I do these quizzes now and again and usually find that they would once have applied to me but that my behaviour has changed due to my self-awareness to the degree that I could no longer endorse most of the statements. Read the rest of this entry »
A few movers this week, with guitar going right up, probably a reflection of my decreased ability to concentrate, or perhaps, rather, my shaken belief in my ability to communicate, and my need of something to keep my spirits up. I actually asked the guitar teacher at my college for lessons starting on Wednesday. No idea how I’ll be able to pay for them but that’s no matter, perhaps. French a surprise entry with the original french edition of David B’s excellent Epilepsie moving from my bedside cabinet (with my routine having changed and no bedtime reading since we have moved) and making it down to the stack of briefly-favoured books in the lounge and a few french graphic novels that would have been ordered in a lax day at work if it weren’t for the fact that I didn’t have a credit card with me. Graphic novels in general are up, with Jeffrey Brown’s touching Clumsy having scored a hit over John Irving’s involving but long prose A Prayer for Owen Meany, being read over two days, and his sequal ordered today from E-Bay. Prose then, is down, and certainly prose fiction is struggling to keep its lustre with the paperback edition of Bleak House having long-ago stalled. Audiobooks would still be in, no doubt, if it were not for the fact of being unable to access them from my own computer. Russian, though, is likely to take a nosedive with the disappointment of failing to get anywhere with it while the Russian student was around at work. Cooking had a good weekend, with cooking a lasagne and a g/f c/f curry for a student and another member of staff while on holiday, but perfectionism means it’s no longer treated with the same enthusiasm. The diet? Disillusionment has certainly set in and with it a number of infractions. Read the rest of this entry »
Dear Karren,*
I have just had a conversation with Nick Mugglestone in which we discussed the forthcoming trip with Peter Govan. I would like to briefly outline a few of the issues raised by this conversation and surrounding the trip. Read the rest of this entry »
“Depends,” I said, within earshot of one manager in particular, Karen, “on whether you class being shitty and misanthropic as a symptom or not.” I had dropped M____ off in the morning and though I wasn’t feeling too tired (I had gone to bed shortly after ten), I wasn’t at my best, needing a good dose of St John’s Wort still with everything coming down on me with no symptoms so far on the elimination diet and being so self-conscious. “I mean, I for one need no excuse, food-related or otherwise, to get shitty and misanthropic.” Read the rest of this entry »