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1. Considering I only got three hours sleep, considering the train was forty minutes late this morning, considering it was my first day back after nine days off, today was OK. Phones/email steady, made up time on my commute meaning I started and left only five or ten minutes late, colleague pretty hatty but not too mch so, own mood tolerable. Long may it continue, the 'do-able' series of days.
2. 'Dibs in Search of Self' is a book by clinical psychologist and author Virginia Axline published in 1964. The book chronicles a series of play therapy sessions over a period of one year with an emotionally crippled boy (Dibs) who comes from a wealthy and highly educated family. Despite signs that he is gifted, his mother, father, and most of his teachers perceive him as having an emotional or cognitive disorder. Dibs presents abnormal social behavior by continuously isolating himself, rarely speaking, and physically lashing out at those around him. When Axline first meets Dibs's parents, they describe her as their son's last hope. The book details the interactions between Dibs and Axline and utilizes actual session transcripts for dialogue.
3. Mugabe is being couped over in Zimbabwe. The Battle of Devil's River was an 1857 Indian War skirmish which took place in Texas along the Devils River. A small force of United States Army cavalry defeated an overwhelming force of Comanche braves after an epic journey across the desert. Tony Pulis has got the sack from West Brom. Traian Cocorascu (born 1888, died 1970) was a Romanian Brigadier-General during World War II.
4. Four years ago today I went down to south Wales and helped with some training with work n'that. I was a bit annoyed that the customer provided me with crisps and a drink for lunch, whereas when the customer came to visit us we laid on a decent spread. I also had a lift home in a white Porsche. Difficult for a tall me to get in and out of that.
5. New series of 'Insert Name Here' was quite amusing, even with the limitations of the format and the reliance on the contestants n'that to create the comedy/interest. The resident historian was the delightful Kate Williams. Pre-Raphaelite. The name of the week was Thomas.
6. Pregnant Kimberly 'Pussycat Doll' Wyatt doing the standing splits whilst heavily pregnant on WILTY this evening. Jana Novotna has died, which is sad. Charles Manson has died, which is less so.
7. Finished that stupid novel about the woman being stalked but falling in love with a hunky fireman she meets whilst on jury service and everything turns out swimmingly and sassy and GROAN. I've started reading 'The White Spider' (not about Anyphaena accentuata admittedly, it's about a big mountain) this evening.
8. Once a year, on Yom Kippur, the Cohen Gadol sacrificed a bull as a sin offering to atone for sins he may have committed unintentionally throughout the year. Subsequently he took two goats and presented them at the door of the tabernacle. Two goats were chosen by lot: one to be "for YHWH", which was offered as a blood sacrifice, and the other to be the scapegoat to be sent away into the wilderness. The blood of the slain goat was taken into the Holy of Holies behind the sacred veil and sprinkled on the mercy seat, the lid of the ark of the covenant. Later in the ceremonies of the day, the High Priest confessed the intentional sins of the Israelites to God placing them figuratively on the head of the other goat, the Azazel scapegoat, who would symbolically "take them away".
9. The remaining Premier League game of the weekend's fixtures ended Brighton & Hove Albion 2-2 Stoke City. A good start for the hosts but it was the away side who took the lead, Shaqiri with the set-up for Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting just before the half hour.. really well played in, controlled by the Cameroonian instantly and finished with aplomb. Brighton should maybe have had a penalty just before the break, not awarded and Glenn Murray escaped more than a yellow for a rash challenge - possibly seething about the aforementioned. Still, karma called and Brighton were level through Gross before the break, a bit lucky through two sets of legs. They were only ahead for a minute with Zouma in injury time restoring Stokes lead from a poorly defended corner. Hour mark, Jose Izquierdo, equaliser - trying to feed a colleague but unable to, put the rebound in. Stoke should've been ahead through Ramadan Sobhi but he was well denied by the keeper.
10. Anyhow, I should probably catch up on what I failed to do last night, sleep battery charge wise. Did I mention that I quite like nice breasts? They're good. Indeed.
