The Loonie Peeperoonie ([info]peeperoonie) wrote,
@ 2008-07-09 09:23:00
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An end in sight
What I got home on Monday Mum had been busy cleaning all day - and using her new foot-thingy - so I had to start the tea - the Jalapeno beefburger with potatoes and salad. Then it was time to get some stuff done on WoW. I managed to get a grouo for the Shattered Halls heroic, because it was the heroic daily. We had some nasty moment, but because we had a shammy (self-rez ftw!) and a druid-healer (combat rez ftw!) we just managed to make it to the end to kill the executioner and get the unused axe for the 'Test of Mercy' quest - only two more heroic quests to do in the Shadow Labyrinth and Arcatraz then I can try to get into a raid to kill Mags, safe in the knowledge that my title is in the bag!

Tuesday was another quiet day here, and also idiot-free. Had it away on my toes at the usual time and spent the bus trip back happily reading another book by Diana Wynne Jones, the Merlin Conspiracy - I've already finished reading A Charmed Life and The Lives of Christopher Chant.

I popped into the Co-Op on the way back to get some bread. Mum had tea nearly done when I got in - liver & bascon with veggies, mmmm. I jumped on WoW with the intention of doing heroics if I wasn't needed in Karazhan, but I eventually ended up helping the Stranglethorn Surf Club in Zul'Aman. We made it all the way to Zul'jin before we wiped again on our second try with him and I had to go to bed. I got a nice caster dagger out of it (the thing is freaking HUGE! Seriously, there must be something off with the scaling) and I earned enough from my completed quests to offset the cost of repairs and reagents. A good night, even if I am pretty knackered now.

I have stuff to do today though, so once this is done, I have to get to work typing out a witness statement and some other things so it's all done before Rhoda comes tomorrow and roasts me. *sigh* Only a couple more weeks of this and it'll be done - such a relief!



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[info]alexie65
2008-07-11 10:27 am UTC (link)
What's this about a witness statement? Did I miss something in a previous post?!

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[info]peeperoonie
2008-07-11 01:12 pm UTC (link)
Haha, nah, it's just stuff for my NVQ - 'witness' in this case just means "someone I've done stuff for and here's this statement I've already typed out saying all the nice stuff I do for them now sign it please ^_^"

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[info]jainaerin
2008-07-13 03:43 am UTC (link)
wow, I read her Dark Lord of Derkholm forever ago. Is the rest of her stuff any good?

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[info]peeperoonie
2008-07-13 08:15 am UTC (link)
Heh, that book creeped me out a bit because a lot of the names were those of my family: Derek, Lynae, Shona, Kit...

Yes, her stuff is very good, and she's written books of a good range of ages. The first I remember was The Ogre Downstairs, read in school in the early 90s. She generally has a rather..quirky view of fantasy. I find it similar in tone to what I've read of Neil Gaiman's stuff and in fact the two admire each other's work - if you ever watch or read Stardust, the Babylon candles and the rhyme that go with them are from her work (Deep Secret). Don't go looking for anything like the Shannara series and so on in what she's written. I've most enjoyed the original Howl's Moving Castle and her pair of book about Magids, called Deep Secret and The Merlin Conspiracy.

I'm still trying to find out which of her books are meant for kids because most are kept in the Junior fiction section of my local library, but in the end I don't think it matters too much - like Harry Potter, I think they can transcend that age barrier.

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