Strindberg wrote more than 70 plays as well as novels, short-stories and studies of Swedish history.
how lazy am i?
24 February 2005
23 February 2005
230205
i'm going to write a book. it's going to be called "25 in a 40". it's going to be all about the mindset of the people who think that 40 mph means 40 mph is punishable by death and therefore stick at a safe 25. it will have one character. i will punish them. they will crash and burn over and over again until they are a charred little matchstick person in a car resembling a crushed milk bottle top.
yup. i'm onto a winner.
yup. i'm onto a winner.
230205
i stay up til half past midnight doing brain quizzes and personality tests and are you male or female tests on the bbc science web page and what do i learn?
well firstly that i'm a lot like who i thought i was (newsflash) and seconly that i am incredibly cold yet have an indefatigable interest in wasting my time.
well firstly that i'm a lot like who i thought i was (newsflash) and seconly that i am incredibly cold yet have an indefatigable interest in wasting my time.
21 February 2005
210205
Why buy diet books when you could better spend the money on cake?
>>sigh<<
the diet started today. i did brilliantly. muesli for breakfast. a tin of very skinny soup, fun-free crisps and a similarly cheerless mousse for lunch. then i got home and was close to shaking with hunger. mmm, three big slabs of cheese on homemade bread and a packet of crisps.
>>sigh<<
the diet started today. i did brilliantly. muesli for breakfast. a tin of very skinny soup, fun-free crisps and a similarly cheerless mousse for lunch. then i got home and was close to shaking with hunger. mmm, three big slabs of cheese on homemade bread and a packet of crisps.
20 February 2005
19 February 2005
190205
Right at the bottom of my blog I have put in a chat room. As far as I can tell you just click on it, make up a name and start talking. Who knows, it might even work.
16 February 2005
160205
hurrah for competitions, especially the ones i win and get immodest
amounts of book vouchers. mmm.
2 x jamie oliver
2 x douglas coupland
1 x strindberg
1 x levy
1 x dickens
so far.
amounts of book vouchers. mmm.
2 x jamie oliver
2 x douglas coupland
1 x strindberg
1 x levy
1 x dickens
so far.
15 February 2005
150205
unbelieveably true:
yesterday a girl came in and bought a valentine's card. the design
on the front was a lipstick kiss. she grinned all the way through
the transaction and i thought she was hitting on my colleague...
until she said; 'it's for next door's parrot.' i thought i was going to
wet myself. she added; 'i'm going to cross out the lips and draw
a beak.'
not a word of a lie. fact stranger than fiction etc etc
yesterday a girl came in and bought a valentine's card. the design
on the front was a lipstick kiss. she grinned all the way through
the transaction and i thought she was hitting on my colleague...
until she said; 'it's for next door's parrot.' i thought i was going to
wet myself. she added; 'i'm going to cross out the lips and draw
a beak.'
not a word of a lie. fact stranger than fiction etc etc
10 February 2005
100205
8 books in 2 weeks? why did i agree? why did i say, and mind you give me the teenage novels and not those piddly little kiddy ones that i could devour in an afternoon?
because i am a fool.
i am a fool.
i am a fool.
because i am a fool.
i am a fool.
i am a fool.
6 February 2005
1 February 2005
010205
i give you all fair warning. it's my birthday next monday. should
you wish to shower me with gifts, i'm giving you fair warning so you can
start making your purchases.
diamonds are always a good fall back.
you wish to shower me with gifts, i'm giving you fair warning so you can
start making your purchases.
diamonds are always a good fall back.
31 January 2005
29 January 2005
290105
Recommendations required:
Am currently doing about 2 hours driving a day for the next 5-6 weeks. So far I've listenened to 'David Copperfield' and 'Pete & Dud' on audio cassette. Here's my dilemma. If there's a book I really want to listen to, I don't want to hear an abridgement, ie Dickens. If there's something I don't mind hearing an abridgement of, then generally I don't want to bother listening to it at all. I have plenty of music but being a book fiend I am irked by the fact that I'm sitting down for two hours and not picking up a book. I have once had a book on the passenger seat that I grabbed up at welcome red lights but I suspect this may be a little obsessive.
So, dear readers...I ask merely the impossible of you. Give me something that's available on cassette for my car that is sufficiently high brow enough for a shocking snob like myself to want to listen to but not essential enough for me to fret about only hearing the abridged version. I wait with bated breath, much like the proverbial cheese eating cat.
Am currently doing about 2 hours driving a day for the next 5-6 weeks. So far I've listenened to 'David Copperfield' and 'Pete & Dud' on audio cassette. Here's my dilemma. If there's a book I really want to listen to, I don't want to hear an abridgement, ie Dickens. If there's something I don't mind hearing an abridgement of, then generally I don't want to bother listening to it at all. I have plenty of music but being a book fiend I am irked by the fact that I'm sitting down for two hours and not picking up a book. I have once had a book on the passenger seat that I grabbed up at welcome red lights but I suspect this may be a little obsessive.
So, dear readers...I ask merely the impossible of you. Give me something that's available on cassette for my car that is sufficiently high brow enough for a shocking snob like myself to want to listen to but not essential enough for me to fret about only hearing the abridged version. I wait with bated breath, much like the proverbial cheese eating cat.
24 January 2005
240105
Today I bought myself an entirely low-tech gift because I asked for it for Christmas and didn't get it.
A recorder. Five quid. Early Learning Centre. Bargain. It even comes with a little jute bag with drawstrings so I can carry it to school..?
A recorder. Five quid. Early Learning Centre. Bargain. It even comes with a little jute bag with drawstrings so I can carry it to school..?
23 January 2005
230105
Back from skiing the French Alps!!
Only six stitches and even then they were in someone else.
Only six stitches and even then they were in someone else.
11 January 2005
10 January 2005
100105
discovered today that a certain company, totally unrelated to me in every possible sense, has been sacking members of staff after seeing them post derogatory comments about said company in their blogs.
nothing to do with me. at all. never heard of them.
but my job is happy, fulfilling and really as close to paradise on earth as anywhere. the customers are smashing and i want to take all my colleagues home at the weekends.
nothing to do with me. at all. never heard of them.
but my job is happy, fulfilling and really as close to paradise on earth as anywhere. the customers are smashing and i want to take all my colleagues home at the weekends.
9 January 2005
080105
due to a sudden influx of interest in my blog (one person) i am back to tell you of all the excitement that makes up my glamorous life.
am getting drunk with a friend and picking random european cities we could conquer next.
am getting drunk with a friend and picking random european cities we could conquer next.
29 December 2004
291204
having a house guest for a few days so will be cutting myself off from my daemon that is the room housing all my books and computer, in the name of friendship.
light a candle and pray for nerves of steel for me.
light a candle and pray for nerves of steel for me.
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