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Previously unclassified posts which I am now in the process of sorting out and categorising properly. If I am successful, this category will disappear. Yay!
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08.21.01NiceLovely quote from my ickle sister, marooned on a hebridean island, and suffering from post-dramatic stress syndrome:"You could call me a Jehovah's Bystander. I believe there's a supreme being - I just don't want to get involved."> her name is anna and she doesn't bite (much)">little.red.boat
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08.20.01Bang & ScrewSince the sudden and unexpected > I remember my teacher in primary school explaining this idiom to us">moonlight flit of > we have no firm evidence to prove that they were, in fact, ladies of the night, but all circumstantial evidence seems to point in that direction">Destiny's Whores from the flat upstairs a few weeks ago, we've enjoyed a period of relatively peaceful living - well, relatively peaceful considering we live on a main road and at least compared to when they were living there. No click-clack of kitten heels down the long hallway at 4am. No loud voices and ...
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08.20.01CrashCan someone please clarify the law on bicycles and red traffic lights for me? I just got a full body-check from a cyclist zooming across a stop light as I was crossing the road. And it hurt. I was in a monday morning daze, and didn't see him coming - but even if I had, I would still have insisted on crossing the road - I'm a fierce pedestrian, and it was my right. I have grown up staring coldly into the eyes of fast-approaching drivers as I make my way across zebra crossings, where I have right of way, ...
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08.19.01I want another weekendNow, if possible.Lazy days in West Hampstead. Woke up slowly and ambled down in the pouring rain to the pub for lunch and beers with various people. Then Davo and I went to see > pleasingly mindless">Shrek and ate too much salty popcorn. Bleargh. Now I feel sick. I nearly went back to bed at about half six - someone should remind me that I really shouldn't drink in the middle of the afternoon, it just puts me to sleep - but I fought off the temptation and instead cleaned the bathroom, emptied the big cupboard at the end of ...
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08.15.01BusybusyI'm having a run of brain-bleedingly busy days at the moment. I keep meaning to post (something about sieves, specifically, has been on my PDA for the last three days, but I never seem to get around to editing it) but never find the time; or when I find the time there's nothing to say; or there's lots to say but my brain hurts too much to form it into words.So instead, I'm going update my site today in the form of an interpretive dance:Fosse-fosse one; fosse-fosse two; high kick; splits; jazz hands. Fin.
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08.15.01IreI'm afraid of anger, and I'm afraid to admit it. I shy away from confrontation or, worse, weirder, I invite it in and then try and make it go away, as if sitting at midnight in the graveyard makes avoiding the demons easier. It doesn't. It just makes their eventual presence less surprising. Without realising it, I slip unnoticed into the role of fixer, calmer. I have memories of my mum doing it, when I was young, and now I find myself unexpectedly doing it too. Oil for the water. Damp cloth for the flames.
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08.13.01Space InvadersLike children with chocolate cake, we are all experts of division. We know in an instant how big something is and how much of that we deserve - or rather, how much is fair. On trains we are conscious of the space around us. We become experts in estimating the number of travellers in the carriage, dividing by the total number of seats, calculating exactly how much space we are entitled to. Four seats per person. Then, at the next stop, as people get on, two per person, and so on. We distribute ourselves equally over the given area, like ...
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08.08.01Economics 101Today I've been spending a lot of time thinking about > the increase in total utility that a consumer gains from an additional unit of a good.">marginal utility and, specifically, the > the marginal utility of any good declines as the amount of the good consumed increases">law of diminishing marginal utility.Imagine having a plate of really nice food in front of you. You would really enjoy the first mouthful, and the second, and the third, and probably quite a few more, up until you started to get full. As soon as you reach this point, each additional mouthful would be ...
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08.08.01Leaving on a Jet PlaneI've just booked my first holiday in over a year. Cannot wait. Last time I went on holiday (Vancouver, June 2000) I got Hepatitis. The time before that (Greece, April 2000) I got flu. I get sick when I go on holiday because I work myself into a state of stress when I'm not on hols, and then my body goes into nervous collapse from exhaustion and relief as soon as I step off the plane. Which means I'm more likely to get sick.I hate it.So this year, I'm working on a two-pronged attack. I'm going for a week and a ...
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08.06.01Things people have said to me so far this morning"Want me to do it? Or you do it? You eat toast, I'll do it" "What you want, lady?" "The train going through the tunnels on the approach to LLS..." "I dunno - give them an SQL statement and they think they're Hitler" "I'm never going to drink again" "So we bought paint, a lovely cappucino colour, and it was exactly the same shade as the plaster" "F1 doesn't work, you have to use E1 for diet coke, ok?" "So what'll I say? Just tell him that the bloke from downstairs came up and yelled at us?" "He wants to know whether he can come up this Friday. ...
