How is that that so many of these fabulous, incredible people I know can be so down on themselves in their various ways. It drives me insane. I mean, I understand it, don't get me wrong - I've been there - but sometimes I still can't come to terms with it. It's the smart ones with the problem - they see it all and find nothing in return. Because ( Read more... )

I watched all of season 4 of peep show today, was great. I need to do silly things like that more, make some me time. :)

Yes, I know - two months into her new job and she's already thinking about her career again. When will she quit, you ask? Well, honestly, I don't think I ever will. And that's probably what's making me so suited to a sales-based environment ( Read more... )

The traffic coming from princes street has been signalled to stop ( Read more... )

..is showing at festival theatre at the moment and I reckon it's well worth a look ( Read more... )

Honestly, I do feel as though I am my past self, living again finally ( Read more... )

Usually, there is an old man in a window in one of the flats opposite. Daily, he leans out with old sad eyes behind vaguely tinted glasses, puffing distractedly on one after another of his cigarettes. Gazing defeatedly along the street as though something was lost a long time ago, he remembers only the loss itself and not the object ( Read more... )

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
Be sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.~ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. T. S. Eliot ( Read more... )

Greetings all ( Read more... )

Speaking to a good friend the other day, he spoke of what he called the 'uni / non-uni' divide. The line that exists so solidly between those educated to university level and those not. It is a line which has always been drawn in my head like some sort of residual conditioning which I have not yet swept away, a wall of solid dust I do not feel like ( Read more... )