That burn on my arm hasn’t settled at all – in fact, it’s gotten redder and kind of angry-looking – so I got my dad to have a look while I was over at my parents’ place tonight. I’ve always been quick to scar, and have some doozies on my hands (baking, sewing, spiders) and [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 23, 2008
Lazy weekend
Right after writing about how clumsy I’ve been this weekend, I managed to burn my arm on a saucepan full of popcorn. The cat got under my feet, and now I am disfigured. Well, not really, but I do have a rather big and rather ugly mark. It looks like one of those strawberry birthmarks, [...]
June 21, 2008
Mishaps and books
You know how some days just go wrong? I’ve been having one of those. Nothing too dramatic, it’s just been aggravating. I tried to buy a birthday present for my sister but it wasn’t in stock. On the train on the way to my parents’ place for her birthday lunch, I got pulled up by [...]
June 17, 2008
The importance of not being earnest*
*JB, I would let you have this (awful) title if you updated your blog more than twice a year. Still available (and much better!) – The impotence of being earnest.
During a raucous dinner involving three-quarters of The Tessellations tonight, the topic of earnestness came up, along with our spaghetti marinara. Earnestness has been much discussed [...]
June 13, 2008
Domestic
I handed the last of my assessment in today, and suddenly I’ve gone all domestic. Perhaps it’s that I’ve been putting off things like cooking proper meals while shoulder-deep in words. Maybe it’s that it’s raining, bucketloads all over Melbourne, and rain always makes you feel cozy and like staying in. Anyway, I baked.
Actually, firstly [...]
June 10, 2008
The park at night
A lot of people find the park at night eerie, but I don’t. I find it comforting. I like that there’s a place I can go that’s totally devoid of people. Some nights, like tonight on my way home early from a room full of people half-drunk on mulled wine, I go and sit in [...]
June 8, 2008
The magic dress
Right now I’m slumped on my bed, tremendously hung over and in a great deal of psychic pain, needing to somehow produce many many words by tomorrow. I am wearing a magical dress in the hopes that this will happen.
I bought it only a little while ago and I’ve barely taken it off. It’s navy [...]
June 4, 2008
Triumphant stage debut
So, I made my quasi-triumphant stage day-butt last night. It went okay. I’ve been floating the idea of a spoken-word burlesque show for a while, so I decided to write a trial version for a class I’ve been taking. Part of the assessment for this class was a performance of your own script, which is [...]
June 1, 2008
Blah blah whinge
What seemed like the start of a moderately inconvenient cold on Thursday has now revealed itself to be the motherbitch of all schedule-interrupting illnesses. Every bone in my body aches. My eyelids are too heavy. I can’t hear anything or smell anything and I got the dizzies walking back from the cafe this morning. I [...]
