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blamebrampton ([personal profile] blamebrampton) wrote2013-08-21 10:27 pm

Waves feebly

I have been ill. And overworked. But mostly ill.

A short time before Mr Brammers gave me his virus, he decided we should switch ISPs. In theory this was a good idea, in actuality, it was weeks of me having no internet. While dying. I tried to read a book. It was Wolf Hall. It fell on my face every time I every time I felt faint. Alas, I felt faint quite a bit. That is one big bloody book. I took to reading Agatha Christie paperbacks instead. Lovely and thin.

I have an enormously long post on Australian politics coming up in the near future. I do not have one on the current fandom brouhaha, though I do think satire is the appropriate response to both. I have a dream in which rationality is commonplace, but in the words of the Ruddbot, that's:

[identity profile] valkyrie17.livejournal.com 2013-08-23 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry you have been sick, and glad you are on the way to recovery. Skinny books are definitely the way to go when ill and in bed (or very small, lightweight readers).

Very much looking forward to your political post. I don't know much about Australian politics, but you make it very entertaining.