The day itself is shaping up to be lovely: I might get to meet a beautiful lady (whom I've nicknamed the Fiend) briefly around lunch, then it's on to Cabana for a late lunch with my friend E, then Truth & Beauty at Hub Westminster to see who else out there is bucking the norm. So in that sense, I feel a bit silly putting up a Valentinr widget, but ( Read more... )

When thinking about how I interact with other people, there are generally three categories I use to understand the shape of the relationship. These are a bit like vectors: a given relationship could be anywhere on each x, y and z axis.

FriendshipI describe as "friends" people whose personalities I like, whom I have respect for, and whose company ( Read more... )

I just tweeted the following ( Read more... )

I've been vaguely threatening to do a write-up for a couple of days now, perhaps it's time I got on with it. I finally unpacked my bags today, too, which made me sad because it's undeniable that the holiday's over. On the other hand, it makes my flat nicer to be in, and I can always think of my next trip away to cheer myself up - not that I know ( Read more... )

I haven't done one of these in ages - memes as writing prompts, although I seem them around a fair bit. Good things, writing prompts; I'll say more on that later.

Nicked from missyk8:

TEN DAY MEME
Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: ( Read more... )

Ok now I've got the big post out of the way, have some odds & sods:

• Here's a rant I've wished many times I could have written: Bi Bi, Baby. It's a companion piece to No More Mr Nice Guy, and both should be required reading for all people - they are about how not to be an annoying, self-absorbed idiot in matters of the heart.
• I'm having a bit of ( Read more... )

There are a couple of things I wanted to link to:

1. A very interesting post on "first date etiquette" entitled For God's Sake, Don't Sleep With Him!, about this idea that it's somehow bad if women sleep with someone on the first date, whereas men doing it is neutral. Also about the possible underlying causes for this idea.

2. Google Bombing For ( Read more... )

1. I managed to jog for 15 consecutive minutes today. Very slowly, granted, but I've never ever done that before. I wasn't sure I was going to today - I have a bad cough at the moment - I thought I'd have to walk a little in between, because that's what I've done in previous sessions. But actually, it wasn't that bad! I had to slow down a little, but ( Read more... )

Almost all of them, anyway ( Read more... )

... and boy, everybody seems to be happy about that! I don't think I've ever seen so many LJ posts about how crap the past year has been, and how people hope it will all go better next year - this trend has been evident for at least the past month, but obv today is garnering more posts on the topic than previously. Well, I'm all for 2009 being a ( Read more... )