You know, this would rock a great deal more if I could post privately or friends only with it. As it is, I'm just a bit aware that I'm clogging up my friends' friend feeds with misspelled stream-of-consciousness IRCish postings.

So, Q went off to Europe today. Ada and I are joining her in a couple of weeks. The last time Quinn was away for so long, Ada was just on the cusp of realising what was going on, and now we're full of pre-emptive explanations on our part and lots of processing and questions on hers ( Read more... )

My friend Cait's has been thinking about her baby and others

I tried to post this reply on the blog, but it told me that "it looks like spam I do", so I thought I'd put it up here. It sort of defines the limits of how much I think can be learnt about childcare from other people.

I don't think you're particularly unusual in restricting how much ( Read more... )

Acclaimed comedy writer and producer Armando Iannucci, Oxford University’s News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media, will begin his lecture series ‘British TV Comedy: Dead or Alive?’ on Tuesday 24 January 2006. The series will kick off with the talk ‘Ever Decreasing Viewing Figures: the decline of mainstream comedy ( Read more... )

Wow, that was quite the day. After a couple of long, long days of spending mostly time staring at screens, I had one of those days where you just work, all out, without even time to think. The tragedy is that I still didn't manage to do everything I needed to for the day. But at least I tried to grind through it all, rather than just sit deer-in- ( Read more... )

I spent some time with Brad and Kathryn and friends tonight watching Superbowl ads (not the game itself, just the adverts, using a MythTV box with its ad-skipping polarity reversed). For the first 15 minutes, I couldn't make sense of anything. It was like Shiny Shiny Coin Coin was beginning to feel my usual fear that I'd disconnected entirely from ( Read more... )

I wooed Quinn in London with a proud defence of euro-socialism, aimed at the sort of migratory libertarian that she was back then. Americans rarely hear socialism defended, which I think made me exotic. And while staunchly in the mid-left of Britain to my friends, I secretly loved the libertarian movement from a safe distance.  Dzm once said that ( Read more... )

I hit on someone on the bus today. I even gave her my phone number. I was very courteous, yet did not rely on silent telepathy to convey my interest at any point.

I have already been congratulated by one ex for doing something that would have saved I estmate on average, around six months to a year in previous relationships.

Yay me!

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