Blogs: Pandammonia
The world that revolves around Caity Ross.
Archive for the ‘Life, the universe and everything’ category
The point of the iPad
It’s a procrastination tool.
Leather
As I said before, I got Colin six glass bottles of beer for our anniversary last Monday, but that that was only because his real present hadn’t arrived. It came on Thursday, but I was unable to take delivery of it because I was at work (marking exams). I picked it up from the Royal [...]
Word of the moment: dusk, v
I thought I was making up dusk as a verb in my wedding anniversary post, but I thought I’d better check with the OED because it seemed unfair that dawn should have a verb, but there be no analogous verb for dusk. Turns out all is indeed fair in the world, because there is such [...]
The day has dawned and dusked
There was a mysterious envelope put through the door on Saturday, not by the postman because there was no stamp on it. On the back, it said it was for Monday 29th. If my brain hadn’t’ve been quite so hungover, I might have worked out who it was from and how Colin knew about it, [...]
Hoping for a nice surprise
After last year’s interesting present from my laterally-thoughtful husband taken from the traditional anniversary list, I wonder what he will get me this year. The traditional present for this anniversary is leather and the modern one is crystal or glass, according to Wikipedia. Or perhaps he will whisk me away somewhere exciting, exotic and romantic. [...]
Pomodoroing in earnest
A while ago, the Pomodoro Technique was pointed out to me. In the Pomodoro Technique, work periods are counted down from 25 minutes by a kitchen timer; when the bell rings – and not before, it’s time for a break. The huge long list of things to do is gone, or rather, is replaced by [...]
A journey in arachnophobia
Spiders at every leg of the journey.
