Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Supermouse The Rodent's LiveJournal:

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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
4:48 pm	Keeping track (Poem lines to be added later) ( Keeping accountable (Poem lines to be added later) ) Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Mum reading a newspaper (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
6:21 pm	Keeping track (All day the city mourned with smothered cries,) ( Keeping accountable (Tears hastily suppressed and inward sighs.) ) Current Mood: pleased Current Music: Sessifet on the phone downstairs. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 6th, 2009
6:34 pm	Keeping track (A few days passed; the king's rage vanished too,) ( Keeping accountable (And as his anger went his sorrow grew - ) ) Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Fireworks (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
11:23 am	Best. Cards. Ever. I've not been posting because I am very, very tired and quite ill. However, I want to mention the fact that Aldi are currently selling BAH HUMBUG! cards, with glitter on and everything. I get the feeling they'll all be sold quite quickly. I got Pol a packet. :0) Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Strimmer (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
4:28 pm	Keeping track (Love made him weak; this lion-hearted king) ( Keeping accountable (Became an ant, afraid of everything.) ) Current Mood: calm Current Music: Radio 7 (Comment on this)
Friday, October 30th, 2009
9:28 pm	Keeping track (Then he remembered how they used to sit) ( Keeping accountable (For days and nights, when love seemed infinite,) ) Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: Rain. Lots of it. (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
6:32 pm	Keeping track (Drinking their wine in homely privacy,) ( Keeping accountable (And more drunk with each other's company - ) ) Current Mood: pensive Current Music: Purr, snore, snore. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
8:28 pm	Keeping track (He could not bear the thought; he felt tears rise) ( Keeping accountable (To overflow his weeping, downcast eyes.) ) Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: Classic FM (Comment on this)
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
5:30 pm	Keeping track (Regret consumed him; reason, patience fled,) ( Keeping accountable (And in the dust he bowed his noble head.) ) Current Mood: anxious Current Music: Children screaming outside (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
11:15 pm	Daily post, the short version. I've just waved good night to Angela, Rob and Claire after a lovely evening, playing the Zombies boardgame while watching Sean of the Dead (Rob for the first time). Great fun. Now I am on irc reading people watching Question Time and Nick Griffon getting, by all accounts, utterly pwned. I had a bad day healthwise, did my OU homework and didn't get out to post a letter, but I did call my MIL and have a nice chat. Porridge for breakfast, avocado for lunch, kebab for dinner. Migraine was appalling but lifted in time for me to enjoy visitors. Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Computer fan (Comment on this)
2:39 pm	See the pretty pictures. Please let me show you a photoessay about women farmers from all over the world. Bossymarmalade of Dreamwidth fame linked me to them, I think (If I am crediting the wrong person, let me know and please forgive me). I spent about twenty minutes utterly absorbed in this page yesterday. As Labrat pointed out, they are awesome images of women. Current Mood: pleased Current Music: Radio 4 (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
9:33 pm	Keeping track (He dressed in mourning; neither ate nor slept,) ( Keeping accountable (But, shut away in lonely anguish, wept.) ) Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: Classic FM (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
7:31 pm	Keeping track (Night came; he drove off that still-gaping crowd) ( Keeping accountable (Which stood beneath the gallows-tree, and, bowed) ) Current Music: Classic FM (Comment on this)
Monday, October 19th, 2009
6:11 pm	Keeping track (By lonely grief, told over one by one) ( Keeping accountable (The actions of his absent paragon.) ) Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Traffic (Comment on this)
12:08 pm	On Stuff and Memory. Every little something you own takes a little piece of your memory. You have to remember that you own it, and what it looks like, so you can find it. You have to remember where it is and what it can be used for. You have to remember all the emotional associations the object has. If it is a book, you have to remember which shelf it is on, or what stack of books, whether you enjoyed it or not, what the contents are, and probably a little about the writer too. A stapler and you have to remember whether it is full of staples or not, and where its associated staples are. What sort of working condition it is in, and how to use it. A top, and you remember how to wash it, what sort of occasions it is suitable for, and not, and what clothes and accesories you can wear with it. A car, and there's an entire manual of information, a fair chunk of which you will end up learning and committing to memory: how the engine sounds when it is healthy, when its last service was, how much fuel it needs to go a given distance, where to refuel it and how much that costs, what your average consumption is, how to adjust the seat, which roads are enjoyable and which are a pain to drive down, traffic patterns and even radio schedules. This may be why people who own very little can sometimes seem so at peace to the affluent. It explains one of the great joys of camping. It might explain why modern society feels so rushed, and I think it does explain why so many people instinctively shy away from new technologies. A life full of innovation is a life of perpetual mental tests, with low marks leading to a lot of frustration and wasted time. It could be this factor that makes some people so very antipathic towards bare rooms. Without the constant mental chatter of remembered facts and emotions prompted by the sight of nearby Stuff, one is forced to contemplate either only the person inside, or the infinity of objects beyond the room. Current Mood: thoughtful Current Music: Purr, snore, snore. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
3:52 pm	Keeping track (Then as each loved, lost deed was called to mind,) ( Keeping accountable (He groaned that he had been so rash, so blind.) ) Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Purr, snore, snore. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
1:28 pm	Meal Planning I'm back to the point where I can plan delicious meals. (I am putting off getting Abel and Cole for another week, since I can buy this week's entire deluxe box locally.) I have a chicken roasting in the oven, next to sweet potatoes (plain) and pumpkin which has been sprinkled with mixed spice. My menu so far: *Monday* Sweet potato, chicken, bacon and pumpkin soup. *Tuesday* Chicken, leek, mushroom and sweetcorn in a white sauce (possibly even a white wine sauce) *Wednesday* Cheese, celery and raisin bake with minced lamb *Thursday* Venison, cream, mushrooms *Friday* Courgette fritters and flavoured sausages (what flavour depends on what the butcher has) *Saturday* Readymade stew from the butcher. *Sunday* That's where I draw a blank. Any ideas for next Sunday? All veg suggested should be in season, so I can buy it locally, and I buy all the meat on Tuesday so it has to keep, although if need be I can move Thursday's dish, or even Wednesday's to Sunday and cook something else on that day. In the best of all possible worlds, it uses ingredients I already have. Current Mood: curious Current Music: Purr, purr, purr. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 16th, 2009
9:40 pm	Keeping track (Pain gripped his heart; his tears flowed like a flood;) ( Keeping accountable (He smeared his features with the corpse's blood.) ) Current Mood: depressed Current Music: Radio 7 (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
5:48 pm	Keeping track (Grovelled in the dust, clawed at his pampered skin,) ( Keeping accountable (Wept countless storms for his unthinking sin - ) ) Current Mood: calm Current Music: Purr, purr, purr. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
9:48 pm	Keeping track (He raved and, as a candle burns away,) ( Keeping accountable (Wasted with grief until the break of day.) ) Current Mood: thankful Current Music: Traffic (Comment on this)