Category: old blogging

Today saw a trip to London for retail therapy. These establishments were the beneficiaries of my largesse.

Fantastic – today’s word of the day is internecine. There is certainly conflict of an internecine nature going on within me at the moment. Head or heart will be sacrificed in the slaughter. Maybe even both.

There is a void inside me.
Those who have read this blog for some time will know that I have had voids before. And dealt with them.
But this one is different.
In every previous instance, the void has been created by something leaving my life.
In this case, the void has occured because something hasn’t entered my life.
Not yet anyway. I maintain that hope.
It’s a void. A lack. A phantasm. Anti-matter for the soul.
And I’m not sure how to handle it.
I have questions. I can’t ask them. I can’t get answers. I’m not sure I’d want to hear the answers even if I could ask the questions. And I think the void has questions too.
Distractions? None found so far.

One month to my 30th birthday. Don’t forget.
Originally posted 12/4/01 at 2:26pm

Neddie Seagoon dies. One of the most distinctive voices and laughs you will ever hear.
Originally posted 12/4/01 at 2:14pm

Several people are discussing communication, and the inherent problems that communicating has. My advice to all is this: decide what your message is (which is often the hard part), and then communicate it using an appropriate medium in the simplest terms possible.
If only I followed my own advice.
Originally posted 12/4/01 at 11:52am

There are things I’d like to say here, but it would not be politic to do so.
Originally posted 12/4/01 at 11:07am

Last night, after fitting my new loo seat and scrubbing the bathroom from top to bottom, I lit a whole load of candles, filled the bath, threw in a bath ballistic, set a large glass of cranberry at hand, turned the radio on low in the next room and clambered in. At first my head was full of thoughts about the day, the week and things that have happened in life and in my head, but then as the warm water lapped around me, the gentle light of the candles flickered against the wall and the soft sounds floated in from the living room, tiredness took over and I laid back, relaxed and dozed for nearly an hour. Absolute bliss – there is no finer way to end the day (although a massage would have really been the icing on the cake).
originally posted 12/4/01 at 10:21am

Seamus update: he has a badly bruised tail, possibly broken. He is on antibiotics for a few days. Hopefully it’ll clear up and he’ll get full use of his tail back, but there is a possibility that he may have to have his tail docked at the point where it is injured (about a third of the way up). Let’s hope not.
originally posted 12/4/01 at 10:19am

somebody on the missouri.edu server has searched my site for “three Sarahs and a Sacha” – sure enough, you’ll find them here (actually more than three Sarahs), but I’m not sure in the context that you are looking for. Unless of course somebody has described Grayblog to you as “a site about three Sarahs and a Sacha”. Although I’d hope that there would be something more memorable than that about my site (like, for example, “the picture looks like it was scanned from a Next catalogue…no, really, it does!”).