The Froth

This weekend

15. October 2006

Friday: one of the books Cathy gave me as a gift. I have started reading it. It tells me how to write recipes and articles on food. I made some soup. I was cold. Saturday: We went to see "The Devil Wears Prada" with Joanna. Then we had dinner together. Erm, this is some kind of art [...]

Back to the future

13. October 2006

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I went to my mum’s, that familiar, comfortable and loved territory that is her house for me and I just realized: one day, my son is going to reminisce about me, his mother, and say "ah, my mum used to have the best photoshop wallpapers, bless her".

After I heard this song

12. October 2006

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I don’t want to be the greatest anymore. Not that I ever was. But I wanted to be. Now I don’t. It must mean I grew up at last. So I don’t like people who expect this of me. Good is not always good. Some days I need to be the worst. The worst person [...]

Control: no

10. October 2006

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All the parents whose kids are antisocial, abusive, violent and in desperate need of counseling, and who instead of offering that counseling, are forever holding the TV remote control, even to the extent where they use it to point to things in the room ("fetch my slippers, will you?"), should get the hell out [...]

A change

9. October 2006

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Sometimes I am afraid I will go back to that place where all I ever wanted to do was sleep. At night I am afraid that sleep is going to come to me and never go away. So I don’t sleep. In the morning I feel free again and I can actually sleep. But not [...]

They say it’s your birthday

7. October 2006

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Happy Birthday M. Don’t kill me when you see I made your photo pink. Happy Birthday Stephanie. I hope this year rolls like a shining disco ball. Happy birthday Thom Yorke. I’ve made so much food for M’s birthday, would you like to come over?

MSN, now I love you. Now I don’t.

5. October 2006

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When my computer was taken away in September I was given that cheap replacement which was very slow and couldn’t do many of the wonderful things my regular computer does. We are talking about basic things, I did not expect it to make coffee and stir it anti-clockwise. So I had no MSN or any [...]