marsone

[emilly]

marsone,
originally uploaded by celuran.

This is the evil martian that was posted to me as requested.
My mum has a flickr account too, with another one of those really obvious usernames...that said, i doubt too many of you will guess it. I didn't realise how old some of the photos were, i wondered if maybe kieran had shrunk since i left, but no, just old photos of him.
I have organised holidays for the first and the last weekend of august. Lord knows when i'll go to Norway. I really ought to quit this job, I wonder if my boss knows that? Which means that the whole holidays thing won't be an issue anymore.
Weather continues glorious, i'm going outside again now.
oooh, julia! I am going to see pirates of penzance tonight!

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[rogue-scholar.livejournal.com]

"¡Hola!" as they say in Foreign Parts.

I was at an Ikea dinner down Victoria St the other night, for Elly's goodbye. Most of the old crowd was there, but it turns out half of them have left the Blue Box already - most in the past couple of months. I knew the mass exodus was coming, but it still feels funny to not associate These People with This Place so directly anymore. It feels like moving house.

Craig had his hand in a cast - he says he busted his finger-bones by punching a wall. At least some things will never change.

Still trawling through your stack of books. So far they're all good. Neal Stephenson's Zodiac is excellent, but bizarrely peppered with typographical errors. It's averaging about one every second page. I'm convinced the publishers printed his manuscript raw without ever checking for mistakes. You're lucky you lent this book to me for free, or I would be demanding a refund.

[celuran.livejournal.com]

wow for both paragraphs. i didn't realise there was an exodus coming - was i just the first of many? I knew elly was leaving, and you'd gone - but now it sounds like i'll go visit in a year or two and no one will be there!
and i'd so not realised my copy of zodiac was riddled with errors. I'd also be surprised to find it was a first edition, which your solution suggests. I'd also also be surprised if Stephenson were not a crazy pedantic sob. He just strikes me that way.
haha craig. how else would you bust your finger bones after all?

[rogue-scholar.livejournal.com]

Let's see: Craig's gone, Tristan's gone, you're gone, Elly's gone, I'm gone, Ivy's gone, Jodie's gone. Mary and Chappie have both ramped up their "I'm going to quit soon, seriously" rhetoric - both have told me their specific plans for what they'd do, with a rough timeframe. I think Jeremy might have gone? And there's probably at least one person I'm forgetting.

The Stephenson errors are mostly the sort of thing anyone would drop if they were on a writing roll - mostly words the spellcheker wouldn't pick up, "your" instead of "you" and that sort of thing, occasional words run together or a name spelt two ways in one paragraph - things that should definitely have been caught by a proofreader.

Speaking of which, starting Monday I have a job as a Publisher/Editor for these peeps (http://forethought.com.au/). I have to wear a suit!

[swirlability.livejournal.com]

He seems to have an awful lot of nostrils.