it may remain there, untouched in its basket for another week or two, but at least I achieved something today!

 

Ah, the bliss of the minimum bar.

 

We don't have a drier (not common to have one here) so everything air-dries either on the balcony or hanging between the kitchen and the living room in case of bad weather/bug season. If I had a drier, I'd just keep all my laundry there. Mrs. A has other opinions.

 

When I rented a flat in London they had this stupid little washer and dryer in one machine and the dryer didn’t actually dry. It just heated up the clothes into a steaming mess, and vented straight into the flat, leaving it like a moldy sauna.

 

Like, no electric or gas driers unless you a) are loaded and can afford to spend a buttload on a dual unit (see @montecarlo's comment below) or b) go to the laundromat. There's no room in my apartment for a second big thing like that. Also no full size oven, I have a combination microwave/electric oven, but the kitchens are just fitted for two-burner stoves with fish grills in them:


This isn't my kitchen, but it's pretty durn close:



Notice the absence of dishwasher.

Sounds great! I'm pretty sure the current Japanese models are an improvement, but I don't have two grand to throw at something the wind does for me. Eventually.

 

That is a strange piece of hardware.
All it's missing is a toaster and it would hit
the multi purpose trifecta.

 

People like to dump them in their driveways; for all I know they could have fallen from a tree.

 

Finally, one short is now done at 14,774 words.
I'm a happy boy for getting it finished, but now
comes the complicated bit of editing.