A couple I know are at that stage in life where they’re both terribly busy at work etc and are thus evidently barely able to hold a conversation with each other that’s not a) by email b) by text or c) by making the other feel so guilty they had to stop working and listen [...]
Archive for May, 2007
This time, you be the crazy girl in The Breakfast Club
Posted in dating, I'm still kind of in love with Ally Sheedy, relationships on May 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
McBluff
Posted in Frank Muir, McDonalds on May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From the changethedefinition.com website: McJob: “a job that is stimulating, rewarding and offers genuine opportunities for career progression and skills that last a lifetime.”
Towards a definitive classification of skittishness
Posted in Crack Whores, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kiera Knightly, Lindsay Lohan, My So-Called Life, Paris Hilton, Seahorses, skittish, skittishness, ungulates on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Skittish is an interesting word. But disappointingly, the dictionary only goes so far with it: skittish – adjective 1. apt to start or shy: a skittish horse. 2. restlessly or excessively lively: a skittish mood. 3. fickle; uncertain. 4. shy; coy. Granted, that’s only the web dictionary, because I can’t be arsed to get up [...]
I have never been very good in book clubs
Posted in cholinesterase inhibitors, Haruki Murakami, London, London Underground, Madness, religion on May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was on the tube today, reading Underground, Haruki Murakami’s collection of eyewitness accounts about the sarin gas attack in Tokyo, which you might suggest is perhaps not the best of places to read such a book, and you’d be right. But I’m sitting there, reading about the effects of cholinesterase inhibitors on the human [...]