THE drawing

THE drawing with a lion's body, man's head and four wings....

Click if you dare.

The Book Meme

Stolen from Dan's blog:

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people and post a comment here once you post it to your blog so I can come see!

I'm at work now (yeah, bad me), and the only book I have with me is Good Omens (by Gaiman and Pratchett, of course), which I am re-reading.

On page 123 there's only four sentences. *epic fail*

I wonder what the universe is trying to tell me? Not to do this at work?

I won't tag, either.

Edit:
Vishal and Dan both demanded the four sentences. Four or five, depends on the way you look at it. They are:

"That settles it, then. Next year we go to Brighton," said Mrs Threlfall, completely missing the significance of what had just happened.
It meant there wouldn't be any next year.
It rather lowered the odds on there being any next week to speak of.

Now be really scared. (This is from just before Thursday starts in the book.)

Snow, snow, snow!

It's snowing here. Like, a blizzard! Where did the spring go?

Evening Edit: There was more snow today than there has been the whole winter.

I opened the front door and there was a pile of untouched snow there.
I waded through the walkway of the yard, up to my ankles in snow...

Pictures taken with my mobile (the camera sucks - it was still snowing when I took the
photos, but it doesn't show):

Waiting for the bus


View from our window

Flash Trainee

Today started my third week at work. Yes, I got a job three weeks ago! I am a Flash Trainee at an e-learning company. "A trainee" because I'm not expected to know everything, but it's still a steady, not temporary, position with a normal paycheck (almost exactly what I got at my previous place). I make Flash animations, edit images and stuff.

So, I spent about a week-two weeks honing my CV and studying how to make a cover letter. Then, during the next two weeks I sent five job applications, which got me an interview at my current work place for the week after that. It was a Thursday, and I was hired from the interview. I started work the next Monday. So, all in all, my job search went surprisingly well, and I wish good luck to everyone else who is going through the same!

So, what else is up with me? Well, I recently read the Tekkon Kinkreet (All in One paperback). It was good, as was the movie. I don't know how differently I would've reacted if I hadn't seen the movie, but at least now it was easy for me to keep track of the characters and follow the plot. I am currently in the middle of re-reading a collection of Moomin books, Good Omens, and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. I want to buy more books and comics, thanks to Dan's book pr0n photo extravaganza.

Books I'm interested in:
1) The Dresden Files
2) Detective Inspector Chen
3) The Raw Shark Texts
4) Gormenghast

Dan, can you tell me more of Ekaterina Sedia's The Secret History of Moscow? What 'sort' of book is it (atmosphere-character-wise)?

Also, am I missing something when I automatically dismiss books that have the word "planetary" or "alien races" in the back cover text? Different planets just really turn me off. Of course Pluto doesn't count, since it's not a planet.