All over the neighbourhood, cats are yowling. There’s something unholy about cat-sound, something that sets your teeth on edge. Ever since we got the cat, this house seems to have become a hub of cat activity. There’s a black cat that comes and fights with a sandy cat for Hamlet’s attention. At night I hear [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 25, 2008
Things I have seen yesterday what filled me with mirth
1. I meant to write this yesterday, but clearly I am writing it today. Walking to the chemist I passed this guy on a pushbike, riding with no helmet and a lit cigarette in his mouth. He may or may not have had the sleeves of his leather jacket pushed up; there as definitely some [...]
August 20, 2008
Reproductive rights round-up
In good news: By Christmas, women in Victoria should have the right to to abortions without fear of prosecution. It’s astounding to think that it has taken until 2008 – 2008! – to get abortion out of the Crimes Act, but there you go. Under the new legislation, women can safely and legally terminate a pregnancy [...]
August 18, 2008
The Sports Thing
So, if you’ve run into me in the last few weeks, you’ll have noticed that I resembled the walking dead. I’m feeling better now, but I spent the best part of a fortnight in bed curled up with the flu, hallucinating, sweating, and missing all my classes. The only times I ventured out of the [...]
August 15, 2008
Review: Stepping out
Maybe I’m biased, but I’m going to state for the record that my little sister, in the role of Mrs Fraser, was just about the highlight of her school production of Stepping Out. No-one gives a withering glance like the Friedmann girls, and as a primly sarcastic piano-playing terror, Lil was just about perfect. I [...]
August 11, 2008
Just try to be gracious
Recently a few people have given me unexpected and unexpectedly effusive compliments, and it’s made me nervous. I’m not a very good compliment-taker: this is the way the conversation usually unfurls.
They: I am going to give you a compliment.
Me: No, you are wrong.
It seems the height of bad manners to shrug someone’s well-intentioned words off [...]
August 9, 2008
Review: breakfast
Somehow, without planning to, I spent three consecutive nights south of the Yarra (like Goldilocks, in three consecutive beds). I also ate three consecutive breakfasts out, which means I have zero dollars right now but enough crumbs to find my way home. Let’s see how these breakfasts fared, shall we?
Breakfast no 1: Observatory Cafe (at [...]
August 4, 2008
The meat dilemma
So I’ve been a vegetarian for about ten years now. I stopped eating red meat at eleven, and brokered a deal with my mother that resulted in my eating chicken “for the protein” until I got my period at thirteen. Fish has swum in and out of my diet, I have a great love of [...]
