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This is not about the SFWA. This is about families
(Note: I have an actual family, this is of course not about them, and no detail should be taken as autobiographical)
This is about your uncles
You love your uncles. You are an only child, and they taught you all the normally they would have taught your brothers - about dogs, about the insects who build houses out of little sticks or little pebbles ( Read more... ) -
This specially for Jo Walton
My list of non-fiction Books You Totally Absolutely Have To Read Right Now You Won't Regret It ( Read more... ) -
And so
For people who don't read my FB - yes, me and Alex split up. I am back in my flat, with the cats. The cats seem a bit confused at the sudden shrinking of the garden and the absence of Big Human. Zip threw up a lot, but seems to have stopped now ( Read more... ) -
Caro amico ti scrivo, così mi distraggo un po'
When you are an expat and somebody from your country dies, there is a special loss, that equals no other. Even in a time of Twitter and online papers, you mostly grieve alone: no wall to wall coverage, no tributes, and even if I were - as they are suggesting - to open my windows this coming Sunday, 4 March 2012, when Lucio Dalla would have been 69 ( Read more... ) -
Two things make a post
1. I convinced myself that I needed to invest a considerable sum of money on some new sunglasses, because the light in the office bothers me and my eyes are tearing up all the time. Also, these particular glasses are identical to my beloved wayfarers but unlike them they are polarised ( Read more... ) -
Sniff
And yes, I am still sick as a parrot.
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Educashion
I don't know why, but I have been hearing a lot about education in the UK lately. Well, it's always a subject bubbling under the surface, really, so no mystery about that ( Read more... ) -
Anna feels awful
In the physical sense, although since I ran out of antidepressants, and the last time I was so sick I also ran out, and went could turkey, and it was not good, it might progress to the other kind of awful ( Read more... ) -
Another of those days
Yesterday I was sick with the beginning of a cold that my immune system seems, luckily, to be fighting off really well, but it meant that in the morning I was too ill to even move around and all I could do was plant myself in front of the tv. On the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Oh yeah baby ( Read more... ) -
A few random things
1. I am feeling a tad annoyed at people who wag their fingers in the general direction of Other People and preach Personal Responsability (tm) but hurry in the next breath to deny vehemently and with outrage that any of their choices might perhaps have ultimate consequences they might not like. Personal Responsability sometimes also means ( Read more... )