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Bloody, bloody, bloody.

I am bloody well going to write this bloody novel if it bloody kills me.
(I wonder if Neil Gaiman ever says things like this?)

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Hmm.

I have a job interview on Thursday.
Haven’t had one of those in about 4 years.
I’m a little intimidated by the concept.

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“How does it live, I hear you ask? How does the poor, pathetic specimen survive in today’s harsh and irrational world? The sad answer is “Not very well.” Faced with the inescapable fact that human existence is mad, random and pointless, one in eight of them crack up and go stark slavering buggo! Who can [...]

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Another weekend, and another mystery of life to ponder. Why is my default facial expression “haunted”? Why couldn’t it be “mildly bemused”? It would save a lot of good people the trouble of asking “Are you sure you’re all right?” at regular intervals.
Of course, I’m rarely entirely all right (is anyone?) but it’s hardly something [...]

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Have had a bit of a nasty cold for a few days, which has induced the usual lethargy, hence I haven’t been around.
All right. More lethargic than normal. Nothing to report save I made a few more edits to The Captain’s Husband snippet I’ve been writing, and churned out a few more mindless therapy sketches. [...]

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I confuse myself sometimes.
I recently made the discovery that organic food, despite my every wish not to believe the hype, actually does taste better than ordinary food. I am a born-again organic foodie. I sneer upon cheap value bread that probably has more chemicals in it than flour: cheap chickens pumped full of added water [...]

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If a tree fell in my home town and it hit a tourist…
…how many other tourists would be able to take pictures before the ambulance arrived?
I live in what is cheerfully referred to as ye olde rural picturesque England. I tell folks where I live, and they tend to either express amazement (this must be [...]

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By which I mean that I’m updating my website, and this blog is part of it. Do not adjust your set.

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