Cor. I've been staring at fancy drawing tablets.

So sexy!

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There's a certain type of man who tells you you're rude when you decide not to talk.

How dare a woman do such a thing.

How dare she not give him the last word.

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He will have the last word, without her consent.

He will ignore the obvious wish for no contact, and find another way to get in touch, in order to get that last word.


Okay mate. You got the last word. I won't argue, I bow my head to your wisdom.

Now again: fuck off.

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If anyone here has a problem with women speaking up about rape and sexual assault because boohoo it hurts men, please go away now.

I have just banned someone on LJ for ranting to me about that.

I'm a rape survivor and I've lived in shame for so long. I like the #metoo movement and anyone who thinks that somehow it's good that I coudln't take action all those years ago (because it would hurt the perpetrators) can fuck right off.

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Okay so now I'm seasoning my new Bialetti (stovetop espresso maker) and messing about with fish. I do need to get out into the yard at some point, but it won't be today because there's a chilly wind of the sort that goes right through you.

And I have decided to grow blueberries.

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My reading has slowed down a tiny bit, as the Giro d'Italia is on and I feel compelled to sit in front of the screen in order to mostly ignore it.

I am watching through Eurosport - no other option - and most of the commentators need a good slapping. And not in a good way.

But back to business.

24. Jo Clayton, Skeen's Leap (Takes you a very old website!) via that StoryBundle, I think. Bloody good fun. Our protagonist is on an adventure through a world with a nice, rich variety of people and creatures. She collects allies, friends and followers while on her quest. It's lively and I'll read the rest of the series at some point. It's not so much for the story as the scenery and adventure along the way.


25. Lindsey Davis, Pandora's Boy, 2018. Yep, good stuff again.

26. Georgette Heyer, Behold, Here's Poison (takes you to an excerpt on what also appears to be a pleasingly pre-Facebook site). First published in 1963, I have a 1975 edition, which I may have inherited. (Why yes, I think I will describe websites on the internet this way from now on).

This is the first time I've read anything by Georgette Heyer, and it had me in stitches. She's very good.

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I also had a lovely time re-reading Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett.

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It's hard work, not being invisible.

All you have to do is stop moving. Which is rotten, because sometimes moving is too hard.


And starting again is even harder.


How do you set boundaries when the problem is that you are completely lost in your own bag of skin and desperate for outside contact? What then?

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One of those odd days of hilarity and horror.

Rolling in the waves, breathing when I can.

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I feel like I am going through some kind of important transformation and that I need to get a handle on it.

I want to get a handle on it.

The trouble is, I don't even know what it involves yet.

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The advocate came by today, really just to go through the assorted documents for the case conference for the forthcoming legal appeal about the NDIS.

She will be coming here and bringing her work phone.

Between now and then I can make notes, for my own use, about my condition, so I'm not caught short by brainfog.

But I don't have to speak if I don't want to.

And I don't want to speak. I want to curl up into a small ball and disappear.

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I've hit that point that I hit when I have really not had enough sleep. That point where I know if I shut my eyes I will fall asleep very quickly, but that I will wake up later feeling awful and with my sleep cycle even more b0rked than usual. So I'm holding on. Not thinking too hard, being careful about what I look at (this is the point where I've learnt I can get quite emotional) and what I do (accidentally breaking something would not help with the emotional stuff).

My arms are really sore today, for no apparent reason.

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It's a Monday, and I've been sitting here enjoying feeling like I have nothing to do.

I'm pretty sure that this isn't really the case, but I'm going with it for now.

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