So, I’ve a friend just starting to get into online dating, which has caused and new budding branch to our usual conversation. This afternoon we got talking about pick-up lines, awkward moments, and those weird things you end up saying. So I told her about the time I asked a guy if he wanted to smell my fruitcake. Continue reading
This one’s for you mama….
My mom spent her working years as a nurse. A member of that noble-hearted profession of caregivers, nurturers, comforters of the ailing. My mother also has a rather warped sense of humour. To this day, if you ask her how my dad broke his toe (something that happened well over 30 years ago now), you’ll get such a fit of tear streaming breathless giggles you won’t ever really get the story, Continue reading
It may be of note to the reader, the author’s current intellectual pursuits have been fairly evenly divided between: imaginings on the domestic felicity of the undead; stratagems on the administration of her now transient hacker community; and reading of the concluding chapters of Miss Austen’s most excellent novel – Pride and Prejudice.
The mental co-mingling of these divergent subjects, and in particular the influence of the language of the latter on the thoughts of the other, have resulted in a cogitation and verbal discourse which may be regarded by her peers as no less ironic than it is absurd.
As the kiss deepened he felt a rising heat move through his body.
..or at least he would have if he hadn’t died a good six weeks ago, his body temperature now never rising above ambient.
But his love for this woman may just surpass his love for Braaaaaaaains!!! Continue reading
So, another day without much angst… or cursing. In addition to that pool I’m sure is going around twitter as to which day I snap and post nothing but the word *fuck* (I think I put my money on day 27), I think you could have fun graphing my propensity for cursing vs my apparent stress level in each blog post.
Inspired by Indexed, here a draft to get you started: Continue reading
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