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No closet space.
Posted Nov 10, 2003
Today my lovely lizard has been out for ten years. Precocious little thing came out at school when she was thirteen, and wasn't that fun! Ask her about it sometime. She was a magnet for misfits and dragged quite a few friends out of their closets along the way. The school um'd and ah'd about section 28 then made her deputy head girl anyway. By coming out so young and being such a visible queer in such a small town she changed the opinions and challenged the prejudices of everyone who knew her. She is an incredible example of why it is important to be out and proud. It makes a difference. It changes things, mostly it changes people and that's hardest of all.
Grace you're amazing 
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confession of a failed miner.
Posted Nov 6, 2003
I really intended to comment lots in the AWW today. Really I did. Yesterday too. Six hours stuck in work and hootoo is better than worrying about our continued employment in the increasingly unstable directory enquiries field (no calls coming in y'see). But I've not commented on anything. I tried. I read things. Sometimes I even hit the reply button, then stared at the empty box with an empty mind.
I'm too confused, and scared and it's hard being in work, even if there's no actual work to do. It's scary being around people.
Sorry Jodan, please don't sack me. I'll try again tomorrow.
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Poor kitten
Posted Oct 29, 2003
I stepped on Pud and hurt her tail while hanging out washing.
Thankfully not broken. Vet has given her antibiotics. Cost £30. Cheaper than if it had been broken so can't complain. My fault so can't complain anyway.
Didn't want to leave her and come to work. Didn't want to come to work anyway. Bad brain week.
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Back on the chain gang.
Posted Oct 16, 2003
Wrote a few words this morning. Not many but since I've scribbled not at all since some time in July any writing is cause for being pleased. Thanks owed to useless hound for a timely booting 
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Suppose I aught to pick up the writers journal lark as well. Make notes on the garden and the writing.
Don't know if it would be better to press on and start writing section two or edit together section one. Don't really want to tackle the mamoth re-write. I know it's going to be hard work. But I fear that I should. If I leave all the redrafting till the end it's going to seem insurmountable. But if I don't keep writing I lose momentum and it starts to seem like I'll never get to the end of the story. Hmm. Maybe I should throw it all over and become a builder. Briefly flirted with the idea of going back to short story writing for a bit, but it feels like infidelity. I can't believe I'm letting my own novel guilt trip me. I've got this morning's snippets of writing on here and I should probably take the opportunity to do a bit more while it's so quiet (work is fun when I don't have to do any). I should at least finish up the diary entry I was working on, but reading and commenting is more fun and takes less concentration.
The garden is being much less problematic. Planted most of the 200 bargain spring bulbs. There's still some weeding to do but I should be able to squeeze that in with the housework planned for tomorrow. Got some acidic compost for the heathers and will put them in as soon as we've dug over the new side bed. Hopefully we'll do that on Sunday or Monday. Greatly depends on my mother. She's going to get seriously tetchy if we don't go visit them soon.
G's up at the uni tomorrow. First residential of the year. She's surprisingly calm. More worried about the fees than the work. But she has every right to be confident. She's been an industrious little lizard the last few weeks and the script is in pretty good shape.
But I'm not jealous, really.
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Supermarket and hospital tomorrow.
Posted Oct 4, 2003
Going to see Nathan tomorrow. Didn't see him last Sunday because he'd had lots of visitors that week and it was making him unsettled. Hoping for significant improvment. Mum and Dad H say there have been improvements with his attention span and speech and that he's generally more himself. There's talk about letting them have him back home and doing day visits to the hospital for physio and suchlike.
They're going to pick us up a bit early so that we can go to a supermarket. We haven't done any shopping for ages and I haven't eaten a hot meal in over a week because there's no food in the house that I like (realised in work that I was being tetchy because I'd eaten nothing at all in over 24 hours and not much before that). John and Grace are fine, I've been cooking stews and things for them, but I won't eat them. It's depressing sometimes to look after everyone else and never be looked after myself. (moan complain wine, I know she tries to look after me and I won't let her.)
*sigh*
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