Last year’s new year’s resolutions

They are last year’s resolutions because I made them on December 31st 2007, but they were for 2008, so I don’t know whether they should be called this year’s or last year’s.  Anyway, a more detailed explanation of my resolutions made in 2007 for 2008 can be found in blog posts I wrote this time last year.  [...]

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The lost art of letter writing

I haven’t been doing very well on the NaBloPoMo front recently. Most of my posts in the last week seem to have consisted of memes or other things that don’t require much actual writing. I guess you can tell it’s nearly the end of the month!
I have becoming steadily worse at keeping in touch with [...]

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Blog Challenge: Who is writing your blog?

The next challenge on Lorelle’s list, or at least the next one that I think I’ve got a reasonable chance of being able to do, is to try and explain who is writing your blog.
I’m not sure whether my blogging persona is very different from me in real-life. Both are prone to waffling, dullness and [...]

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What if everyone could hear everyone else’s heartbeat?

What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sound of our heartbeats through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone’s heartbeat and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar?
Being able to hear your [...]

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Tree

 I’ve been walking past this tree almost every day for quite a long while now, but I only recently stopped to look at it properly. It has provoked a few thoughts in my mind, which I thought I would share with you. I realise that the things I’m going to write will probably sound trite [...]

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Beauty

I visited Teuchter’s blog the other day, and read her post referring to Aphra Behn’s post about the beauty of teenage girls, so then I read Aphra Behn’s post, too. It’s thought-provoking, you should go and read it.
I don’t think I was beautiful as a teenager. Even if I were to look back at photographs of me aged [...]

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2007: The best bits

I know, it’s 2008 already and I should be looking forward, not back to 2007. However, I just wanted to share some of the good, great and gorgeous things that I was fortunate enough to experience during the year just past. So, here are (some of) 2007’s best bits in vaguely chronological order:
My birthday and our anniversary weekend [...]

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Learning to look forward: Resolutions (or things I’d like to achieve) 2-10

2. Successfully work in a new role in the Library of Doom
I’m going to be covering someone else’s job for a term  in the new year, working as a Faculty Liaison Librarian, and I really want to do this well. It’s going to be quite different from my job in Reader Services and, although I hope I won’t [...]

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Words beginning with W…

…include, in no particular order: winding (as in winding up*, not winding as in punching someone in the stomach), wound (winding completed), wound (hurt), was, wasn’t, wishing, want, wearing, whinging, whining, waiting, worry, who, what, why, when, which, writing, way, worst, will, well, work, wonderful, and (my favourite) weird.
Today, I was wound up by my colleagues. This was not [...]

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What it is

In Arthur and George, Arthur (based on Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories) thinks that he would rather that human beings were rational and simple, unencumbered by emotions, confusing feelings or the fear of “emotional collapse”:

If only human beings were as simple as machinery (p.308)

I feel like this sometimes, but it could be [...]

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