FETCHER.

You will be delighted to hear that England are out now

Also you seem like the best care giver Karen could possibly ask for . Caregiving is tough, look after yourself.

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My Journal.
Last.Fm if your interested...

rubber soul

1. Which team do you want to win the World Cup?

Croatia. My best friend from my old forum is Croatian.

2. What book are you reading right now? Or if you’re not reading anything, what tv show are you watching?

Just finished a marathon binge of Da Vinci's Inquest. Haven't read much lately, too busy on the computer.

3. Have you ticked off anything on your bucket list? If so, what?

Well, I did travel cross country twice

4. Do you have any weird personality traits or quirks?

Are you calling me weird?

5. What’s your favourite way to listen to music and why? Eg. Commuting

No real favorite way. I like listening to music in general.

6. Would you go to the moon given the chance? Why or why not?

Not really, especially if I have to deal with Elon Musk or some other nutty billionaire.

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Marie Monday

1. Which team do you want to win the World Cup?
Morocco I guess?
2. What book are you reading right now? Or if you’re not reading anything, what tv show are you watching?
What Maisie Knew by Henry James. His writing style reads very awkwardly but the book is very interesting and moving
3. Have you ticked off anything on your bucket list? If so, what?
I don't have a bucket list really
4. Do you have any weird personality traits or quirks?
Sure. I'm weird about personal space and looking people in the eye and i'm bad at reading social cues, to name a few obvious ones
5. What’s your favourite way to listen to music and why? Eg. Commuting
While sitting on my bed
6. Would you go to the moon given the chance? Why or why not?
hell no, everything I love is here on earth

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Lisnaholic

1. Which team do you want to win the World Cup?

Yes, Croatia or Morocco would be good; any surprising, "underdog" nation would be fine by me

2. What book are you reading right now? Or if you’re not reading anything, what tv show are you watching?



Struggling through this, which starts with some intriguing ideas, but about half-way though becomes dense and repetitive. I'm promising myself an easier book when I'm finally done with this one.

3. Have you ticked off anything on your bucket list? If so, what?

Never had a bucket list, but once came across some piece of Oriental wisdom: "Every man should plant a tree, raise a child and write a book". I'm two down, one to go.

4. Do you have any weird personality traits or quirks?

"Weird" rather depends on what you are measuring things against. Surrounded by my peers in London, I wasn't so special. Surrounded by Mexicans in their early twenties, I'm prob seen as pretty eccentric.

5. What’s your favourite way to listen to music and why? Eg. Commuting

I enjoy it most when I have another, undemanding occupation at the same time: driving, cooking, doing housework: those kinds of things.

6. Would you go to the moon given the chance? Why or why not?[/QUOTE]

When I was younger, I would've said yes, but now I would firmly decline. As you get older I think you become more aware of things that can go wrong - be it with the rocket launch or your own body, squashed flat under 10 G's of pressure, then getting dizzy when you look out the window.

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Trollheart

You know, yesterday I did my level best to avoid the result so that I could write an unbiased (hah) report for the World Cup thread, but to be honest it was killing me. And I had nearly made it - about three hours to go - when I read your post. I think I was glad to be relieved of the pressure, and yes I was glad to see they had been knocked out (sorry English folks, but I couldn't take being told at every opportunity that they had won - imagine what Match of the Day would have been like. I mean, you're still talking about an event that occurred almost sixty years ago now!) so thanks for that.
I'm the best she could afford. Nah, thanks. It gets tough sometimes, but luckily I've quite an optimistic outlook on life.
Croatia aren't an underdog: they were finalists last time. The only underdog now is Morocco, and I think everyone who isn't Argentinian, French or Croatian is rooting for them. It would be amazing. It would also, I'm pretty sure, be the first time an African nation had won it. Doubt it will happen, but then I doubted they'd get through this far, so who knows.
"Hey Pancho! Look at zee strange Englishman! Doesn't even wear a sombrero! HAHAHAHAHA!"

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jadis

I’ve heard some not so good things about this novel but the Jamesian sentence can be one of life’s great pleasures (esp in The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove, my two faves).

“Nineteen persons out of twenty (including the younger sister herself) pronounced Edith infinitely the prettier of the two; but the twentieth, besides reversing this judgment, had the entertainment of thinking all the others aesthetic vulgarians.”

"The four [children] had retired, with much movement and noise, under imperfect control of the small Irish governess whom their aunt had hunted up for them and whose brooding resolve not to prolong so uncrowned a martyrdom she already more than suspected."

Lisnaholic

Yes, I get that a lot, Trollheart! It starts as soon as I arrive somewhere and tie my donkey to a cactus.

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Trollheart

And then realise that behind that cactus is a Mexican, sleeping.

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Marie Monday

Sure he writes enjoyable sentences too (although the second one is also somewhat awkward imo) but when it comes to writing like that I prefer Jane Austen

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The Batlord

I wonder how 19th century writers would have described the furry community?

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