...and already underwhelmed. Just as I expected, but never mind. I have to see the advantages: I smoke less (very good), home is only a 15 minutes' walk away, the gym only one underground stop, and... yeah, that's pretty much it ( Read more... )

Not that I was unaware of the fact that I'm very close to 50. I wasn't quite expecting, though, to feel the effect of stress, little sleep and lots of hard work as strongly as I do. Or rather, I thought I'd recover more quickly ( Read more... )

Kittens have in-built fun filters and perception scramblers ( Read more... )

This is how it might look:

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Very, very, very pissed-off. And tired, and stressed-out, and generally in a murderous-rampage mood ( Read more... )

I don't think I want to start working again in the near future. I mean, I know I have to, and I also know it won't be too horrible, probably, but this not-working thing is very, very nice ( Read more... )

Although calling it jet-lag wouldn't be quite right. In my case it's rather a move-lag, and fortunately it's already fading ( Read more... )

Would've had it earlier, if Janine had remembered to give me the modem as well as the cable tv receiver. The conversation I had this morning with customer service was rather strange, because at the beginning the guy thought I had the modem, and I thought we were talking about a combined device, until finally it dawned on both of us that I'd just ( Read more... )

...and now I know ( Read more... )

It's so strange, knowing that it's the last, but not being quite able to believe it. Everything feels so... normal, as if it were going to continue like this. The mind is a strange thing, indeed ( Read more... )