Its summer in the northern hemisphere, which as of the current location seems to mean that the break neck speed of the nine previous months is suddenly interrupted by the urgency of global travel, road trips, residencies and a general being ‘elsewhere’. Grounded as I am by my broken heel, I have had no other choice but to confront the material conditions of my life in situ. Or in other words, I have been taking advantage of the space created to attend to long overdue piles of paper to be filed, data to be sorted, cables to be coiled. In the process of my filing, I rediscovered some of the funny, weird newspaper clippings collected during my brief dalliance as an office worker with internet, free printing and nothing to do:

Disabled seek damages for ‘wrongful life’ An Australian woman sues the doctor (who failed to diagnose her mother’s Rubella in early pregnancy) for her life, but her “lawyers deny she is complaining about being born.” Apparently such cases have been successful elsewhere, including in the States - just another example of paradox writ loud in this country of the pro-life bomber.

Astrologer courts trouble for NASA “A Russian court has ruled that an astrologer can sue NASA over plans to bombard a comet whose destruction would “disrupt the natural balance of the universe.” I’m assuming the case never made it very far but it has got me pondering on the astrological significance of satellites - my Acrimsat is conjunct my Cryosat this afternoon and its making me cold all over.

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