The colour of my brain is red; I always thought it was grey

Your Brain is Red

Of all the brain types, yours is the most impulsive. If you think it, you do it. And you can get the bug to pursue almost any passion. Your thoughts are big and bold. Your mind has no inhibitions. You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about love, your dreams, and distant places.

What Color Is Your Brain?

I always thought they were grey...

Today's Fiction URL

...this T-shirt is called "Spoilt", for good reason.

Today's limerick, from two lines in cjsmith's journal

A wonderful bird is the Yex!
It's got one big head on two necks.
It sees all around it--
Many things that astound it--
And numerous things that perplex.

First two lines from here, last three lines from my Red Brain.

Today's Romantic URL

...Marriage is a Biblical institution, according to this website. Be sure to click on "Home" to see the list of brides. I do hope this is a spoof...

Today's Lunchtime Meanderings

When I'm in the Victoria office, I usually walk to Victoria Place for lunch (jacket potato). Today's walk was not without interest.

First, after getting some cash, I walked down Chester Street towards Victoria. A woman, about 35 years old, stick-thin, was locking her front door while her (driver/butler?) was loading a suitcase into her car. A woman of a certain age was walking by, and I heard this exchange:

Woman of a Certain Age (WCA): Good morning, dear. Are you going any place nice?
Stick-thin woman: St. Tropez.
WCA: Oh, that's lovely.

I was out of earshot by this time, but this is the neighbourhood in which I work.

At Eaton Gardens, there was a drunk sitting on the ground leaning on the fence, bottle at the ready and a puddle of pee a few feet away. Again, this is my work neighbourhood.

At Chester Square, the police guard at Margaret Thatcher's pad was pacing with his rifle. What a job, guarding Margaret Thatcher, Milk-Snatcher. This week's If... comic in thegrauniad G2 resurrects the old battleaxe and it's quite funny.

Yet again, I had to dodge multiple unfortunates with pet suitcases, none of whom had the foggiest idea of their location or destination.

Victoria Place has plasma screens all over. A few weeks ago, they had annoying little blurbs every 30 seconds or so extolling the virtues of eating there if you're hungry, drinking there if you're thirsty, and the like. All these have disappeared. In their place has appeared innumerable music videos. Blurgh. The jacket potato with cottage cheese and chives was exceptionally good this noon--why, I can't tell you. The potato skin wasn't dry and burnt, but moist and lovely.

On the way back I passed a nursery school on Eccleston Street. The teachers/minders/keepers/guards were herding the little dears into the school before turning the darlings over to their childminders for the afternoon. Each child had an electric blue uniform with a white straw boater hat on top. It looked like some surreal midget Swiss Guard troop were going into the school.

London adventures.

Yoga update

I went to my fifth class last night. The leader was a bit down, for personal reasons, but the class itself was perky and very lively, as usual. He gave me lots of praise, saying that I had improved markedly since I started.

Of course, this makes me feel good, but, more importantly, I think it has changed my health a bit for the better. My feet feel better, I think I've lost some weight, and I feel perkier. There are some pains involved (especially a few days after the class) but that's to be expected in this quickly-elderly body of mine.

I will continue to go on Wednesdays, and try to get to the Saturday classes once or twice a month. Continuous updates as appropriate.

Happy birthday, urban_bohemian

...and many happy returns of the day!

Today's Vocabulary Meme

Your Vocabulary Score: A

Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary! You must be quite an erudite person.

How's Your Vocabulary?