Too much pressure?!

Today I started to think about the books that I'm going to take with me on hols. Just to clarify, the whole point of this holiday is to completely kick-back and relax, so I anticipate much time for reading. However, I am now worried that I haven't given enough thought to which reading material to take along with me. The horror of getting it wrong is too much to bear!
So, the first thing to ask is how relaxed do I want to be. Body only, or body and mind? It's a pertinent question because if the answer is body and mind, then I don't want to be taking War and Peace and I may instead be open to the idea of Marian Keyes (but please please don't tell anybody and even if you did I'd deny it).

This could be the perfect opportunity for me to catch up on the classics that I've never read (there are an embarrassingly enormous amount but just to give you an idea of what I'm thinking) Room with a View, Jane Eyre, The Catcher in the Rye, a little light Dostoevsky, or maybe the chance to brush up on some history, or read some autobiographies, or learn some more Spanish, or take in A Brief History of Time (actually have read that one!). The possibilities are endless and the pressure to get it right is enormous. If I was to say that my holiday lives or dies on the choice of books that I take then that would be entirely over-the-top in a dramatic way that only my mother could carry off so I won't go that far, but it's important!

Anyway. Just to ensure I actually do use the time to at least tick one or two books off the list of things to read in life, I am posting this so I am pressured then at some point to post what I did actually read.

Three more sleeps then I'm off...

Godwin's law

So I learnt from JJ that Godwin's Law states that 'as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one"

If you are fortunate enough to be friends with Damian then you'd know that a conversation involving a comparison with Nazis or Hitler is a dead cert. Damo's Law.

MySpace

It's all happening! Not only do I have a blog (welcome) but I have a last.fm profile (ahem - and I have friends) and I have also been playing with my MySpace page and Steven Patrick Morrissey is now one of my MySpace friends.

Now, I know it's not really him, it's just some PR lacky. But still, it's Morrissey, and he's friends with me!!
I'm quite excited about this. In fact, the last time recently I got this excited was when I saw Colin Firth in our canteen at work. Except after I'd told everyone it was Colin Firth and I'd swooned a bit, I realised that
a) it wasn't Colin Firth and that
b) even if it had been I don't even fancy Colin Firth in the slightest

Man in our canteen should clearly sign up with a lookalike agency - there definitely appears to be a gap in the market for a Colin Firth

Dogs maul alligator

okay, so i've had this blog set up for a while and never used it. so this is the inaugural posting, the testing of how to use it, the start of yet another stream of consciousness on the web buried deeply amongst the millions already out there....

so with all that pressure in mind i'm not going to try and say something profound.

i'm just going to play with changing templates and fonts and layout and adding images until i feel that i'm a bit more comfortable with my new-found blog presence.

so for now, i'm just going to leave you with this shocking 'dogs maul alligators' photo. apologies if you find it disturbingly graphic.