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Insomnia and xmas plans
Time for my half-yearly post ( Read more... ) -
Odd question
Does anyone have any notion of where I might look for the proportion of native English speakers who also speak a foreign language? I figure this is fairly low, but some actual data would be helpful. Google has turned up fuck all, so now I'm on to JSTOR and some other scholarly databases.
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hack hack cough
I have spent the weekend laying about in the bed, trying to recover from a stuffy head. I did manage to while away much of yesterday playing a game on my laptop, since I figured I was too groggy to get any actual work done.
Today I read most of Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson, an odd little piece of speculative fiction. It has awakened in me ( Read more... ) -
An ottery tail from the pokey: Uncle Jimmy learns a skill
Today, resting in my holt, looking for my favorite rock, I came across a short film about my Uncle Jimmy. As I've mentioned in earlier posts, he would get in trouble when he hit the sauce. Well, while in the Pokey for Ottery Correction, he was learned a new skill: juggling. Here is the evidence:
This was taken some time ago. After he served ( Read more... ) -
Updating livejournal interface.
In a fit of procrastination, I am updating my lj interface from S1 to S2. I don't think I like the S2 thing, as the font is too small. I want something easy to use and easy to read. Bah ( Read more... ) -
The sane otter icon is deployed to indicate my noble mein and general level of unsquirrlyness
Or something like that ( Read more... ) -
My Uncle Jimmy always was a troublemaker, especially when he was on the sauce...
The other day, I was sitting in my holt, chewing on some shrimp and surfing the web. We are otters are very good at surfing. I then came across this site ( Read more... ) -
Melancholy day
We are hiring a new person in my department. One of my friends applied, and I'm pretty sure she could have had the job if she had come out for an interview. She was shortlisted. She was offered an interview ( Read more... ) -
Happy belated birthday to me.
I turned 37 on Friday. A bit weird. I guess now I am certainly middle-aged. The best part of my birthday was when we took my partner to the opthamalogist, and she said that my partner's eye is getting better. I was quite relieved ( Read more... )
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