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A 30 or 60 second podcast with, you guessed it, the strangest thing I saw (or perhaps overheard) today.

1. Thanks for my heater
2. Thanks for books
3. Thanks for toast
4. Thanks for Japanese rice crackers
5. Thanks for being multi-talented

I hope you’re having a great day, and here’s to a (hopefully!) injury-free year ahead!

I received a mysterious letter this morning, and it seems like I might officially be an inventor in the near future.

1. Thanks for wifi
2. Thanks for tomato and ginger soup
3. Thanks for the helpful shopkeeper who takes in unexpected parcels of books to save me travelling across town
4. Thanks for Yo-Yo Ma
5. Thanks that I can enjoy listening to the wind and rain

I’m not at liberty to give everyone a free copy, sadly, but what if it was half-price?

Failure is the condiment which gives success its flavor.

—Truman Capote

1. Thanks for lemon curd cheesecake
2. Thanks for tomahtoes
3. Thanks for peace and quiet on both trains
4. Thanks for the internet
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A little late in the evening to be doing this for the week ahead, but I think I want to try structuring my week a little bit more. For example, I think I’ll put “write a book review” for first thing Tuesday and Thursday, and filing for Monday evening.

I’ll give it a bash, anyway.

1. Thanks for hot chocolate
2. Thanks for pasta
3. Thanks for the gratitude when I hand things in to the charity store
4. Thanks for Yo-Yo Ma
5. Thanks for finding my label printer, and that it still works

A turtle may live for hundreds of years because it is well protected by its shell, but it only moves forward when it sticks out its head.

—Ricardo Semler

I spent 5 hours today reading the second half of One Hundred Years of Solitude. I’m still not sure what to think of it. I can tell it’s well written (I’m sure someone more in-tune with literature would say that was an understatement), but when I look at the quotes from critics on the back and one of them says “exceedingly comic” I think to myself “WTH?”. It had vaguely amusing moments, but it never made me laugh out loud (or even snort). That makes me feel like I missed a lot of in-jokes or something, or that I’m not clever enough to have seen all the really funny bits. I do agree with the quote that it was tragic, though. Anyway, before I go off to find out what I’m supposed to take from the book, here’s what I did take from it:

• People are doomed to repeat the same mistakes if they don’t learn from the past;
• Incest is bad.

I’m about half-way through this. I’m not really sure what’s going on, but I’m curious to find out.

If anyone else has read this, I’d be curious to know what you think (obviously without spoilers, if that’s possible!).

1. Thanks for ibuprofen
2. Thanks for Bach
3. Thanks that people make movies like Magnolia
4. Thanks for books
5. Thanks for chocolate

A Masters in Journalism?

So I guess I’ll have to do this again since I lost 500 cheers given overnight.

I decided that I’d repeat my 12-3-12 pattern from the other day, rather than the 5-3-8-3-5 pattern recommended in the plan. I really had to force myself to go today, since I hadn’t run since Tuesday (not counting football on Wednesday), and as soon as I started I didn’t feel right. However, I kept on going, right past the third day of a four day food fair that I had no idea was happening 400 yards away from my flat (lots of nice smells) and everything was going pretty well despite my misgivings (although it’s amazing how people can contort themselves to get in your way – if they just stayed where they were I’d run around them). Then, after about 11 minutes, my left leg gave out underneath me and down I went. Ouch.

I’m off to put an ice pack on and read something.

1. Thanks for dividend re-investments
2. Thanks for Philip Glass
3. Thanks for more business progress
4. Thanks for a cafe that not only lets me hang around all day for very little money, but the owner gives up the best laptop seat just for me
5. Thanks for odd quizzes

8-Jun: Done
9-Jun:
10-Jun:
11-Jun:
12-Jun:
13-Jun:
14-Jun: Done, but think I set myself back. :-/

1. Thanks for the sun on my back
2. Thanks for fate conspiring to make me walk home when I was trying to convince myself not to
3. Thanks for tasty yasai cha han and “raw juice” (carrot, orange, cucumber, orange and apple) with colleagues at lunch today
4. Thanks for getting through my flat inspection with no fine
5. Thanks for my brother
6. Thanks for slight business progress