Memo from: my sick bed

After a delightful trip home, I'm back in Lancaster.  Unfortunately, I'm also feeling totally rotten, and rather than get on with something productive (as was the plan), I've elected to nurse myself back to health with my electric blanket, some oranges, and some Modern Family.

(The cast of Modern Family - I own absolutely no rights to this picture, of course)

If you haven't heard of it yet, it's an American sitcom, based around one, extended family and their daily lives.  Now, I'm usually pretty sceptical that American humour can ever truly translate to us Brits, but in my opinion, Modern Family totally nails it.  Sometimes it's silly, but it's usually pretty clever in its humour, and it's also easy to pick favourite characters without absolutely hating others (I cannot stand shows with deliberately annoying characters).  In America it's shown on abc, which I think is Sky1 here, if you want to take the conventional viewing route.  Episodes are around 30 minutes long without ads, which is making it very difficult for me to stop myself from watching "just one more" tonight.

And with that, I will leave you.  I hope you're all enjoying your Easter break/looking forward to the bank holiday weekend!

First Class.

Term is finally over.

I've just realised how long I've been waiting to say that.  Wow.

So, from the comfort of my cushy first class seat on the Virgin train back to Euston, I will share just this with you;

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/6182/music.swf

I know it's in a similar vein to my last post, but the site is too addictive and mesmerising to keep to myself - and as I've already been on it for half an hour, I thought it deserved a post to itself rather than being bundled in as an edit to the first list.

A quick thanks is in order to Mr. Luther, for sharing the link with me in the first place, and please do comment if you know any other particularly addictive sites of procrastination - I've already been told off for forgetting to mention reddit (http://en.reddit.com/) in my last post!

I wish you all a laid-back Saturday, weekend and Easter break - enjoy the snow.

Memo from: my desk. By which I mean my bed.

If you're anything like me, when you've got something that needs to be done, you spend as much time avoiding doing the thing as you do actually doing it.  Even worse - sometimes you actually have to find things to do when you're avoiding doing the thing you're meant to be doing - which can be equally exhausting!  What if you spend ages finding the thing to do (instead of doing what you're meant to be doing), and it's a really boring thing to be doing?

N i g h t m a r e ! 

To reduce your procrastination headache, here's a reminder of awesome things you probably discovered a long time ago:

www.incredibox.com

www.theuselessweb.com

www.liquidnonsense.com

http://www.sporcle.com/games/GeoGod/allharrypotter

www.freerice.com

http://gobarbra.com/


You're welcome x

Memo from... a busy woman

So my schedule is currently overwhelmed with essays, presentations, applications and client consultations, which have dominated my life for the last couple of weeks and will probably continue to do so until Easter.  In the meantime I'll be looking longingly at my bookshelf and DVD stack, fantasising about what it might be like to have enough time (and peace from rowdy flatmates) to actually enjoy some good ol' fashioned escapism.

Here's the "watch" list for films - none of which I've seen yet, most of which I know very little about:

                 Rififi
                 The Killing
                 Twelve Monkeys
                 Quick Change
                 Princess Mononoke
                 The Bank Job
                 In Time
                 Inside Man
                 Heat
                 A Bag of Hammers
                 The Town
                 Three Kings
                 Waiting for Superman
                 Taken
                 Meet Joe Black
                 Sideways

If anyone has any additions or comments to make; fire away.  I have no need to waste hours of my life watching something if it's going to be terrible, or if there's something that I really, REALLY shouldn't miss then please let me know!

There's a reading list too, but I think I'll take things in baby steps.