What I Have Been Doing

What I Have Been Doing The Last Two Days: Diddly. Followed up by squat. A whole lotta nothing. Not a darned thing. Nuthin’. Nope. Not me. Why? Have you? Actually, that’s not exactly true. But it is *gloriously* true in the sense of not working. Two days off has been bloody well *liberating*. I feel a whole lot more relaxed than I have in ages. This is the first time, um. Since, um. Drawing a big ol’ blank here, in fact. The first time since I apparently literally can’t remember…

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stuff

Pretty much enjoyed Matrix: Revolutions although there were some pacing problems with it. Nothing can match the sheer unexpected grandeur of the first one, but there were some magnificent special effects and I was pretty satisfied with the ending. Perhaps I’ll talk more about it later when more people’ve seen it. My HR are raving idiots. I have 13, not 8, days of vacation left. I am taking 2 of those days tomorrow and Friday, and I’ll be around a bit, but I’m primarily intending to read, write, gym and…

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awful book

I’m reading (not at this red-hot moment in time) this book, THE SHADOW OF ARARAT, by Thomas Harlan. I’m about fifty pages in, and I’m bored out of my mind. I just asked on Too if anybody’d read it, because I don’t think I want to continue if it doesn’t get better. Nobody has read it, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t get better, because the problem is in the writing, which goes something like this: “She braced herself against the spear as she kicked with her right foot. It…

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