Abigail Brady

darkscape_club was very good last weekend. was worried about head but managed to stay out quite late. had hell to pay on the Sunday though. Cafe Scientifique on Tuesday was about ancient Egyptian astronomy and was really interesting. To top off yesterday's excitement, when I woke up and turned my computer on, I discovered that the hard disk had died. Put off buying a replacement until this afternoon and I'd had the phone call. In other news, I have been developing a cold. I'll try not to give it to anyone at zootalures amd 561's wedding on Saturday. (I'm very glad I took the precaution of phoning the hotel earlier this week confirming my booking: they hadn't got it on record. But do now. And I even have an email to prove it.)

Oh, and it's my birthday on Monday. I shall be 27.

Cafe Scientifique this evening, concerning forensic pathology. Have written quiz. Hopefully won't overlap too much with the topic of the talk. Decided to not make it be about zombies at all. (the byline of the talk was "speaking for the dead", I was pondering making it be about a group of dead that could speak very well for themselves, thankyou, as long as what they wanted to say was "brains").

Cafe Scientifique was very good.

I have my old glasses back now, repaired. Despite the fact that these and the spares had exactly the same prescription, everything (well, my monitor) now looks tiny. Curious.

Is anyone in Leicester at the weekend? It seems everyone is off places, either Whitby or just anywhere that isn't Leicester.

cafe scientifique tonight. will be taking my copy of The Science of Discworld 2 along to get signed.

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My flat is progressing nicely. Furniture has been assembled, and the big TV moved there, in my absence, by family. I now have a sideboard that nicely seperates the kitchen area from the living area and provides me lots more storage. Now have pigeonhole keys and the inventory of the flat to go through. My first two pieces of post are spam, including one that seems to have been hand-delivered.

New CSL front page live now. Hooray!

Tthe first one in the 2005/2006 season will be on Tuesday 30th, by Jack Cohen, co-author of the Science of Discworld books, and will apparently be about what aliens would really be like.

if "anteater" had been accepted as an egg-bearing mammal, (the full common name is "spiny anteaters", the only accepted answer was "echidnas"), and "Indian" had been accepted for the originators of zero instead of "Arabic", our team (me, drjane, vjbseven, lost_species and digivamp) would have won. tch.

but took away two prizes for the team anyway, so blah.

it is Leicester Pride on Saturday. I thoroughly encourage all and sundry to attend, whether or not you be lesbian, gay, bisexual, or straight or other, and whether you are particularly proud of that or not. Is basically excuse for party in Victoria Park, which surely must be encouraged for whatever reason.

so. Cafe Scientifique quite good. The speaker thinks it plain that Balrogs do not have wings from the text (good man), and also he in his books demonstrates that they cannot possibly have them.

Hitchhiker's interesting. They have, I think, spent too much time with Arthur's oracle-finding. Hard to see how they are going to fit the rest in in just another two episodes. We'll see. Grebulon stuff wonderful.

Decay of the Dead tomorrow.

Must go to some of the Pride pre-events this year. Some of the films from the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival tour look quite interesting.

Spear of Destiny are playing the Charlotte on Wednesday. I know nothing about them other than that they are possibly named after a historical artefact, depending, as with so much else, on your definitions.

good day at work today, marred by the headache. now going to the talk about teeth.

Sexy Genes this evening, apparently.