I'm doing what used to a be a bi-annual ritual: I can't sleep, it's the early morning, so I'm at my computer listening to "Get Lonely" and rereading "While You Were Watching". I think I skipped it both 2012 and 2013, as it in part requires leaving a sleeping person and also insomnia of a slightly peculiar kind ( Read more... )

Hallo internet! Hallo friends and acquaintances who have probably 1) thought I'd disappeared/got long term sectioned/dropped of the face of the earth/joined a monastery and become Lancelot. I will not tell you which of the above I did, but would quite like for my friends to think that I had not been online as I was being Lancelot. I like Lancelot, ( Read more... )

Right, so this is my returnt to my proper, adult, I am a real person journal.

This year so far has become one of those years that will make an interesting bit in my biography, or biopic: basically, Highsmith crossed with the first act of the film Ed Wood.

I've had the worst mental health episode of my life, been diagnosed bipolar-ish and finally ( Read more... )

 Hallo readers. I disappeared for several reasons, because I was put on an antipsychotic which did not agree with me, and deprived me of the ability to function or write. I spent from late January to mid May basically non funcitonal, asides from feeling terribly guilty about all the coursework I hadn't got in and the online obligations I hadn't ( Read more... )

I sat in the garden to do my course exercises last night, just as it was getting dark. It was light enough to read, especially if I used a pen, and I picked a few bags of pears from the pear tree first. The pear tree is nearly empty now, a good few jars of preserves have been made from it, although mostly not by me.

Our flat is named Haudesert, ( Read more... )