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(*snappy title, i know!) so. i just chatted to a friend about what i wrote about last night .  and about the new years' resolutions i made in january - whether i'd actually stuck to them or not.  we concluded that i had managed some (definitely done more photography and more writing, spent more time with friends, and learnt some stuff), a few i've sort of worked on (i'm a bit better at rationalising and actually believing my rationalising of my negative self-speak. a bit.), and some have just been a total fail (getting more sleep...going out less...erm, yeah, right). so, following on from my ground-breaking realisation that i actually need to take some action to stop this pretty blatantly destructive pattern of self-imposed sleep depravation, and all of the emotional issues that seem to be, if not resultant, at least somehow related to it, we came up with a bit of an action plan - three specific goals that i'll be putting into practice starting from tonight. unf...

The news this morning (especially that around the brutal eviction of Dale Farm) had me start the day feeling fed up and more than a litle hopeless.  What I see at Occupy LSX, and hear from the Occupy Movement in general, restored the hope that things can be different. Today I got to spend a good few hours at the camp.  Every day I note this, but... every day, it seems, in between my visits, there is growth and there is progress.  Talks, workshops and working groups continue - having attended a working group myself for the first time since Saturday, and also signing up to the Indy Media team, I find still a great level of incusion, real listening, and a welcoming of various ideas and opinions. General Assembly - rumours that the Cathedral have asked Occupy LSX to leave were officially quashed.  It seems The Times and the Evening Standard have got their facts wrong (great journalism as usual, then!) - a good inidcation, perhaps, that the initial positive reportin...

Just a quickish one tonight. I ended up going down to the camp not once but twice tonight.  I had the idea to take down, from all the things on the camp's needed list, sand.  Well, grit, if you want to be technical.  I got there to be told that there'd been a call for sand just a few minutes back.  Lots of questions about where I'd got it and wonderings if I could get any more gave me the idea of going back.  So I did.  Dragged my brother out of the house at about 11.00, and headed down with even more of the stuff. All gratefully received. At the camp this evening, I was bemused once again by how much things had grown since I was there the day before.  The camp has a library now, and while I was there, a talk was being given outside it by Hamish Watson on 'Eternal Revolution - the dialectic of universal history'.  The field kitchen is now rather massive, and while I was there, I witnessed the arrival of the Info Point's new gazebo, fully formed ...

despite the flux of old blogs from my old facebook account i realised that i haven't actually written anything in a long while.  kind of been missing in action... you'd be forgiven for thinking i've just been sitting around with my feet up actually, i've just retreated a little from the virtual world i have been doing a fair bit of stuff, though...   gardening my niece and i started a whole nursery of seedlings on our balcony - that deserves  blog of its own. i've been taking a lot of photos and expanding my stash of camera bits the other day i actually referred to myself as a 'freelance photographer' - more in jest than anything else, really, though, just mimicking what a friend had just described me as.  not quite there yet. i've discovered new places  made first visits and had brilliant times learning from new friends developing friendships is one of  the things i've had a lot of time for other the past few months.  so whet...