Things that I did today
By Claire.

1) Wrote 1661 words on my thesis.
2) Finished a chapter, choice bro!!
3) Changed the tyre on my car, which, due to the conspicuous lack of crank handle on the jack, was a bit more tricky than usual.
4) Used "absent" as a verb: "Wolfensohn's original framework, while attempting to create an inclusive picture of development, is absent consideration of ethnic and cultural identification".
5) Rewrote the comprehensive development framework, invented by the aforementioned Wolfensohn, so that it a) can be used for my thesis, and b) is better.
6) ate some pasta.
7) Wrote the following few lines, of which I am particularly proud: "...a process rather than a single framework seems appropriate for the Bank's role in ethnic conflict. By taking some liberties with established Bank frameworks and placing them within context, a four step process is enabled..." Translation: this is what you're doing wrong, and heres how to do it right. Cheeky.
8) Sent a submission to the govt. from Greenpeace about the govt's lack of compliance to trade policy on timber from illegally mined forests thats not in keeping with the guidelines agreed by the Labour Government with the Forestry Stewardship Council.
9) Looked for a job on the govt jobs website. Every time I look there, there seems to be an obscure new ministry popped up: Advisory position available to the Chief executive of the Ministry of Little Old Ladies with Blue Rinses that Drive around Nelson Badly. the Minister of Lesbian Crack addict single mother amputees is looking for a receptionist.
10)Spent far too long trying to think up a number 10 for this list. I require certain levels of things, you can't have a list with only 9 things on it, it just seems wrong. Mind you, if I'm watching a telly where the volume is expressed with numbers, it has to be a nice round number, or one ending in 5, or it just seems all wrong. Its not obsessive compulsive, its idiosyncratic!

PS if anyone else calls me lovely, I'm gonna smash their fucking heads in. I may be many things, and there are some things which I am that adjectives for have yet to be invented, but lovely is not one of them. But if you want to find out how much loveliness I don't have, just call me that again.
I FUCKING DARE YA!!!!!
Hugs and kisses
Claire