I would take it very kindly if anyone were to punctuate the soul-crushing greyness of dissertating by comment-spamming. Bonus points for hot people or retarded .gifs.
I've watched Canada's Next Top Model for Tricia Helfer. CNTM! It is unbearably boring, because Canadians are all so nice and sane. Damn you, Tricia Helfer.
"No ceremony, Doctor, I beg," said the Admiral, smiling: the Leopard's hundred pounds were practically in his pocket, and this man of theirs did not look very dangerous. "Shall we begin?"
"By all means," said Stephen.
"You go down to the other end," murmured Jack, a chill coming over him in spite of the torrid sun.
"Should you like to be given a middle, sir?" called the umpire, when Stephen had walked down the pitch.
"Thank you, sir," said Stephen, hitching at his waistband and gazing round the field, "I already have one."
A rapacious grin ran round the Cumberlands: they moved much closer in, crouching, their huge crab-like hands spread wide. The Admiral held the ball to his nose for a long moment, fixing his adversary, and then delivered a lob that hummed as it flew. Stephen watched its course, danced out to take it as it touched teh ground, checked its bounce, dribbled the ball towards the astonished cover-point and running still he scooped it into the hollow of his hurly, raced on with twinkling steps to mid-off, there checked his run amidst the stark silent amazement, flicked the ball into his hand, tossed it high, and with a screech drove it straight at Jack's wicket, shattering the near stump and sending its upper half in a long, graceful trajectory that reached the ground just as the first of La FlĂȘche's guns, saluting the flag, echoed across the field.
Stephen Maturin totally failing at cricket is vastly funnier than I would have expected it to be.
;sldkjflsa;skdjf YES YES YES. I think it is the fact that he does it so spectacularly - the combination of PWNING, and yet simultaneously FAILING UTTERLY.
Oh, Bean. I feel like I am missing out by not having read/seen Sharpe, but... I've read Cornwell, and his writing just doesn't do it for me. :( So sad.
Stephen: "I did at one stage think that I might have been a paederast, but then I found out about the prohibitive standards of personal hygiene. And all that dancing!"
"Forgive my indelicacy, but I must confess to extreme curiosity - I am fairly with child to know. During your weekly orgies - understand that I use the term purely scientifically - does it not cause intolerable amounts of confusion as, in the course of the coitus, of the act itself, the moonlight reflects upon both your buttocks and your shaven heads and renders them more than usually indistinguishaarrrgharggghleargh."
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