Archive for October, 2007

still here

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

First week in The New Job ™.

Lots to report, but too busy to blog.

For now, let me just say: Oh. My. God. The entire place seems to be scripted by Ricky Gervaise, and populated by people who were considered a little too ‘Obvious’ for the crowd scenes in EastEnders. 

More at the weekend.

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Thursday, October 18th, 2007

“I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain on the silence.”

Samuel Beckett on Why He Wrote

Songs about Rainbows #2

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

21:30 Sunday night. In eleven hours and forty-five minutes, I’ll be signing on to my first day at Feng Shui Bank. I’m nervous. Excited. Apprehensive (all those new people, all those new situations. All the things I hate. But I’ll be fine). Yes, I will be fine. Got nothing, for the past two weeks, other than best wishes and declarations of confidence in my abilities, and love. So I know I’ll be fine.

Still, can’t stop that racing heart.

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New York.

In case you were wondering…

But, of course, if you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know that already.

Where to start? Whit. Still there, like a rock. All she needs, quite frankly, is a crown, a “Give me your huddled masses (with two dollars to the pound)”, and a flaming torch. Although I still say Hot Pants would show off her pins better than those dubiously flowing skirts that they’ve lumbered Lady Liberty with.

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