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Monday, October 12th, 2009
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1:27 pm
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GRRRRRR
a handover is kinda what it says on the tin. and a day off is kinda just that.
but does that stop the oestrogen addled numpties in the office from calling me on a day off to find out what they can easily see right there in front of them on their computer screens??
why they prefer my imperfect recollection of what I wrote four days ago, i'll never know.
i need a new job and i need it now.
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| Friday, March 13th, 2009
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6:49 pm
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| Thursday, April 10th, 2008
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7:45 pm
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well london is again as it was when i left it. snow, sun, rain and wind. like some wanna be retro band. or mountaineering shop chain. my travels took me to a city where all the buildings are built, as a wise friend of mine once observed, like ships. where things are disturbingly reliably fine. and i slept like a crazy woman. and then read. and walked. and had coffee. it was a darn fine trip. and so now its work again. and i am still perturbed by the fact that i enjoy it. shurleyshomemishtake.ed... surely not right to get both money AND pleasure from it. wonder where i got that idea from. hmmmm. still. having noticed it i am sure it will all move inexorably sideways into a hole... xx
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| Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
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8:54 pm
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Well. Well. Work like busses. Nothing then all at once. More that is interesting than not at the moment so am a happy slav. Anything Russian -- I'll do it!
hmm in other news lots of work on the house. floorboards to reveal and polish. plasterers to hunt. plumbers to pin down. shelf men to arrange.
and i lust after a beautiful dark baluchistan carpet.
oi zhizn' takaya. nu, i chto delat'?!
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| Friday, March 16th, 2007
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11:35 pm
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NEWSFLASH
I AM NOW LOOKING FOR WORK
I AM -- computer literate, graduate (twice), fluent Russian, nascent Farsi, passable French and some czech (medieval)... I can write...file, be a cheery affable presence, exhibit flashes of wit or seem as naive and innocent as required. ALL OFFERS CONSIDERED.
WARNING
Before my morning coffee I am the beast from hell.
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| Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
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8:37 am
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well.
i think i might just be about to run away from a career i ought to want, but dont,hmm.
the world seemed suddenly very small, so i figured it was best to set off on a path away from The Great Organisation, without which, they lie, there can be no life.
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| Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
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2:51 pm
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heavens...
now you wont belive this. it seems that the powers that be at work are so powerdrunk that they now require me to check with them if its ok for me to be, say, an active member of the RSPB.
who would have thought it.
Now i know why this place inspired orwell, and how it slowly killed Macneice!
xx
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| Wednesday, August 18th, 2004
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12:24 pm - LETTERS FROM IRAQ
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LISTEN TO RADIO 4
Letters From Iraq. Sunday 29TH AUGUST 8.02
Day to day stories of life in Iraq. Hugh Sykes looks back over a year of power cuts, water shortages, bombs, kidnappings and murder as revealed in the letters, journals and emails of American soldiers, British officials and
civilians in the lead up to the handover of power in Iraq.
Produced by Mark Savage
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| Monday, August 16th, 2004
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11:28 am
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well now my little duckies, we all know that if you want an answer- you've got to ask the question. exactly what i have just done. no more yah-boo! here....waiting for the answer, and alerady drawing up a list in my mittle old mind of more questions.
yes friends
i am alive once more
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| Friday, August 13th, 2004
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12:09 pm - Stop the Killing in Iraq: vigil in London this Sunday
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Stop the Killing in Iraq: vigil in London this Sunday
EMERGENCY VIGIL
Stop the killing in Iraq!
End the occupation!
WHEN: Sunday, 15 August, Noon-2pm
WHERE: 10 Downing Street, Central London
Called by Iraq Occupation Focus and Voices in the Wilderness UK.
(Speakers to be announced).
Densely-populated Iraqi cities are under fire from US-UK forces. On Thursday, more than 75 Iraqis were killed in the US bombardment of Kut. British troops have killed at least twenty in their assault on Amara.
The attack on Najaf, led by US warplanes, has been condemned by public opinion across Iraq. Sixteen members of Najaf's 30 member provincial council have resigned in protest at the assault.
In the last 48 hours, hundreds of civilians have been killed by occupying forces in the cities of Najaf, Kut, Sadr City, Sammara, Nasiriya, Amara, Basra, Ramadi and elsewhere.
The occupiers are the problem, not the solution.
Stop the slaughter!
For more information contact:
Iraq Occupation Focus:
Munir Chalabi 07952 683415
Liz Davies 07958 673840
Voices in the Wilderness
Gabriel Carlyle
0845 458 2564
e-mail: iraqfocus@riseup.net; voices@viwuk.freeserve.co.uk;
Homepage: http://www.voicesuk.org; www.iraqoccupationfocus.org.uk
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| Sunday, July 4th, 2004
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8:31 am
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well clovermail is no more
anyone know of free good email accounts?,
i get through them like the black widow...
damn
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| Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
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7:00 pm
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and i am sitting here at work typing and i have rarely been happier...i love it here! i am a freak! but a happy one!
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| Friday, June 25th, 2004
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6:14 pm
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heigh ho for rain is awearied of the world...
tired and pissed off with life...but happy at work. cant decide whether that way round is better than being unhappy at work but happy in life outside. most time is spent at work, so i spend most hours happy...which is a first since university...but still mope and whine and all i need is mind occuplying books andd time in the park...alone and reading...
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| Thursday, June 24th, 2004
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3:54 pm
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wellll
an accidentally long lunchbreak resulted in the acquisition of a red silk skirt for only £14 and a couple of CDs that shout, so i dont have to...
wonderful night last night with masha who is on the verge of a great voyage to the mother country...russia....and the evening was filled with good things. Good Things. From an eat as much as you like indian veg buffet for £2.95 each, to wanderings up and down and refusing to see crossroads....to The Pub With No Name....and then a wandering to borough, where there was Cabaret (the film) and matresses and tea and biccies....and many other delights...
work work work
love you all
rain
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| Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004
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4:18 pm
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hello world.
and i am tired, and it rains rains rains and i like the rain, but inevitably soggy feet and a resigned sense of displeasure win out. i, selfish beast that i am, want to stop the world and rewrite it. no i do not have the answers to global conflicts or famine prevention. i dont even have an up to date bus timetable for central london. but but but. i am a selfish wee beastie and want the things i want because then i will be happy. also i want an infinite amount of energy. and enthusiasm to translate into productive work, something i can do but but but but.
perhaps i should take up writing. write away my late onset teenage angst. only problem is i'd end up loathing the heroine who would of course, be me. selfish wee beastie.
bastard cd player.
bastard bastard.
damn.
germ ridden people should NOT come into work and cough all over healthy folk. its not fair. whine whine whine whine.
bastard.
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| Thursday, June 17th, 2004
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2:44 pm
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hmmmmm
tired and happy
working on some interesting things while keeping the admin happy, keeping happy with admin i mean, or rather: doing the job i am here to do: admin! but the oooh aaah of research is in my blood...
so much to do and i like it all
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| Tuesday, June 15th, 2004
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4:20 pm
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| Sunday, June 13th, 2004
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6:14 pm
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still here in kent, and there's a whishey sodden 70 yr old is in the kitchen chatting up my 90 something year old grandma..
how very odd...
2 discoveries: i dont like the stevie smith novel on yellow paper and i dont like kundera at all...funny cos i thought i'd like the first and used to like the second...
if only i could sit in the sun drenched garden for days and read...last reading session: modernism in arabic poetry.....the session before was on weapons inspections in iraq.....in the 1990s
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| Saturday, June 12th, 2004
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9:40 pm
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tired eyed tired eyed tired eyes
here in kent fresh rain soaked air and land there is time to sit in night breeze and write...collecting iraqi poetry for use in live and dirty london. if sincerity cannot move people perhaps beauty can, after all a well crafted phrase is stronger than a sharpened blade....or DU enforced tank shell. naive? i hope so.
haiwatha being read on the radio, violent and strnage. never read it in youth.
i need less time in london. this has to be regular, the train journey grinding london based worries and fears under its harsh intent wheels mile after blessed mile as i leave leave leave london...i know i shall return able to work and live and face it all knowing that i will run away again and again...
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