nunoncastors

Heh.

I am, unsurprisingly, not all that cheerful at the moment. That is to say that I’m pretty much keeping things together by will alone and, while that’s working out for the most part, it does have the unfortunate side effect of leaving me nothing in the tank to tolerate all the trivial shit that I’d [...]

So it turns out that when people die everyone who knew them suddenly becomes an expert on what the deceased would say or do or think in almost any given situation. Quite how they know these myriad things is beyond me, why they feel the need to share their facile ruminations; baffling in the extreme. [...]

Seems like a lot of effort though.

Thank you, Internet. Thank you so much.

Clicky.

Word.

Excellent.

Oh god. oh god, oh god.

There’s something about watching the ashes of someone you loved being emptied from a copper urn by a man in a Mac that makes you reassess life in very fundamental terms. There’s a sort of sneaking suspicion, when faced with the inevitability of mortality that you are, in some way, wasting your allotted hour to [...]

I’ve been sat here trying to think about the best way to approach this for a while now and, well, there isn’t one. There’s just the cold hard fact that my dad died the other day and, while words can’t really express what that’s like, I need to do something to take my mind off [...]