Grace Notes @ Snarkattack

I was signed in on Reddit to vote for some Blogcritics articles and decided to have a browse around at what other people submitted recently. I came across a wickedly funny headline - ‘The “vampire fish” of Brazil (disturbing)’ and it turned out to be some Wikipedia article on the candiru. It’s not exactly vampiric but you’ll get why it has been described as such if you read on, unless you already know.

Meh, that wasn’t what scared me. Communism sounds scary, but at least you know what to expect. Being told you have a choice and not really having one - hmm, that’s a bit more…frightening. Let’s just hope that this and this and this aren’t properly substantiated.

The world’s a disheartening place. Humans, you suck - again.

Everyone feels down sometimes. It’s natural, I hear. It’s very difficult for me to judge, seeing as whenever I’ve felt sad it’s felt like I’ve lost everything I ever had in the world.

So it was genuinely a pleasant surprise when today I got upset and it felt normal. I think the last time that happened was three years ago.
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Groan, if anyone is going to (metaphysically speaking) stone you, it’ll be friends.
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Ha, for all you silly Australian people that picked on me for my tea-drinking and my lame-arse Brit ways, you all suck! Because of this:
So this is why when things go wrong, the British drink tea!
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Oh. my. god.

I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but I can’t wait for the next Rapture album.
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Damn it, what is it about submitting my poetry that makes me so pukey?! I mean, makes me want to puke. Last night, I was preparing 2 submissions to literary journals and it didn’t involve anything too stressful, just printing out copies of things, but I got so nauseous and sick in the stomach for about 3 hours.
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Take 2 because bloody Adobe and its PDF crap froze my browser.

Springtime began early for me. On Saturday, this weekend just past, to be precise.
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I miss being able to read books over the weekend, or for fun. That pesky booklist.

So I subscribed for this little ‘Word of the Day’ thing, and get a new word sent to me each day. Here’s the list (because you all know how much I love lists) from Aug 8th to Aug 18th 2006.
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Naturally, because the writing stuff is picking up, a whole bunch of technological stuff has to go and be all difficult on my lumpy arse.
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The local newspaper is funny. Well, it’s not but today’s front cover was just…put it this way - if you don’t laugh you’ll end up crying.
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Are the gods shining the nice light on me at the moment?! Well, they better not come too close lest my unruly Indian eyebrows scare them off!
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It’s not often I can say I had a happy week, but it’s true! I did indeed, and wanted to share that with all of you who are kind enough to actually read my ramblings.
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I’ve not been able to write the stuff I’ve been planning, and I think in the next few weeks, that’s only going to get worse. There is now a small box for review material recently received on my book table.
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It was just a typical Saturday evening in mid-winter, and the night is at a close. I’m driving NMD to a train station about 20 minutes’ drive from my middle-of-nowhere suburban home.
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