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I'm ba-aack! (Temporarily)
Posted Dec 21, 2004
No, I wasn't off saving the world, I was just dealing with some family stuff. It's been a tough few weeks 
but hopefully things will settle down a bit now.
On Thursday I'll be saying goodbye again, as I won't have net access over the holidays. (Don't know how I'll survive - frequent trips to the net cafe, I guess, though even they will be closed some of the time!) So 
Merry Christmas to those of you who are into that sort of thing.
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Latest reply: Dec 21, 2004
Train of thought
Posted Nov 22, 2004
Can you have a conversation with someone you don't know? That's not at all the question I wanted to ask, besides being a remarkably silly question anyway, but it'll serve as a starting point.
A friend of a friend has brought him-/herself to my attention via this praiseworthy institution, and I'm wondering if s/he is someone I know. Being the introspective type (sometimes), I'm now wondering why I'm wondering. Does it matter? Do I need to know who I'm talking to? Can one have a discussion with someone one knows without knowing who they are? Oh dear. I know what I'm trying to say, but somewhere between brain and keyboard it's getting hopelessly garbled.
*cogitating while eating lunch*
Eureka! I have it! What I'm wondering is, would it make a difference to what I'd say to this unknown someone (and what I'd make of their replies) if I knew who they were? More generally, how valid is one's perception of someone 'in the flesh' if it would change how you perceive their mind (as manifested reasonably purely in text-only communication)?
Having, in the past, had a serious long-term relationship that started and was largely conducted online, and being currently in an in-the-flesh one, I'm very interested in this kind of question - in the differences between how you react to someone online and IRL (à la "You've Got Mail" - dreadful movie but interesting concept), and which if either is the more valid point of view, and what it really means to know someone.
Anyway. That was rather deeper than I had intended - it's only lunchtime, after all - but I knew that train of thought was going somewhere and I had to find out where!
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Latest reply: Nov 22, 2004
Forty-two!
Posted Aug 12, 2004
I've just made my Researcher Number equal 42, and I did it ALL BY MYSELF!!! :o)
(6*3)+7+5+6+6
There, wasn't that easy?
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Latest reply: Aug 12, 2004
Good days and bad
Posted Jul 26, 2004
I haven't been around here for a while (it's tempting to say I was a casualty in the Chocolate Wars, but sheer apathy and lack of anything to say are the real culprits.) I'm still fighting a (usually losing) battle with the sugar-loaded caffeine-buzzing energy-boosting mood-altering brown stuff, but I've started exercising more regularly (Himself is making me do some of his football-training exercises) and eating a bit healthier, so it's not all bad. So hopefully I'll be here a bit more often, in my new, slimmer, choco-independent form!
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Latest reply: Jul 26, 2004
Success, mostly
Posted Mar 24, 2004
I've been more or less chocolate-free for nearly two weeks now. (Less yesterday, cos I had a really tough day, and this morning because nothing else was going to give me the energy I needed to get to work. But usually I'm pretty good.) I'm still drinking that raspberry-leaf tea (which has all sorts of other goodies in it too, including anise, ginger, cardamom, liquorice and black pepper - very energising) and eating loads of salad and fruit and trying to get at least a little fresh air and exercise each day (not easy with a desk-bound job in the city centre). All in all, I feel great, and I'm proud of myself.
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Latest reply: Mar 24, 2004
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