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Counting your blessings

18:27 / 20.03.03

I don't know if this is going to seem a bit saccharine, but it's not meant that way at all. Anyway, I thought, in this time of war and general political fuckwitbastardry we might all do well to count our blessings. What are you grateful for?

I'll go first - I'm incredibly grateful to have a great family that loves me. I'm more grateful than I can say that my dog survived his life threatening illness as a puppy, and now has another wonderful, charming, fickle, delightful little Border friend with a funny peanut head. I'm grateful for Barbelith and the support and debate it has offered me in the nearly two years since I arrived. I'm grateful, in a weird way, that well timed upswings of my bipolar disorder sometimes offer me the ability to manage the most painful of situations without wanting to jump off a bridge. I'm grateful for effective medication. I'm grateful for music, which, as we all know, saves lives. I'm grateful for all the opportunities I've been offered to stretch my mind and fulfil my dreams.

Tryphena Absent

21:24 / 20.03.03

I am an optimist and it is the one thing that is a real blessing... and my parents who rock and my brother who's OK and my friends who I adore and obviously Barbelith because this is post 1400 and something and George my cat for not dying yet and the person who first made chocolate because that's the blessing of the food world.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

21:28 / 20.03.03

Tonight, Matthew, I will be Freddy & Montserrat.

*Clears throat*
*Takes deep breath*

BARCELONAAAAAAAAA!

Ithangew.

21:56 / 20.03.03

I for one have been feeling a bit down the past week.
however I feel much better. It was just the trouble of being... dumped last weekend. But I just drank for a few days, brooded a couple more and feel much better. Still even talking to my ex. Just about but she's as up/down as me.
I may be doing a gig in Dublin in May.
Have a few friends doing free parties.
I am studying a nice course in a studio with Protools HD and get to actually master stuff so I am trying to get some proper music together.

So life is good.
If anybody is interested in doing a cd/zine type thing regularly I have some means of production.
Send me tunes/art/whatever.

P.S. Nice one Mordant. Got a couple of good friends living in Spain
I appreciated your bit of christmas cheer. Best of luck with you.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

08:23 / 21.03.03

I'm grateful as fuck that I'm not Iraqi, and that I'm living in a country where I have a certain freedom to pursue my interests. I'm grateful that my family, if not entirely 100% behind my beliefs or lifestyle choices accept my right to hold them and haven't ostracised me for them. I'm grateful that I've managed to find a place that isn't too soul-destroying to work and that the work can be interesting at least some of the time. And I'm grateful for each and everyone of you, yes you.

09:37 / 21.03.03

I am grateful that I am able to pursue my dreams without having to worry about all the primary needs, food, somewhere to live, not getting killed etc.

17:27 / 21.03.03

I am blessed by the proximity of the City Farm, where immediate stress relief can be guaranteed by a walk past the five horses, big smelly cow, excitable goats (which are always a lot bigger than I expect them to be) and the vast range of ridiculously talkative chickens having their rare breeds' parliament of fowls. I particularly like the big black rabbit who thinks he's a chicken and lives in their pen.

Plus today the bubblyjock, or male turkey, was displaying for the ladeez. What a handsome bird when in full puff.

20:31 / 23.03.03

Mine's rather like Xoc's, but what better company could I be in?

I live in a Bastion of Privilege (TM) and one of the many privileges afforded me is the ability to walk out of the college gates and more-or-less straight into the University Parks, a beautiful piece of public ground, occasionally spoilt by groups of large young men playing their silly games with odd-shaped balls and ripping up the sward with their nasssty hob-nailed bootses, precious, we hates them - but beautiful nonetheless, and it is a daily pleasure to me to walk round them. I like, most of all, to watch the birds (I am considering pilfering my father's binoculars next time I'm at home) and I'm trying to learn to match calls to species - without a great deal of success, but I can manage a robin. There's a duck-pond down by the Cherwell as well, so I have the added pleasure of watching the ducks, who are always chuntering away happily to each other. Sadly we have been inundated by they Canada geese this year, with all their hooting and squirling, but even they look pretty decorative.

Also saw some squirrels having a punch-up today, very funny, all the way up on side of a tree and all the way down the other and across the path; and a jay flew across my path as well, for the second time this week.