Archive for 27th of February, 2008
Tremor
Feb 27th
0:57am Tremor in the Midlands. Definite rattling and shaking. Fortunately my shelves are still intact else I’d have had repeated headaches as they fell. Estimate between 4 and 5 on the Richter scale, probably closer to 4. I’ll have to remember to check the news tomorrow.
Update: It’s the lead story on the BBC which surprised me. They have the time as 0:56 GMT and the magnitude as 5.3 centred on Market Rasen based on a BGS report [PDF]. Those seismograms seem to run on to 0:57 so I’m quite pleased with my estimates.
The tremor seemed to come in two parts. I was lying in bed and hadn’t fallen asleep yet but was well on the way. At first I thought I had mice in the walls again. Rather than feeling it I could hear it. Then I felt my quilt moving and because I’m slow to give up an idea I thought that the mice had cajoled a couple of helpful rats into pulling some new bedding to their hole. Waking up a bit more I could hear the books shuffling on my shelves. It went on quite a while and seeing as I was half awake to begin with I More >
Where I am
Feb 27th
Just a note to say I’m busy till Thursday. I’m currently working through a report that’s making me physically sick. That’s not a poetic way of saying it’s badly written. I read three or more paragraphs and the contents of my stomach attempt to do their Alien impression. It is unusual to have such a reaction to bad prose, normally I just get a headache from banging my head against the desk, but it is making writing around it very slow. I suspect I’m not well anyway and the book is just a catalyst but nonetheless this author could be proud in achieving what no hardcore processual or post-processual theorist has done.
If I ever have to review this guy’s work I’ll be more diplomatic. “His work stirred my inner self…”
