North of the Stupid Line » Ramblings http://www.robwilks.com To signify an individual of subnormal intelligence and general social ignorance Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:26:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Life is perfect, or is it? http://www.robwilks.com/2010/02/23/life-is-perfect-or-is-it/ http://www.robwilks.com/2010/02/23/life-is-perfect-or-is-it/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:16:39 +0000 Rob http://www.robwilks.com/2010/02/23/life-is-perfect-or-is-it/ I reach the tender age of 30 this year, and I do think I’m lucky in the sense that my life is perfect. My issue is, is it really that perfect? Should I, at the very least, be thinking that it is perfect?

First of all, how does one define “perfect”? Does it mean perfect as in “I’ve got everything I’ve ever wanted” or does it mean “I have everything ‘normal’ people should have”?

My life is perfect in the sense that I have a gorgeous wife, a smashing little boy, a job that I love (sometimes!) with a bunch of people I’m close to, a nice roof over my head, a fairly new car, and I get pretty much anything I want, when I want it, as I have the financially stability to do so.

However, I still want more (don’t we all?!). I’d love to get a job closer to home to reduce the amount of travelling I do (hey, I’m not getting any younger!), which would give me the added bonus of seeing my little family every single day. I want an Audi TT (preferably brand new!) and a mansion with an indoor swimming pool! At particularly stressful times at work, I want peace and quiet. I want, I want, I want … !

Does the fact that I want more than I already have mean that my life is not perfect after all? Or am I just being greedy?

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Will see about posting a little more regularly. Have a few things to get off my chest.

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I know I’ve been neglecting North of the Stupid Line of late. I don’t really know why. I guess work has just been so overwhelming that I just can’t be bothered to post in the evenings.

There’s not much to report really:

  • The garage is almost complete; just the roof to go. Will post some pictures fairly soon.
  • I’ve relaunched Deaf Lawyers UK. If you want to become a lawyer and you’re Deaf, please go have a look, as we really want to get membership going again.
  • At work, we’ve launched a new webcam advice project across England and Wales to Deaf BSL users who are eligible for legal aid. It’s a brilliant, innovative project which potentially has enormous benefits for the Deaf community; making legal advice accessible to all Deaf BSL and sign language users. We all know how difficult it can be to make service providers, particularly solicitors, to provide BSL to English Interpreters for appointments etc. I will post the press release in a separate post.
  • I’ve got a new Communication Assistant at work – Lianne Lusty – who will also act as a personal assistant on some things. I’ve got high hopes that she’s going to stop me drowning in work!

More soon.

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  • Russians hacking the blog;
  • Being away on holiday; and
  • Lethargy,

somehow, I don’t think silence is that golden after all.

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Me: yep, just lost motivation, plus so busy with work, and need to do dissertation. just too many pressures atm
A: i know blogging is difficult sometimes, i have probs with
A: ok
A: well one liner then
A: am drowning in work
Me: lol

There you have it, my first blog post in about three months!

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So here goes:

Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday dear me!
Happy birthday to me!

HIP, HIP, HOORAY!

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“Normality and difference are two sides of the same coin.” (( Lawson, A, “Mind the Gap! Normality, Difference and the Danger of Disablement Through Law”, in Lawson, A and Gooding, C, Disability Rights in Europe: from theory to practice, Hart Publishing, 2005, at 265 ))

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After all, I do wake up at 6.45am ….

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If you’re desperate enough to want a piece of me in the meantime, keep checking this page for any twitter updates in the right column under “Out and about”. Alternatively, check out my twitter page. I’ll update it now and again using my mobile while I’m in Gran Canaria.

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Snow in the backyard

It didn’t last long, alas – it was more or less gone by lunchtime.

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