All posts for the month August, 2007

Earl Grey

Speaking of being a slave to appreciation, this morning had me leaping out of bed at 8:10am and race to the milkbar (before an 8:30 online class), I prayed would be open with nothing in my wallet (I had to scrounge for loose change around my house) for milk. It seems I have a love-affair [...]

Online Communities

Let me be really rude and plug something I wrote a year or so ago – just in case it is helpful to anyone. Contextually, this was written for a disscusion board type of online community. I don’t get enough comments to really have to apply it to this blog but I might do to [...]

Slave to our appreciation

A beautiful day (yesterday) was dampened momentarily when a guy who was quite drunk decided to sit next to me on the train. It was the middle of the day, the guy was drinking  quite consistently and only hid his bottle when the ticket inspectors came around. It was one of those slightly awkward situations [...]

Compost of new smells

Today is for flinging open doors. The weather has taken a drastic improve which reflects on all the but the nastiest of predispositions. Amazing what a bit of sun can do. It’s honestly just nice to open up the house a bit so it smells ‘new’ again. On the whole smelling new thing, yesterday marked [...]

Meat costs a lot

Yesterday evening on the train home I got the idea in my head that I really wanted lasagna. I could’ve gone the stodgy store bought way, but instead I remembered (rightly) that lasagna packets have the recipe on the back. So I made it as they said, leaving out some of the chicken stock and [...]