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[liadnan]

Ho hum. Yes I am using that start simply to thumb my nose in the general direction of Rob.
Spent the morning back in the Companies Court on a complicated thing involving litigation across various jurisdictions and companies in various states of quasi-existence, and the afternoon in con. at a solicitors' firm in north London (one of those very Orthodox Jewish firms where it is almost impossible to get hold of anyone after lunch on a Friday, particularly in winter, though that's beside the point). I'm not convinced they liked my advice, but there it is. I do an awful lot of work for the solicitor, who is a pleasant chap -I hadn't met him in the flesh before- so I hope he wasn't too disatissified.
I'm still feeling tired, but not as ill as I was yesterday. I did haul myself off to De Hems to see Jen and G. and others, and have a few drinks. That was probably a mistake, but I don't seem to be suffering too badly for it.
The amount of work I have to do in the next week and a half has gone from "scary" to "insane" but I have evidently come to the subconscious decision that I'm not doing any more of it until tomorrow as I've spent the last half hour reading Livejournal and the London Review of Books. There's a good article on English translations of the Koran in the latter (for all I know, there may be one somewhere in the former, but I haven't found it). I feel I ought to read it... I'm also trying to read the whole of the KJV this year, more because of the beautiful English and the historical importance of that version than for any other reason - as with most people brought up Catholics, actually reading the bible is a fairly alien thought to me...). It's proving slow work though, I'm still stuck somewhere in Kings (and I skipped much of Deuteronomy and Leviticus) and it's August tomorrow...

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[fairymelusine.livejournal.com]

YAY! London Review of Books! They have the *best* personal ads in there - I love smart people trying impress with their wit that only appeals to other people like them ...

and I have long held that the best way to clear the random virus is to fight back with your own toxins - show it who's boss! no one is gonna screw up the inside of your body except you!

(wow. sorry, that's a lot of exclamation marks.)

[liadnan]

I'm fond of the LRB, though if I had to choose I'd go for the TLS, it's more obscure and esoteric, which kind of suits me...

Does the personal toxins v. virus thing actually work?

[fairymelusine.livejournal.com]

well, sometimes. it's worked for me in the past, but only 'cause i spend my requisite week in bed, get mad 'cause i'm not well yet, and then go out drinking and feel better. but i think that just means it was time, you know?

but i keep drinking, just to be sure.

Plaid

[liquidkitty08.livejournal.com]

I had to endure Catholic school, and we were forced to read the Bible multiple times. Ok, I probably read it through more often than my classmates; when you're in detention, you can either just sit there staring blankly at the wall or read the Bible - and at some point the wall just stops being interesting. Something no Christian seems to want to admit though is that frankly it's quite a lusty book; anything else containing that much incest, rape, general lasciviousness would surely be banned.

[liadnan]

Really? I can't remember the monks making us read it at all at my place.
In my parents' generation (ie pre-Vatican II) (which is probably your parents as well?) reading the bible oneself and without the guidance of a priest was somewhat frowned upon I believe...

[liquidkitty08.livejournal.com]

My Da never had to read the Bible (my Mommy is Buddhist and thinks the whole thing is a load of bollocks but I got sent to Catholic school anyway), but at my school we had a Religious Studies class and we were given special Catholic study Bibles. The pages in those Bibles were divided into vertical halves with the left side being annotations and commentaries by Catholic leaders and the right side being the Biblical text. Having not attended any other schools, I am not sure if this was unique to my school, schools in the States, or what. I'm probably not the best one to ask as my greatest achievement in Catholic school was figuring out how to fold all the collections envelopes from Holy Family to read Holy Fanny.

[liadnan]

I think that's an entirely worthwhile acheivement...