I could have a rant, but I won't because it wouldn't be productive. Instead, I will look at what I've achieved this weekend (striking through the ones I did):

• Write e-mails - still seem to have rather a lot in my inbox though
• Write fic (esp Farscape drabble) - not Farscape though, only the quick Henneth Annun list challenge and two pairs of triolets
• Post fic (inc Farscape drabble) - someone posted the above for me - still need to put stuff up on my site and ff.net though
• Make CDs - yes x 4! And formatted my CD-Rs. Just need to get my mp3s off dad's CD-R now so I can give it back to him
• Spring clean room - and have the achey bits to prove it
• Spring clean computer - still on my list of things to do
• Do some HASA-related work - not really, will do some in the week though

Still need to consider moving posters and re-doing my website a bit (not so much a redesign as moving things about a bit).

Finally got round to looking at the list of books at the Big Read top 100 the other day. Out of the 100 I've read:

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll - one of my favourite books ever
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery (I think I have anyway)
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
Emma, Jane Austen
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott - and the three sequels - although none of them are as good as the original
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton - I've read so much Enid Blyton, the chances are I've read this one
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Nineteen-Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck - admittedly for GCSE English Lit
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy - this one I really enjoyed
The Twits, Roald Dahl

Which comes to 31. Plus a few I've seen but not read, and a few more I want to read. I'd probably had read more of them if I hadn't been forced to read 'improving books' when I was younger and rebelled and read trash instead.

I read through those poetry forms and discovered I really like the ballad. An example I found on a page about them is 'The Walrus and the Carpenter', which I absolutely love. Maybe I should write some (or at least one) of those.

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