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stephashley_fd does the old old trick of taking an opponent back to dictionary definitions. Brilliantly funny post.enemy_reason_fd has issued a purple alert: Littlejohn approaching! Take cover!mark_val_fd has the best headline of the day.And dear old
chickenyoghurt has the best TV pitch of the day.- Mood:
calm
- 19:07 sometimes I prefer my comments to other people's blogs than my actual posts snipurl.com/3nojc #
peterblack_fd says, this was bound to happen sooner or later:(Note: it seems only fair to point out that Michael Palin (or at least his wife - scroll down to "Palin by Comparison") is at pains to point out a total lack of connection - genetic or political - with the governor of Alaska)
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amused
Since Liberal Conspiracy started there have been people complaining that you CAN'T be Liberal AND left, and that the conflation of the two terms is a bad thing for linguistic accuracy. I agree with the latter part of that, but not the former: I think that saying the former shows a misunderstanding of both terms. Left is an economic marker; liberal a social one. If you are in the bottom left quadrant of the Political Compass, you are both. This is why I don't have a problem with Sunny using both terms in the description of the site (although, for the record, I don't think Sunny is a Liberal anywhere near as much as he is a leftie).Anyway, Liberalism can be both right or left or neither. That does not make it any less Liberal. Liberalism is about a small state and freedom and a lack of intervention in the lives of individuals, yes, but that is by no means incompatible with the idea that the state helps to level the playing field FOR the individual against enormous powerful corporations, however unfashionable that opinion might be these days (mostly because the two main political parties are paid for by enormous powerful corporations...). Both the left and right can be authoritarian (indeed, in Britain, both the main theoretically left wing and right wing parties ARE authoritarian, no matter what their posturing), too.
John Stuart Mill was a leftie, and so was Adam Smith. I'm not ashamed to call myself a leftie economically, because (in my view) one cannot HAVE individual freedom without some constraints on the corporatist juggernaut, unless it is the freedom to starve. The thing is, in terms of what is important to my personal philosophy, leftieness is a tiny proportion of the whole. It's kind of leftie feminist liberal. I share Charlotte's disquiet with seeing the word Liberal in red, but I disagree that the solution to that is to abandon the term.
Being a Liberal is very important to me, and (rather like feminism) I would rather challenge people who use the term wrongly than let it be lost to authoritarians as it has been in the US.
- Mood:
contemplative - Music:Just a Minute on the radio
1, I'm not going to take any lectures from people who attack others for going back to their own blog in the middle of an argument and then do exactly that. Seriously, Tim, I hate to resort to Christianity, but before criticising the speck in my eye... P.S., if you make a response, do be sure to link to me somewhere in it: rather like your nemesis whom you increasingly resemble in style and content, I don't actually read your blog unless the trackbacks tell me to, because I find it supremely boring. And don't expect me to comment on your post, because why would I bother to go through a registration process for a blog I am not interested in?2, Speaking of Iain, I see he will be chairing an event at conference. I opined to Mat that it wouldn't be worth going and he said
why not? It might be fun!when I replied that I'd probably end up getting very agitated and wanting to punch Dale in his smug face he said
that's what I meant. Some pacifist my fiance turns out to be...
3, I loved this, even if it is an Orange advert:
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addamses)Suppose I ought to turn comment notifications back on then...
- Mood:
awake
A tiny bit confusing in places, but otherwise a fun, solid game. Perhaps my biggest criticism of the game is a general feeling of "disconnected-ness" between the stages. Ignoring that, it's a still an entertaining game, simple enough in terms of gameplay at the beginning to get you going and, with a lot of customisation options, hopefully there'll be enough to keep me going.
Sunday
It's Sunday. Weather here looks bright but windy. Have yet to see any hedgehogs, which is a bit disappointing.
Sleepiness
I don't think I'll ever get used to sleeping in the upstairs bed. It's basically a pile of mattresses, so I use the term "bed" pretty loosely here. You kind of sink in to it, and it's very hard to get out of, or get comfortable in.
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softfruit. It's not like anyone could put up a resistance to my angling powers though. Wouldn't you have given me permission to gack your icon if I'd said "I adore that icon. The preamble to the constitution makes more sense than any prayer in any religion as a statement of belief and intent. It's poetry, it's beautiful, and I am starting to sound like a whack-job...." to you? I thought so. I mean it, mind. The preamble to the constitution is soaring prose of the very best kind, and I should remember to direct people to it when they ask me why I'm a member of the party*.
( In full, it goes: )
*as well as making them read this post on Dib Lemming, which explains in less abstract terms what it is I get from my membership of the party and why it is I do what I do.
- Mood:
cheerful - Music:3 Colours Red - Lullaby
Anything super duper important (like marriages, engagements, sproglets etc) should be posted in the comments on this thread, as I really don't have the time or patience to go through over a month of LJ >_<
Hugs to all
xx
Yes indeedy. I can has work. Full backstory, since it's all happened rather quickly and somewhat unexpectedly:
On August 28th I started randomly emailing international schools in France for potential job opportunities, what with getting oh-so-frustrated with the search in England and all. On the same day I received a reply from a school asking me to come to Paris for an interview. I figured I may as well go: even if it didn't result in a job, I'd get to see the boy and could do a CV-drop over there too. A couple of days later the founder of the school rang me just to go over everything, and she said that if they liked me on my interview day (4th Sept) then they wouldn't be looking for anyone else and I would be expected to start work the following day. Upon which I thought that if I was potentially going to be not coming back, I should pack accordingly, so packing was an even more arduous process than normally (it's harder than you might think to decide what to take and what to leave behind, even if you're going to have the rest with you later). So on the 4th I went to Paris, had the interview, was offered the job on the spot, and I had my first day yesterday. Despite my clear lack of teaching qualifications, the job is a mixture of being a teaching assistant and being an actual teacher of English as a foreign language (it's a bilingual school, but as well as teaching the kids English just by speaking it with them, there is some more formal teaching too). Enjoyed my first day - was teaching children aged 6-8 in the morning and then supervising the 2-year-olds in the preschool section during the afternoon (homemade playdoh ftw!).
This also not only means jobness, but also signals the end of the long-distance part of my relationship, as I am of course now living with the boy. This is a GOOD thing :)
The only two things annoying me about leaving the country so quickly are a) the lack of chance for a proper goodbye to friends and family and b) the fact that I will probably have to take my driving test in France now. Dang.
Still, I will be back for the weekend of graduation on the 26th September, so may be able to arrange lunch with friends on the 27th or something. Shall see :)
Today we went to a maritime museum and to the supermarket, and are now making fish pie and Toblerone cookies for later. Délicieux! Tomorrow I suspect will be spent scouring the web for EFL resources for KS1...
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This is my personal general interest journal where I write about or link to whatever I've fond that amused, intrigued or enraged me at the time. I'm a committed liberal, equalist and atheist, but I really like it when people can demonstrate I'm wrong, and have close friends with whom I completely disagree on some if not all of those points.
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