Have you ever had a moment of absolute certainty slowly taken apart till you’re no longer even certain you’re you?
A proposal you’ve made in complete confidence been accepted, and then you aren’t so confident any more?
I seem to be at sea, but it might not be a bad place for someone who wants to make [...]
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Before I start posting about work (as I’m very likely to start doing; I’m having a hard time not blogging about it!), I thought I should tell you about a certain classroom I visited in Bangalore. This was a first-year class of law students in a five-year course. I was asked to talk to them about [...]
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BikerGirl and I (me?) were having a heart-to-heart, and began to wonder about writing that evokes empathy, and writers who are good at doing it. Or speakers, for that matter. There are books, articles, essays that create that strange feeling, an identity with what is being written about. Situations, people far from our own realities, [...]
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Someone suggested yesterday that the reason I enjoy myself so much at work is a love for speaking in public.
So what does this say about me? Or about what I should be doing?!
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A bunch of paper’s gone flying today, and I can’t call it back. There’s this terrible feeling that this was a BIG BIG BIG mistake, but now I can’t do anything about it. What’s worse, I have to carry it through and finish it!
I bought Dad On Beauty for his birthday, and as usual, finished [...]
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About a month ago, Tharunya tagged me.
Write out as many things as you can that you admire in others, whether you have them or no.
And she said, for some reason, that *my* list, she would see. I told her it might take a while, and it has. Not because there aren’t things I admire in [...]
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I finished the last, so felt entitled to a bit of the first two. Yes, I’ve been reading Pratchett, and hugely enjoying myself. (Thanks, BB, for lending me Equal Rites!)
I’ve also been accused of talking too much, and realised how true it was when I picked up a hugely excited Pooh from the airport yesterday [...]
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