Christmas and so forth and oh God why won’t the year just end?

So 2008 is finally – finally – crawling towards its wretched death. For most people I know, this has not been a great year. Hell, if you’re reading this, you’re probably a people I know. 2008, eh? Not a great year.
Bits have been nice recently, though. Christmas, usually something I dread, was sufficiently low-key to [...]

At the cafe again

Internet’s been disconnected (again) so I’m at the cafe, borrowing bandwidth and silently apologising to the knowledge ether for abandoning it so callously this last little while.
Apart from the lack of net, I’ve been biting my tongue pretty hard recently. There’s a lot that I want to write about, that I want to get out [...]

Saturday morning

Saturday morning and it shouldn’t be this rainy in December. It’s cool, I’m sitting cross-legged in knickers and one of his T-shirts, cardigan drawn over my shoulders, listening to the rain. In his white bed in his white apartment he is warm and suffused with sleep. I wonder what he dreams about. I had nightmares [...]

Sunburn

To say it’s been A Bit Of A Week is probably putting it mildly. I’ve been so frazzled these last few days, running around all stress-headed and mostly on the brink of tears. For a grown woman, I am alarmingly bad at dealing with bureaucracy, and spending hours on the phone cancelling bank cards and [...]

Gone, baby, gone

So, my mother-effing handbag was stolen today. One minute I left the Boy at the cafe reading the paper while I went to say hello to a friend; the next, I couldn’t pay for coffee because I had no goddamn money, in no goddamn handbag.
And before you ask, yes; everything was in it. Keys, wallet, [...]