… thinking about the afterlife.

Yes, folks – I am off to a clairvoyant on Thursday – not a personal reading, they are way too expensive, but a much smaller gathering than I have been to in the past, where there has been a whole theatre full of people, therefore less chance of a reading. (And for all of you who know me quite well – yes I am quite a cynical person, however part of me must think (or perhaps hope) there is something more to life than this!! Otherwise – what is the point? OK – maybe there is no point – maybe THAT is the point, that there isn’t one – but I hope to approach this with an open mind and look forward to reporting back!

Let’s face it, for me to “believe” I need names, dates, and talk of things only I know about! What I don’t want is “Is there someone here called Joan… Jean… Jane?? Geoff??”.

I am a big fan of “Most Haunted”, mainly because it is so entertaining, much of which is due to a certain person (we are talking Richard Felix here) being so unconvincing you wonder why he is allowed on the show. He is the type of person who, if he had a complete change of career (whatever he does??) and became a weather man – even if there was a foot of snow outside and he said it was snow – you would be thinking “Well it might not be snow – it might be icing sugar”. He just has this air of – I don’t know what, exactly – ineptness about him. He seems totally inept.

Which brings me very nicely to something I have been pondering this week – what is the opposite of inept? Is it ept? Have you ever heard someone described as “ept”? No – nor me!! Perhaps it is uninept? Spell-checker is, of course, ept enough to show me that these words are not real. Thesaurus tells me the opposite of inept is competent – but anyway – inept is my word of the week and I will be using it as much as physically possible.

Also today I have discovered the cure for insomnia – it is a short book called Rome in the Late Republic – for any sufferers out there, it is worth getting – I can’t get past page 4 – I keep waking up with my face on the pages. It costs £12.99 – you could maybe get one cheaper from Amazon Marketplace – but it would probably be soggy with dribble.

Ooooh! I have just spotted another word for inept – ham-fisted – I wonder what a ham-fisted vegetarian would be called. Quorn-fisted perhaps?

Do you get the impression I am struggling with my revision today? I can only work between 6 am and 9 am – after that it is all downhill. And I am really NOT a mornings person – I have only recently discovered this is my best working time. It might explain why I was so crap at school – had it started at 6 in the morning I’d have been great! Of course, the problem with not being a mornings person is that I do have to force myself to get up at that time – and this morning it just didn’t happen! So I am sort of trying – but struggling with a wandering mind – hence this blog… hence my testing all my various highlighter pens out to see which is the best… hence sorting out my black biros into thickness order (thickness of pen – not ink), although this is because I have just read that when you are writing for 3 hours in an exam you need a variety of thicknesses of pens. You should start writing with the thinnest and progress to the fattest – this is supposed to stop your hand hurting. I wish I was ambidextrous – that would be great – I could then write 2 answers at the same time and leave after an hour and a half. Actually (for any inventers out there) what I REALLY need is something that looks exactly like a biro, but has a little hidden window, and some sort of memory inside the pen, so that I could cheat really effectively. If it could also be used to scan the question, then wirelessly connect to the internet and find the best answer, then write it out in my writing, even better! (Quickly though – the exam is in 2 weeks!!)