Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle

Well. I've just got home and there's no message on the answering machine concerning the outcome of my interview earlier. They did say they'd phone this afternoon...but I said I wouldn't be in. Maybe they've decided to leave it until tomorrow - I'll be out most of the day then though also.

I think it went very well; they said they'd phone me later today (leave a message on the answerphone actually, because I'll be out.) I got on really well with the two people who interviewed me (a mother and son who had founded the organisation) and we seemed to agree on most issues when it comes to reintegrating various groups of people into mainstream society...I think I struggled a bit on the question about health and safety though, I didn't say much; but if I do get the job I'll be working in an office above a ladies' hairdressing salon so there aren't really any issues.

Yes; it went well and I'm feeling good at the moment. I might not be later though - I'll report the outcome.

'Lord Birkenhead is very clever, but sometimes his brains
go to his head'

Margot Asquith

'Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice Doggie!' till you can find a rock'

Wynn Catlin

"If infinite rednecks fired infinite shotguns at an infinite number of road
signs, they'd eventually create all the great literary works of the world in
braille."
-- Discordian Quote File

Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson) - "The surest sign that
intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that
it has never tried to contact us."

Sacred cows make the best hamburger. -- Mark Twain

A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass.
Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for sixteen hardened
criminals.
Ronnie Corbett

They think they can make fuel from horse manure... Now I don't know if
your car will be able to get thirty miles to the gallon, but it's sure
gonna put a stop to siphoning.
Billie Holliday

I would love to speak a foreign language but I can't. So I grew hair
under my arms instead.
Sue Kolinsky

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.
-- Sam Ewing

They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.
-- Milton Berle

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke (Clarke's 69th Law, The Odyssey File, 1984)

My computer goes down on me more often than my girlfriend.
-- Robert Paul

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
-- Edgar Dijkstra

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
-- Thomas Watson

Always be wary of the Software Engineer who carries a screwdriver.
-- Robert Paul

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
Anthony Walton

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton (1946 - )

America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
Bobcat Goldthwaite

There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.
Bono (1960 - ), Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
Charles Luckman

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
Georg W. Hegel (1770 - 1831)

America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
George W. Bush (1946 - ), speech, November 19, 1999

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
George W. Bush (1946 - ), Inaugural address, 2001

America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
George W. Bush (1946 - )

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 2002

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America (1936)

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford II (1917 - 1987)

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969), On the Road

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
Jeffery F. Chamberlain

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams (1735 - 1826)

I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
John Kerry (1943 - )

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike (1932 - ), Problems and Other Stories

York - Constantine (Roman Emperor),Dick Turpin, Guy Fawkes

Hull - William Wilberforce

Whitby - Captain Cook, Bram Stoker

Scarborough - Alan Ayckbourn (playwright)

Castleford - Henry Moore (sculptor)

Knaresborough - Old Mother Shipton

Mexborough - Ted Hughes (former Poet Laureate)