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NaJoPoMo 2011 - 18th (Agapanthus does catharsis)
Posted Nov 18, 2011
It's Children in Need night. So we are putting the telly on, ordering a curry (ordering a curry to do WHAT?), and getting maudlin drunk before abusing our credit-cards. It's a ritual. I have family who used to work for Children in Need and even as a kid we'd stay up until 1am with my Dad just so we could shout 'look! There's our relation!' at the telly at the very end.
If I didn't do this, my year would lack punctuation, tradition, ritual, a sense of connectedness, and catharsis. So please excuse me, I have to find the Kleenex with some urgency.
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NaJoPoMo 2011 - 17th (Agapanthus eats cheese)
Posted Nov 17, 2011
Halloumi, to be precise. It's like bacon, in cheese form, and just as addictive. We often stirfry it with shredded greens and sliced onions (or leeks) and garlic. And fennel seeds, or paprika, or both, and cumin.
Very healthy. Mmmm.
I love cheese with such a passion.
Did I ever tell you about the Epoisses? My aunt brought a box of Epoisses back from France - it comes in little round plywood boxes, very rustic - and we put it on the table and between a very drunk and jovial party of a dozen, we ate most of it, with baguettes, and all went to bed with the MOST unholy bad breath. The next morning was like waking up with the three-week-corpse of a camel in my mouth. Anyway, we all trouped down to the kitchen, and cleared the table, ate what breakfast we assortedly could manage, cleared the table again, and I can't remember who, but one of us noticed a dark circle BURNT into the wood. Oh, what was that? How odd. How oddly it is in the place where the cheese was... Oh, my, it's the same shape and size as the box. Oh, double my, look at the BOTTOM OF THE BOX. The cheese fumes had BURNT THROUGH THE BOTTOM OF THE BOX AND SINGED THE TABLE.
Good Lord, we all ATE that. We ATE it. Lots of it.
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NaJoPoMo 2011 - 16th (Agapanthus rolls her eyes)
Posted Nov 16, 2011
I work in a university library - had you noticed?
The other day, a very apologetic man came in with a dozen extremely late books (months late), returned them, and confessed to having completely lost another book, and though his lower lip wobbled when I told him he now owed us damn-near £100 (I hate this part of my job), told me it was totally his own fault, apologised again, handed over his credit card so I could loot and pillage it (in my official capacity, of course), THANKED me for being so helpful, and wished me a nice day.
The very next person in line had a fine of £2. So when my colleague told him this, he called her a 
ing cow, shouted that we had to be JOKING, who did we think we were, charging that kind of money? and stormed off.
Whiplash, I haz it.
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NaJoPoMo 2011 - 15th (Agapanthus is brief)
Posted Nov 15, 2011
Sorry, placeholder. I am TOTALLY writing this daily, yay! Only today, I am writing, sorry, placeholder!
Or, gon out, backson, bisy, backson.
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NaJoPoMo 2011 - 14th (Agapanthus fizzles out)
Posted Nov 14, 2011
Long day. Very hard, understaffed, too many students, top of head has popped off, aigh.
Oh, disconcertment. I went to a literary talk after work, which was all jolly interesting (and is another reason why I'm home late, tired, and avec le fatigue of the brain). Afterwards, I was in the train station buying a hot chocolate (what? I'd missed my dinner) when the people queuing with me said, 'oh! You were at the talk!'
'Why yes, I was,' I said, in my best polite I'm-not-sure-if-I-know-you-should-I-know-you? voice.
'It's the hair,' they explained, 'We noticed it from the other side of the hall!'
And we all smiled politely and I took my hot chocolate and shuffled off to catch my train.
I knew my hair was a bit, well, it has personality. But being chased down like a celebrity in public places because my hair was THAT NOTICEABLE? I don't know whether to invest in a sparkly clip or shave my head.
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