Happy World Carfree Day! I haven't been in a car today, no change there then. I consider myself very lucky to live in an urban area innit, where the public transport infrastructure is good and I can walk to all the important places in my life (the library, the Sanctuary cafe, the beach, the pub). If I wanted to live in the country I might find it rather more difficult, since the government don't seem to want to do much to address the low availability and high cost of public transport in rural areas.

Tags: World Carfree Day

13:05

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So so tired.

I am not one of those information workers who regard users as the enemy, indeed my whole dissertation rests on the fact that I believe the opposite. But indulge me in a small rant. If, dear student, you have a presentation at 11.00, is it wise to turn up at my desk at 10.50 with none of your slides prepared and no printer credit, so that you need me to provide transparencies, my computer for you to plug your slightly dodgy memory stick into, printing, AND photocopying? All provided free because my bosses haven't worked out a 'policy' yet? I am a patient lady but the fact that I know there will be another dozen of these before the week is out doesn't make me any patienter.

Oh, and latest word from the CPS on the trial is that it might not be until next year but it could equally be tomorrow. Looks like I'm going to be needing those handouts my counsellor gave me on 'how to relax anywhere, anytime'...

Tags: work gripes

15:42

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In one of those moments of strangely perfect web synchronicity, I just opened Yummy Wakame to this post at exactly the same time as GLC's 'Your Missis Is A Nutter' started playing on the radio. So wrong, and yet so right.

Book 57: Love Me by Garrison Keillor
A novel about dreams, failure, persistence and love which seems sweet and gentle but manages to be surreal, bitchy and dark as well.

Tags: blogs 50 Book Challenge

14:50

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