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Audio book swap?
smiorgan and I have just returned from a week in Cumbria (of which perhaps more later), and for the long drive up, the many drives around, and the long drive back down again, we purchased some audio books on CD. We're unlikely to relisten to them, and will want more for the next time, so (this might be a long shot) does anyone else buy audio books and ( Read more... ) -
Best thing ever
Being able to walk ten unobstructed paces and go straight into a room with a dry floor, ample loo roll, a clean seat and no visible cesspit.
Back from Reading Festival. Tired now :-) -
This icon has two keywords...
...the first is 'happy', which is the reason I used it in my last post. The second is 'swimming', which is why I am using it in this one. Although, as you might have noticed, 'swimming' automatically equals 'happy' if you're me :-)
I've just returned from another river swim (with pepper_field), my third in a week, and I've another planned for tomorrow. I don' ( Read more... ) -
Um. Wow.
I haven't mentioned my degree result, because I'm kinda shy about it, although people ask sometimes. I'm mentioning it now because I've just had an email from my dissertation supervisor telling me that he's nominated me for an award which is given to the best dissertation in the school written by a student who gets a first overall. He's at pains to ( Read more... ) -
I am slow on the uptake
I have been living here for thirteen years, complaining about how far away we are from the sea, and I'm only just starting to realise that we've got quite a lot of river, and some of it is swimmable ( Read more... ) -
Public service announcement
Regularly means 'occurring at standard intervals'. Frequently means 'occurring often'. They are not synonyms.
I've just been on a work away day. 'Regular meetings' are only a cure for communication problems if they are also frequent, damnit. -
Drenched and starving!
It's possible the unverse was paying too much attention to me rhapsodising about swimming in the lake last week, since it's now made two attempts to recreate the experience now I'm back at home and work ( Read more... ) -
Holidays!
Just back from a holiday where I met lots of lovely new people, ( played several role playing games, ) -
Blessings
Someone in the finance department of the institution I work for always finishes his phone calls with 'bless you'. I just took a message from him for an officemate, and received his blessings along with his thanks, and thus was born a poll:
Poll Blessings
( How I feel about blessings ) -
With three days in hand...
...I am tentatively declaring the beast slain. I've made PDFs (so as to preserve my pretty not-on-the-PC font), emailed a massive zip file to every email address I've got, backed up onto large and small portable hard drives, and am hoping to print out, bind and submit tomorrow. I'd cheer but I don't quite believe that it's done ( Read more... )