Otago!

Couldn't resist. Our uni is just so gorgeous.

Our beautiful flat

You know how Blogger inverts the order of uploaded pictures? Well, this is the view from our kitchen window - formerly last in the list. But hey! Pretty, green cityscape!

Our kitchen a month ago: since then, we've brightened it up just a bit and been given a new, much more reliable oven.

The lounge! Very big, and still a wee bit bare.

The gorgeous fireplace what did teach me so much about ashes and soot, and the door to the kitchen.

My room! This is taken from about the middle of the floor: it's rather big.

View from that there window in the pic-i-ture above.

The other side. Me have pwetty fireplace aussi.

... and my fingers are dead from composing and typing up 'une petite histoire amusante' due tomorrow afternoon, so that's all for now. Love you, Dad. :-)

Well, hello there

First off, three songs I've just discovered, and loved:

- Ludovico Einaudi's In Un'altra Vita (classical piano)
- Everybody Knows by Ryan Adams (alt-country)
- and Ah Mon Amour by Rachid Taha (world/arabic)

Then, a random note: how Western-centric is a 'world' tag, really? I mean, 'world' isn't descriptive of the music in any way that counts - Bruce Springsteen, Elton John or U2 are just as Earth-based as Rachid Taha. Still, perhaps fear of cultural bias was what spurred that silly tag in the first place. They're all doomed experiments in stereotyping, anyway!

Second random note: why do I want to write 'a euphemism' instead of 'an euphemism'? Because it's right, that's why (duh :-P) - but why? Why? Oh, that's why. And even though you don't want me to, I'll explain - just skip ahead. The 'eu' in 'euphemism' is pronounced 'you', so it has a consonant sound. *wondering headshake* Learning, new, always, etc.

Tis the eve of the English exam.