She moves to the pace of her generator.

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• "The tech laughed in his face ... The supervisor laughed in his face too ... The manager laughed in his face and told him to go ahead."

arkady has a job! She is to be a PFY at a web services company in W1, starting today. Last night we celebrated the company's good taste. Caffeine at Borders near Oxford Circus with karen2205 (showing off her shiny new IBM Thinkpad R50e), topbit (who looks just like his South Park icon), neonchameleon and galliana, dinner at Wagamama (joined by hairyears) and pintage at the Oakdale Arms (with mandatory geekage over MP3 jukeboxes and Discworld beer with timeplease).

This morning I packed her off to her first day at kindy nice and early, thankfully making allowances for e.g. the person who fell ill on our train, delaying it fifteen minutes.

Others have heralded today as being an autumn's day at last. I am still sweating buckets on the Tube, sitting at my desk at work with the fan on and wishing I could come to work in shorts or a miniskirt. I THOUGHT THIS COUNTRY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE COLD.