Aeolienne

The only follow-up I got from my AS diagnosis ten years ago was one appointment, never mind a 5 year plan. I still haven't had much of a career.

Sonnerie feat. Pamela Thorby (recorder), Baroque Recorder Concertos

The X Men, Trillennium Trance / What Is Love

I'm tired of people telling me that all things happen for a reason. I'm tired of people telling me you learn more from failure than success. I'm tired of people congratulating me for being brave without bothering to find out how I really feel.

Palladian Ensemble, Bach Sonatas & Chorales

Emilio Pujol, Tonadilla

Huey Lewis & the News, The Power of Love Great Scott, this is heavy!

The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guin Gödel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid by Douglas R Hoftstadter The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay Bleak House by Charles Dickens Do whole series count?

Samuel Barber (1910-81), Adagio for Strings

Handel, Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah

A few days ago my mum drew to my attention an article in the Times Weekend supplement about a woman who joined DatingDirect aged 37 and got engaged within a year to the first and only man she met from that site. No pressure. That same article recommend mysinglefriend.com, parship.co.uk, eharmony.com, zoosk.com, loveandfriends.com, encountersdating.co.uk, Gaydar.co.uk, Soulmates.guardian.co.uk, Okcupid.com, Friendsreuniteddating.co.uk and Badoo.com.

Hmm, sounds uncannily like a minor-key version of Baa Baa Black Sheep I'm currently listening to Language Lab, Burning Disaster. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNZtl53SDA8

I've bought a tub of coco de mer body butter. So far I've been unable to vouch for its supposedly aphrodisiac qualities.

Wagner, Prelude to Act III of Tristan und Isolde http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APeEUfUCDVk

Vivaldi, Gods, Emperors & Angels: Concertos for recorder, violin, bassoon and strings, performed by La Serenissima (dir. Adrian Chandler) feat. Pamela Thorby (recorder), Peter Whelan (bassoon) and Sara Deborah Struntz (violin)

Jummy?

GI [glycaemic index] measures the effect of your food on blood glucose levels. It’s a rank list index for foods based on how quickly your blood sugar levels will increase after ingestion. Link

Although you can microwave a sweet potato. Which has a lower GI than a conventional spud, don'tcha know...

And is "you must be too smart for the job market" a compliment? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me!

Does "How clever of you to remember such-and-such" count as a compliment? People have said that to me and I wonder why. Some episodes you remember, some you don't, but what has that got to do with cleverness?

I wouldn't be able to use my desktop computer anywhere else without changing the address my broadband/phone package is registered with. In which case my broadband provider might insist on a new phone line being installed at the said address, which they have insisted on doing each time I've moved house so far - not an ideal option if I'm staying with the relatives I mentioned above. I can't save up for anything if I don't have a regular income, and I can't see how I could have the latter without a job.

Charles Lloyd Quartet, Mirror

But my computer's not portable, no matter how many gizmos I carry around with me. That was the point I was making.

What's a mifi? Can you update a CV on "a phone internet"?

And now I'm about to leave. The internship was supposed to last until 10 February, but my landlady (with whom I've boarded since 15 January, the second landlady I've had since October) has thrown a spanner in the works by telling me she needs me out this weekend. Evidently my elderly cousin who found this landlady for me gave her inaccurate information about how long I needed to be in Cambridge for. Mind you, he'd also been telling her I was only 25! Seriously. As my employers seem to have sod-all for me to do at work, there doesn't seem much point in commuting from London for the final week. I had someone else giving me the same advice - "just move to Bristol now" - last week. She asked me if I knew anybody there with a spare room, and I said I have a cousin (of my own generation) living with her husband and 2 small kids north of the city centre, plus my brother's parents-in-law live out of town not far from the airport. Don't know if it would be reasonable to stay with either of them for an extended length of time, besides which my desktop computer remains in my parents' house in London; I'm not going to be very well-placed for jobhunting if I have to get by on just an hour a day's internet access at the public library. Unless Bristol happens to be well-provided with cheap 'n' cheerful cybercafés?