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Quotation of the moment:

Thursday 15th, February 2007

Bye Bye Until Next Week

I’m off to “uncivilized lands”1 with no internet

  1. that is, my sister’s apartment in Barbados2
  2. not Barbados3 itself of course, just my sister’s place as she doesn’t have internet…Barbados does
  3. since i’ve never been to Barbados4 i can’t pass judgement on it5
  4. itsy child visits where i lost a bucket and spade don’t count and neither do stopovers where i stay in the plane
  5. but you just wait, in a week’s time i will have been6
  6. i’ll also be safely out of Barbados in case i want to start badtalking7 Barbados
  7. but why in the world would i want to?8
  8. certainly not because i’ve heard strange stories9
  9. and even if i did, i’m going to give you a chance

5 Comments »

  1. goodness…
    you academic types who spent forever in institutions (academic! not necessarily mental) sure do footnote to death…

  2. Chennette -

    You really need to e-mail me – don’t you wonder how your poor friend is coping with 3 under one and a half year olds…Hmmm, life is sooo hard when yuh getting blank so. Anyway we had to register number 3 on Friday – so he has a name. Do you want to know what it is?

    okedokey….later, hope lilandra is having fun, and you can never have too many footnotes – I just LOVE them….

  3. I am here, on a Sunday night, in an office replying to this…this is how desperate my internet situation is.
    Who knows the trauma Lilandra is going through with not even this minor relief. But she has an upside. Which I am sure she’ll reveal soon.

  4. [...] I am still internet-deprived, but Lilandra is visiting so neither of us have updated our blogs. I am at work, so I have an unfair advantage For the past 10 years I have heard much about how nobody every invited her to visit Barbados (never mind she was busy doing A-Levels and getting those As) and how she only went there once and she never see how or where I live or anything like that. Usually ending in a “nobody loves me” refrain. The past few days I have been able to check the following off the list: [...]

  5. [...] And, this being even more recent, you should know I was in Barbados for a whole week, culminating on Thursday/yesterday. [...]

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