Always Travelling

Musings

We have 2 microwaves at my house. I learnt last week that one of them is older than me - it was bought a few months before I was born. I use it often and it still works fine. That's pretty good value for money!
My brother moved out today, and I helped take some furniture over to his house, which he has renovated from a shitty old bomb to something quite different. He is moving out not for independence, but so he doesn't have to pay capital gains tax if he wants to sell it at some point in the future!
I have been meaning to write about "The Surrendered Wife", a supposed guide for marital intimacy that has sparked some controversy. I actually came across it when I picked up a copy of Woman's Day, one of those stupid trashy women's magazines that people buy for some unknown irrational reason. I laughed so hard I cried when I first read about it, but in thinking more about it I tried to recognise what was good about the 'technique/method' rather than just laugh it off as some silly American thing. I think I'm giving up though, the links to the articles have been open on my browser for quite a while. Here are the links, you can make up your own mind. Wikipedia article. For counterpoint, Loving Female Authority.
In the last week I:

read half of a fat epic medieval political/war book, all fictional and total escapism. (tick!)
tried to catch up on 2 weeks worth of news feeds but have succeeded only in scanning and sorting the interesting from the rest. (half tick)
worked a very boring casual job and earnt some money (tick that one off the list!)
socialised, but not too much (tick!)
attended a documentary screening of 'Control Room' and a subsequent panel on media power and manipulation. (something intellectual, tick!)
bought textbooks and started looking at them (big tick!)
did not catch up on sleep, exercise like I meant to, or organise bus driving lessons (to do tomorrow).

posted by Nic # 11:47 PM

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