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My copy of 'Paragenesis' arrived yesterday! Now I have the book with my short story in on paper, to touch and carry around! Here it's lying face-down on one of the little outside tables of my favourite Italian café, where I was enjoying one of the last few nice days of the year while reading up on what everybody else wrote for it.



Today, my order from Evans arrived as well! I had to get Falk the Metropolitan to take some pics of me wearing it at once, as I can't possibly wait with posting about it on my tumblr until the Nazgul is back from the Fake Plastic Trees. Today she was in Muscat, haggling over the price of daggers...



Autumn arrived as well, so here you see my cats, cuddled up in my wonderful dark purple fleece blanket, being comfy and cosy. I have been mean to them by buying a little bottle of catnip scent oil with which I made them go doolally earlier. Anything can be turned into instant catnippy kitty lovedoll now!

Also, a discful of recent Bollywood music as MP3 arrived as well. I was at the Indian shop this afternoon, getting more chai spices, and when I took out my earphones to ask the bloke behind the counter about some Bollywood movies, I realised that my life contained entirely too much Medieval Scottish Heavy Metal Bagpipe Folk Rock, and not enough Bollywood, so I hastened to remedy that!

What did not arrive was episode 4.10 of 'Mad Men' on surfthechannel.com. They didn't even make an entry for it. I am worried...
yakalskovich: (The Princess' typist in RW)
T-Offline's DSL network has gone dead for much of Munich since the early morning today. I would be offline, only I kept my old modem cable around and am now hooked up by a dialup connection. But arghh!! No leaving everything open to wait for someone to react on [livejournal.com profile] discworld_rpg. Back to the bad old days of Pay Per Minute. I hope they fix it soon; I feel so truncated.

The good news: Falk the Metropolitan sold me his old DVD player and VCR combination gadget (old => 6 months). There is officially room for new DVDs and CDs now. And the thinggy can deal with almost anything (including burnies with mp3s), copy DVDs on video if it feels like it (i.e. no copy protection), plays Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham in colour (which my old one didn't on account of some technical weirdness in that DVD from India), and does everything apart from actually making coffee. It won't copy Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, though, on account of said copy protection, which is regrettable, as my cousin Dorothea so loves that movie, and I had promised her to try make a copy.

And the DVD of "The Pianist" duly arrived today. Now I can watch the admirable Mr Brody being Oscar-worthy. Strange, I only got my hands on two so deeply serious movies containing him, when what I first noticed about Adrien Brody on Oscar night was how hilarious he was...

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