Someone wrote (on a social networking site) that "I have broken leg dreams sometimes and wake up with cramp," as if the dream is the cause of the cramp.
What are you even talking about?! Isn't it much more bloody likely that you had cramp and it was incorporated into your dream?
Sat on the bus, thinking "Shit, am I on the right one?" as it takes a different route than usual.
But how could it be wrong when there is only one?
Then I realise it's a new driver. At least he got around to my stop, unlike the people in between mine and the final destination of the bus.
I am open, so open
If you seem not to be looking
But catch my eye
And I snap together
Steel trap jaws
Teeth closed.
I am free, so free
And running and dancing
But catch my hand
Even to run with me
And I freeze
Motionless, I cease to be.
I am light, so light
I laugh and float
But catch my smile
And I drop like stone
Gather moss
And wait for you to go.
Today I am feeling really high-energy intellectually and emotionally. Like I would devour the world.
I know it as a transient feeling, however, and wish I knew how to maintain or recreate it at will. On the other hand, I can sometimes manage other aspects/emotions, so perhaps it is in me to hold onto this.
Every morning, there's a man walking a dog in the dark with a shovel on his shoulder. We couldn't help but speculate on what he's doing.
It might be he's hoping to kill the dog 'accidentally' by letting someone run over it in the dark, and then he intends to dig it a shallow grave at the roadside. He could also finish it off with a blow to the head with the shovel if it wasn't properly dead. I can relate to this one - our dog gets on my nerves.
Maybe he's out looking for road-kill. The dog is there to sniff it out in the darkness and the the shovel is for scooping up the bodies.
Or perhaps his dog has a digestive problem and does elephantine poops, and the man requires a shovel to be a responsible dog-owner.
Maybe he's on zombie alert - he has to go out to forage and walk his dog, but he's prepared for those zombies...
The push-me-pull-you dance
I can't tell if it's you
I can't tell if it's me
Are we dancing?
Are you asking?
Are you interested?
Am I asking?
Who is pushing, who is pulling?
I don't know
Should I go?
Are we dancing?
Am I asking?
Am I interested?
Are you asking?
No-one's saying,
No-one takes the chance
So on and on goes the dance
I think we're dancing
I think I'm asking
But are you interested?
And are you asking?
Previous annual reading records: 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
So, last year I read 36 books, some of which on audio. Not my biggest ever total, by any means.
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January
How to be a woman / Caitlin Moran
Blue Monday / Nicci French
Magic Strikes / Ilona Andrews - audiobook
Army of One / BV Larson - audiobook
Bonkers / Jennifer Saunders - audiobook
The Olive Readers / Christine Aziz
Hyperbole & a Half / Allie Brosh (re-read)
February
The Beauty Myth / Naomi Wolf - audio-book
The Safe House / Nicci French
March
Never pick up Hitchhikers / Ellis Peters
On the Edge / Ilona Andrews - audiobook
A History of the World / Andrew Marr - audiobook (unfinished)
April
Oh Dear Sylvia / Dawn French
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber - audiobook
May
Ash / Mary Gentle
Eon / Greg Bear - audiobook (unfinished)
June
Mistakes Were Made (But not by Me) / Tavris & Aronson - audiobook (re-read)
July
Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure / Dave Gorman - audiobook
Dawn of the Dumb / Charlie Brooker
The Reformed Vampire Support Group / Catherine Jinks
August
Chasing the Dime / Michael Connolly
Britty Britty Bang Bang / Hugh Dennis -audiobook
Packing for Mars / Mary Roach - audiobook (unfinished)
September
Too Much Information / Dave Gorman - audiobook
The Atrocity Archives / Charles Stross - audiobook
October
The Jennifer Morgue / Charles Stross - audiobook
November
Never Let Me Go / Kazuo Ishiguro - audiobook
Locked In / John Scalzi - audiobook
December
W is for Wasted / Sue Grafton
