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The writings on the wall for my job. The person who is supposed to be my ally has invited someone shit hot to be interviewed. (I find said interviewee to be an overrated idiot, but whatever, she's a *name*). So that means the only person who wanted me in, wants me out ( Read more... ) -
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Today's the first time in a while I can pop my head above water and look around at life and not be freaking out. Work has been intense and has been making me question my willingness to even fight for a contract renewal. As a result, this post will be mostly bitching.
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There's a train crash basically every day in Egypt now. Average train crashes per year: 550. The other week it was a train cannoning into a school bus carrying 50 kids, all of them annihilated. People went nuts - and sensibly enough, blamed the infrastructure over the crossing guard who had abandoned his tiny concrete hut to hang out with the ( Read more... ) -
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Antocalypse
It's ant season, so I've been presiding over the 93 Qasr el Einy antocalypse. The dizzy anty fuckers have been doing their ant thing for too long and in too great numbers now, running over my feet wherever I sit, so I bought a can of 'Flit' (chosen over more convincing modern brands purely for its snazzy design that hasn't changed, apparently, ( Read more... ) -
inadequate
Fascinating reading: the author of A Rose In The Desert, that unbelievably fawning article about the Assads published in March 2011 in Vogue, writes how she was duped and pushed into it and of the reality of her time in Syria.
Good, but not good enough. Certain things are completely unfair: Joan Juliet Buck lost her job at Vogue more or less because ( Read more... ) -
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I just took a zaleplon (sleeping pill) 10mg about five minutes ago , and am starting to feel woozy. This was fine until I realised I took a valium earlier today, also 10mg.Valium seems to whisk through me within an hour so it may be a bit further out of my system, but I'm a bit worried. ShallI just try to fight sleep? go to the hospital? eat lots ( Read more... ) -
khamaseen
The other day was Sham En-Nesseem, an Egyptian spring/easterlike festival (in my eurocentrism I like to think of it as similar to pagan Eastertime) and bam, day after comes the khamaseen ( Read more... )