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Mme Cyn: November 2006
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More Venus of Willendorf than Venus de Milo. Sunday, November 19, 2006. Confession time. Mme Cyn is that rare bird, the female commitment-phobe. If you read the women’s magazines, you’ll find it’s apparently a common enough failing among the male of the species, but females? What if I hate the climate? How can I know on Monday what I want to do on Friday? Etymologically, to decide is to kill off the other options. Decision = commitment= no escape. You see my problem. This then means waiting until I get t...
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Mme Cyn: July 2006
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More Venus of Willendorf than Venus de Milo. Saturday, July 29, 2006. Walk, don’t run! Was my father’s mantra when we were kids spending summers at the pool. You’ll fall on the tiles and crack your head open! You start walking on those tiles. So Thursday was my father’s fault. And ignoring the fact that pool water was cascading off my dripping bod. Next thing I knew, I hit the floor: coccyx shoulder blades head. Crack. Hard. I'm a big girl; I can deal with this. And so what do we do about that? As the ho...
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Mme Cyn: Tagged!
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More Venus of Willendorf than Venus de Milo. Thursday, February 21, 2008. I’ve been tagged by the Goat. So here’s the game:. 1 Pick up the nearest book of at least 123 pages. The Floating Brothel by Siân Rees The extraordinary true story of an 18th century ship and its cargo of female convicts. 2 Open the book to page 123 and quote the fifth sentence. With nothing in the way of detergent, the dirt was boiled and then beaten out of the linen. 3 Post the next three sentences. 4 Tag five people. Text, pictu...
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Mme Cyn: April 2007
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More Venus of Willendorf than Venus de Milo. Tuesday, April 24, 2007. The odd thing about taking a vacation in the 'wrong' term is that the university goes on without you. It's amazing what I've missed in ten short weeks. Changes in the cafeteria, the departmental paperwork, the recordkeeping procedures. "When did. Has been on my lips a lot the past few days. There has been one rather unusual, truly unexpected change. The university now has a . (wait for it). nail salon! Posted by Mme Cyn at 3:15 PM.
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Mme Cyn: March 2007
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More Venus of Willendorf than Venus de Milo. Tuesday, March 27, 2007. Don’t think that I’ve spent the entire month with wet hair and wrinkly fingers. We have occasionally left the water to do other things:. We also visited a butterfly garden, where various common and rare species are bred and preserved. The Goat was fascinated in particular by an Atlas moth, which one of the breeders handed to him. Impressive, but it’s still a bug. Posted by Mme Cyn at 3:47 PM. Saturday, March 17, 2007. The four year old...
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Mme Cyn: October 2006
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More Venus of Willendorf than Venus de Milo. Monday, October 23, 2006. I’ve always felt that my morning commute is better for having the radio on. CDs are nice, but rush hour just means radio to me. However, the radio in this town is utter, utter crap. I switched it off. I should have known better. The iPod is charging up as we speak. Posted by Mme Cyn at 8:10 PM. Tuesday, October 03, 2006. Posted by Mme Cyn at 6:24 PM. Monday, October 02, 2006. Have slipped out, even though it usually only dislodges wit...
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Mme Cyn: February 2007
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More Venus of Willendorf than Venus de Milo. Wednesday, February 28, 2007. I was hoping for a nice, gentle introduction to wrecks: you know, a little overhead environment stuff, a little bit of line work, maybe some navigation. I never got as far as that maskless swim drill. When I got down to 37 bar (well below my reserve of 50, for those of you who don’t dive), I signaled Sam that I absolutely had to go up, so he sent me to the surface. Now I’ll have to do the mask thing tomorrow. Oh joy. Is it just me...
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Mme Cyn: September 2006
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More Venus of Willendorf than Venus de Milo. Wednesday, September 27, 2006. Mme Cyn has not posted in a while, as she is out of sorts. It is one of those "what am I doing in this godforsaken sand pit" months, and as she has nothing nice to say, she has said nothing. And so I won't. Amazing how effectively living here in the sandlands has taught me to hold my tongue. My grandmother would have been thrilled - she tried to teach me for years. Posted by Mme Cyn at 12:59 AM. Friday, September 15, 2006. Came o...
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Mme Cyn: August 2006
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More Venus of Willendorf than Venus de Milo. Saturday, August 26, 2006. I dived Shark and Jolande reefs (gorgeous) and Gordon and Jackson reefs (stunning) and really enjoyed the local house reef in spite of the damage done to the close-in corals, but in the back of my mind was still the lust for the wreck. Way in 30 meters of water at the bottom of the Red Sea. And it was worth it. Posted by Mme Cyn at 2:13 AM. Wednesday, August 23, 2006. Posted by Mme Cyn at 1:33 AM. Tuesday, August 15, 2006. The guys w...
