I just had a dinner party, with roughly 75% less stress than usual. During the revolution Tom and Randa - Tom is a board member of CIC who lives over the road from me - invited me round to dinner, so I invited them back. Mohammed was unpaid kitchen labour invited too, and later Xenia and her husband Thomas joined is for drinks. It was a Garden City ( Read more... )

Life, which was complicated, has become complicateder.*

Possibly in a good way, and certainly in an exciting way, but definitely a headfuck.

I am a little tired of enormously large things happening in my life and would like some small and insignificant things to take place instead.

I left work yesterday at 4pm and slept off intense nausea and the ( Read more... )

Thinking about it, I've realised that Pandora was most likely pro-Mubarak. She's so pampered she doesn't see the real world, so won't have any reason to sympathise with those who are not groomed and fed on the basis of no work at all, and is also - like all cats - profoundly selfish and ultimately corruptible ( Read more... )

In note form, it's a less intimidating way to update ( Read more... )

I'm back in Egypt now. It was a bit of a shock because I was tired and irritated 30 minutes in and I haven't yet acquired the necessary energy and attitude. No, of course Egyptian bureau de change doesn't accept Scottish fivers. It's not 'royal' money, apparently. I haven't yet got the necessary sense of resignation, not when that fiver would come ( Read more... )

I'm exhausted, mentally, physically, emotionally exhausted. I've worked till 11pm for the last two weeks, sometimes at my desk by 7.30am, and still I'm behind, people are screaming at me for stuff, and always with the sensation that no one I work with gives a fuck. I guess I'm a shit manager or Ramadan just does this to people but everyone is ( Read more... )

Madam, the mother of our litter of kittens, has been super aggressive to me lately since I started trying to move her brood out of the store room. This escalation of affairs led to a standoff which ultimately concluded in me being chased by a cat down the corridor into my office. I didn't dare leave for another hour. Madam is seriously fierce! ( Read more... )

talkingtocactus  was right: Boobs and Pandora are kindred spirits, and she loves the laser pointer.

At first she got all anxious at this dot that appeared and reappeared, and she would go looking for it on the bedsheets after I switched it off, and would scrunch herself up into what she thinks looks serious and hunterly but what the rest of the world reads as ( Read more... )

Pandora was neutered today, and is now sitting around in a semi-drugged haze of universal resentment ( Read more... )

Pandora: still not brainy. This evening I got food delivered, and she got all excited following me over to the table to unpack the boxes etc. I opened up the box of teriyaki chicken and another of salmon sashimi and set them on the table, and she was all crowding round me, clamouring for her share. Anyway, when I went through to the kitchen to get ( Read more... )