I put my hands in my coat pockets and absentmindedly play around with the earphones that I’ve put in my left hand side pocket. I run my finger over the metal earphone jack, flicking its hard tip against my thumb. There’s a comfort to doing that I can’t explain. Something is wrong. The angle. The [...]
When I was a young boy we had little junk food in the house. I would go over to friends’ houses and be amazed at the assortment of crisps, Tim Tams, Arnott’s shapes, Nutella and confectionary of all sorts. In my house, there were two types of snacks: fruit (predominantly apples) and plain biscuits. The [...]
So I’m about a month late but I did promise to let you know how things were going with those New Year’s Resolutions. My list was originally 11 items long. Of that I’ve completed (or have kept up with) three. That’s not a particularly good score I’ll admit and given that two of them were [...]
I really like the word ‘superfluous’. I think part of the reason is because it’s one of the few words in English that is what it describes. The word ‘phonetic’ is not phonetic. The word ‘mispelt’ is not mispelt. The word ‘long’ is not long (indeed the word ‘short’ is longer than the word ‘long’). [...]
Usually I avoid taking part in Internet memes because, well, I’m just crabby like that. But I felt bad after Ana said that she had tagged me because she wanted to know more about me. Ah, guilt. Would I do anything without you? My middle name, Ian, is the Scottish form of John. John is [...]
So the other Mike at work1 has been talking to me about trying to be more productive in his life. He’s been reading a few books, trying out a couple of the strategies and generally attempting to get more stuff done. This must be contagious because I’ve been feeling it, too. I’m not sure if [...]
So the wedding is finally over and I’ve had enough of a break from it to be able to write about it without degenerating into convulsive fits. It’s still not clear why I brought this on myself. To repeat again, Rui did not want a wedding. My wife was happy with the way things were. [...]
I have a new job. There. I spent a while trying to work out how to say that and ‘blurting’ seems to be just about the best method. I work for the Sakai City Board of Education. They were my previous employer while I was a JET and have been kind enough to reemploy me [...]
Here’s the list for things to do this weekend. Yes, I do have a place for this type of thing but I’m hoping that by putting it up here it’ll haunt me. Meet up with Joel for dinner tomorrow. Develop proof for why liberalism is the only logical form of society. Eat. Bring Crap Comics [...]
I feel like it’s been a while since the last update (according to the archives it’s been about a month ago but it seems a lot longer). So, let’s update. The good news is that I’ve passed the coursework component of the College of Law. Hooray! This means that I’m one step closer to being [...]