life

Result!

June 29, 2006

Just got back from the dentist – it was exactly what I thought it was. Wisdom tooth shifting, then the gum got infected. So now I have some antibiotics to clear up the infection, and shouldn't need to go back for nine months, when he wants to check up on it. Apparently the tooth will […]

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Words

June 29, 2006

Words I want to hear today: easy, antibiotics, painkillers, prescription, goodbye. Words I don't want to hear today: oh dear, extract, surgery, hospital, general anaesthetic, see you next week. Words currently running through my mind: ow, pain, it hurts, ouch, please make it stop. Words Apple's spell checker can't spell: goodbye. Words that look really […]

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Yay! Dentists!

June 27, 2006

I have an appointment on Thursday lunchtime… in Dorset. Bit of a way to go, but whilst this is not my usual dentist (he only works two days a week), Mum recommended him, so hopefully it'll be ok. The tooth was hot and inflamed all night, so it's definitely not going to get better on […]

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Tooth troubles

June 26, 2006

My last remaining wisdom tooth is still giving me gyp. I have a very nasty suspicion that it's infected. Tomorrow, will make appointment with dentist. *sigh* I don't have time for this right now.

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More glass shenanigans

June 26, 2006

So I went down to Kate's last weekend to play with glass and her kiln. it was nice to get out of London for a while, and even nicer to switch off and spend time making physical things. My first attempt – a large bowl – failed horribly. Making it is a two step process. […]

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All's well that ends well

June 20, 2006

I've only had to call an ambulance a few times, and for those events the ambulance was clearly needed. Tonight, though, it really wasn't. Kevin and I got home from a nice evening stuffing our faces with sushi to find an unconscious man lying on the first floor landing in the converted terrace we live […]

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Gnnar gffuffle

June 20, 2006

There are many posts I could write. Many posts I want to write. However, you're just going to have to make do with me bemoaning the fact that my wisdom tooth – the only one I have left – is shifting again. It's sore, and I keep getting the urge to start chewing on, say, […]

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Shopping for clothes – Part II

June 13, 2006

So, after my rant the other day about how much I hate shopping for clothes, there came a straw which broke this particular camel's back. Before Christmas, I bought some new scaffolding from Selfridges. The day after I wrote my post about being a size 32doubleginormous, I was hanging out the washing and discovered that […]

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Why I hate shopping for clothes

June 7, 2006

If you've met me more than once, you've probably seen my entire wardrobe. I'm not good at shopping for clothes – usually I have to be frog-marched round at gunpoint by my friend Kate. But I think I've figured out why. Well, an additional why to the why I already knew about. The fundamental issue […]

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Bank Holiday Syndrome

May 29, 2006

As usual for bank holidays, T'Other has to work. At least it was a 12 – 8 shift, so we got to laze about this morning and I could pretend for a few hours that it was going to be a proper bank holiday. But now T'Other is slaving away over a hot radio show, […]

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Slowing down

May 23, 2006

Ok, so I'm back from Xtech and Amsterdam, and glad to be home with my T'Other. It was a lot of fun being at Xtech – lots of hanging out with geeks and talking about things that are generally outside of my normal realm of experience. I like. I like having my brain stretched a […]

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Downtime needed

May 17, 2006

So at the moment I'm in Amsterdam. Really enjoying the Xtech conference on the one hand, but really struggling on the other. I did something today I have never done before, and I'm feeling pretty crappy about it. I committed to moderating a session, but I complete forgot about it. I hate letting people down […]

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Quick change

May 16, 2006

Off now to Amsterdam, to the Xtech conference where I am going to be talking about ORG and digital rights. Been a bit of a busy few weeks lately but hoping for a quieter week next week, when I hope to get to write some of the blog posts that have been piling up in […]

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Do you ever get mornings

April 21, 2006

Where you wake up late, (due to being woken up by chavtastic neighbour's daughter's ex ringing all the bells available and bellowing to be let in), look at the huge pile of unread email that's come in and just think, “Eww, do I have do?”. The sun's starting to come out, it's Friday, I had […]

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Tortured canary in my washing machine

April 18, 2006

I think the fanbelt is going. It squeaks like a canary with its tail feathers caught in a cat's teeth. I also am starting to realise that working from home seems to correlate very strongly with quantity of blogging. Whether it's because I feel more like I can blog, or whether it's a time thing, […]

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