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Archive for May, 2007

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 [...]

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McBluff

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.”

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 I’ve always been impressed by easy travellers, particularly long-haul ones. You see them in airports – sporting sunglasses, a light jacket, shirt, flip-flops or sandals, linen trousers, and a bag small enough to hold just their passport, wallet, and possibly either a 1940s Penguin edition of something like Decline and Fall or anything by Saul [...]

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