tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72250992012-02-16T23:34:30.341ZAn incurable itch to write.Pandorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785173814654350400noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225099.post-3284877130251794162010-01-07T21:30:00.003Z2010-01-07T22:01:47.786Z

The temperature is about 10 below outside, the snow in drifts over two foot deep in places, much much more up on the moors. It's called a blanket, but it isn't warm. It muffles everything, but it isn't a muffler. It cleanses everything, turns us back in on ourselves, reminds us of simpler times.When the shops run out of bread, people remember that they can bake it themselves. When the electricity

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Remnants of a much happier christmas still linger in the back yard. The old tree - miraculously still wearing its needley coat, despite a year of wind and rain. Except the summer has turned to autumn - lush green transformed to burnt orange. It was a lovely christmas. Quiet, just him and I. Cats and a goose. Lovely goose, with its honeyed hide, cross cut, glistening in candle light. I love the

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A normal Friday night, at the begining of the month so everyone had money in their pocket. We went to one of the lazy louche bars that work hard to give that impression of effortlessness. Drank a few beers, then pushed the boat out a bit and bought cocktails. Through each rainbow filtered glass I watched them all, my friends, my lover, as the evening began to unravel as it always does. People

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He couldn't take his eyes off her. She was terrifying, mesmerising. Tall, with long dark hair and deep brown eyes. Broad shouldered and fairly heavy set, she wore a man's white satin dress shirt, full and flowing, open a few buttons at the neck. Below that, a short, tight black skirt showed off a pair of beautiful, long legs - none of the weight she carried above carried here, they were

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Every morning in winter, Tom gets up early to watch Mrs Fitch in the shower. He hears the hum of their house as it wakes - a radio being switched on, the dog barking to be fed. From his window in the attic he can see down into their bathroom, through the spindly fingers of the tree. She doesn't close the blind, leaves the window open to stop condensation. He thinks it must be habit - she

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's funny how the worms move around in my mind. Seemingly dormant then the slightest thing wakes them up and sends me squirming, squealling across the room. Today it was gradual - irritation at people in the room being pedantic or jumping up to do things that would usually get done anyway - I could tell it was mostly me. I was nervous and stressed over the work I had to do preparing for my

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Michael Jackson is innocent apparently. I will reserve judgement think. Not that I really think/thought he was guilty. My issue was always that this was never going to be a normal trial- The possibility of him being guilty aud getting off because he was a celebrity is about as likely as him being put away because someone accused him and is after his money (or as it turns out- lack thereof)

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Sunday night we went to see tori Amos at the Carting Apollo in manchester.I can't quite express what Tori Amos's music means to me. Ever since i was introduced to Little earthquakes by my ex- many years ago,her words have been the ones, above all othersto most consistently be able to transport me to worlds of wonder, joy, pain, passion, sorrow and Surrealism.I don't know why ive never been to

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congratulations avant Blog -you are the winner! you successfully managed to post to a blog Where all others have failedgranted not the right blog - but a bit of re-branding and we're away. What shall we change the name to? Pandora's mobile blog? pan's pda ponderings? to keep that alliterative thing going that i like so much?next up - tori amos thoughts

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woo! maybe this will actually work for once. trying to figure out the best way to blog with my pda. so far- can't post in blog-city directly, can type in content but not submit. tried emailing posts from hotmail- this worked twice thenn stopped for some reason. posting direct to blogger crashes the browser. so i'm trying this avant blog thingummy. it's the only app compatible with pocket pc and

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woo! maybe this will actually work for once. trying to figure out the best way to blog with my pda. so far- can't post in blog-city directly, can type in content but not submit. tried emailing posts from hotmail- this worked twice thenn stopped for some reason. posting direct to blogger crashes the browser. so i'm trying this avant blog thingummy. it's the only app compatible with pocket pc and

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woo! maybe this will actually work for once. trying to figure out the best way to blog with my pda. so far- can't post in blog-city directly, can type in content but not submit. tried emailing posts from hotmail- this worked twice thenn stopped for some reason. posting direct to blogger crashes the browser. so i'm trying this avant blog thingummy. it's the only app compatible with pocket pc and

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Yet again, I'm not being very good at posting here - and now with rumblings of trouble at work I'm not sure I'll feel very free in what I can say here. I'm not going to delete the blog yet, though i'm trying to anonymise more. I may come back and post again if I have something library related to say but in the meantime I'll still be waffling over on the normal blog.

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I applied for two jobs over christmas - Librarian at Leeds University Special Collections, Librarian at the Small Arms Technical Information Centre at the Royal Armouries. I got a rejection letter today for the latter, and I'm fairly certain I would have heard by now if I were being invited for interview for the first. My trouble I think comes from working in a specialist unit - abstracting and

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Grizzly stuff, but at least he kept his sense of humour in the end: Ray Cox of Tyler, Texas, was scheduled for his ninth radiation treatment for a cancerous tumour previously removed from his back. He was to receive a 180 rad dose from the Therac 25 Radiation Therapy System, which was set at the lower of two energy modes it could deliver. A minicomputer controlled the system through commands

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Does anyone else wish we weren't moving so hysterically forward to the "e-library"? Not that I'm not fully in favour of e-resources and all they make available to us at the RSI inducing click of a mouse button. It's more what we lose in the race away from a traditional library. Tall dark wood shelf lined rooms, the smell of books and polish, quiet spaces away from the rush of life where you

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Can't find a link to the story sadly (in the few minutes I have available to me for hunting around anyhoo) but there was an amusing little snippet in the Metro this morning. A librarian in India is refusing to come to work fully clothed until they make him a permanent member of staff. The chap, who has worked for the library for 12 years, is going to work dressed only in underpants and a

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http://www.norfolk.police.uk/article.cfm?catID=638&artID=4096 Now, in principle I think this is a pretty good idea - the more services that can be offered from public libraries the better - but I wonder if the Library will receive sufficient monies from the council / police to be able to do this, and their other duties adequately...

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Beginings of some thoughts on employer / employee relations over at Pandoras Blog

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So. Last week at work I had to do an almighty ball-ache of a task. I had to compare our database with two other commercially / freely available databases, in terms of their coverage of journals in a particular subject area, and selection of articles from those journals. It's not something that I do every day - so when it proved that my manager wanted more than the rough jist given by my initial

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I've been blogging for a while over at pandoras-blog, spilling my thoughts and poetry and other such nonsense out at the unsuspecting world. Over time though, my blogging desires have become broader - and it seems logical to maybe give each group of thoughts a home. Go on, sue me, I'm a librarian. I love to classify things. Consider this Pandora's blog 004.67. / TS / 02, whatever. And

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Finally, like mother earth, recognised bipolar. so what, I suppose. Am I on the right medication I wonder? If I do as he suggests and stay on it, will it really prevent another relapse? I dare not really hope for it. This shadow has been over me so long now, for better and worse. It is a part of me, viscious and destructive, exciting and seductive. I am scared to be without it, of fading

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Blog number three, what new do you have to offer me? They make you open a blog here to comment on other ones, I haven't decided what to do with it yet. In the meantime, you might like to read random thoughts at: http://pandoras-blog.blog-city.com or http://www.livejournal.com/~twisted_willow

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