breaking up

What's the best/worst way to break up with someone you're dating, not all that seriously. A purely academic question. In order of options available there are, in person; phone; fax; text message; email.

Is email so bad these days? It gives you privacy to get the message and also allows the person on the receiving end to get on the moral high ground and really hate the person that broke up wiht them. For the person sending the email, they don't have to be there in person, they can do it from work, they can go on with their day. They should of course turn off their phone at that point. It should be written with care. One has to assume it'll be forwarded to all their friends. Perhaps sent to a newspaper or something. So caution is advised.

Texting seems quite bad too. Perhaps worse. At least in an email there's room to be a little expansive, or explanatory. Texting using short hand iwould be bad. "u r g8's" or something like that. I think out of respect one should at least have predictive texting switched on. Please let me know your suggestions for texting a break-up.

This new Dublin

Just listening to an economist talking about how Ireland has changed. Several interesting insights. One was that there are more Mercedes in Dublin than there are in Munich. They are made in Munich. Good stuff, eh? There's a whole new snobbery happening. I think I have to read his book; "The Popes Children". It's about people that are between 25 and 34 now and how they behave. There's an explosion in people sending their children to Gaelscoils. These are schools that teach all subjects through Irish. We pretty much ALL hated learning Irish in school. It's become an aspirational way of differentiating your children. This is also a manifested in all the different and wierd names that people are giving thier children. A girl I know is aunty to Oscar (not bad), Woody (toy story?), and Murphy. That's right, Murphy as a first name. He also is talking about the proliferation of Decks in Ireland. The word did not exist when I lived here, except referring to what's on a boat. Barbequing has become huge. As inexperienced grillers, samonella has also become huge. Interesting times. I'm glad to be back to watch it.

Dancing

I know there is that old line "Dance like no ones watching". Well, I have to dance as if people are watching, because if I don't then they soon are.

from home

There's a lot of people working from home these days. I'm one of them. Turns out I actually need supervision to be productive. I'm sitting here not working from home right now. It's wierd not working from home. It's not the solitary nature of it, it's more that there's absolutely nothing to steal, or at least nothing worth stealing.

Turns out I needed that supervision to prevent me from taking home anything not bolted down. I now am forced to buy office supplies. Can you believe it? When did you last buy a simple blue pen. I've had to go out to a shop and buy pens, and pads of paper. There's actually shops that sell office supplies. I thought it that the office was just a plance where one could get that sort of thing. Like picking blackberries from a bush on a country lane. Staples and paper and pens are just the wild crops of the office environment, waiting to be harvested.