Stephanie Booth's online ramblings
Tomorrow will be my second last day at Orange.
The script is working, and everything I coded is up on a test server running nicely.
A big thanks to all of you who helped me with technical questions, and another big thanks to everybody (online or IRL) who put up with me during these four very heavy weeks!
Je serais curieuse de savoir quelle proportion de la population dépend d’anxiolytiques et d’antidépresseurs pour mener une vie normale (peu importe finalement ce que veut dire normal, on le comprend bien).
Dans le même ordre d’idées, je me demande parfois quelle proportion de mes connaissances consomme régulièrement des substances telles que cocaine, héroine, extasy…
Dans les deux cas, les chiffres sont probablement bien plus élevés que ce que j’imagine.
Thanks in advance!
My thoughts are paralyzed. I’m not so naive as to think that my ideas are original. They have most certainly been already thought, discussed and opposed to.
It is a risk I have to take. I must take the risk of stating the blatantly obvious. Of saying wrong and being told so. Of being misunderstood. And finally, the risk of seeing my words say something else than what I intended.
Je n’ose plus rien dire.
Je sais que mes idées sont probablement loin d’être originales, et qu’elles ont sans doute été débattues, démontées et leurs faiblesses mises en lumière par des gens bien plus cultivés et compétents que moi.
Je cède sous le poids de l’inutilité. Je me sens prise dans un monde d’idées qui appartient déjà à autrui, d’idées qui ont déjà été pensées, et dont je ne peux échapper.
Il n’y a pas de point final, et c’est pourtant ce que j’aimerais tellement trouver.
Pourtant, j’ai besoin d’écrire pour réfléchir. Je dois prendre le risque d’avoir tort, prendre le risque de m’inscrire dans un courant de pensée critiquable ou de ne pas parvenir à communiquer le fond de ma pensée. Parce que je veux avancer.
I’m being bad. I’ve spent quite a few classes writing stuff down.
And it’s very hard to resist the temptation to type everything up and post it in one go.
But I’ll wait. I need sleep, don’t I?
Don’t do what silly me did: when you receive spam, avoid clicking on the “remove” link.
One of my email boxes is now being filled with offers to help me make lots of money in no time and with no effort.
I am therefore doing a net-hunt to figure out the best way of dealing with the problem. You can expect another “Advice” post on the subject once I have finished my research.
And in the meantime, don’t click any links on those nasty spammy emails!
There! I just had to write a review for the House of Style…
I think I’ve always felt I had something to say to the world – something to leave behind me.
Is everybody like that or is it just me?
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