Stephen Fry + Oscar Wilde + Steve Jobs (and a bit of Douglas Adams)

What I have been doing for the past couple of hours:

while erasing pencil-marks I made in textbooks I'm about to return to a friend
(500+ pages law books, 4 of them - raw, tender thumbs, eraser pulverised into a million tiny bits, eraser droppings everywhere, you get the picture)

Occasionally having odd, unprompted fantasies that the unexplained sounds I heard - a disembodied cough, odd taps, doors closing - is the scepter of Oscar Wilde oddly coming to see me (in the videos he talked at length about Oscar Wilde, you see), and being horribly disappointed when I find that it's otherwise :(

Housekeeping note.

I'm looking at my blog from the Google Chrome browser, and my blog's configuration doesn't seem to suit viewing from Google Chrome at all.
The writing's too white, so I heartily apologise to Chrome users for having to put up with this. I don't know for certain, but I suspect Internet Explorer (is that still what you call it these days?) users might be putting up with some problem too, because I adjusted my blog's setting while looking at it from Firefox, so I tag on an apology for you guys too, just in case. Same goes to you Safari users. Basically this expression of contrition is extended to anyone who isn't reading this from Firefox.

But I can't change the setting because:
1. How do you make a blog's setting fit three (or more) sort of browsers? The answer is 'with great difficulty', and perhaps compromising on style, and the thought of doing that itself is making me lazy. I generally only do these tweakings in a burst of sudden energy (same goes for tidying my desk), which is quite absent now.

2. I can't tweak it to suit Chrome, or Internet explorer, or Safari, because the statistics say that most people who reads the blog read it with firefox's browser. So it's sensible to leave it as it is.

So yes, the best browser to look at this from is Firefox. I'm not demanding enough to say people who use other browsers should flock to Firefox to view my blog because it's some sort of magnum opus you should switch browsers for. But I'm explaining why this might look funny on your browser, and saying sorry for it.
So technically, the title is slightly misleading. No housekeeping done whatsoever, just akin to a housekeeper going, 'Mmm, not very neat is it? Sorry about that.'

(no, I don't know if this is what I came to write before this. It might be.)

Amnesia

Ever stared at a blank screen wondering what the hell you came here to type up?

Yeah, this is one of those posts.

Back again when I remember what it was, but from what I remember of that fleeting thought, it's something inconsequential, so no promises of anything magnificent.

Adjustment.

I'm quite liking the new look of blogger! A clean, smooth, pretty interface is a good thing.
This girl quite a sucker for the clean, smooth, pretty interface that is currently in vogue.

Not quite liking the new look of facebook though. I threw a mini-fit when I saw it.
Why do you have to change how facebook works every few months, for God's sake? I'm not very good with adjusting to change.
And it's like every new incarnation of facebook is designed to reveal more and more of your facebook activites to people, which is a bad thing because facebook is a repository of everyone you know, regardless of whether you like a person a lot or are merely tolerating said person's presence. There's this new column at the left hand corner of your facebook homepage called 'see what your friends are up to right now' that is making me even more paranoid about facebook than I already am.

I have a strange attitude when it comes to sharing things online. On one hand, I like writing blogs and tweeting interesting observations, because I verily think I'm quite good and quite interesting, and people seem to like reading them too. On another, I'm terrified of people reading anything. Strangers are fine, but it's awkward  if it's friends and acquaintances. 'Oh, I know you're happy/unhappy even though I haven't had a conversation with you for months because I read your blog' or similar conversations inevitably make me panic for no good reason. Maybe because I separate and compartmentalise my life online and off. I tend to express myself more vocally when I'm online. I don't like rocking the boat in my daily interaction, because humans are so unpredictable. But that impediment is made invisible when I go online. This is quite silly, and might sound quite sad, but my online persona is a reflection of my private self, things I think about when I'm alone. So I'm like a puppy enthusiastic to share, but at the same time slightly trepidatious too - would you hate me if I express this opinion or use these words?

This online-offline divide we're forced to deal with really needs a new philosopher to reason things out. I'd try to be that amateur philosopher, but I am too lazy.

:)

What I should remind myself to do if I should find myself unhappy:

1. Watch Stephen Fry talk about life, the universe, and everything.

2. Curl up on the sofa and watch Nigella cook.

3. Sit in a dark room free of external stimuli and think.

4. Read something delightfully spun out by Douglas Adams/P.G. Wodehouse.

5. Hum 'Always Look at the Bright Side of Life' and remind myself to be the skippy, joyful, childish sort of silly.

6. Of course, some comfort food must be involved somewhere in between.

What do you do when you're feeling like a rainy weekend in London? :)

Interlude of some cheer!

I read some 14 year old's blog and thought: Dude, this is very well-written.
And then I reflect on my own blog, and realise I've been shit because I'm so morose here.
That is going to change now. I'm going to be so chirpy-happy you'd want to smack me and say 'be seriously, man!'
And I'm pretty sure I wouldn't remember this post and the next post I post would show signs of me being seriously unmotivated. Sorry.