All of a sudden I look up and the year is full – blocked out through the end of the year with a shattered image across the start of 2012 thats an overlay of about three major ‘possibilities’ and a host of permutations around all of those. The time left to my own choice suddenly [...]
Which in the sense of the French is I now have an apartment, phone, car, etc all properly logged in the system, regularised on direct debit etc. All thats missing is the high maintenance girlfriend, I’m sure she’ll turn up directly. Driving is a newish thing for me, certainly the whole lark of having a [...]
Guess I’m back, back in Europe. I’ve just about gotten past the wandering supermarkets giggling stage (because I’ve been spending every second night in the local one since I hit town). So far its been non-stop (where I haven’t deliberately turtled) because this is first a small town and second the big nexus for the [...]
It’s been a long time. I definitely think that Kindermord is right: you have a fixed total limit of how much you can write in a particular week, and if you’re tweeting, you can’t really be blogging. Similarly, if you’re blogging, you probably can’t be thesis writing or whatever. Thesis writing. Thankfully, I am not [...]
The perils of blogging and generally sending information out of the shadowy damp ecosystem of ‘within’ to ‘the general public’ has been reiterated to me by a tale told by one of the contractors. In the incestuous world of the corp consultancy jet set (I’m not part of that, I’m oilfield) there was a girl [...]