At the moment I’m curled up on the couch, eating mandarins and organic chocolate biscuits, editing the theory chapter of my cousin’s thesis. Yesterday the rain was so heavy that you couldn’t see five centimetres past the window pane. Today the sun is streaming in and the hills are so crisp you could cut them [...]
Entries from June 2007
June 23, 2007
Three o’clock again, again.
It’s three o’clock in the morning again. Again, again, again. I’m beginning to wonder whether my life isn’t destined to be a series of three o’clocks. Right now I’m eating dark chocolate and listening to Nina Simone. At two o’clock I was crying. At two-thirty I poured myself another gin.
I’d like to blame this aimless [...]
June 20, 2007
Argh.
Still sick. Still tired. But at least I’ve started drinking again.
In other news, I went into the office today, only to find that we had been mailed a preview version of this cd. Can’t say he isn’t stalking me now, Mel!
June 14, 2007
Cold.
That is to say, it is cold, and I have a cold.
Somewhere between 3.30am last drinks on Monday and 8am wake-up on Tuesday, my immune system went on strike. Consequently I’ve spent the last three days huddled under blankets, sipping tea and clutching a hot water bottle and dosing up on pseudoephedrine. Oh, except for [...]
June 12, 2007
Tuesday night.
Coming home tonight the tram was strangely silent. No-one talked on their mobiles, or chatted to friends. A few people listened to music, but all that provided was a lilting hum, a staticky background to the muffling quiet. Everyone seemed lost in contemplation as the tram lurched through the night.
It made me think about the [...]
June 8, 2007
Hipster update!
Remember the perfect hipster*? After writing about him, I kept seeing him on various trams, walking along Smith St, and loitering on street corners. And then I was dithering around the internet recently, one vague and aimless day, and I came upon this photo… and this one… and this one… and either he’s infiltrated every [...]
June 5, 2007
Renovations.
You might have noticed the schmalzy new colour scheme. Don’t worry, it won’t be around for long – just until I teach myself enough HTML to really, as the kids say, ‘pimp’ this site. Or until I bribe the magazine’s tech guy to do it for me, either way.
Also, because I have done an absolutely [...]
June 4, 2007
Media I have consumed in the past 48 hours.
Books: Fresh Apples, Rachel Trezise.Hung over on Sunday morning, with the taste of tsatsziki lingering in my mouth and my hair smelling of other people’s cigarettes, there was nothing for it but to go back to bed with a cup of tea and read a book from start to finish. I’d nicked Fresh Apples from [...]
June 1, 2007
Still life with eggplant.
Someone at the supermarket – whoever’s in charge of visual merchandizing (or its grocery-store equivalent), I guess – has decided it would be a good idea to wedge a compartment full of individual containers of chocolate ‘dipping sauce’ between the strawberries and the pears. It took me a second to process this, as I’m [...]
