The Bucket O' Nothing

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line (or two lines, or whatever) from the first 50 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both band and title.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: PROFIT.

Via several people, most recently aquarionical. Filtered for instrumentals, tracks where the first line was the title of the song, and one track where I couldn't make out the lyrics and couldn't find them on Google.

Quite surprised how long it took for the first Japanese track to come up, actually.

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Because a lot of people on my friends list are doing this at the moment:

1. Choose a few of your own characters.
2. Make them answer the following questions.
3. Feel free to go ahead and add some questions yourself.
4. Tag whoever you feel like to do this. (Up to you, guys.)

( Sophie Glover, CUTT. )

( Mary, CUTT. )

( Eloise Starshine Rivers, CUTT. )

( Pristis ex Guernicus, Whitewash (Ars Magica game). )

( Aurora, PokeMUSH (as of when I retired her). )

I first saw this when rochvelleth posted her answers, but never did post one myself. Ah well, here it is.

(Incidentally, I wonder if the markup validates? It seems to avoid any width= and height= tags in the table cells, and styles a whole lot of things. Pretty neat.)

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

× I miss somebody right now.

✓ I don't watch much TV these days.

✓ I own lots of books.

( And the rest of the table... )

I never take quizzes. Except this once.

( The LJ "mood ring" meme. Click only if bored. )

Coming on a day when I've left the Sidgwick Site to go home and sleep because I literally can't concentrate on anything... *thunk*

I sent my dissertation outline and title to my supervisor today, and can now make the same bad Buzz Lightyear pun about it. "To Berlin and Kay... and beyond!" (Not all that funny unless you've read Basic Colour Terms (1969) recently. I have sematicist tastes in reading matter at the moment.)

Aside from that I've not been doing much recently. I'm not going to be playing PS2 games as much for a while - I'm a little stuck on Suikoden III (eighteen or so Stars left to find), rather annoyed at TM3 (it's incredibly difficult to even walk home with the person I'm going for this time, let alone arrange a date with her), and need to do some more levelling on Disgaea before I can proceed with plot levels. So, once I get some sleep tonight, I'll be trying to do a bit more writing. And reading of the pile of library books that'll be due back in two and a bit weeks.

Lastly, a quiz. Blame peppygrowlithe for this one, as he liked my pictures for him enough to encourage me to post in my journal. :)

1. Think of a word you would use to describe me.
2. Go to Google Image Search and search for that word.
3. Select the picture you see as most fitting, and post it as a reply. Explanations are mandatory.
4. Post this meme in your journal.

If you don't know how to post an image, you can use this format:

Taken from thistle_chaser.

1. Go into your LJ's archives.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.

Mine was the perhaps unexciting: Anyway, it looks like fun to write, and there's going to be an amusing encounter with Sheik later on - which was really the point of the fic. (The post is here.)

If only it'd been two sentences later, I could have used: Ah, the fun of having crossdressing characters. Much better.

Speaking of writing, I just finished an entirely optional essay about the optative mood in Greek. (For those of you who've not heard of it, it's what happens when a language decides that having indicative - the normal sort of mood - and subjunctive isn't enough, and it wants to be special, so it adopts a third one just for wishing, and conditional sentences, and so on. Damn fussy classical languages.)

Was planning to spend until 7pm on it, but ended up working pretty much all day (when I wasn't in lectures) and finishing it at about 9pm. Not bad, considering I had to start it today as well - I thought I'd saved what I'd written of the introduction, but it turns out it was lost when Windows crashed at some point this week. It wasn't too much of a loss, though, only fifty words or so, and the essay turned out to be a fairly respectable length. It's for a college prize, and if I win I can get £200, so... let's hope it does well.

And my Nanowrimo entry is progressing reasonably well. I'm still 1500 words off the milestone that I should have hit five months ago today, but barring a few episodes of writer's block it's been going quite quickly. I have no idea how long it's going to end up being, though, although it says something that I've spent almost 50,000 words on it and have only just got to the location where most of the action is supposed to take place (a rather large Library - please remember to pronounce the capital letters).

I'll have to hurry up my pace to make sure that I've finished it by the start of this November, as I have several ideas for a new story stewing in my head and I don't want to have two to worry about simultaneously.

Because it's making the rounds of my friends' LJs, and since I haven't posted for a while...
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