Given how many people I know who like pirates I thought this was worth posting, please peruse: http://shiver.therogue.net/

I don’t know if this happened to everyone but suddenly when I turned sixteen I became a magnet for older men’s lines: ‘You remind me of my first girlfriend/ kiss/ wife (ARGH?!?!), or my personally hated line ‘If I was ten years younger…’ one night I actually got that line four times from three different … Read More

There is a woman out there who seems to view the world in the same way as I do…we’re not talking pretty much here, we’re talking almost exactly. It’s just a shame that that woman is Alanis Morrisette. Now I can understand why Jagged Little Pill got to me, it was released right into my … Read More

Well I have felt really needed all day. There was no time for the teachers to explain what they’d planned for me today. They were busy getting equip,emt ready for the lesson ( I carried it to the classroom as they were rescueing bits and pieces from the stores). Fair enough. So it turns out … Read More

I went hiking in the mountains north of Kofu today. Now when Grape-bringer invited me to go on a hike I kind of assumed that the two of us would drive up into the mountains and, well, hike. She said we could go to an onsen afterwards…excellent thinks I. (Onsen: hot springs, naked batheing in … Read More

I haven’t added my two pennorth to the blogs who have despaired over the US election result, partly because I’ve been away. I have blogged about Mr. Bush before. I have said many things about the lack of freedom and democracy in the country which elected him. (Note the lack of an again in that … Read More

Was actually more useful than I thought it was going to be, some interesting lectures and over arching theories about English Education which I was privately comparing with Art Education and coming up with some intrigueing stuff (and part of me really wants to get back to an English Art Classroom and try out some … Read More

…Sleep with one eye open Gripping your pillow tight Exit light Enter night Take my hand Off to never never land Something’s wrong, shut the light Heavy thoughts tonight And they aren’t of snow white Dreams of war, dreams of liars Dreams of dragon’s fire And of things that will bite … Now I lay … Read More

Have you ever noticed how when your writing all the people are doing stuff for a reason, there’s actual thought and plot, no one does stuff because it seemed like a good idea at the time or they were bored or whatever. I can’t get a hold of the confusion that goes on in actuality … Read More

Just mooched around the flat all day, watched a film with Nesuphyn and enjoyed the taste of doing nothing for once. Ooooh wrote my first bit for NanoWrimo: excitement! Mooch mooch mooch.