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It's sad I know but little pleases me as much as finding a great new webcomic. This is Muse Academy - I just spent two hours reading its 200+ episodes.

Lemme know what you think

http://www.themuseacademy.com/Archive/01Enrolment/01Enr_001.html

Again not sure if Boojum or Snark - A political party has offered substantial ammounts of money tp poor villares if they give their child the first name of a party hero.

Here's the link:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20081125/tod-uk-italy-names-b7e5c6f.html

Thoughts?

A

I am not much of an LJ person but occasionally venture here for the purposes of Snark hunting. Found one. Or maybe it's a Boojum. Who can tell? Anyway, it's a link to something I think Nats will like. About two fictional characters I know she feels for...

But perhaps not the two she thinks...

http://st-aurafina.livejournal.com/89425.html

Please send a message regarding this:

If people send polite emails now to Ken Livingstone, Mayor Of London - mayor@london.gov.uk - something can be done about this disgusting situation:

Urge the Olympic Delivery Authority to Allow Rescue of Feral Cats From Deadly Demolition Area.

Hundreds of feral cats living at the site of the future Olympic Park in London - where demolition is already underway - are in danger of starving as their food sources have been eliminated, being crushed by heavy machinery or being buried under rubble when the buildings they live in are demolished.

Mother cats and kittens are especially vulnerable, as mother cats are extremely protective of their young and will remain with their kittens in the most dangerous areas rather than abandon their babies. Since most feral cats flee and hide when humans approach, it's virtually impossible to ensure that buildings are clear of cats before demolition begins.

The Celia Hammond Animal Trust (CHAT) is an animal rescue group that has already rescued 157 cats and kittens. Inexplicably, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is barring CHAT from accessing the site to trap and safely remove the remaining cats - even though the trappers have all the relevant construction safety qualifications to allow them to operate on the site and are only requesting permission to access the road outside the site to set up feeding stations and traps. Preventing these cats from being rescued is essentially a death sentence for these animals.

Please write to, e-mail or call the ODA and ask them to allow the CHAT adequate time to rescue these cats, including time to set up feeding stations to acclimate the cats to being fed in certain areas as a prelude to trapping. As well as time to monitor nursing cats in order to locate and remove litters of kittens hidden in dangerous areas.

Please send polite comments to:

London 2012
1 Churchill Place
Canary Wharf
London E14 5LN
0203 2012 000

Or email via this page -

http://www.london2012.com/contact-us.php

I've often wondered how things like household bills are handled in the Harry Potter world. Are their beurocracies as incompetent as ours? Snape finds out...

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As many of you know - I write short stories occasionally but I have never, until now, ventured into the murky waters of 'fan fic'.

The following story will mean nothing much to those who are not familiar with harry Potter 5 (book or film). It concerns the origin of the curtain that a certain person falls through. I wrote this after a discussion with Nats in which we were debating the nature of the Curtain and why anyone would build such a thing.

Hope you enjoy it....
PS: It's not fluffy....


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The Cat's Version of the Rules


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BATHROOMS: Always accompany guests to the bathroom. It is not necessary to do anything. Just sit and stare.

DOORS: Do not allow any closed doors in any room. To get the door open, stand on hind legs and hammer with forepaws. Once door is opened, it is not necessary to use it. After you have ordered an "outside" door opened, stand halfway in and out and think about several things. This is particularly important during very cold weather, rain, snow, or mosquito season.

CHAIRS AND RUGS: If you have to throw up, get to a chair quickly. If you cannot manage in time, get to an Oriental rug. If there is no Oriental rug, shag is good. When throwing up on the carpet, make sure you back up so it is as long as a human's bare foot.

HAMPERING: If one of your humans is engaged in some activity, and the other is idle, stay with the busy one. This is called "helping," otherwise known as "hampering." Following are the rules for hampering:

When supervising cooking, sit just behind the left heel of the cook. You cannot be seen and thereby stand a better chance of being stepped on and then picked up and comforted.
For book readers, get in close under the chin, between eyes and book -- unless you can lie across the book itself.
When human is working at computer, jump up on desk, walk across keyboard, bat at mouse pointer on screen, and then lay in human's lap across arms, hampering typing in progress.
WALKING: As often as possible, dart quickly and as close as possible in front of the human, especially: on stairs, when they have something in their arms, in the dark, and when they first get up in the morning. This will help their coordination skills.

BEDTIME: Always sleep on the human at night so he/she cannot move around.

LITTER BOX: When using the litter box, be sure to kick as much litter out of the box as possible. Humans love the feel of kitty litter between their toes.

HIDING: Every now and then, hide in a place where the humans cannot find you. Do not come out for three to four hours under any circumstances. This will cause the humans to panic (which they love) thinking that you have run away or are lost. Once you do come out, the humans will cover you with love and kisses, and you probably will get a treat.

ONE LAST THOUGHT: Whenever possible, get close to a human, especially their face, turn around, and present your butt to them. Humans love this, so do it often. And don't forget the guests.

Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.

No surprises...

Today I left work 50 minutes late. The last two days I worked in A+E, I left at least an hour late. It is very tiring.

Today I spent at least an hour trying to get a psychiatric review for someone who had taken an overdose and wanted to leave without treatment. Failed. Very frustrating.

But in the end we managed to persuade her to stay anyway.

I find more and more that it's the little victories in life that matter - they may take a long while and you may be fighting against a sea of obstacles but you get there in the end.

All in all, I wouldn't swap my job for anything :)

Please forward...

Despite over 42,000 replies to the government's consultation on the culling of badgers in 2006 - with over 96% being against the killing of badgers - our government is still considering killing badgers. There is a very real danger that snaring and gassing will be allowed to kill badgers - we need to fight this 'Silent Killer in the Countryside'

Thank you for visiting our website and caring about badgers. We hope you will help us protect the countryside and sign our petition please.

http://www.blackandwhite.info/

Hi, my name is:
Alan Joseph McLeod

When I'm nervous:
I click my knuckles

The last song I listened to was:
Little Miss S by Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians

If I were to get married right now my maid of honor/best man would be?:
Brothers - Mike and Christopher

By this time next year:
I will be getting ready to start my 2nd year Jobs - hopefully A+E and plastic surgery.

If I won an award, the first person/people I would tell would be:
mum

Most recent thing I've bought myself:
Arrrgh! Cannot remember - going senile. Probably a book...

Most recent thing someone else bought me:
Cufflinks from Nats as a graduation present - beautiful blue glass

This morning I:
Worked on revision notes - impressive eh?

Last night I was:
Celebrating my Graduation

If I was any animal I'd be:
a bat or a bee - just for a day so I could experience the world through different senses.

A better name for me would be:
I like my name

Tomorrow I am:
Doinf more revision notes, lol

Tonight I am:
on here and reading a nice book

I miss:
college already lol

My favorite color is:
Varies: blue, yellow, green, purple

My heart:
Beating...

How I spent yesterday...

How I spent my day...

9.00 get up. Wish hadn't stayed up so late reading my book...

9.30 discussions about where to put the huge medieval tent that is occupying Nats' car... (why this is important will become obvious later)

9.35-10.30 getting ready, discovering irremovable mark on shirt, frantically ironing 2nd choice...

10.35 - moving heavy medieval tent from car to garden. Hopefully to dry off from it's soaking the night before!

12.30 - 2.30 get to restaurant for pre-graduation meal. They have never heard of us. After about 30 mins they eventually sorted it out - we had been booked into another venue by mistake! Then it took the food so long to come that I had to collect my robes mid-meal (luckily not from far away).

2.30 - 5.00 enter hall for ceremony. Half hour wait in boiling hall in boiling clothes with only a tiny bottle of water - and that was just waiting for the ceremony to start. It took about an hour for all the people to graduate - there were us medics and general scientists. We had the best show of support tho by far - everyone got cheers and we had a standing ovation at the end.

5.00 - 7.00 - went to med school for wine and cakes. Yum. :)

7.00 - 8.00 - went to my old house in Coventry to pick up the last of my stuff (this is why the tent needed to be OUT of the car). Found out the new people had helpfully re-built the bookcase I had taken apart for ease of transport...

8.0 - 9.45 More wine around a friends house - very nice company
9.45 - 11.00 journey home - V tired.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Nora, the Piano-Playing Cat



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I am back from the 'other place' (MySpace) and will try to keep my LJ up to date now -

Recent gossip?

The scariest consultant on our couse had this to say about a piece of work I did:

"Wow, this is amazing!"

He has suggested I turn it into a book and offered to help me find a co-author from the other consultants - he even suggested his old mentor who is one of the country's experts in medical pharmacology.

This guy is hard to impress.

Glad I'm doing something right at last :D

Ah - has been a while since I typed in these hallowed pages...

Any Cov people going to Kevs party that wants to share cabs to & from?

chat soon hopefully

Pippin (my Apple) is here!

In fact, I am typing this very message upon her (sorry to anthropomorphise) keyboard right now. The transition was a mix of the ridiculously easy and the frustrating (The latter was mostly because I was looking for some complex-windowsy way of doing things when the answer was a single keyclick).

I love my new apple. Everyone should have one!!!