I am reminded once more of your existence!

It is a joyous thing, remembering. That's why we're supposed to cry each time we break bread but there isn't much time to forget because we do it every week. I consecrate this day to your memory. 12th February. The Return to the Blog, inspired by its accidental discovery by Rumin.

As the disquieting muses sound, let us pause for a moment to reflect on discovery.

The authoritative poem to read is probably Nicolas Hasluk's 'Islands', because its from Calling of the Kindred Section D. But there's so much hype and stories. Newton discovered gravity because an apple fell on him. Some chinese concubine discovered silk like that 2000 years earlier, maybe because little miss muffet was eating her curds and whey when a silkworm appeared.

how did you discover masturbation? was it joyous?

discovery is a happy thing, until you disembark and kill all the Red Indians. then it just becomes messy.

'how was work today' its very amazing how often this phrase is used. my dad just used it today. i would use it if I was a parent. It is an innocuous way to start conversation without embarassing yourself. I'm actually quite embarassed though because I talk to myself on my blogs. You can then choose to reply and talk excitedly about it if it was a good day (good day), or say 'okay' if it's a bad day. occasionally you can grouch about your boss and stress but you're usually too tired on such occasions.

i'm not trashing such conversations. i think that it's important for people to communicate although it sounds forced at first. lets not deny there's a generation gap but usually lousy conversations give rise to decent ones if you keep at it. its better than not trying.

anyway. office life is pretty fun. especially when your branch is bored and jokes around. and i'm quite happy i won so much money today through astute bets and the fact that i can automatically translate stuff into chinese in a split second, and in some cases think in chinese first when a word is more appropriate. i think reading all the 'wen yan wen' is doing me good, and unlike chinese lessons, people actually speak chinese here. and they have thesauruses so they have pretty good english vocab.

how long will it be again? you can see why i'd make a bad boyfriend=p i'm having an affair with the office stationery and the memo pad. maybe i should start scribing it here.