So, someone hacked into our church website and now it’s a temporary blog. They infected it with lots of lovely viruses that have since infected the computers of everyone who’s visited that site in the last while. Kevin recommended that I go to malwarebytes and download their free software, and run it on my laptop, [...]
Archive for the ‘Frustrations’ Category
Looking Forward
Posted in Distractions, Drivel, Frustrations on October 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
chick lass babe broad dame doll lady WOMAN
Posted in Distractions, Drivel, Frustrations on June 23, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Teragram is doing some thinking over here based on a conversation we had a while back in my livingroom about how the women in my life are often so reluctant to refer to themselves as women, preferring “girl” or similar.
Feminist Naomi Wolf in her book Promiscuities suggests that it’s our lack of ritual that is [...]
disappointment
Posted in Frustrations, tagged CS Lewis, enemy, mingers, misogynist on February 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
CS Lewis has become my newest enemy. Shame really, I’ve always had him in my top-five-most-personally-inlfuential-authors-of-all-time list. How could this about-turn – come – about? you scream hysterically. Well calm down my friends, and open up the wonder of short stories published post-mortem entitled The Dark Tower.
Some of them, it’s got to be said, are [...]
there’s mud on the grapes (of wrath)
Posted in Drivel, Food, Frustrations, tagged camera, dull, pork on October 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As lots of you know, I’m doing the “Core Plan” with Weight Watchers – which means you can eat as much as you want of “core” foods, like lean meats, dairy, fruit, veg and grains – in an attempt to overhaul my terrible eating habits. The only major sacrifice with Core is it doesn’t allow [...]
harm’s way
Posted in Drivel, Frustrations, God, tagged assault, compass, God, homelessness, rusty on October 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
As Kevin and I were walking down Wicklow Street tonight, I saw a young man crouched in a doorway, holding a big handkerchief up to his eyebrow. We walked on past, but something seemed really wrong to me, and I expressed this to Kevin. We decided to go back to him. When we returned, he [...]
