also; I use a Mac now. Mac's are cool.

Is there a decent LJ client for a Mac? I miss semagic

A strangely busy few days in which I have mainly been playing with Ello. But it's lack of a mobile client has meant that I just ain't had time to do even that. Today / tired / in work before 8 because I have been up since 4 / I have a few moments to bang out an entry in between sips of coffee ( Read more... )

I have used my last full week before going back to work to sort out all those things that needed doing, but had not been done. DiY, gardening, dentist, medical MOT. I've also finalised my PhD application - it is out for a final review by my potential director of studies - and banged out a load of new agent queries as well. Mainly I have been ( Read more... )

There is still too much difficult stuff going on for me to be able to write about. I have sat down a few times to try and am overwhelmed by it all. The written word makes things true. It is strange that I could write about it if it were fiction, but not this way. I tried to write it as though it were fiction; it was still too much ( Read more... )

"Everything starts with an E ( Read more... )

I am on the tube. I like the tube. It is an exercise in finding your own space in the world and cutting out all external input. There are a hundred people in this car. I know nothing about any of them - don't even know what they look like - and by the end of my 40 minute ride across the city that will not have changed ( Read more... )

I worry about the amount of time I spend in front of a computer. It seems extreme. Even my leisure time is spent writing or editing or - when things are not going so well - refreshing social media or playing games ( Read more... )

sorry

Never make a decision on the Tuesday after an event. It is the time when energy levels are at their lowest. Emotions seem to take a hammering and the fog of fatigue still sits heavy over the whole mess ( Read more... )

It is a strange thing, a deadline. A point at which, if something is not done then it is too late. Sometimes it stirs one to action. In other cases it brings about a sort of paralysis; one that surely turns to panic when the time comes closer ( Read more... )