LiveJournal and Dreamwidth are so desolate, I think I have seen more than one person refer to them as ghost towns. Even though I have contributed to this by having so little to say for so long, and not saying what there was of it here, I'm not happy about this. The two of them are to my mind the best-structured of any sites I have tried which might ( Read more... )

Quiet day of work, probably just as well for my still-recovering self. Also my still-recovering voice, which I seem to have damaged yesterday afternoon in a protracted period of coughing and hacking. Nearly called in sick again but the voice was pretty much the only problem and I practised talking in the morning to make sure I could actually do my ( Read more... )

Read some more of A Game of Thrones this morning, very much getting back into that story again and enjoying it. Likewise getting more into and enjoying Sailor Moon, and the contrast between those two stories.

Have been enjoying, also, taking some quiet time to make notes on what I am reading and how that encourages me to reflect on the stories as ( Read more... )

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Yesterday's progress: not written. Did, while cleaning up my desk in search of my camera, uncover my course transcripts which I had been looking for the day before. Those are slightly essential for actually getting work and had been intended as a rather important basis ( Read more... )

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I've been worrying a lot lately, for values of lately that include the past 4-5 years. Trying to do the sensible grown-up thing and get a job, to prove to future prospective employers I can hold a job, to obtain educational certification that I am someone capable of ( Read more... )

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Something I dislike about working with the public is the gendered depersonalisation that happens. To anyone with a small child in tow it seems I become "the man". "The man" this, "the man" that, "Don't bother the man" (even if I don't mind at all). Unexpectedly cutting ( Read more... )

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First day back again, feeling almost no longer sick. Just an easily irritated cough and an annoyingly cloggy nose. Wasn't sure whether the toy library would be running this week, hadn't got a response back from my email and didn't see anything that felt definitive on ( Read more... )

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Been trying to write a post each day this month, but didn't manage one yesterday. That was not because I am sick at the moment, nor for having no intended post. Rather, I was wrestling with a disappearing bookmark problem that has only just been resolved. And now I am ( Read more... )

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Watching the movie Next starring Nicholas Cage. Have decided prescience is memory theft. We see an exchange between people happen, come to a conclusion, then the film jerks time back to show it has not happened yet and our protagonist takes a different path so what we ( Read more... )

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Avoided seeing my GP this week about an intermittent, sharp abdominal pain, mainly because it was not bad enough to prevent me from working, and only lasted a couple of days so by the time I was free to see someone about the problem it had been gone for a while, and I ( Read more... )