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Normally I'd be out of the house by now. Am staring at weather news... the London-Norwich train service is severely disrupted. It's not the route I take but run by the same company hmmm

The weather forecast isn't telling me if there'll be more snow, just keeps saying ice and bad driving conditions and low temperature, and I don't know if I should leave the house or not. Boss did agree that it'd be bad idea if I manage to get to work only to get snowed in...

Can't someone just tell me if I should go or not? *sigh*

:O! A few more raillines aren't running now, compared to just one about half an hour ago...

( Cut for meme. Am not surprised with this result. )

Also, it bothers me that they refer to George Bush Jr as just "President Bush" but others such as Putin as "Russia's President, Putin". It sounds like Bush is our president as well or something. *shakes head*

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Can someone please tell the clueless Pez what this thing about Rikkai and Troika really is?

Reverted to my ZukaFuji layout. Staring at this picture still makes me melt on the spot. ♥

And I still root for Johnny Depp to get an Oscar. But I'm biased.

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The next chapter of [The City] has been written, but I think it's a very boring chapter. I may go write the following one (or two) too, and then edit them together and see the overall effect.

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Jamie's school dinners started yesterday. I really enjoyed the show, as I did with his old show where he trained his chefs for "15".

For those who don't know, Jamie Oliver's a top chef who has become some sort of a celebrity chef. His style is rugged, very "throw everything together and voila" but it really works (I tried). In this show he went to take over the kitchens at a state school and has to cook for hundreds of kids with a very tight budget - 37p per person per meal. That's how much state schools get from the government to feed the kids.

It's a phenomenol challenge, to jump into something like that and trying to make it work on day one. With that sort of budget, the school has no choice but to feed them the shit everyone knows as school food. And if it has one single bit of veg in it, the kids refuse to eat it. What Jamie tries to do in the show is to cook them all healthy food that they'll like, with that sort of a budget.

At one point, what he said really struck me. He complained to a friend after seeing the food the kids were fed with. Processed, reconstituted crap with no nutritional value at all. He said something to the effect of, we've got this government trying to get people to be healthy, we spend all this money on the NHS trying to help people with heart disease, obesity... but look at the sort of shit they feed to our kids. This is where all the problems start! They give you 37p per kid for lunch, what are you supposed to do?

And I thought, fuck, that's so true.

Can't wait for next week's show.

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[edit] Death Note page58 spoilers in comments, read at your own risk

*sigh*

If people post about things, deliberately being vague about it so as not to spoil people on their flists, please don't go and give the spoiler in the comments. It defeats the purpose.

In other words, I'VE BEEN SPOILED GRRRRRR *shakes fist*