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[doyle]

If anybody's been wondering why I don't update much (yeah, I'm sure you're all dying to know...) it's because Guitar Hero has eaten my life I do most of my LJ reading at work and despite being pretty sure that even if the bosses had the tech savvy to check on what we're doing the sys admin - i.e. me - would not turn me in, I start entries and then get paranoid and don't post them.

I forgot to eat lunch today, due to spending my dinner hour wallowing in the gorgeous secondhand bookshops near my work. The owners are lovely; narry a Bernard Black in sight. One of them gave me a beautiful hardcover of Nancy Mitford's novels for free because I didn't have enough cash to cover it. I also got a bunch of books about books, some history - including a book about the Battle of Culloden, have a guess why - and a book on Northern Ireland Protestants (of which I am one), which starts with the somewhat alarming question "an arrogant, bigoted minority or Ulster's chosen people?" I note he's missing the all-important "TICKY BOX" option.

People in my office are talking about Torchwood. Most of them don't watch Doctor Who; they've fallen for Mr Barrowman in How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria and are looking for chances to perv. I do hope we pick up fandom types who haven't seen Who, I'd be interested in seeing the fic that comes from that and the flamewars that are going to inevitably erupt. Speaking of Torchwood, I wrote a rather silly crackfic about Sarah and Torchwood's pet (if you don't know what this is and feel the knowledge would spoil the show, avoid)

Oh, does anybody know if femslash_today uses a common flist? (For example, the who_daily editors have whodaily to keep everything together.) I want to check if they're watching dw_femslash since I keep meaning to leave links to DW stuff but always forget.

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Oooh, which second-hand bookshop was that? I think I know most of the ones in Belfast, although there was one that disappeared and I caould never find it again. Possibly it dropped by from another dimension.

a book on Northern Ireland Protestants (of which I am one), which starts with the somewhat alarming question "an arrogant, bigoted minority or Ulster's chosen people?" I note he's missing the all-important "TICKY BOX" option.

I think I saw that book in a library or somewhere. Possibly it was the same second-hand bookshop.

Battle of Culloden, have a guess why

Does it start with a J and end in an e and have an ami in the middle?

People in my office are talking about Torchwood.

Ooh, mine too! Also discussed that find-your-roots programme that Tennant was on, and went to London/derry and was creeped out by the Orangemen in his ancestry. I learned to my surprise that one of the middle-aged women—she actually has a daughter my age in the office—is a big fan of Star Trek and SG-1.