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My mind is like Norway's coast line: completely fractured, but with some prettiness in it, and almost impossible to measure inch by inch. I have a lot of work to do (at work, to state the obvious) and I'm getting the tiniest bit stressed out. Ironically, I have the kind conch shell sound resounding in my ears all the time that would usually be ( Read more... ) -
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First and probably only place today I'll say this. My dad died today, around five p.m. I was there yesterday. Last words he heard from me was that he was loved, so I'm okay on the whole last words business.
I was prepared for this. I feel strangely detached. T and I have been talking about him the last few hours. It makes me feel quite good to ( Read more... ) -
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Same shit, different day.
my mom shows no interest in learning about the etymological roots of paranoia and hysteria, or for that matter feminism, since a Swedish crime thingamajig is on the telly.
My dad's still in the ICU. It's always pissed him off that he only had the Danish translation of Churchill's account of WWII - I managed to find the ( Read more... ) -
YAY - Scrivener
OMG! Scrivener is exactly the program I've always dreamed I had and didn't know existed. It's only for Mac, though (thought I'd mention that). It's a superb way to structure writing, ideas and stuff like that, both in fiction and academic papers and whatnot. This makes my scatterbrained self extremely happy. It lets you work on two documents ( Read more... ) -
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From The Woman's Book 1894:
"Both men and women earn, as a rule, just what they are worth. The law of supply and demand comes into play as relentlessly here as elsewhere. If a woman wants more money than a man, she has only to do better and more work in the long run than the man, and she will get more pay as surely as business rules remain in force ( Read more... ) -
Book love
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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This journal is now friends-only. But I don't bite, so leave a comment and I'll probably add you. -
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thought I'd take a moment with my coffee to relax and inform the world that I'm angry with my inability to get up in the morning.
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DisorderRatingParanoid:LowSchizoid:LowSchizotypal:ModerateAntisocial:LowBorderline:LowHistrionic:LowNarcissistic:ModerateAvoidant:LowDependent:LowObsessive-Compulsive:Moderate
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general trivia
I've had some great days with Ankir although we've only had a few hours together saturday and sunday. Saturday she came to visit me. She hasn't been in my mother's good graces for quite a while, but eventually everything's cooled down. UNTIL my Ankir caled me and my mother overheard her saying something rather unpleasant (in me mom's opinion that ( Read more... )