Sitting in the kitchen just now, with a mug of tea and some toast, listening to the Beatles on the old Bush radio, I feel obscurely happy and at peace. Despite this having been going on for well over a month now, I find these moments of realisation that I am not in [...]
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When I was at university I had a boyfriend called Tom. He was a glaciologist, working on his Ph.D and spending as much time as he could in Iceland. Some of my friends never understood what I saw in him. Physically, he was not my type at all: skinny and slightly foppish, with an oddly dapper [...] My life, which is typically quite eventful, has been in a state of unusual turmoil for some time now. I’ve been searching for reasons to explain this, and today I came across a couple of interesting ideas. The Professor (@memestorm) kindly recommended Lewis Wolpert’s Malignant Sadness to me after a previous post on my battles with [...] I spent the afternoon watching Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire and drinking a very good bottle of rioja that was meant as a gift for a friend, but somehow ended up being drunk almost entirely by me. If you haven’t seen Wings of Desire you should. It is beautiful and uplifting. It also has Columbo in it, [...] I’ve been undergoing a slow process of insight into my own psychology these past few months – it’s a work in progress, but I think I achieved some concrete understanding today. I have a genetic predisposition to depression. Both my maternal grandparents suffered from it, as does my mother (and from looking at photos of my great [...] I just found out about the death of a former flatmate from brain cancer. He was a lovely person: full of fun, humour, energy. I didn’t live with him for long, but he made a lasting impression on me. Having given up on his first choice of career as an actor he was just starting to [...] So the sun did shine (my humblest apologies to the Swiss), and I feel a whole lot better than I did yesterday. 2008… …so last year. 2009… so far, [...] I’ve decided to take a tip from the Chinese and deal with troubling times by retreating to contemplate life by the side of a beautiful lake. As luck would have it though, the weather in Lausanne is unremittingly grey today, and Lake Geneva is just an idea in my mind as I watch the rain sleet [...] I woke up this morning standing by a recycling facility somewhere in rural France, feeding quail egg boxes into the cardboard bin and squinting in the strong sunlight. As I drove away in the car, I started singing this. Letting the days [...] … I have to remove another set of unnecessary quotation marks from a perfectly acceptable word used in a perfectly ordinary context the rivers of Hampshire will run red with the blood of [...] |
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