Category: Blogging
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Seven years
Three days ago: this blog's seventh anniversary… not of course terribly important; but I'm pleased I've kept going. It has occurred to me that I may need to stop blogging at some point in the future – when I am working as an analyst; I know I already tend to work through thoughts and problems…
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Wings
A sudden and amazingly heavy rain fall: plus a lot of hail – that strange sense of buckets of water and ice falling, and for a considerable while. The usual fragments of thought about climate change and problem weather, combined with the visceral excitement of it all, which is fortunately happening on the other side…
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Six years; and recent weeks
Blog Anniversary: since 14 May 2006. It is now six years…. How different life is now than it was then: yes, still in Newcastle, same job, same apartment, still living alone. But the inner world, and my memories, expectations, hopes, feel so different… I suppose I feel more… I don't know. More aware of the…
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Anniversary 5
Five years of this blog, today… yes, of course entries are occasional, and they scatter themselves across oblique moods and memories, more than direct experiences – well, that's kind of how my life runs these days. But I'm generally pleased with it – the reflections are perhaps not as fragmented, as decentered, as the Swedish…
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The Evil Internet
Normally, although the Internet is a mess of advertising and manipulation, much of my daily experience of it is relatively personal, or at least to my taste. But in the last few days the trashy, controlling, greedy, incompetent, screaming corporate world has been moving in heavily on some of my familiar standards… the Mac shareware…
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A few words
After this period of sparse blog entries – and me feeling a bit guilty for not keeping this up – Romi phoned me tonight to make sure I was all right (she lives out of town in Northumberland, and we don't see each other often – she actually glances at this blog occasionally to see…
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Anniversary 4
Four years of this blog – and you'll pardon me for writing so few entries over the past four months; I promise I haven't stopped writing completely. In fact, next week I'm in Milan and Parma for a trip to our exchange partners; I was naturally a bit intimidated by going to northern Italy wearing…
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Snapshot
After last night's slightly dense blog entry, which seemed to involve working through my feelings about the past year through the plots and changes of a television show: today was spent waiting, rather uselessly, for the electric company to come replace some sort of switch. They had reserved me from 8 am to 8 pm,…
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Anniversary
Yesterday (oops, missed it) was the third anniversary of this blog. 460 entries – that's about one entry every two-and-a-third days. Sorry I haven't been blogging lately… life has consisted of, on the one hand, scattered and rather disorganized external demands (students discovering that they need to do some work before the end of the…
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Broken lines of communication
A week since I've written in a journal, or done any spontaneous morning writing (see Dorothea Brande's famous 1934 book for instructions); and more since I've written here. Well, let's see… an onslaught of students, most of them pleasant though some pretty feckless, but the sheer chaotic mass, the noise and mess, of them is…
Paul Attinello 