The Froth

My plot

12. July 2006

When there is no narrative in everyday life I try to make one. It is like with cooking. You open the fridge, see what’s inside and you cook something with what you have. And you eat and you are satisfied, more or less. And I do the same, I think, with life. I open [...]

Let go

7. May 2006

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I had made this in a college notebook When I clean, I think. I clean, therefore I am. So I was thinking -as I was throwing away old plates and jugs and plastic bowls- this throwing things away process is a rite of passage into growing up. Up to a certain point, you only accumulate things, [...]

Not His, Not Hers

13. March 2006

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I got some nice strawberries and had them with cream There is a formality, a rigidity and stiffness that people attribute to you once you are married. I had been trying to avoid this formality for many years, by not wanting to get married, even when I had a baby. This doesn’t always happen [...]

Happy Tuesday

13. February 2006

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This is from Be My Anti-Valentine a site I found out about, through Lady Miss Marquise’s blog I have been away against my will. It’s been an ugly few days. First, my computer was taken away to be fixed. There’s something seriously wrong with it and it involves the motherboard. It’s a [...]

The people I became

6. December 2005

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This is a happy morning. Of the rare kind that happens when most things are right, usually by chance, but it doesn’t matter. I am writing and there’s Pride and Prejudice (the BBC series, haven’t got my hands on a pirate movie dvd yet) playing in the background, and I am eating toast and orange jam [...]

Need

10. October 2005

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I was having lunch all by myself the other day, in the restaurant of a bookshop. I was listening to music from my mobile and having an exquisite alone moment. And I was thinking, I don’t want to need anybody. I don’t want to need anything. I want to love and be loved but I [...]

Things I learnt today and it’s only 3 pm

10. October 2005

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-People keep pestering you even when it is clear that you have done everything possible to accommodate them, or to put it correctly, especially when you have done everything possible to accommodate them. -Colleagues who feel that explanations are hard work, are bullies who are entertained by the difficulties that stem from their indifference. -Copying DVDs [...]