Today, I got a call out of the blue from a man at the employment agency who'd read my CV and had a post he thought I'd be suitable for ( Read more... )

My aunt died two weeks ago, the funeral was a week ago, and only now does it begin to feel real.

...stupid cancer.

Russia just got hit by a meteor.

I've felt this way before, usually in tragedies. The feeling is: This is too movie-like for real life.

(Okay, so Russia actually got hit by a meteor just as I was leaving the zoo. Still.)

I have a dark and guilty secret ( Read more... )

The advantages of being moderately socially aware: You realise that a guy is interested in romance and inform him politely that you're flattered but asexual before things can get awkward ( Read more... )

A lot of stories go around about sexism in WoW. Up until today, I hadn't actually experienced harassment in WoW among people who knew my gender(just as I've never experienced it in the real world, come to that), so I assumed that kind of thing was rare or outdated ( Read more... )

I usually keep an apple in my room to eat before the cafeteria starts breakfast. Today I left the window open to get some fresh air, left the room, and when I came back there was a thud and the apple had vanished from the windowsill ( Read more... )

My hand was cramping like crazy by the end, but then, two and a half hours' frantic scribbling will do that to you. My handwriting remains messy (haven't had much reason to do it for about a month), and despite my assiduously cleaning my fountain pen yesterday, it kept going dry and requiring me to shake it very hard.

One down, seven to go.

My computer is fixed! And all I had to do was ... reinstall to the state it was in when I got it, thus wiping my files and promising unknown frustrated hours of trying to move them from the backup drive back to the computer. But hey, my computer is fixed! No more Google breakage, slow running, or random redirects!

For the record, shopping weighs a ton or it does when you buy a week's worth of food and have to carry it over a mile on foot. I wound up 'borrowing' an empty garbage box (about two feet by one, six inches high) to carry it the last third of the way, and hopefully will have it returned before the owner notices. For now, my arms start trembling ( Read more... )