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[nny]

I've had an awfully productive day. The sun was shining and the sky was crazily cloudinated, and Moby was playing on my iBop and making me want to dance, which is an urge I so very rarely get. I posted a hideously belated package to foreverdirt, went to the bank and argued with them about the £30 I actually didn't take out in London, bought WHSmith pens (which are quite the nicest biros in existence) and hid from Mormons in Shakeaway.

I also accidentally bought a book in Oxfam. It's called 'The Command of the Ocean' and adds to my lovely collection of naval history books which I keep not reading. I'm a bad person.

I've read 'A Pirate of Exquisite Mind' and 'Life Among Pirates: The romance and reality', and I suppose I ought to finish 'Rum, Sodomy and the Lash' sooner or later even though it's academically weak and hugely repetitive. Have yet to read most of 'Billy Ruffian', 'A General History of the Pirates', a history of the East India Company, 'The Voyage of the Beagle' (I think - the book's around here somewhere...) and this new one. Oh, and I have 'The Devil's Mariner' (about William Dampier - ♥!) from the library and really ought to read that before I move to Bath. My life's so hard.

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[spuffyduds.livejournal.com]

Oh, ARG, I LOOOOVE Bath. Got to spend a few days there several years ago, and it's just so pretty and walkable. And there was this huge very cool park for the kids, and a sign that had originally said "Dead Slow, Children Playing" and someone had scraped off the "Slow" and the comma so that it was now a warning that the park was full of frolicking zombie children, which I loved beyond all reason.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I've only been there a couple of times but I was essentially choosing where I would study on the basis of prettiness. My second choice was York, third was Durham.

I'm really so terribly shallow. :D