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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
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4:37 pm
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10:20 am
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Apparently someone from my department definitely has swine flu, although I'm not sure how he knows.
I was told that it couldn't be flu if I was well enough to sit up and think, but in any case, I am alive.
current mood:  curious
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| Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
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12:41 pm
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The good:
It was unexpectedly sunny on Friday, and I went for a walk on Blackford Hill at lunchtime. I've never done that before, and I don't know why not.
My officemate is teaching me to play chess, to fill in the quiet times. I sort of didn't exactly win the first game, by accident.
The bad:
I have a cold. At least, I think it's just a cold, because I now feel human again, despite coughs and sneezes, and can sit up and read and type and wander round the house if I feel like it, unlike yesterday when I spent most of the morning and afternoon doing nothing but lying on the couch shivering.
The ridiculous:
I won't be at NS on Thursday this week because of the Norwegian carol concert, which means that next week I won't be there because of Runrig at the Usher Hall, which means it will be December, which is just daft.
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| Thursday, November 19th, 2009
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5:21 pm
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| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
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5:15 pm
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I seem to have no plans for this weekend, which is quite odd.
But I have emailed the Glasgow Fiddle Workshop to see if they are running beginners' classes in the spring, which they are (do I really want it enough to go to Glasgow every week? I did the journey quite regularly in the other direction, and I like reading on trains), and Amazon are finally going to send me the Odyssey.
And I have not heard anything from National Express about the ticket they cheated me out of, so I'm not sure who to write to next, and I am teaching part of ceilidh class this week, which is silly.
current mood: confused
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| Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
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2:15 pm - More on music
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I've been thinking a bit more about a comment I made on the last post, about what I might want out of music.
( On music and dancing )
current mood:  thoughtful
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| Monday, November 16th, 2009
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1:54 pm
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It has been a very musical weekend - Scots Fiddle Festival on Friday night and Saturday and Sunday afternoon, with the Dunedin Assembly in the middle.
And now I want to learn the fiddle (again, or still). But I think this every year, and every year the Scots Music Group put their Absolute Beginners' classes on Thursday nights, and also it's a very unforgiving instrument, so it would probably just depress me. I am not exactly musical.
I want to learn to play the piano, too, bizarrely, but I don't know where I'd find one.
current mood: confused
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| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
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4:54 pm
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I am having a petty, annoyed sort of week, which is only making me more annoyed with myself, and it's mostly manifesting itself as a preoccupation with time, or with peace.
( all the little annoyances )
current mood:  unreasonable
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| Sunday, November 8th, 2009
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5:33 pm - Northumberland wanderings
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I went wandering in Northumberland yesterday, partly in place of the trip to the Eildon hills I haven't done this autumn, and partly as the first Collingwood pilgrimage (Morpeth and Newcastle follows in December). Bramble time is the right time for the Borders, and I still found quite a few, although I thought it might be too late.
( Wanderings )
Is anyone interested in the York and Hartlepool adventure? I did mean to write it up, but I haven't managed it yet.
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| Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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1:29 pm - in which I am being indecisive
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I have to decide in the next few hours whether I am going to go to the Glasgow Green fireworks - which was my original plan - or whether I'm going to go to NS so that I can dance the Wee Bus (which I danced last week, but that is not the point) and Remco's new dance, and maybe find victims to test Speedy Thomas.
(Or, I suppose, go to Meadowbank, but that involves paying money to sit in a seat, and Disney themed fireworks, which doesn't seem right somehow)
Then I have to decide by tomorrow if I am going to go down to the borders on Saturday
(For: It's supposed to be sunny and cold and clear, which is perfect wandering weather, and the last leaves are still on the trees, and I want to go.
Against: I've had a lot of busy weekends lately, and early starts at weekends, and I've just been in England, and I haven't been to see my gramma for weeks. But doing things makes me feel more alive, and I could sleep in on Sunday and go to see her next week...)
... and then probably decide against Yuletide, because although writing a completely random story could be quite fun, it could also be really not fun at all.
I also need to find out if there are still Dunedin Assembly tickets, and actually post the letter I wrote to the people who are not GNER.
current mood: confused
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| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
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1:44 pm
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I have been writing to National Express to complain about being sold a train ticket I didn't need and sent off on a train that didn't go where I was trying to go at the weekend, so I suppose that is something productive today.
Apart from that England was pretty good, although it was definitely a weekend of missing trains. Not the one home, fortunately.
Also, I woke up this morning absolutely convinced it was Wednesday, and it isn't. And I still have a stye.
current mood: thoughtful
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| Monday, October 26th, 2009
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8:07 pm - a wild call and a clear call
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I wouldn't have to cross the sea to see the Tall Ships next year, which surely must give me a better chance of getting there...
http://www.tallshipshartlepool2010.co.uk/
Although Kristiansand is quite tempting, to be fair.
And Lerwick and Greenock in 2012. It's far too long since I saw them in Leith.
current mood: thoughtful
current music: Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite 2
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| Sunday, October 18th, 2009
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1:46 pm
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| Monday, October 12th, 2009
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8:23 pm
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I really need to start doing things at the weekends. Resting is good, and so is reading, but getting to Sunday night without a clue where the weekend has gone isn't.
Anyway, next weekend I will:
Go to Loch Long on the Waverley, unless I go to Hethpool.
Go and take the Dundas and Melville photos I've been meaning to for weeks, as long as it doesn't pour.
Start reading The Letter of Marque, because having waited this long I might as well keep it for an adventure.
Start thinking about what I'm going to teach/call the weekend after.
We'll see...
current mood: thoughtful
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| Sunday, October 11th, 2009
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2:03 pm - in which the year is filling up
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| Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
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12:43 pm - in which I appear to be having an AoS week
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| Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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2:06 pm
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I appear to be planning an adventure to see the Collingwood Oaks. Or because it's the right time of year for wandering about the borders, even if it's just the wrong side of the border.
And maybe one to Yorkshire, more or less, although with Freshers' Weekend coming up that might be too much adventuring.
current mood: thoughtful
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| Friday, October 2nd, 2009
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11:31 am
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I have reached the halfway point of the Iliad - at least by number of books. I've also started reading the Canterbury Tales. I will be educated someday, maybe.
Also, Darwin's Beagle Diaries as a blog.
current mood: thoughtful
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| Thursday, October 1st, 2009
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2:19 pm - in less philosophical news
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Runrig are including Edinburgh in their Scottish tour for the first time in... well, not counting the one-off at the castle last year, the last time I can think of was the Mara tour in 1995 or 1996.
I'm strongly tempted to do the GCH-Usher Hall-Barrowlands run, and if it was Thursday-Friday-Saturday I probably would. (Except then it would clash with SUSCDF, I think.) But three nights in a row in the last week of term? And I still kind of want to go to Newcastle two weeks later, so it would be getting a bit silly.
I'm not sure how many Edinburgh folk are reading, but if you want to come, say fairly soon :)
current mood: thoughtful
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| Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
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1:22 pm
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I am almost regretting not teaching this year - not exactly for the teaching itself (a lot of it is fun, but Neil will do it better than I can anyway), but because I enjoy making things happen, and I don't seem to have any at the moment, and I miss having aims.
The end result of this will probably be that I go back on committee next month, and I am really quite happy to be off it. (I am *not* going on Dunedin committee).
There are a lot of things I want to do. Finish reading the Iliad (I'm trying the book a day trick - mostly on the bus in the morning - which seems to be working in that it generally leaves me wanting more). Read the Odyssey. Learn Latin. Work on my Norwegian. But they are mostly alone things and linguistic things and open-ended things, and I am craving organisational things instead, or at least structured ones.
On the other hand, I just reread my last autumn's entries, and I don't think I had any idea at the time just how stressed I was. I seem to have fled to the other extreme. Maybe this is the restlessness of recovery.
current mood: thoughtful
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