Just like an actual update (only crunchy).

These past few days have been cold and a bit of a blur – a steady diet of emails and meetings and bureaucracy, washed down with a healthy measure of gin. I don’t want to give you the wrong impression about my nascent alcoholism – I’m aware that a lot of my day-to-day life involves [...]

For God’s sake.

I just curled up on the couch with a bowl of minestrone soup and watched Grey’s Anatomy, which this week featured an Amish teenager with cervical cancer caught between two cultures, and the rather melodramatic decisions she had to make. Then I flicked over to the ABC and caught the documentary version of Richard Dawkin’s [...]

Day off.

Today is about yoga and typing and cooking and hanging out the washing. It’s about inventing a new taxonomy of laundry-hanging based on degrees of wetness and then making a song about it. It’s remarkably sunny, and warm, and the few weeks of rain have made the backyard lush and green. Today is about hanging [...]

Thursday night lights.

I’m alone in the office, slightly tipsy after drinks with co-workers, playing music from Jono’s computer, typing on Gill’s, and wearing a jumper Seb brought back from Hong Kong that says “Listen Flavour – whole lotta love and a little bit of insanity” on the front above a print of a can of soup and [...]

I’M IN UR SOCIOLINGUISTICS

I’ve been a bit obsessed with lolcat grammar recently. I don’t know why, but it is driving me up the wall that I cannot find a consistent syntax anywhere on the internet. Surely someone has parsed this, right? I read a fairly cute, but frustratingly brief discussion here, by way of this site, but it’s [...]

Espresso machine!

We are now the proud owners of a very old, second-hand espresso machine, scrounged from my parents’ garage and in dire need of a clean. It’s called the “Cappucino Express”. I’m in love.
I’ve had too much coffee already today – macchiato spiked with whiskey, as befits us editor-types – but I cannot wait to set [...]

Hair, coats, babbling.

I chopped all of my hair off the other day, Mia Farrow style, and now I have a hankering for Peter Pan collars. Peter Pan collars on shift dresses, Peter Pan collars on blouses with little cap sleeves. Specifically, I would like a winter-weight midnight blue coat with – you guessed it – a Peter [...]

A placeholder update, in list form, with links.

For no other reason than my feeling like writing an itinerary, here is a list of things I have done in the last week:
- Attended a reading of The Iliad with Helen and her family at The Stork Hotel. Books 22 to 24, the seige of Troy, Hector’s battle with Achilles and Priam’s journey [...]

Brief, quiet.

Suddenly this edition is at the printers’. Proofreading has been done. Legals have been cleared. Deadlines have been met. Tendons untighten, stress headaches disappear, fingers itch to write and glistening wine unwinds spools of knotted neck. No deadlines for two months.
Breakfast this morning at Babka’s. Celebratory blinzes, coffee. Who needs verbs? Short supply. Shoes [...]

Cute and cuter.

I think Georgia might be trying to kill me with cuteness, as she brought home two tiny little chicks today to keep Hegel company. We’re waiting for Bec to get home to name them; they’re quietly chirping out the back, dozing off snuggled up against each other and then jumping up and running around and [...]