The day was unseasonably warm, even though I had long remembered it as being cold. Maybe because the cold front that in fact moved in that night and into that long, unforgettable weekend overwhelmed it all in appropriate coldness. Mr. Reichart, my piano teacher, was due at four o'clock for yet another one of my dreaded lessons. I think he dreaded them far more than I did, and was as anxious to see me as finding a fly in his musical ointment. He was a short, reddish-faced man on the ...
I feel like I have nothing I want to blog about. I am just so worked up about a few things that I see and I feel...not quite disgruntled but...well to paraphrase P. G. Wodehouse...if not exactly disgruntled, than far from being gruntled. Good ol' Pelham Grenville. I feel far from feeling gruntled. the actual Wodehouse quote is this: While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled. What handle to lay on a kid, huh? Grenville? "Oh dear, ...
I hate talking about mundanities (is that a word?) but here's a short one: Last week I started to ask the supervisor's assistant (when sup isn't around) a question, and he abruptly says "Shut up. Don't talk to me now". The guy I was working with and I looked at each other with the "What's his problem" face, and I burned about it for an hour afterward. Then I decided he must have been having a bad day and forgave him. Yesterday afternoon I walk ...
Okey. Bit of a stuff up. The pre-release papers came this morning. The only reason I went to check if they were there just now was because Mr Featherstone asked the other English group how their pre-releases were. I went down to see Ms Miller. She said she’d tried to call me. She can’t have tried very hard. We left as late as usual. What’s worse is I’ve been here all day blissfully unaware. Our extract is from the opening of “Restoration, a novel by Rose Tremain, published in 1989”. I’ve ...
Okay, here’s a question for you. In a science-fiction story do you think it would be possible to alter someone’s chromosomes? Or more specifically the X and Y chromosomes? Say if you were cloning someone and, using really futuristic and complicated technology you could alter the X chromosome and change it into a Y so that when the clone grows it turns out as a male instead of a female. Does that sound at all believable? I asked mum but she’s no help in ...
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