Not long after starting work here, I came up with the term 'proliferation of data' to describe the thing that I hate. I have a lot of stuff on my desk but my computer stays clean. Otherwise how do you find stuff ( Read more... )

My back hurts. Ow ( Read more... )

I am taking a break from the Twilight saga between books three and four. It's like slipping back into a comforting fug of adolescence, but I can't live my adult life like that ( Read more... )

My boss seems to have started referring to me in emails as 'Nom'.

Bless.

Today my boss told me that I could leave early because she was going to be in til 5pm. This is a Rare Occurence ( Read more... )

It seems to me that the 21:06 is a very respectable train to get back from Stirling on a sunday night. I waited a mere few minutes for a bus burgh-side and am home in plenty time for bed ( Read more... )

I see the old crone standing in the doorway. Someone must have told her I was coming. She holds out her arms to me and twists her mouth - I suppose that's the best I'm going to get ( Read more... )

It never really occured to me that the bloody-minded blog mentality (which a lot of us have - this is my space and I'll write what I damned well please and if you don't like it well, no one's forcing you to be here) hasn't carried over to facebook ( Read more... )

People dying of diseases is no fun at all, but like all such things, swine flu panic has brought some serious funny to the internet. Hysterical has two meanings, after all. This was my favourite.

At the moment I feel like I'm constantly backpaddling, trying to slow myself down while I'm racing on the inside. Feeling trapped but too alive and I just want to be outside doing stuff all of the time. Last weekend I went to the playpark, held back as long as I could but when a cloud covered the sun I ran to the swings, kicked off the ground and ( Read more... )