Colloquy with this post.

At Seven Sisters I changed
(I think) to Edmonton Green.
To the north of North London.

There was a low-rise mall, with
market traders. You could walk
(I think) to Enfield Lock.

It wasn’t a long visit, but I forced
some decisions.

They may not have been the best,
but they were mine.

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Colloquy with this post.

My eyes made wide and
bulging

this glut of labels
reading.

Our electronic
spending

my grandad’s thrift un-
ravelling.

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We to three

2 July, 2009

in we are family

I’m pregnant.  The señor and I are expecting a baby in February 2010. This revelation came as if the solving of a puzzle, a single name to give the clutch of symptoms that had been worrying me for a few weeks: low-level nausea, bursts of irrational worry, tiredness that no amount of sleep seemed to allay. I had assumed that it was depression knocking at my door, so was pleased indeed to put a positive name to it all.

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Return to teaching and a research trip.

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With my return to teaching come feelings about stationery

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I‘ve been thinking a lot this week about my immediate forebears in my mother’s family, thought that’s only been intensified by the ongoing project of scanning my mother’s collection of family photos that includes those of both my grandmother and great-grandmother.

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In the Dryer

21 June, 2009

in tumblr

I subscribe to Achewood’s Premium Updates, which is worth the unkind exchange rate for rhetorical flashes like this, mid-paid-for-dialogue:

Dude, 99.9% of the people in this country wouldn’t stop buying a company’s product even if the only thing ever on television for the rest of history was that company’s CEO drinking tequila and putting live swans in the dryer.

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Remember This

21 June, 2009

in tumblr

The señor sent me, via cracked.com, this Daisy Owl comic:

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After six blog posts in a row last Saturday and a weekend spent in that grim halfway state of staying on the internet, waiting for something to happen, I decided to take what, for want of a better phrase, I dubbed a spiritual detox.  It is no disrespect to you, gentle reader, to say that I’m feeling much better for it: I’ve got a lot of reading done, for one (although I’ve yet to finish the weighty tome I’m showing off in the Amazon link at right).

This final non-teaching week also gave rise to a lively social round.  The señor and I called mid-week on Governor’s Bay Jay, whose lovely blog you can now find here.  Today we took Evie and Fern to visit Ashburton Jay and friends, some of whom were very young puppies.  You can see my too-fast panning and unsteady walking zooms of Coco, Zsa Zsa, Evie and Fern below.

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In which I experiment with tweeting a little less.

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