September 2010
31 posts
in the sunshine and in the shade →
I was told recently that my blog has a somber tone to it, that it makes me seem like I am unhappy. I responded that it is not the case, that I am perfectly happy, and that it’s just that it’s hard…
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this could be the saddest dusk i’ve ever seen turn to a miracle, high alive my mind is racing, as it always will my hand is tired my heart aches I’m half a world away here my head sworn, to go it alone…
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in the sunshine and in the shade →
this bugs me. blogger is meant to auto update tumblr if you blog. but it doesnt, then you post your latest blogger on tumblr, and THEN it replicates the post with another post from blogger… BAH! you tumblogger lot need to work on your stuff more
The Earldom of Mar in sunshine and in shade during five hundred years
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And so it begins...
A. I. Macinnes, ‘Covenanting Ideologies in the Seventeenth Century’ in J. Ohlmeyer (ed.) Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland: Kingdom or Colony (Cambridge: 2000).
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You should always eat breakfast.
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I always thought...
that neds were the worst of the worst, the underclass, complete scum of the earth. it turns out that I was wrong, from what i am told (*some*) gypsies (or am I to say, as i am told, ”travelling people”?) are even more despicable. It makes me sick that humanitarian laws that are, however flawed, intended for people facing real threats, are being abused for profit by these people.
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Ebay = the job you never knew you had
people think ebay is a quick easy way to earn some extra cash and simultaneously declutter your house, outside the hours of your regular work.
wrong wrong wrong!
ebay is basically going back to the shittest job you ever had and making yourself a bitch to the buyer whose positive feedback you depend on, while you earn like £1.14 for every measly posession you let these cheap scumbags at. perks of...
Lean on me?
Or not. That’s ok.
(That’s not ok)
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stealing stuart's clothes
these are the lengths i have to go to in order to make myself presentable but not too presentable for yet another history dept conference. this time it’s on ulster (bleg) and the plantations (meg). well, apart from having to accomodate, reassure and endure several lunatics and many, many egos i’ll be getting a free meal and free drinks in the city chambers again; woohoo.
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RE: pope visit
YOU PEOPLE ARE ALL SHEEP. TAKE OFF YOUR BLINKERS AND THINK OF AN ALTERNATIVE VIEWPOINT. GROW UP OR SHUT UP.
my name's rick danko
but people call me one hour photo
my name’s robbie robertson but people call me robo
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book club tonight
the collector by john fowles
Discuss, how much of a baw is ‘ferdinand’?
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post-wedding intertia →
I couldn’t even think of a title for this blog. I don’t feel eloquent in the slightest today. I feel so disjointed just now. But I am also so very happy. Maybe I am just having bother processing…
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Today I drove
I had the windows down or the fans on ‘4’, preferring the windows as the fans just puffed outside hot air into the inside hot air. I put on american cliched semi-classic rock on loud (and too loud when the fans were on; I don’t like to show off). I took off my jumper and put on my sunglasses. I skipped the slow songs. I raced at the lights, I cut off the lorry, I hit all the...
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yes, it sure has been a long, hard drive →
I am Helen and I am a post-graduate student. Ah, and what’s your last name Helen? Maddock. NO! wait! It’s Findlay.
And there you have it. Married off. Someone’s wife. That’s me. Married with…
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Blog Backlog
I have a few blogs to put up: wedding; honeymoon; 10k. I’ll get to it once I get over the cold.
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Just tried Dr Pepper
it tastes like glace cherries and marzipan
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