On the theme of Farmville, I read this interesting article about it the other day, courtesy of Vlad Dolezal. As an avid player of Farmville, I was intrigued to read it. (more…)

1. I have already answered this meme once on Facebook, but in Esperanto. You never know who might be reading in English, and I thought my answers would be more interesting if I didn’t have to worry about not saying things I didn’t want colleagues/relatives/school friends to hear. I’m answering it now in English because I’m at work and bored, but the answers won’t be as exciting. And I’m not going to tag another 25 people!

2. I am very frequently at work and bored, though you may already know that. I hate my job, with a vengeance. My aim for this year was to find a better job, but the recruitment consultant rang me last week to apologise and say that there are no jobs

3. I spend a lot of my time in hotels. So far this year I’ve spent one week in Oswestry and three weeks in Wantage. Between now and May, I have one week in Wigan, three weeks in Banbury, three weeks in London and two weeks in Swindon. This makes me wonder whether it is even worth me moving in with Babel, because I won’t see him any more frequently than I do now (more…)

This week I took the slightly random step of creating a Twitter account for myself. I use the word random because I have only ever had a very hazy idea of what Twitter actually is, and don’t have the patience to read the help guide, but as far as I can establish it seems to be a website for people who are obsessive about updating their Facebook status. Now I must confess that I am rather partial to updating my Facebook status myself, but the more ‘friends’ I acquire, the more constrained I feel about what I can actually say. “Clare has had a crap day at work” is not a status which will further my career when I know my boss can read it, nor is “Clare is really happy because Babel just let her suck his cock” a good status when there is a family member in my friends list. Sometimes I get around the problem by setting my status in Esperanto. Sometimes I don’t even want Esperantists to read it, in which case I write it in German because I only have a handful of Facebook friends who will automatically understand that, especially if I choose my slang carefully. Sometimes I set an indiscreet status in a fit of emotion and then delete it when I’ve calmed down. I like setting statuses, it’s an interesting emotional outlet, and it can help to focus the mind when you’re forced to express your mood in such a limited number of characters. (more…)

Being in a mood where I have lots of important things to do and am anxious not to do any of them, I decided to conduct a survey of my Facebook acquaintance. This was prompted by the fact that yet another person who I would never have expected in a million years to add me as a friend, just did. My policy when someone adds me as a friend on Facebook is to click yes, even if I dislike the person intensely. This is partly because I have an insatiable curiousity to read about what people are doing with their lives, and partly because I don’t like being consciously rude. (more…)