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[nny]

GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY!

Sun is shining, tank is clean, world is all shiny and goodlookin'. Give me a few months and I'll be complaining like anything about the sun, but right now I want to give it a big hug and tell it I missed it.

I'm reading Archer's Goon again because it's that time of month where indulgence is required and much time is spent slothing around slothfully; the Pratchett books have all been read too recently and too often, and I think I've overdone LotR for the moment.

It's immensely comforting coming back to a book that I know. I feel kind of bad about this trait, considering the amount of books I have weighing down my bookcases which I haven't even read yet, but sometimes succour must be sought in something that's familiar and comfortable, and I'm entirely too far away from home to go and grab a mumhug. Diana Wynne Jones it is, then, along with copious amounts of tea.

What're your comfort indulgences?

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[sophistry]

Master and Commander, Benny & Joon, and Dead Poets Society.

The first is, admittedly, awesome beyond awesome, but the last two are films which, in public, I will deny liking under pain of torture. Fluffy guilty pleasures that they are.

Also, going to Barnie's Gourmet Coffee Shop on Westland Row between classes, taking a too-sweet coffee of the day and a chocolate muffin up to the secluded, squashy, second-floor sofas, and watching the world go by below me.

[sophistry]

Also also, coding, particularly .css stylesheets for LJ layouts. I find it weirdly soothing.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I've noticed this trait. Apart from when it's not and you're het up by it.

As for the filmages, I've never seen either of the second two films, although damn do I want to.

Cafes... kinda scare me. I don't like opening doors, and they don't tend to be helpfully open for me like shop doors are. Otherwise I'd spend way more time in cafe europa, or hoffi coffee.

Possibly I should develop my cafe skills, considering I ain't drinking for a while.

[sophistry]

Barnie's is... love. It's still relatively undiscovered, so as long as it's not between, say, 1pm and 2pm, you're pretty much guaranteed the second floor sofas to yourself, apart from maybe one other person.

*ponders free time between classes today*

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Mm, I'm gonna keep an eye out for one in Llandaff. I'm going with Smaller to check out this Cathedral that's been there for stupid amounts of time, which's apparently been built on an old pagan site before that (as these things so frequently are). Smaller's tekkin a camera and I'm going to trundle along with a notebook, and it's sunshiney and happy and lovely and world is good.

*beams*

[sophistry]

I am currently enjoying the last hour or so of my Thursday morning lie-in. Mmmm, not-having-to-be-up-at-6am...

[chains-of-irony.livejournal.com]

Ancient, falling-apart Marvel graphic novels that I read before I was into double figures, Pratchett books (which can always stand up to re-reading,) and Anne Rice. Finding books that I only used to read at the library when younger, and buying them. Such things must always be accompanied by Earl Grey, and some chocolate from Thorntons, when I can afford it.

It is nice to see the sun again, isn't it? I was out rowing at 6am this morning and we watched the sun come up; my crew have picked up the Whedon-esque 'shiny,' presumably from me, to describe such mornings.

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[gramarye1971]

My comfort books would have to include Watership Down and any of the James Herriot books. For comfort viewing, my DVDs of As Time Goes By, Yes, Minister and occasionally Master Keaton *points to icon* generally do the trick.

Comfort tea of choice is usually peppermint or rooibos, since caffeine can make me fidgety at the oddest times.

[indy-go.livejournal.com]

As Time Goes By! I squee like a little girl whenever I run across it on PBS. Also, James Herriot is love. *hearts*

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

Gooooooooooooooooood morninginging!

Fireplaces and comforters and hot chocolate and a good book, one that, like yours, is an old friend. I like reading new books, but sometimes you just want one you know wont disappoint.