Coffee still sucks.

Posted on July 2, 2008 by borysSNORC

Did a silly ‘what coffee are you’ blogthing and strangely enough there wasn’t a single question where you could definitively state that you hate coffee so I ended up being French Vanilla Coffee for some bizarre reason. Sometimes these questionnaire thingys are rather accurate and I wonder if they’re designed by bored psychology students or something.

You’re a French vanilla cappuccino!

Ooh… somebody’s wearing their classy pants. You’re not extravagant or show-offy, but you appreciate having nice things, like a designer mug instead of a disposable to-go cup. You’re calm and confident, so you’d be perfectly comfortable ordering coffee at a sidewalk cafe in Paris or at a restaurant that’s so fancy they don’t even put the prices on the menu. No matter where you go, you won’t let anyone intimidate you — you demand respect.

Another boring Sunday morning.

Posted on June 29, 2008 by borysSNORC

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What’s your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the “world peace, etc.” malarkey) – what are they:
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I’m a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school:
22. Describe your accent:
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

Type your cut contents here.

1. Your Middle Name:   Michelle…my belle.
2. Age: Had my 30th BDay party last year
3. Single or Taken: Yes and yes.
4. Favorite Movie: Grosse Point Blank
5. Favorite Song or Album: Two Shoes – Cat Empire
6. Favorite Band/Artist: Rammstein, Cat Empire,
7. Dirty or Clean: Clean
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings: 3 and 3
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ? Why yes
10. What’s your philosophy on life? “Say what you mean and mean what you say.”
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty? Don’t care obviously needs a top up.
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest? Nope
13. What is your favorite memory of us? Thnking… thinking…
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?   Cheese – Jarlsberg, Brie, Stilton etc
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you: I’ve got very small feet and mostly wear kids shoes.
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the “world peace, etc.” malarkey) – what are they?
16a: Pain free back
16b: A decent metabolism/stable hormones
16c: Another child
17. Can we get together and make a cake? Sure, so long as it’s not chocolate.
18. Which country is your spiritual home? Haven’t found it yet.
19. What is your big weakness? Smart men
20. Do you think I’m a good person? Yes I dont cultivate friendships with arseholes.
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school: Best English… Favourite French.
22. Describe your accent: Slightly English and decidedly not Aussie ocker.
23. If you could change anything about me, would you? I don’t think people really change.
24. What do you wear to sleep? Perfume and a smile
25. Trousers or skirts?   We all know I wears the pants!
26. Cigarettes or alcohol? Alca-ma-hole every time.
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? Pick up some hookers and blow.
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you? Voila!

Pretentious book meme :)

Posted on June 27, 2008 by borysSNORC

Picked up this meme from

angstycarrot

and

abeekay

. The list has some great books on it but where is Stendhal, Defoe, Disraeli, Pushkin, Gaskell, Lawrence, Swift, Trollope, Wilde??? And barely one Dostoyevsky? Mumblefuck mumblefuck… I think we could make a better list (and yes I am aware that I sound like a right prat :S)

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them
5) Put a star next to those you’ve only partially read.

***********************

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
*6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
*14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
*25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome.
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

I’d rant… but that smacks of effort.

Posted on June 17, 2008 by borysSNORC

I should be venting about an appointment that I went to today… but I honestly haven’t the energy available to do justice to my topic. Instead… I’m going to participate in some drivel to soothe my addlepated brain before bedtime. Several people have emailed me this meme

Four (obscure) jobs I have had in my life
Dish pig in a Chinese restaurant
‘Cast Member’ at a Disney Store
Wireless Broadband Consultant for Goliath
Santa Photographer

Four movies I’ve watched more than once:
Grosse Point Blank
The Importance of Being Ernest
Dazed and Confused
Much Ado About Nothing

4 places I have lived:
Birkdale
Hervey Bay
London
Downstairs

Four places I have been:
Isle of Skye, Scotland
Meteora, Greece
Bruny Island, Tasmania
Islamabad, Pakistan

People who e-mail me regularly:
Mr K
Yale
MD
Equinom

Four of my favourite foods:
Guacamole
Fruit TIngles
Sweet corn
Anzac biscuits (chewy ones)

Four places I would rather be right now:
Stradbroke Island, Qld
Cluny Museum Paris
An Isotank
Touring wineries in the Barossa

Things I am looking forward to in the next 12 months:
Another trip to Canberra (prob August)
and….
hmmm – I got nothin’ – Tried the Magic 8 Ball : “Outlook does not look good.”
😐

Today is bought to you by the letter “R”

Posted on June 5, 2008 by borysSNORC

Meme from

abeekay

that looked like a bit of fun (I’m always a sucker for word games etc), Copy and paste to your own journal, erase my answers, and add your own.

Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real places, names &/or objects, but nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person you got this from has the same 1st initial. You CAN’T use your name for the boy/girl name question.

1) 4 LETTER WORD: Rape
2) BOY NAME: Rhodri
3) GIRL NAME: Renee
4) OCCUPATION: Rabbi
5) A COLOUR: Rouge Noir
6) SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Ring
7) BEVERAGE: Root beer float
8) FOOD: Raspberries … Ptbtbtbtbttbt!
9) SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Razor
10) A PLACE: Romania
11) REASON FOR BEING LATE: Retaliatory tardiness
12) SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Roger I’m frightened!
13) TYPE OF TRANSPORT: Rickshaw
14) POP GROUP: Rammstein (I don’t do ‘pop’)
15) ANIMAL: Rhesus Monkey
16) A RIVER: Rhine
17) A CHEMICAL ELEMENT: Radium
18) SOMETHING FOUND IN A KITCHEN: Rat (what are ya ganna doo?)
19) A GAME OR SPORT: Rafting
20) AN ADJECTIVE: Rambunctious