There is nothing quite so satisfying as the tearing up of paper. One thing more satisfying than tearing up paper is the physical act of using a paper knife. The pleasure of using a letter opener was all bundled up in the excitement of receiving a letter in the post. I loved opening those envelopes... Continue Reading →
Nothing
I know what you are thinking. At least, I imagine that you do. I imagine you are thinking I have been lying on my new couch all night watching TV instead of blogging. This is not true. I was getting carried away with work. Two evenings of partial relaxation on the aforementioned piece of furniture... Continue Reading →
Butterflies have them
People think I can spell, but I cannot spell as well as all that. Innocuous as it may seem, I am currently beating myself up for not knowing that "inoculate" is spelt with one N. Thank goodness for red squiggly lines on the screen. The upside is that I discovered that "oculate" is not the... Continue Reading →
Close quarters
At 22:30 this evening I decided that since it was Friday, the end of the working week had come. This entitled me to do what I had been itching to do all week: move the furniture around in my office in the hope that a change of view will lead to greater concentration and efficiency. The... Continue Reading →
Scrabs
Scrabs is not in the dictionary. That is what the Scrabble® (excluding U.S. and Canada) application on Facebook will tell you. I say Scrabs simply to avoid inserting the registered trademark symbol every time I type it. It's a cheap shot, I know. I like playing online. It beats playing on one's own! I play... Continue Reading →
Thank you, World!
Since it is an international day in my world (International Translation Day), I would like to thank everyone who has visited my blog in the four months since I migrated to WordPress. I love looking at the map on my Stats page, if only to know just how much of our planet has Internet connectivity. I... Continue Reading →
Paraphernalia and pumpkin seeds
There is one thing I vowed and declared I would never intentionally do: say something vacuous to a child. This is made easier by the fact that I never had any children of my own. My vow kicked into full gear when my sister produced the first of three - need I say it, wonderful -... Continue Reading →
Equations of Everyday Life #2: Inane Celebrity Memes
Incredibly clever, and very funny I thought. You probably will too!
Imagine that you’re monolingual
My dislike of making phone calls collided with the necessity of phoning customer support to reconfigure my modem after our recent bout of liquid sun. Viewed objectively, I could help myself in two ways: I could order a new landline instrument so that I do not have to use my cheap cellphone on which I... Continue Reading →
That elusive pair of jeans 