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Deadline Say What Now?
I'm within sight of realising a long standing ambition and slay a personal bugbear which is the 'I must some day write a book' thing. After four half-way serious attempts which never got finished to date, I'm fairly happy about what I've currently got - 63k rough that includes a start, middle and ending - if I caught plague tomorrow, someone could ( Read more... ) -
Datamining
The fabulous thing about CD cases is that they're light enough for one to have just slung them into luggage without checking what exactly was in them - thus provided lots of entertainment when one finds that in fact one has things one was thinking of trying to source already in hand, acquired before they were really of interest ( Read more... ) -
A Thousand Press Officers Cried Out
[Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the EU Commission] said that the current poor economic situation had emphasised the importance of the euro and the UK but added he believed a move would not take place in the immediate future.
"I know that the majority in Britain are still opposed, but there is a period of consideration under way and the people ( Read more... ) -
Time Sink
Its amazingly time consuming trying to organise all the bits and pieces I've written - even after I've started catergorising them pretty well so I'm only mucking about in the similarly themed stuff. I've just spent an hour that ... got me a few fixes and maybe an idea. I need to get a plan. Clue, too, but a plan is doable ( Read more... ) -
Disconnect
I've noticed a shift in the flavour here on LJ from emoting about 'why does X/Y/Z snub me/not love me' to 'how am I making ends meet'. Looks like a shift down the Heirarchy of Needs from Esteem or Love/Belonging to Safety which is a big flag for this recession starting to bite.( Read more... ) -
Listening
I read somewhere a while ago that it used to be that if anything of significance happened in the world, people would wait to see what the US president said about it - but that that had ceased during the Bush presidency ( Read more... ) -
Grumble Grumble Humbug Bloody Kiss Her
After three months of constant rotation I've finally been moved to say this. Dear Katy Perry while I cannot fault even the flimsiest pretext for having lingerie clad lovelies pouting and squirming, for the love of little apples how is I Kissed A Girl news?( Read more... )
