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Sussex. Genius.
According to Mystic Meg's reading of my star sign for January, this is what should be going on.
"THE sun focuses on work and your personal wellbeing, and gives you a new confidence that will draw job opportunities your way. These may not be the ones you expect but will be good for you. Work pals share cash prizes. But exciting developments in your private life will motivate a switch to a healthy lifestyle. Venus takes charge of your love chart and a relationship, new or established, is fun and fulfilling." How accurate so far? I've seen jobs, but have not had any jobs thrust under my nose, none have been what I would consider unexpected (i.e., they are things I do, not wrestling monkeys or building rafts in Mongolia). Don't think any pals have won cash and if they have, I've not seen a penny (thanks guys). Exciting developments making me go healthy? If "exciting" means "not fitting in my trousers" or "one of my mates diagnosed with adult onset diabetes" then maybe. If Venus has my love chart then please, please, please, give it to someone else, because it's nearly the end of the month and it is fair to say that on that front there has been nothing fun and nothing fulfilling. With 3 days to go I'm not sure that there is a love-marathon or shag-fest on the horizon.
Someone I don't know sent me this;
HEY! I just saw your photos up on your page and I think youre stunningly attractive I'm off work all weekend and am new around here so perhaps you'd like to talk with me My windowslive messengears madison19healy@hotmail.com send me an add and message on there instead of replying to email and ill show you my photos there as well Thanks and look forward to speaking with you xOxO Early valentine? I think not. No idea what the scam is, but bless you for telling me I am stunningly attractive. We all need a lift.
If it wasn't bad enough that people are force-mating labradors and poodles (which always brings images of the South Park episode where an elephant was mating with a pig), now there is marmite flavoured chocolate. Surely an abomination.
Grants are one of the measures through which we are assessed. The administrative process that has been placed around grant applications is strangling it with stupidity. Now you have to get some business office to approve it and have it peer reviewed. In essence this isn't bad, but when the people in these roles f@ck off and a) don't tell you and b) don't tell the person taking over from them, you're a little bit shafted. of course this doesn't do anything except count against the person trying to apply for the grant, because they don't have a grant. Totally arsebasketingly moronic.
People's relatives are prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice to ensure that I have plenty of time on my hands. Thank you. Sort of.
The Department of Health are suggesting that it would be a good idea for me to email my GP with my symptoms so that s/he can decide if I need an appointment. What if I don't know the things that are symptoms, so don't explain something to her that might be the difference between a sore arm and a massive embolism? I guess that would be my fault then and when they come to mop up the soup that I have become because no one knows that I have died there won't be questions asked about the way in which we think about health.
Nudge. Not as in "wink, wink" but in gentle, almost secret methods to change people's behaviour. Supermarkets use it, and now the government plan to also. Some of it is probably benign, like requiring opt-out from organ donations, but sometimes you might not know that it's happening. The idea that governments should nudge us into making food choices might be altruistic but it does politicise eating, so it's one more way that people can behave against an administration.
Contact juggling looks incredibly cool and is probably good for you in the sense of giving you balance, fine motor control, and grace. Probably not something I should pursue then.
20 days is, apparently, so close to 35 days that it is not possible to do any sensible work in the interim. It's important to keep that in mind next time someone asks you to do something.
Being in two minds can't be easy. You know I'm scared of leaving but I think I'm scared to stay. We're all scared to stay.
Snow or flu. Right now either would be good.
V thinks it would be a good idea to go online and even better if she was responsible for my profile. Frying pan into the fire? Maybe. What looked like a shift in the horizon may have been a bit of a mirage. It's strange how some people have the power to bugger up everything that they are even remotely linked to, isn't it? There is no such thing as a swift exit so I am hoping that there is such a thing as a graceful one.
Only 4th January and got something in press. Oh, wait, is that success? I have forgotten what that tastes like.
Entering a new year is always a bit of fun but seldom have I done this with Alexander McQueen feathers next to me, a Mojito in front of me, and rockin' sounds of the 80s/90s all around me. A year of possibilities. |