Josef Conrad and his English writing

A pain in my eyes. I shouldn't have been writing till 2 am. a computer is not so safe as a paper. But my diploma is growing a word by word. :) On the BBC a conversation with 3 University lecturers about Joseph Conrad, unfortunately when they attempted to explain why this Polish writer brought up with Polish and French language had decided to write in English my coffee machine went noisy and I couldn't hear the answer. Anybody knows? But it was in some way quite satisfying to hear how they struggled to pronounce properly names of his Polish relatives and friends... I know I shouldn't say (feel?) that but well, I do feel a satisfaction, so I am just honest. I suppose this kind of satisfaction roots in my internal mental problems manifested at the moment in my "English language case" but let's stop that psychoanalysis at this point. I read somewhere (in the Guardian?) that Susan Sontag described Conrad as "the one who speaks broken English..." and it helps as well.

Anyway, I have to rush as I need to pop in to the library on my way to work.

No more moaning!

I decided to stop moaning.
I am just unbearable.
No wonder nobody read it.
I wouldn't if it wasn't my blog...
Enough is enough.
Hence lets enumerate 10 nice things recently happened:


- 1 day of beautiful winter (see above)
- a nice birthday supper
- I have meta nice girl and we arranged to meet this week (a new friend?)
- I got beautiful birthday card signed by all people at my work
- delicious cake made by Somebody so I can take it today to work and say thank you for your beautiful card
- I have a brilliant job
- they need me in London as well as they call me quite often recently to ask if I can work there
- I became a student again and can do a diploma project
- I have already prepared (in my head) a plan of work and only need to write it down and send to my tutor (well, of course, before I need to have it edited by an English person...)
- I need to execute it
- People I emailed replayed to my emails ready to help in my project

Well it's even more then 10 and I have just started!!!

However I have to finish and start dry ma hair otherwise I will be late to my dreamed work. Have a great day! :)*

PS. I made only 5 misspelling - 4 of them caused by my absentmindedness. What about a grammar?

My Birthday

Well, it's gone well - only one, maybe 2 culture clashes/misunderstandings at work, nice atmosphere at work and at home. 3 glasses of wine in the evening.
Forget about a party planned for 30 people that will have changed into 2-day marathon of friends of your friends' friends at your door. And don't think about coming back and doing it next year at home. They are not there neither. All of them are now spread around of the world.
But I don't feel old as everybody predicted. Ha!

Too busy to do anything? :>

Civil Servants have gone on strike... now it is not only The National Gallery (with its Holiday issue) but all galleries, museums, libraries, councils... Partially there is why I am at home today. And I should carry my diploma research (yes I have got back to studying! :) ) The thing is that I have been thinking about it all week long and can't think anymore. At least not today? I have downloaded enough material to read all day long so maybe I do that at least? I really need some push today ;) The good think of having my research to do is that I am not so afraid of losing my job - even if it happen I will still have something to do, something that is now much more important that the job. Hmm... I know it is not reasonable way of thinking. But I am still trembling when I think about this possibility, I am... Fortunately I don't have much time to think about it, as I still haven't decided yet what that project will be about! Of course I have some general ideas but precisely? but objectives? but... anyway, I will manage. I HAVE to. Loads of love to anybody who jumped here for long enough to have it read .