Unintelligent Design

One working day  'til Whitby.

Heh.

Dizzee Rascal

(link goes to his MySpace page, with streaming music from latest album 'Maths+English'. Lyrics definitely NSFW)

Winner of the Mercury Prize. One of the leading lights of the UK's Grime scene.

Opinions?

For my part, it's really not something I thought would appeal to me - but having listened to a bit,  I do like the electronic element of the music (especially on Where's Da G's, although it doesn't kick in until some way into the song...)

I'm still not well. I'm not terribly unwell - just a stinking cold and a head full of cotton wool - but it's enough to make me grumpy and socially maladroit.

I'm not thinking clearly. I'm not listening properly. In conversation, my sentences are clumsy things that stop and start in a random manner. They don't tend to make much sense. They don't tend to have much energy behind them, either. I've lost focus.

Not things I cope well with. I rely on halfway decent communication skills for my job, too. Stupidly, I also turn into more of a stubborn (but muddle-headed) workaholic when I'm in this state - it's harder to get out of the office on time, because I don't organise my day nearly as well, so always end up forgetting something vital... until I'm just about to leave....

Which doesn't help matters.

Whitby next week. I don't actually want to be ill for Whitby, thanks. I want to be energetic, sociable, good company for the people I'm with - and generally filled with the spirit of Fun. This is not looking altogether likely.

Hmph. Enough rambling. Back to the grump.

"Dora's special wasabi americano"

So much Wrong in one throwaway line.

Is there some sort of issue with renaming an LJ account and findng that you've been automatically unfriended by people?

Have just noticed that a number of people have renamed their LJs and are no longer on my friends list, but with no intervention from me...

Edit: Oh, so it's meant to do that? Why?!

Stay away from the Internet when ill. It's cheaper that way.

Watson Hates Holmes

Text NSFW.

Something that should appeal to anyone who's read Watchmen...

Charles Shulz's The Watchmen

...I've just spotted a reference to ENO staging John Adams' Doctor Atomic late in 2008. No details on their site yet, but...

...to drivenapart. As they say, another year older, another year wiser...

...oh, but hang on, you just acquired a cat. :)

Just another year older, then. :) Have a good one!