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what if I say I'm not like the others
My coriander has sprouted, little pairs of tiny leaves after the rain. I'm planting it in batches, so it doesn't all go to seed at once. Might put some more tomatoes in as well, now it's getting warmer. Despite my job, and all that, there is still quite a lot to like; the walking to and from work is usually graced by something pretty or ( Read more... ) -
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NNWM 2007
So I have been planning my National Novel Writing Month 2007 effort (and furtively writing notes on it at work, thankyou Alt+Tab). This year looks promising: previously I've had school all day and school stuff to do all night (regardless of whether that largely consisted of drawing in the margins and playing minesweeper, it was still time- ( Read more... ) -
the night sky is peeling back her sheets; the linen is lavender
I just went for a short run, which was nice - I haven't for ages. Now I am going to sit down and write some letters, I think. It is all nice outside - still nice and cool morning and evening, but warm in the middle of the day (a bit too warm, if you ask me - but never mind). The rain has brought on greenery everywhere, sprouting from the edges ( Read more... ) -
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It's still raining beautifully; this morning was especially cold and windy, dark and rainy; delightfully film noir. ("Delightfully" is hardly the word, considering puddles of drowned worms and the truck that thundered past through a puddle, spraying my legs with water. Euphoria is about the closest I think I can get to it?) Unfortunately, where ( Read more... ) -
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The best thing about the slow turning into spring is that everything starts to smell wonderful; rain and wattle blossoming and magnolia trees and things generally growing all over the place. It's not the cold of winter that I mind, or the dark; it's the dryness and the stillness and the lack of birds.
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lunchbreak
I unbuttoned my shirt and knotted it and lay resting on my elbows so the grass scratched at my belly, and I dangled my unshod feet in the air like antennae to detect the breeze... it was warm this afternoon, too hot for August by far, and smelled like school lunchtimes. Smoke was draped all over the valley and I heard three fire trucks scream ( Read more... ) -
Necessary Information
I forgot to go into this earlier: server outage (probably hardware) is causing my website to be unavoidably down for quite some time while we work on refurbishments/replacements/whatever dark purposes we intend to implement. This is hardly a crushing announcement, obviously, because it's not as though I maintain a lot of traffic, and it's actually ( Read more... ) -
Food & Happiness
Today I bought organic leaf tea from Ceylon, which sounds like such a magical place, full of hills and tea and birds. And it certainly tastes as good; I have a whole teapotfull, all for moi. Other food highlights of the day include crunchy bread with apricot jam, and also some guilty chocolate ( Read more... ) -
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I was lying there listening to music last night and suddenly became aware of you out there - any one of my physically absent friends - doing the same thing. It wasn't so far to another human being after all. When people lament that the Internet has made the world a too much smaller place, I am secretly happy, because the world is of course the ( Read more... )