Hiya. This is Mrs Nags - except I couldn't quite face signing up with that as a screen name.
You should have come to London in January after all. We could have had a competition about who was glummest, and got cross with Mr Nags's love of things wintery...
I broke a tooth on Monday, and couldn't see a dentist until Wednesday because of the snow. So not much sign of cheer here at the moment, I'm afraid - although I think I've almost agreed the dissertation topic for my MA. I seem to be leading a very, very dull life....
Mr N can no longer access his yahoo account from work - which means that he's a bit crap at responding to it. Suggest you try his work one.
I managed to persuade myself to reread the novel and decided it was awful (well, OK, not unremittingly terrible - but a very strange mix of concepts which just about managed to be amusinging in places), and then the deadline for the thesis proposal got unexpectedly accelerated.... and I have just eaten a KitKat. A chunky one.
In Russia they make Twix with dark chocolate. It is wonderful. You occasionally find it in one of the international supermarkets here, but it is a very rare treat.
I don't suppose this tactic would work for you, though - confining your obsession to brands that are almost impossible to obtain.
A leading presenter on China Central Television's English-language channel has revealed himself to be a xenophobic hate-monger. WHY does he still have a job? Lobby for his dismissal - by any and all means.
Days Ai Weiwei was detained
80
With ironic, sinister symmetry, the celebrity artist/activist was incarcerated on the same day that my friend Wu Yuren was finally released from 10 months' detention.
Now, like Wu, he's been released on extremely restrictive 'bail' terms - but could face re-arrest at any moment. He was detained incommunicado from April 3rd to June 22nd 2011.
Days Wu Yuren was in prison
307
"Released on parole" after 10 months; "parole" lifted another year later. The original charges against him were apparently dropped without his trial ever being formally concluded.
Froog is an escaped lawyer - but there is no need for alarm; he is only a danger to himself, not to the general public. An eternal wanderer, he now lives in an exotic city somewhere in the 'Third World' *, where he is held prisoner by an unfinished novel (or, more precisely, an unstarted novel). He spends a lot of time running, writing, taking photographs, and falling in love with women who fail to appreciate him. He also spends a lot of time in bars.
[* OK, I'll come clean: I've been living in Beijing since summer '02.]
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Hiya. This is Mrs Nags - except I couldn't quite face signing up with that as a screen name.
You should have come to London in January after all. We could have had a competition about who was glummest, and got cross with Mr Nags's love of things wintery...
Welcome, FJ. Nice to hear from you.
I'm sorry to have missed the big snowfall in London. We haven't had any at all in Beijing this year.
Spring approaches; I hope things are less glum for you now.
Say hi to Mr Nags for me. He seems to have lost the knack of e-mail correspondence (again).
I broke a tooth on Monday, and couldn't see a dentist until Wednesday because of the snow. So not much sign of cheer here at the moment, I'm afraid - although I think I've almost agreed the dissertation topic for my MA. I seem to be leading a very, very dull life....
Mr N can no longer access his yahoo account from work - which means that he's a bit crap at responding to it. Suggest you try his work one.
I hardly dare to ask about progress in tidying up the draft of your novel.
Good luck in your battle against chocolate.
I managed to persuade myself to reread the novel and decided it was awful (well, OK, not unremittingly terrible - but a very strange mix of concepts which just about managed to be amusinging in places), and then the deadline for the thesis proposal got unexpectedly accelerated.... and I have just eaten a KitKat. A chunky one.
In Russia they make Twix with dark chocolate. It is wonderful. You occasionally find it in one of the international supermarkets here, but it is a very rare treat.
I don't suppose this tactic would work for you, though - confining your obsession to brands that are almost impossible to obtain.
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