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February 2009

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The Time Was When

08:38:13 is taking over an hour and counting to get to work… 🙁 11:58:22 finds that everybody, it seems, has work for me but no one has money for me

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The Time Was When

08:38:13 is taking over an hour and counting to get to work… 🙁 11:58:22 finds that everybody, it seems, has work for me but no one has money for me

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The first dozen

It might have indeed been cold; it might have been wet; and dark and miserable, but when I went to shut the chickies up for the night tonight there was a warm, blue egg under Wiggy. It was our twelfth…

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Alphabeticisation

I’ve had a quiet day today. Emma had to go into work this morning so I had a lazy time having breakfast whilst watching some tele I’ve had on ye olde digi box for months (in this case the Blue…

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The UnXpected Fear

I wasn’t really looking forward to the drive over to Milton Keynes today. This wasn’t, you understand, because of the weather and of icy-snowy roads but because of going to Milton Keynes, to the shops, on a Saturday. As it…

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A Return to Project Nelly

I’ve been working up the hours this week to make up for having today off. Weather-wise, I’m really glad I did as we woke up to a fresh covering of snow, and then pretty much blizzard conditions by breakfast time…

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Finally, the snows have come! :-)

After the snow of Monday and Tuesday which saw London and the South-East and even my parents getting all the fun of (for the latter) being cut off in their own homes with real, honest, decent amounts of snow, this…

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Emotional Response

Last night, Em and I went into Oxford with David, Lucy and Katie from the vets to a talk in Wadham College about emotions and depression and meditation. It was very interesting. The guy giving a talk had such a…

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Here we go again…

Shit, shit, buggity-buggery-buggeration, shit, shit! So the projects that were going to be kicking off soon in the department that I could have been involved have now been pushed back ’til later in the year, if they happen at all,…

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Digest of a novel

Lunch felt a bit weird today. For I don’t know how long, I’ve been munching on my sandwiches and working my way through corrections—striking through redundant words and inserting new sections and inflections. Today though, I started to sum up…

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The Time Was When

16:17:43 Just dusting off the old twitter account and reconfiguring it for use… 18:52:15 @janerawson that does sound truly awful…

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The Time Was When

16:17:43 Just dusting off the old twitter account and reconfiguring it for use… 18:52:15 @janerawson that does sound truly awful…

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The End

I am at the end of things; the end of words; the end of the story. This lunchtime I reached the last page of my novel, and the last paragraph. I have made my revisions, worked through my corrections. The…

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Confidentiality

I don’t think much of the confidentiality (or rather lack of it) observed by one of the managers here. Last Monday I had to have the day off (or at least a day out of work – I still managed…

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Resolve

Readers of this journal may have noted that I have just posted a number of backdated entries going back to the end of last year. I’ve been writing offline for a couple of months now, aiming to keep my journal…

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