Quote of the Week

"Wah. Ireland despicable excuse for a Gaelic nation."

-- lasultrix

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Is something in retrograde? More people who are angry, annoyed, disappointed, mis-communicating, or only just getting over these things on my friends list than there have been in months. There are actually too many to comment individually on before I head for work, so for the moment, ye're to all hang in there, and I'll say more specific and useful things later.

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Right. I have time to update, for once. This not having time thing has been bothering me of late. I got the idea from somewhere - not my family, because I don't think many if nay of them work like it, but somewhere - that grownup life ahd a pattern to it. You got up early enough to cook and eat breakfast, read the paper and any post, listen to the radio, and you went to work. You did a day's work, and then you came home, had tea, did what you wanted for the rest of the evening, including cooking and eating dinner at some point. You had your lunchbreak to do shopping and other business in.

Reality is subtly different, of course, but I just realised with the arrival in the house of a television that many parts of the world still operate as though that were the case. There's the six o'clock news, for instance. Who in blazes is home these days at six o'clock? There's the notion that you can engage in hobbies when you've a few spare minutes - but unless I make special arrangements, I have between zero and a negative amount of spare minutes.

I feel vaguely cheated, timewise, but there's not much I can do about it.

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I've been doing Finnish classes, but they haven't been the best. I complained to the Sandford Language Institute today, and within an hour, had someone on the phone from there, offering me private classes with a different teacher instead for the same price. I was rather pleased. He ovat hyviä.