Today, I can only offer you small bits and pieces of woe since I am ill, which is both wretched and dull.

1. Morose Frog Baby wants you to know that he also knows suffering:


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The baby spent a few days suffering crippling stomach cramps and Not Sleeping which meant that the rest of us also suffered crippling ear pain, and crippling back pain (from carrying him around to soothe him) and also Not Sleeping, and what with one thing and another we forgot to stock up on catfood ( Read more... )

Another day, another death in the family. This time the sudden and shocking departure of one of my georgian cousins. (We weren't particularly close because of the geography thing, but I liked him well enough and I am devastated for his family). At this rate I will be relativeless by February ( Read more... )

Ah, life, it has such a sense of humour. We all knew that right? And how nice it is to get reminders. So let me regale you with retelling the series of cosmic pranks which Z and I have been living with since Friday ( Read more... )

3 things which have made me break down and cry today:1. the act of rolling over in bed ( Read more... )

My mother's tenants may well be the thing that finally buys me a one-way ticket to insanity. But let us not dwell on that! Or on the enrmous amounts of physical pain that I am in and how thousand and one tiny stresses from my work and my course are conspiring to make me feel like crying ( Read more... )

Yesterday:

Z: Please don't ride your bike to work today! It makes me really nervous thinking that you're going to fall off and do yourself in. 
N: All right, I won't if it makes you so nervous.
Z: And don't wear StupidShoes that will make you fall over and break your ankle.
N: I will wear my sneakers for my Walk To Work. Are you happy now?
Z: Yes.

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As I was hurrying along to intercede on the behalf of some downtrodden peoples I heard a sort of 'clink' sound followed by a gasp of horror as I realised one of my earrings had fallen out of my ear and was at that moment very busily rolling away towards the gutterAnd before I could dash and snatch it from the gross metal jaws of loss it rolled and ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to mzdt may you live long and prosper (I started typing this entry yesterday, when this first line was pertinent; but he should still live long and prosper).

On a different note here's an argument for atheism:

Walking back from church on Sunday I fell down (no idea how - one minute I was vertical, the next I was doing splits on the ( Read more... )

Well, good Golly. Now Hamas has been elected to power in Palestine. I know some people who will be thrilled about that but I am devastated. [Nonetheless, is there anyone who thinks this is a good idea, and if so Why ( Read more... )