Boredom.

You think boredom is sitting in a class you find tedious?
No mate, that's restlessness.
Boredom is that feeling you get when you surf the internet for hours on end, when what you're actually doing is trying to find a meaning to your life.

And frankly, I'd take restlessness over boredom any day because with restlessness, at least you know what you ought to be doing now instead.

The most unbearable part of this is that, applying this definition, I am almost certainly in a constant state of being bored.

Desert Island Discs #2

Like I mentioned in the previous post, I'm starting to making playlists of songs featured in Desert Island Discs episodes. I don't want to double-post - otherwise the odds are that I'd only have posts about Desert Island Discs playlists here, and what's the fun in that? - so here's the link to my Desert Island Discs tag on Tumblr. Check in once in a while if you like this sort of thing, or are just looking for continuous music in 45-minutes bursts!

Desert Island Discs playlists

I love Desert Island Discs. There’s just something about the program that’s almost as therapeutic as hot chocolate in a quiet cafe. The guests are normally very well interviewed (Kristy Young is ace at what she does), and the little glimpse of insights in them are an oasis of warmth. The guests’ music choices are wonderful too - I’ve always wished that I could listen to more than just little snippets of the music. So when I was listening to Mark Gatiss’ DID today, I realised it would be a good idea to create YouTube playlists of their song choices to listen to, in one continuous stream.

This is the Desert Island Disc page, if you might be interested. The BBC has, quite amazingly, made DID episodes recorded way back to the 70s available as downloads, for which you can get off BBC Radio 4’s page on iTunes too. Go run through it - there’s an amazing list of (mostly British) figures in their archives, and it’s always enlightening in some manner to listen to them.

I think I’m going to try making playlists for different DID guests I’ve listened to, and post them here in the hopes that the utility of my efforts would extend beyond my own pleasure. Here is Mark Gatiss’ DID, and here is the playlist of the music he’s chosen. Have fun!

And hello, guys! The two of you still reading this! Hello there! Yes you! Hello!

I've just came back from Penang, from what essentially is a massive food trip. I've eaten so much that I'm feeling awful and I'm hating myself - I'm someone who feels more comfortable eating very little, so this bout of gluttony feels like something I should atone for by fasting for at least three days. It's the holidays too, and I have a personal statement to write, universities to apply to, and maybe a job to apply for!

Here's the Australia photos I've promised months ago (I know, sorry). I'll try posting more frequently.

Though God help me I don't know how that would help because I'm watching A Study in Pink now. Again.

Rule of the Day:

I am only allowed to watch one episode of Community every day.

A very lemony photo-post.

With reference to this:

Brother and lemons are as follow:

The Chinese numbers were my idea.

(can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that my brother can really draw? Look at his chilli on the bottom left. The thing beside it is a banana. The other are flowers.)

(I think we can basically conclude that I am one odd-ass person.)

Oh,

you're not perfect, after all.