Or: Why it is getting harder for me to use public transport and stay sane.
Ah, Northern Snail. Your trains are slow, noisy and usually filthy. This morning, I was jammed into one of your three-carriage rush-hour trains, in a corner of the doorway (no seats to be had), making Uncomfortable Proximity Friends with the Yeti Beard Guy (ever seen that Friends episode? Yeah, he was like that).
I happened to be reading your brand new magazine, Northern. It makes your company look glossy and friendly, when in fact all I have experienced is grumpy staff, dirty trains and grumpy customers (due to the previous two).
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At the start of this week, I came down with a terminal case of forgetfulness. The worst casualty: my cellphone, which I left plugged into the wall in the dining room.
The word ‘nomophobia‘ was coined back in 2008 to describe the feeling of panic that comes from being without your phone. I now understand that feeling.
All those 12 year olds out there who haven’t got phones while all their friends have? I now have such sympathy for them. Never before have I been struck by such an urge to text somebody. I worried that the two or three important phone calls I was waiting for would happen while I was out. I even lost the ability to tell the time – I am one of those people who checks the time on their phone and doesn’t wear a watch.
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Don’t You Lecture Me!
The word “lecture” isn’t something generally associated with good vibes. If you’re lecturing someone, you’re boring them to sleep while ranting on and on.
Classes started this week at Armpit City University, and it didn’t take me long to realise that university is not set up for commuters. These kids carry practically nothing with them! How on earth do they manage? Oh, right, they’ve all got iPhones to check their email and can drop in to the dorms to pick up and unload stuff. I’ve got to carry everything with me. Learning to downsize my bag is one of the biggest lessons I’ve had to learn this week. No, Aeryn, you really don’t need to bring your netbook every day. You’ve got public access computers all over the place. Suck it up and use them, preferably without doing an Adrian Monk and wiping down the mouse.
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You may know Induction Week by its more colloquial name: “Fresher’s Week”, but everyone who’s ever survived this particular university tradition knows it is really Form-Filling Week. Yes, folks, the students are back. The streets are paved with vomit. And I have to work with these people?! Oh, yes. I am a Mature Student now.
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I can’t be the only person on the interwebs who can’t see the point behind The Uniform Project. It’s raising money for charity, which is always a good thing, but the premise just seems a bit… off.
This site fell into my browser window while I was looking for one-bag travel tips – I wanted to see how to get the most wear out of as few items as possible.
“OK,” I thought. “There’s an idea here. But…”
She’s pledged to wear one dress for a year for sustainability reasons. Except she’s not wearing one dress. She’s wearing seven copies of the same dress. Why not just buy seven different dresses at the same price point?
The proper way to do it would have been to buy just one of the dress. Let us know how it holds up to all that washing. What to wear on laundry day?
Have I missed the point?
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Well, it’s certainly been a long time since I dusted down WordPress and actually blogged something. Several WP revisions, actually – I’m loving the new admin area!
This highly gorgeous theme is FREEmium, courtesy of FreebiesDock.com. It won’t stay looking like this forever… I have plans to customise it, as soon as I can find my designer hat. For now, the default look is more than pretty enough to hang around for a while.
In Other News
Everyone in the UK is now aware that there is a heatwave going on. Ubiquity tells me that it is 25 degrees C where I am right now, but no thanks to the humidity, it feels much hotter.
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