Monthly Archives: November 2007
It just ain’t going down chez Reed
Saturday. A whole Saturday with nothing to do in it but watch the laundry dry. I should be cooking up a very long and eloquent post about something important, like Charlotte’s post on AIDS – I mean, I have the … Continue reading
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Try again tomorrow
I have had a horrible bloody day – the sort of day that starts with a headache and ends with shouting at people and crying into my gin. Obviously the only remedy to this is more gin. I shall go … Continue reading
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To !!! or not to !!!, that is the ???!!??
I was playing with the NaBloPoMo Randomizer this morning, as one does when one knows very well one ought to be making notes on Library of Congress Subject Headings. (And, yes, Ed, you are quite right, most posters seem to … Continue reading
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I apologise for today’s post.
Having spent the entire day doing pointless, non-NaBloPoMo things like hauling self to the supermarket and back, forgetting to do laundry, actually working for money, and going to the movies (Stardust, thank you for asking, no doubt I’ll spectacularly fail … Continue reading
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Can’t a girl take a long weekend?
What the hell has that Editor been doing? What the hell has she been doing? I go away for oh, so very few days, and she drags out the old poetry files [The turquoise ink files, no less - Ed] … Continue reading
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Free-form excavations
Reed is back tomorrow. Good, I say. Good. I don’t care for this ‘generating content’ lark. How about another spot of juvenalia, while she can’t burst in and stop me? She wrote this one when she was barely 18, and … Continue reading
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The first blond muse
Reed is still not back. Lord knows what she’s doing. Gallivanting, I shouldn’t wonder, or possibly even frolicking. But as she’s not here, and left me in charge, I think I shall do something truly evil (heh heh heh) and … Continue reading
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A triolet
[Reed wrote this in less than 20 minutes, on Thursday the 1st of November, in a complicated recess of the labyrinthine university library, near Paleontology. There were pigeons roosting on the window-ledge, iridescent in the autumn sunlight. And workmen drilling … Continue reading
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Time-and-Motion studies
This is the Editor, refusing to put on a stupid accent for the purposes of this post, as, frankly, swathes of italic are a bugger to read. So. Reed has cheerfully announced to the Universe she is NaBloPoMo-ing, oh yes. … Continue reading
We start by cheating
Dear all, it is the first, oh yes, the very first day of November, and this is the first NaBloPoMo post. And it occurred to me, or, rather, my husband occurred it to me, that we are going away for … Continue reading
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