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Archive for July, 2007

Fri
27
Jul '07

.. and I got a new singer and I got a new SONG! Doo-doo-do-doooo.

Okay, it’s official — our new flat rocks!
Today I walked into work for the second time ever. The first was Monday morning, when I wasn’t entirely sure where the building was — I walked into a gigantic bank building, straight up to reception and asked, “Is this the ${blah} building?”.
“Oh no,” replied the young [...]

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Thu
12
Jul '07

Haggis

I awake fully clothed, sans shoes, face down on a mattress of calico stuffed with porridge, my drool-patch soaking in nicely to combine with the drool-patches of a thousand backpackers before me. In a foolishly provident move I attempt to lift my head — the action sends my body back to the porridgy embrace of [...]

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Wed
11
Jul '07

I wish the in-mates WERE running the asylum

Boy do I ever not want to go to work today.
I’ve been up for a while — around 6:30 — and it’s now after 9am, so it’s not like I couldn’t get in early and catch up on some of the always-present, always-urgent, never-scheduled, always-stupid tasks that seem to get punted down upon us (from [...]

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Wed
11
Jul '07

Blink! We’re in London!

(Did you think from the title that we’d finally — and suddenly! — made the next big move? Not yet, I’m afraid.)
Dee’s off to London this weekend for work, and I’m tagging along with her! She leaves tomorrow from Glasgow, whilst I’ll be on late-night flight from Edinburgh after work, and we’ll meet up somewhere [...]

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Wed
11
Jul '07

Nexus point

I have a theory, admittedly immature, that the human life is punctuated by pivotal events and decisions, nexus points, at approximately prime multiples of years i.e. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17, 23 and so on up the prime number series. This means you will have life-changing moments at (for the second prime [...]

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