DB: Sometimes you have to jump over your shadow, you know. We all do. Me (dreamily): in order to jump over your own shadow you need the shadow in front of you. That only works if the light source is behind you. Maybe we should turn round and walk towards the light inste- DB (exasperated, […]
I am a glassblower. I work with hot glass. In order to heat the glass I rely on a steady supply of gas. Methane for anyone interested. Someone in the building where I work is busy building something. I have no idea what it is they’re building, but it’s loud and dusty and resulted in […]
I have been given the ‘opportunity’ (read: taken it upon myself) to get rid of XP from the work computers and make them ‘safe’ again*. At work there are 2 computers in use and a 3rd in another room waiting for a cable to connect it to The Internet. None of the staff are especially […]
On Saturday DB tidied the garage, set up the beamer for the football match, collected the sun umbrella and more garden chairs from his parents’ house, went shopping and made dinner. In the same time, I read and played with the computer. (I learned about installing and setting up networks with Linux, tested a couple […]
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I’m back on the train. I have joined the commuting classes – as if there were such a thing – and I’m quite glad about it. Not especially about the ride, but it creates a small space in my day where no one can complain about me ‘playing’ with my phone. No one can be […]
I have a passport! 🙂
I was flicking through my emails when I did a double take and had to go back and check what I’d just read. Turns out clothing companies are more likely to advertise ‘suede’ than ‘suicide’… 🙂
The DB has an order for 10 glass things due 2 at a time over the next couple of months. The first 2 are due next week. He didn’t want to leave it to the last minute, but it’s a 2-person job and the guy who usually helps him was away last week and doesn’t […]
I’ve been feeling very anti all things beaurocratical for a while now. Mostly because I don’t exist, but also because it seems people don’t have to think if they have a big enough stack of rules to follow, and people who don’t think annoy me. It all worked out in the end and I got […]
So, I suppose that’s enough suspense now. (I didn’t do it on purpose though, I had lurgy yesterday and wasn’t up to writing.) I am the proud owner of an emergency passport! Whoo!! I can officially go on holiday, and start work, and do all manner of existential things 🙂
I am on my way to the embassy. My boyfriend booked – and his mum paid for – a weeks holiday in Lanzarote. It’s something like an Easter present, and something like a ‘You-must-have-a-break-before-you-have-a-breakdown’ mission. Having spent the last year in an unending battle with exams, quitting work, moving house, renovating, decorating, unpacking and furniture […]
Happened yesterday 🙂 Coincides with75 stalkers followers 🙂 🙂
I figured, if I’m not going to exist for the next couple of months, I might as well use the opportunity to play with how I look/feel/act as a kind of dress rehearsal for when I start existing again ;). The first step is appearance. I have just left the hairdressers with my first perm […]
I phoned the passport office in the UK and they apparently don’t have the facilities to write an email to say that they’ve got my passport and are working on the new one. They are also unable to tell me how long it will take, the new system’s having a paddy so the 4 weeks […]