by botherer on Nov.26, 2004, under The Rest
Thank you so much.
I’m really delighted with the responses so far. Please, if you haven’t already, add your five words. This is, in part, for a project I need to complete this weekend.
In a much larger part it’s for something else.
If I weren’t in the midst of a nightmarish combination of essays and deadlines, there are many things I would have written about recently, some still in storage. One leaked out on Richard Passmore’s blog’s comments. (Two apostrophied words in a row like that always look ugly, but I’m too tired to rearrange the sentence). I will rewrite it for here at some point to annoy people who won’t think about it, like ‘Jon H’.
I’m kind of enjoying the confusion that life’s entered recently. Enjoying in a very perverse way, since it’s doing my mental health no good at all, and causing me all manner of anguish. But at the same time, I can see the tectonic plates shifting. Paradigm shift. All change please.
And with good timing – next year heralds a significant change in my life. Come June I’ll have both completed my degree, and finished my time working for St. Nicholas Church in Winsley. I’ll be free. Editors-willing I’ll still be writing, but two thirds of my life will suddenly be up for grabs. And thankfully only one third is going to get filled, the other third to be rededicated toward activities such as: sleep, evenings off, human contact, not being a mental, causing trouble, lying on hills, and plotting.
The question remains, what is that new third to be? The great thing is, with the qualification I’ll have, it can plausibly include: evenings off, human contact, not being a mental, causing trouble, lying on hills, and plotting. I am very clever indeed.
All suggestions gratefully ignored. Five words please.
EDIT: Slightly concerned by the volume of Douglas Adams quotes.
November 26th, 2004 on 02:10
Move. To. The. U. S. ;)
November 26th, 2004 on 10:43
Apologies For The Inconvenience.
November 26th, 2004 on 12:59
Fuck off and die.
KG
November 26th, 2004 on 13:35
Thank you for your helpful and constructive comment, Gillen. You lift us all with your incisive wit.
November 26th, 2004 on 13:38
I’ve just realised that everyone has actually done four words instead of five.
KG
November 26th, 2004 on 13:39
In three posts time, people will only be able to comment with one word. Let’s all guess what Kieron’s would be.
No. Let’s not guess. There are babies watching.
November 26th, 2004 on 15:47
No, mine has five words!
Move to the United States.
Should that be two posts?
November 26th, 2004 on 15:53
You get what you give
November 26th, 2004 on 15:54
p.s. 137 of they’re back?
November 26th, 2004 on 16:40
write that book for children.
November 27th, 2004 on 15:08
He/she probably doesn’t hate you.
That’s 6, but it becomes 5 if you make it gender-specific.
Pedant.
November 27th, 2004 on 15:59
Stop using the word “paradigm”.
That’s five.
November 29th, 2004 on 14:11
write anti-war anger poetry. Cmon, we KNOW you could be the next Wilfred Owen
November 29th, 2004 on 18:58
My child wants your book
November 29th, 2004 on 19:01
PS Dave, check
http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
November 29th, 2004 on 19:56
Avoid Gerunds Like The Plague
December 1st, 2004 on 01:03
Given the purple hair, maybe Kieron meant “Fuck off and dye”?
Actually, that’s only marginally less insulting – though a change of hair colour is significantly different to a change in the ability to watch DVD box sets.