Category Archives: Random
Listening to this …
… again, just coz it never gets old.
Go here for The Short Go: A Future in Eight Seconds by Lisa Hannett.
Then when you’re done, go here and buy the book.
The Perfect Getaway
We went away this weekend just passed, for a combination early anniversary, late PhD, and SO’s birthday celebration. We went here and it was pure bliss.
I’ve been wanting to go to the Narrows Escape at Montville for
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Moment of intense frustration …
… whilst reading a HR document and finding that selection criteria includes “clear annunciation”.
I was unaware of the opportunities in the public service to tell virgins that The Lord was going to be their baby-daddy.
Sweet mother of crap, learn to spell … and enunciate.
I’m not a horror writer’s bootstrap
Yes, I know, strange saying, but it belong to my grandma Maisie and she was a font of strange sayings, many of which have been passed down to my mother, sister and I.
But back to my point –
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T’is the season to be meh …
Yes, it’s that time of the year when EoYM strikes.
That’s End of Year Malaise, a term coined many years ago by my old pal and sparring partner, Charlie Sutton. It describes the period from the beginning
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You know things are bad when …
… the advertising on the back of the bus for a book says ‘From the publisher of The Girl Who Played with Fire‘ … apparently the author is truly dead.
Go, Marketing Department! Apparently people are so
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Sweet mother of crap
I am STILL – AGAIN – reworking PhD minor rewrites and I swear all I’m doing is polishing a turd.
I would throw myself on my eighteenth century fainting couch and howl, but Mr Hanky already got there.
*despairs*
PhDery … almost done
So, on Friday I did my final seminar for PhD – which is the penultimate torture before the torture of sending it out to examiners.
It was easily the worst presentation I’ve ever done – but equally, it doesn’t
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Jacaranda Time
On the bus this morning I noticed the jacaranda trees all in lovely bloom along Coronation Drive. Made me a bit homesick for my giant jacaranda tree in the backyard at the old house. Is it
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