4/01/01

Well hey I thought I'd better write something half-sensible on the off-chance someone actually goes 'hey that's Sarah's homepage... hang-on.. what the...?'

So here goes. This is the homepage of Sarah Briggs. I don't currently have any pretty pictures up but maybe I could change that soon. I have some nice jpg's around. It just takes effort to slap them on my homepage. Oh hell, maybe I could try huh....

Sometimes I think I'd rather live here.

I'm currently working here and here with lots of kiddiewinkles but I'd rather be doing this. One day maybe I'll be brave enough to throw it all to the wind.

I know a disturbing amount of roleplayers. I have even been converted to the cause. Nearly. Someone please help. I even spend time at the beach with them.

Sometimes I try to live like this (I love this one... I keep on seeing it everywhere I go):

DESIDERATA

Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others you may become vain and bitter for always there will be greater and lesses person than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is. Many persons strive for high ideals and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disappointment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars. You have a right to be here. And whether it is clear to you or not, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul. With all its sham and drudgery and broken dreams it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.

- Max Ehrman, 1927.

hi there... back again 24/07/2000

God I hate courses that take such a long time to get through nothing... "let's do a walkthrough about logging on and off" kind of stuff...

I'm feeling bitter and twisted today but have a nice day anyway... I rather like the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing."

"Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D."

"Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

~Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Maybe since no-one is likely to read this I could write anything

Probably wouldn't matter anyway even if someone did read this

Today I'm wondering why trust is such a fragile thing. Sometimes I think there are only three things in this world which are really challenges worth going for... and the only three things which will ever get you real respect. Love, wisdom and courage. What happens when people don't have the courage to tell the truth? What happens when that means I have to have the courage not to let it eat me up? What happens if the best thing I can do is nothing?

Today the kids at work watched a movie about a chinese girl who becomes a warrior instead of her father b/c she is afraid if he joins the army instead he will be killed. The Emperor says of her: "the flower which blooms in adversity is the rarest of all".

Gladfever. (n) : 1. A medical condition characterised by excessive gladness. 2. A plague of gladflies (close relatives of the gadfly) which transmit gladfever. (Care should be taken as the gladfly has a sting with which to inject generous (for the glad-fly is nothing if not generous) doses of gladness into the victim)