Delusions of Grandeur

The first thing you might notice about this entry is the the number and variety of coding failures. I normally post only using the Rich Text Editor, which does all the tricky little formatting bits for me, but, for some strange reason, my RTE (and saved draft!) disappeared on Friday, and hasn't reappeared since. I've been working with some very nice tech support people on this, but we haven't come up with a solution yet. So, until then, please forgive any especially derpy HTML errors that I make while I (re-)learn to code the old-fashioned way.

( First up, a meme that I was tagged in a few days ago... )

Next up, another meme, the rules of which are thus:
Comment to this post, and I will list five things I associate with you. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your LJ (or just add a reply back to me). Other people (including me) can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
Feel free to join in!
I got:( Santa Rosa, Renly/Loras, library science, Tolkien, and Age of Sail... )

I've got two more memes, a fandom one and a pairing one this time, still to post but as they both require much tricky coding (embedding images, hiding links behind text, etc.) that I'm going to save myself the headache and wait for my RTE to reappear.

A few other fandom bits and bobs:
( An extremely interesting piece of Hobbit casting news... )

( On the Temeraire front, I am becoming increasingly fond of Jane Roland... )

( In other Temeraire news, I am about to commit fanfic... )

( In RL news, my first semester at Cal is rapidly drawing to a close (plus weird dreams!)... )

 Why is it that all the best talent comes out of the UK? From antiquity (Chaucer, Shakespeare), through the harsh-yet-beautiful late 19th and early 20th centuries (Dickens, Wells, Stoker, Doyle, Orczy) into the turbulent but prolific era of the 60's and 70's (Tolkien, Monty Python, Doctor Who, The Beatles), and up to the modern day (Harry Potter, half the cast and crew of the Lord of the Rings movies).

( Elaborations... )

( Anthony Stewart Head is teh middle-aged British librarian secks! )