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Why do people ask something if they have no interest in listening to the answer?

It's something I really struggle with! Don't ask me if you really don't care! It saves us both a lot of time and energy and also me the illusion that you actually give a crap to begin with...

Grrrr, sorry, I needed to get that off of my chest. I'm done now.

Lessal x

So, there's this Girl at my work, (actually there are a few Girls at my work, but I'm talking about a particular Girl in this instance) anyway, so Girl, my work; we call her Miss Sassypants...

I don't actually know her real name (is that bad?!) but she provides, on a daily basis, vast amounts of amusement for myself and the Guys in my Department.

Miss Sassypants wears clothes to work that arrrrrrrrre...well, they're lovely actually just a little bit unsuitable for work. Any dress that is tight fitting, low cut, short, or best of all a combination of all three is in her work-wardrobe, now this over/under dress in the workplace is in and of itself amusing but the thing that has us biting our lips as she walks past us on the way to the kitchen and back is her walk...see, WITH the ill advised wardrobe choice comes the (apparently) obligatory ridiculously high kitten heels and a walk that can only be described as...well...pornographic really.

As she walks, Miss Sassypants throws her hips about three feet either side of her body, I DREAD to think about her Chiropractic bill, seriously, she absolutely must be doing lower lumbar damage. The Guys and I have discussed The Walk and the conclusion that we have drawn is that it's got to be the shoes, we think overly high kitten heels must force a person to walk in this manner, it's possible that Miss Sassypants has no choice but to walk like an erotic entertainer minus the oversized snake draped over her personage. Whatever the reason, The Walk is wildly amusing and a frequent cause of eyes meeting and stifled giggles and for that I wish to thank her albeit not to her face.

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Couple of pictures - my Friend's 20th (it was Cowboy themed, don't ask) and a random night out shot ;-)

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I haven't been around in a loooooooong while, I fully acknowledge the rubbishness of this statement and how lame an explanation it is. However, unfortunatley, that's about as much as I can do.

I'm not good under angst or pressure, well actually, I am. To the outside World, I present a 'together', calm, coping face, and internally, I'm doing the Duck thing. You know, scerene and chilled on the top but paddling like a crazy mother underneath. So I've been doing the Duck thing for a while now.

When I first started LJ it was a laugh, just a site I found where I could babble happily about the complications in my life; not being able to navigate the gap between my coffee cup and my mouth in the mornings, where I was going to find next years Christmas cards, that sort of thing. But over time I found, I LIKE writing, I find it cathartic, I find YOU cathartic. The support and encouragement offered by LJers has been something that sometimes, I feel like I couldn't have done without.

When I Post here, I find the Duck thing becomes a little less frantic...

Hope you're still all with me?

Lessal x

This is actually a semi serious Post, contrary to any impressions the title may give (virtual cookies for the clever clogs who gets the reference by the way).

I have always thought myself to be an open minded sort of person, however, I'm also deeply cynical; my personality, being a direct result of the constant internal battle between those two opposing aspects, often, I'm sure, comes across as duplicitous, possibly schizophrenic at times!

Anyway, my question is...do you believe in psychic powers? Not the stuff you see on TV, the "I can kill you with my brain" (better virtual cookies if you get BOTH references) I'm talking about a "sixth sense" - instinct, gut feeling, hunch's, intuition, premonition etc. Whatever you want to call it, do you believe that certain people have the ability to (without conscious thought) 'know' things.

I'm not sure whether it's an extension of everyone's abilities to 'read' body language, tone, pitch etc or whether it goes deeper than that, and that actually some people DO have what we would consider to be 'extra-sensory perception'...?

I'm curious about your opinions in general on the subject?

Lessal x

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle

Can patter out their hasty orisons.

No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;

Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,

The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;

And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them all?

Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes

Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;

Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,

And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.


By Wilfred Owen

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ginsu  made this (part) comment in response to my last Post:-

luxuria_oceanus reckons that according to someone, the average Adult will have only read 6 of the following books, which is lame if you ask me. 

Bold = the one's I've read...

Take this all of you and read of it! ;-)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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