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Is there shame in fame;
do I mean should you wallow
like a fat hippo?

Up to your armpits
in thick glutinosity
slapping yourself on

the back like hippo's
actually don't! At least
I suppose they don't.

I don't really see
hippopotamuses at
all where I now live.

Hippopotami
you say in shocked disbelief;
...

The sonnet is almost too forlorn
& which sort to employ is never easy,
A Petrarchan would be such an intense form:
The Pushkinian always makes me feel queasy.
Both Spenser & Byron would well mourn
A Miltonic lack of use of volta,
Unless an 'about face' you would warn
& make me hesitate & falter.
The sestet has just now arrived
Without a noticeable change in pace;
Yet now I am just as well subscribed
To end ...

So, realised has been a while since I last blogged. Problem is I dont really have anything meaningful or relevant to say - but I decided you lot know that has never stopped me rambling on in the past so it wont stop me now either.

Gonna start with work stuff - I got a raise (quite nice & useful). I am again going to be interviewing for new staff for my crew. I pulled my calf this week shifting a shed, and aggravated it moving loads of cases of pop.

Next up current ...

Ok, so we’ve established I love literature. Did you know I am also a movie addict? Yes I am! This is one addiction I won’t be seeking a cure for. On average I watch four movies a week, on the internet, at the cinema, filmfour, sky, LOVEfilm, I could go on.

Most of the time I watch good quality stuff, absolute essentials in the film world, like Shakespeare in the literature world. However, sometimes I do succumb to popular tastes – like most recently Confessions of a Shopaholic. ...

Today my mom treated me to lunch at Wendy’s. While eating there, there was a mother with her two kids ( around 7 years old) and I’m assuming the kid’s grandmother. The 2 adults were sitting there deep in conversation while the 2 kids were playing with their happy meal toy. The 2 boys were running around the place rolling their toy across the tables and taking the salt and pepper shakers and making towers out of them. Then they were rolling them along the floor. I’m sitting there watching this ...