Thinking about the things I'm indulging myself with during this time...
This was a thought generated when I was in the process of buying myself Yet Another Kind of Shower Gel, looking for one with vetiver notes (what is it with the butch coding of vetiver? I did not go for this one: 'Man's Best Friend: All our products are purpose built for men and ( Read more... )

Got off my commentated version of an ms within my sphere of interest that I had been reading. Also got off a couple of emails in connection with outstanding projects, and revised an abstract and uploaded it to the relevant site.
Bought myself a new laptop! I have been less than satisfied with the Yogabook for some while, and have been havering and ( Read more... )

And, at least according to Wikipedia, neither, so far, is 'big girl's blouse'.
Though we do feel that anyone who descends to that level of playground namecalling is not exactly in charge of the debate, hmmmm?
And apparently a 'journalist' (clearly anybody, anybody at all, can call themselves a journalist these days) with some connection with The ( Read more... )

I was recently perusing the Marks and Spencer website in search of women's trousers.
Because, over the years, I have found that their women's trousers, short length, fit me and do not require me to turn up the hems so they do not trail along the ground.
And, admittedly, I am not madly taken by their current offerings, which are not particularly me ( Read more... )

On the one hand: James argues that digital technologies privilege our impulses over our intentions, and are gradually diminishing our ability to engage with the issues we most care about; on the other: A longitudinal study of student writing finds that digital technology has not been the downfall of written expression: Students in first-year ( Read more... )

Comfortable, sensible, hard-wearing, etc etc.
How is this not suitable for ladies 'un certain age'?
But apparently the word is out and I am way past my jeans-wearing years.
WOT.
I will concede that perchance, this demographic is not wearing jeans that are uncomfortable and require advanced yoga to get into.
But what part of, allowed to dress to ( Read more... )

In a mad burst of consumerish self-indulgence, I've just bought a jacket.
Well, it's not quite a mad burst, it's more that on my late travels I was looking at the jacket/short coat that I take with me for travelling, because POCKETS!!! and seeing that not only are the cuffs badly worn but one of the pockets is developing a visible hole from wear ( Read more... )

(Though, actually, at this time of year it's a bit darker than that suggests.)
Anyway, back to work, and everybody is going around looking a bit dazed after the really long break, especially as so many people didn't come in at all for the two days at the beginning of Christmas week.
What I had was a really, really restful break (in spite of the ( Read more... )

Someone on my rlist was noting that cinematic trope of 'woman is alone at home, but is nonetheless wearing sexy underwear' (in movies other than the ones in which a plumber/pizza delivery boy is about to ring the doorbell...).
And okay, this was what sounded like a particularly schlocky horror movie, but it occurs pretty much across the board. In ( Read more... )

Realised that the title of this journal, 'Something like an agora, something like a salon' is possibly a bit outdated: these days I feel DW/LJ is more of a salon, and the agora/news on the Rialto aspect is much more on Twitter (maybe Facebook, but somehow that's not quite the same, possibly because of the family members and the people who post ( Read more... )