Gwynne's Blog

Yes, I am a woman. And I’m 27. And I’m a programmer.

That is all.

“Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.

It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.” – Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams.

I’ve gotten this question once or twice already. I didn’t realize I even had that many readers yet! But the ones I do have don’t seem to get the reference.

Sa souvraya niende misain ye.

The line is written in the Old Tongue language from the excellent Wheel of Time series by the late Robert Jordan, and its exact translation into plain English is “I am lost within my own mind.”