| On the future of LJ... |
[Jan. 6th, 2009|07:12 pm] |
... I'm not worried.
[I've posted this on DJ so that it'll still be here when LJ folds, and you'll all be able to point at it and laugh at me] |
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| Trust |
[Nov. 20th, 2008|01:51 pm] |
Poll:
Can I be trusted?
( ) I thought so
( ) Apparently not |
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| 18th September 2001, following shortly after 5th September 2001. |
[Sep. 18th, 2008|04:53 pm] |
Three-and-a-half poems I wrote in the couple of years after I lost Anne.
( Read more... ) |
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| Ann Green |
[Aug. 6th, 2008|06:34 pm] |
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So Ann Green, wife of  stevegreen on Live Journal, died on July 29th after two weeks in hospital [Ansible]. And, unsurprisingly, Steve doesn't know what to do with himself.
I'm going to the funeral on Friday 15th, and I dropped Steve a note to that effect. He writes:I am relentlessly amazed at the efforts folks are making to show their respection and affection for Ann. (Not completely, though: I always thought she was incredible.)
It's good that Steve had someone whom he thought was incredible. It's good that Ann had someone who thought she was incredible. I wish all of my friends had relationships like this. It's the best kind of relationship to have, and it's a tragedy when it comes to an end.
Much to my lack of surprise, I'm having a hard time over the news, for reasons which might make sense to some of you. If your whole life is wrapped up in being wholeheartedly part of a relationship like that, it's a huge hurdle to recognise that there's still life to be had after such a relationship comes to a close. |
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| The End of the Beginning |
[May. 23rd, 2008|11:59 pm] |
I'm just very glad that today is over.
My boss suicided on December 7th last year. And today we finally have the closing accounts from December 31st, and we finally are in a position to start the process of acquiring the company from his estate.
So today I had a meeting with his widow, who has to administer his estate, despite the fact that every time she gets a new bit of company paperwork it brings it all back, and despite the fact that every time she goes to the house to collect the mail, she's reminded of when she went there that evening and found him there.
She asked me if it gets any better.
I told her that it does... but that it takes flaming ages, and that each step forwards is accompanied by half a step back. I didn't have much to offer by way of encouragement.
In other not-strictly-unrelated news, today is Anne's birthday. Pffft... |
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| Dates |
[May. 9th, 2008|05:42 pm] |
Sooo ... it's May again.
And it doesn't matter what I do to avoid the subject, I know that the wedding anniversary is going to bite me in a week's time -- a little moreso since this year it'll be on a Saturday again.
And a week later it'll be Anne's birthday again, which I find difficult each year, now, because another rather sweet young lady of my acquaintance has a birthday on the same date.
I have friends who have been bereaved too, and I'll bet the calendar jumps up and bites them from time to time as well.
My thoughts and prayers are with them. With one of them in particular, and tomorrow in particular. I hope it's not too hard. Take heart, the day after will be different.
Not necessarily better -- sometimes it's just different. |
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| Dentistry again |
[Apr. 1st, 2008|09:46 pm] |
So ... I've had all the dentistry I'm having until mid-June.
Cost so far... £1,554.00
Ouch. |
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| Just because... |
[Mar. 11th, 2008|11:36 pm] |
... I've had this account for three and a half years without posting, I suppose I ought to post something here. But what...?
Ah. Dentistry. Yes.
No dentist at all, approx. 2002 to 2007 inclusive.
Dentist, 11th Jan 2008, about 10 minutes.
Dentist, 23rd Jan, an hour.
Dentist, 6th Feb, half an hour.
a few weeks off while Dentist is on holiday.
Dentist, 5th March, an hour.
Dentist, 10th March, an hour.
Dentist, 12th March, an hour.
Dentist, 19th March, an hour.
Dentist, 26th March, about 20 minutes.
Followed by...
Dentist, sometime TBA in late May, an hour.
Total about £1,500 - £2,000. Give or take. |
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