So yesterday was Kal and my 8y anniversary of our wedding. And I had a weird dream where a very tall and putrid looking blonde female ghost was trying to jump-scare me. So I backed off, petted one of my cats and then went to deal with her. She continued with her trying to scare me shit, but also said, "You think you have two weeks. You don't. You ( Read more... )

I don't understand pitting people against each other ( Read more... )

...when you make a split second decision to give someone some privacy and so don't step into the room to say 'hello'. (You do this because it sounds like they're having an intense discussion. This judgement is based admittedly on three or four words only because you've been accused of eavesdropping before, so fuck that shit ( Read more... )

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When acquaintances hear that K and I have been on the other side of the planet from each other for seven months, they all seem to have the same reaction. Their mouths turn down at one corner and their eyes and foreheads conspire to make the sort of expression a parent wears when their child bawls that they've broken their favourite toy. ( Read more... )

(Every time I think about this I just hear that in a dalek voice in my head, hence the title ( Read more... )

So since a very kind actual-proper author has said they'd read my novel, they've sent me four emails ( Read more... )

I've just looked after a 2y old niece for a week with K. Caught sproggling lurgy. Feel tired, sullied and unusual. Plus more closely acquainted with poo than I'd care to be. But that's not really why I feel blah ( Read more... )

...and it would take me a long time to stop ( Read more... )

"Don't let them confuse you."
R&G Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.So, being home isn't all it's cracked up to be. The why is a little hard to explain and might well leave me sounding like an over-sensitive lunatic, but that's the way it is. (All I can say in my defense is I'm not being Hamlet or Ophelia, and I've known a lot of people in similar ( Read more... )