I just worked out that, as I spend 3-4 hours online every weekday morning for this internship, plus talking to K & whatnot in the evening, I'm quickly approaching spending a full time job's worth of my life on the internet. How about y'all?

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Finally: How much is too much?

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This seems rather more difficult than it's really worth. Here's a picture of the traffic jam we were in half an hour ago when K first let me play with his phone.


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Perhaps you can help. I'm finding it hard to find anything light/easy/quick but worth reading at the moment. In that category, I like: Diana Wynne Jones, Terry Pratchett, Jasper Fforde, J.K. Rowling (comic fantasy), Terri Prone, Wendy Holden, Morag Prunty, Jenny Colgan (chicklit), Agatha Christie (cozy mysteries), Stephen King (but this is a bit ( Read more... )

I spent this afternoon sitting in the sunshine 'helping out' at my mum's class picnic. (I don't do stuff to do with cooking meat, not the least because I never learned how, and there's only so much setting up one can do.) It went very well as we were parked on the other side of the building from the massive swarm of bees which suddenly appeared ( Read more... )

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Green is going mainstream. Recycling, in Switzerland, is something you do, or be shunned by neighbours and trash collectors alike. Even if you hate the planet, and are plotting to destroy it with a well placed nuke, you still have to sort your rubbish ( Read more... )

This is what I get for listening to local radio ( Read more... )

This is obviously going to be harder to write than I expected. It's not, however, something I've ever talked to anyone about, which is perhaps why I am writing these reflections at the grand age of 22 rather than the more sensible age of 16.

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I think the news is broken. It's not even news anymore. I mean, politicians are having affairs, those fast food merchants are advertising to kids, and there's one promising something "better than viagra!!! She can tell the difference!!".

Oh, no, wait, that's my junk mail.

Except, wait again: it isn't, and for the first time in ages, a viagra- ( Read more... )