yesterday = public holiday = catching up on domesticity.
how pleased was i when i hung my laundry out to dry in the cool autumn air and came back half an hour later to find them shrugging in the sun? so pleased i went to fetch my camera so i could document it.
of course, 20 minutes [...]

this weekend just past, my sister, my aunt, my cousin may and i decided we were going to go to canberra and bug my cousin teck (may’s brother).
a few things about teck:

he’s 8 years older than i am. when you’re 8 years old (which i was when we first moved here) this means that he [...]

so for the first time in ever, i am actually really looking forward to winter this year.
bring out the boots, the big coats, the super-long scarves you can wrap round your neck twice and still have enough to left to service the neck of the person next to you (although walking may be difficult).
i have [...]

i dragged my rather reluctant sleepy self out of bed on saturday morning to get to the great escape festival out at newington armoury. if it wasn’t for the promise of anna and dec’s company, i dare say i might not have made it out there at all.
highlights of the day included the delicious vegetarian [...]

v for vendetta: well worth seeing, in spite of its flaws.
the ending, with parliament house being blown to smithereens to the sounds of the 1812, made my breath catch and tears spring to my eyes.
mainly, i think, because deep down in the very core of my being i am a nihilist.

heathens that most of us are, it’s really just an excuse for a long weekend and lots of chocolate. not that i ever need an excuse for the latter, but oh! look how many rabbit-shaped confections line the shelves of my local supermarket and call to me with satiny cocoa voices like so many sirens.

or [...]

he was sentimental, but rarely outwardly so.
they would sometimes walk with their arms around each other, but he didn’t really like holding hands - it impedes the momentum of walking, he said. when she told me this i laughed, this would not be a stretch coming from someone as science-minded as he.
they had a [...]

pandora threw this up the other night; i went looking for it and have since been listening to it on repeat, non-stop.
do you have that habit? of listening to one track again and again, until something of its nature has diffused into everything you do and settles into a gossamer coverlet over your perception?
i listened, [...]

the tag reads:
Ever Wondered What God looks like? Well this is him and, boy, does he look different. Swipe your arm through the air and you are reconfiguring an unimaginable amount of Red Flyers. In his enlarged state, he offers invincibility and absolute power to his human companion.
i don’t know about invincibility and absolute [...]

how to make the data entry aspect* of my job easier:
when asked about your cultural heritage, refer to yourself as a “disillusioned british australian” or a “whitefella”.
or, when asked about the main reason you came to see the show, fill out the Other line with “because we wanted to do something and this was what [...]