life. don't talk to me about life.

[janne_d]

Started a job on Monday, which is going OK but will be much better when they stop making me read pages and pages of standard operating procedures and actually let me do something. God I'm so bored!

Plus I have an enormous blood-filled blister on my foot which has prevented me from going to a ceilidh tonight and I am very unhappy because I wanted to dance, damnit.

Also, said blister makes walking to the train station to get to my job rather unpleasant. Since I don't trust the one bus in an hour that would theoretically get me there in time to actually do what it claims, it also makes it a bit expensive as I may be forced to take a taxi if my foot isn't any happier tomorrow morning.

Grr. Argh.

So, if anyone feels like asking me 5 questions in the meme that's going around (see buzzylittleb for details because I can't be arsed typing them) I may or may not answer depending on whether I'm still sulking or have gone to bed (I have to be up at 6.30 am).

Comments

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm in any rabid bands. I used to get books on Greek, Viking and Indian legends out of the children's section of the library (and I wish now I had just stolen them, because they were great and I bet you can't get them anymore) and I like all that type of story. My problem with the Homer and Herodotus I tried is one of style - I find it very hard to get involved with any of the characters and that has always been crucial to my enjoying any fiction. I enjoyed Herodotus more as it reads more amusingly - my problem there was I was too busy trying to keep track of who was who to get into the story!

So, particularly in comparison to those guys, Robert Graves is very readable for me because it's all first person narrative and it just seems to flow merrily along.

btw, (3)? You rock like a rocking thing!

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

You rock like a rocking thing! Why, thank you!

Homer, I understand. I'm homerphobic.