Trying to regulate wild mood swings by watching Cosmos and therefore stupefying myself with the vastness of the universe and Carl Sagan's very soothing voice explaining to me that in the grand scheme of things whether or not I can get my head together is really quite irrelevant. I then ruined it by briefly looking at Twitter, which has handy bite- ( Read more... )

1. Parts of my life appear to have been written by a fanfic author. I'm content with this, I just find it howlingly ridiculous and when next someone complains about romcoms being unrealistic because "normal people would just talk to each other" I will tell them to get fucked OH MY GOD HAVE YOU MET PEOPLE? WE'RE TERRIBLE. AT. COMMUNICATING. People ( Read more... )

Work was very slow. It shouldn't have been, but boss is determined that we pace ourselves, so I was repeatedly told to do less work. Meaning that in addition to today being a shorter chapter, I'd finished writing by about five, by which time I was in the basement of Waterstones being assualted by people reaching for newspapers and assailed by ( Read more... )

Man, I am very slow to catch on sometimes. It took me forever to realise that, actually, I do not have to ration absolutely everything ever. I could just go and buy another cake. Or, to be more specific, when I was working at CAPITA I would eke out audiobooks and only listen to them for one hour a day. And now I am working at LSBU and wondering why ( Read more... )

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Things I would reasonably expect an immigrant to any country to do1. Learn enough of that country's primary language & official language (if not the same thing) to get by without severe inconvience to themselves. Provision should be made for this by the country's government, especially as learning another language in later life is not easy for ( Read more... )

My brain is still doing a weird thing which is making it hard for me to actually experience emotions on an emotional level (ie: I am having a big BPD, but the Asperger's is sitting in the aux sends and adding Big Logic to all my insane flailings; unfortunately since the signal coming through the sends is BPD the information itself is faulty and ( Read more... )

+1 (compression)While entering the premises of my esteemed local audio electronics emporium (my immediate surroundings contain among other things a fabulous pub, an exceptionally welcoming Japanese deli, and a rather knowledgeable stereo/recording shop) in order to purchase for myself a USB microphone pre-amp, Making Better Speech Recordings For ( Read more... )