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My dad phoned up BT about the fault in the line. Unhappily, they persist in outsourcing their call centres to India. I have to wonder what the employees make of someone speaking broad Ulster-Scots. I can hardly understand it over the phone and I live in the same country! Mutual unintelligibility is all I can imagine happening. They kept telling us that someone will phone back at two o'clock. Possibly that's two o'clock Himalayan time, because it certainly didn't happen at 2pm BST. Grrr.

I'm toying with the idea of doing NaNo this year. I'm not liking the thought of counting words in longhand (that's the way I write all my first drafts). There are three things I might write: a Star Wars fanfic I've been meaning to write for years, a rather nebulous idea for original SF, or the semi-autobiographical thing that everybody's supposed to write at the first attempt.

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I've given my LJ a new look, all rainbow coloured. I'm not sure I'll stick with this style though, because I miss having my links in the sidebar.