diary punk
Tuesday 30 May 2006
- We're headed for Sydney this weekend to mark my transition into yet another year of existence. I'm wondering if there's anything happening. Like tunes that can be jiggied to. I need to swing my hips some.... (23:04 | 0 Comments)
Thursday 27 April 2006
The paragon of animals: Dec 2001 - April 2006 - Hi all, We're sorry to have to tell you that our cat Oscar was hit and killed by a car this Monday night the 23rd. We had been at work all day and then stayed out at night for a... (11:08 | 2 Comments)
Saturday 8 April 2006
- It's been a while. I've been battling back problems and the resulting treatment; suspending my thesis while I get on top of that; starting a new job outside academia now that my scholarship is dunzo; looking for a new abode... (10:43 | 4 Comments)
Monday 1 August 2005
a lesson learned - My office at home has been in disarray for months. Piles of papers over my desk - so bad that I had started using the dining table to work from, rather than sort through the mess which I just kept... (13:08 | 14 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 23 June 2005
What does that dream mean anyway? - So apparently sinus congestion can make you feel like your teeth are going to fall out (!) This was a welcome piece of information when I visited my dentist, afraid that I was going to need some serious work because... (15:10 | 109 Trackbacks | 10 Comments)
Monday 6 June 2005
These days - I've been absent from the blogosphere of late, and not just in terms of writing in my own space. I haven't logged into Bloglines or dropped into any of my regular blogs for weeks and it's been both saddening and... (18:30 | 2546 Trackbacks | 5 Comments)
Thursday 19 May 2005
Gone, but not forgetting - I haven't dropped off the face of the earth. I'm just really busy, and my brain is tied up with writing lectures and course admin. Hopefully I'll be back into it ('it' being blogging, and reading blogs) sometime in the... (16:28 | 2347 Trackbacks | 3 Comments)
Tuesday 8 March 2005
generous quantities of codeine... - isn't half bad when you're housebound, with a mysteriously acquired injury and only your two cats and a great deal of work to keep you company.... (14:53 | 3 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Saturday 26 February 2005
whines and marvels - It's been a funny week... I spent the first half stupidly developing an ulcer over our unresolved ADSL application. The estimated installation date passed, and passed some more, and still nothing. So our ISP got on Telstra's case and it... (17:14 | 2 Comments)
Wednesday 23 February 2005
i'll happily take it as a sign - I got what could very well be the best frikkin haircut of my life yesterday. No shit. It actually suits my face and my hair type which I thought was impossible. And it doesn't look middle-aged, nor too shiny¹, and... (12:18 | 3 Comments)
Thursday 17 February 2005
If I was a valentine - Why, oh why, didn't Luke think to buy me this for Corporate Love Day™? Our love would indeed have been cemented forever...... (17:01 | 1 Comments)
Tuesday 8 February 2005
suburban woe - Even though I'm an avid pedestrian, there's a limit to how warm my heart can be to relying on public transport. Since we're living in the suburbs it's not such a breeze to swan about the city by tram or... (09:44 | 3 Comments)
Monday 27 December 2004
yo ho ho - So now we're in that period between Xmas and New Year where everything seems to be in limbo. Half the stores are closed, the other half are packed with rodents in hunt of a bargain. It's nearly Luke's birthday, and... (08:12 | 2 Comments)
Saturday 27 November 2004
Sugar Ice - Few things can satisfy me on a sweltering day (34 degrees at last count) than a cool Frosty Fruit from the local store. It makes the short uphill walk all the more worth it. Bizarrely, I've also been compelled to... (17:43 | 2 Comments)
Sunday 14 November 2004
Kitten Quest - Yesterday, Luke and I went on a kitten quest. Since he's near impossible to get out of bed before 11 on a weekend I didn't like our chances of getting a look in at the Cat Protection Society (or the... (11:55 | 2 Comments)
Friday 29 October 2004
i move in waves - Sometimes I can't write enough in this blog, seemingly stimulated and inspired by everything I come into contact with. And then there are those times when I feel like a lump of coal or something. Just being and not doing.... (11:03 | 1 Comments)
Tuesday 10 August 2004
i ♥ mail - it's always a new and unexpected joy whenever I pop open the mailbox to find several articles of mail, addressed to me and of the not-bills variety. Today on my way to uni and radio, I checked the box on... (17:55 | 1 Comments)
Tuesday 27 July 2004
stubbornness be your friend - So apparently, everyone in Australia went to one of the Belle&Seb concerts. Swallowed their pride and coughed up the astronomical amount of $$... and had a fucking unbelievable time. Bastards. I'll just be curling up with my DVD and quietly... (12:14 | 2 Comments)
Tuesday 20 July 2004
you gotta stop counting - Luke and I spent our 6 year anniversary on the town yesterday. We seem to have gotten over the fear of the fact that we are in such a long term relationship - we prepare for the impending annual mark... (17:10 | 4 Comments)
Tuesday 13 July 2004
(not such a) ba' bow! - Over the past week I had some family visiting amidst the craziness of the con and Lounge Critic. It's been six months since I've seen my baby brother Oskar and he's grown up so much. Still a bizarre prodigy of... (16:06 | 0 Comments)
Saturday 8 May 2004
brief reprieve - Come Monday I'll have yet another stack of 70-odd first year essays to mark. Dear lord. It's only been a few days since I finished the last lot.... (16:52 | 0 Comments)
Thursday 8 April 2004
the mirror - There's a funny thing that happens when I wake up in the morning. I feel like a barnacle attached to another. Our legs criss-crossed and tangled, our arms contorting around one another. Yet all night I prefer the quiet... (11:23 | 0 Comments)
Friday 2 April 2004
it's a set - Luke and I both had today off so after we signed the lease in the morning we went thrift shopping for more house accessories. I scored the most exquisite OJ set (a jug and 6 small glasses) from this fantastic... (16:36 | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 31 March 2004
new digs. it seems... - Luke and I have settled on a new home for ourselves. We sign the lease on Friday morning. It's green (as in leafy), big (as in 3 bedrooms with BIR), perfect for luke (it's very own 'rock bunker' for obnoxious... (20:45 | 3 Comments)
Thursday 8 January 2004
jesus and mary chain "just like honey" - Busy working on the thesis and vibewire stuff lately. Not to mention all the knitting I've been doing. Two more kitty cosies, a minidisc pouch and a bag for my wee digital camera. Tres satisfying. Monday was nicely packed. A... (15:27 | 2 Comments)
Wednesday 17 December 2003
pulp "my legendary girlfriend" - Christmas came early! Oscar's 2nd birthday and a swanky new zippy lil digital camera for me (at last!)... (19:58 | 1 Comments)
Tuesday 16 December 2003
BB & Serge "Bonnie & Clyde" - It is so unbelievably hot today. And friday is set to be 39 C. Oh joy. Please just kill me while I sleep. And tomorrow we're off to do more Christmas shopping and posting of gifts. With every other person... (18:22 | 0 Comments)
Thursday 11 December 2003
godzuki "contact" - i'm quite amazed at what an effect luke's absence is having on my ability to sleep. Who would have thought I'd become so accustomed to sharing a bed with someone other than oscarkitty so quickly. i guess this means we... (11:16 | 0 Comments)
Sunday 16 November 2003
Die Fantastischen Vier "Sie Ist Weg" - I'm back in my family home and my baby brother has left the country for several months. When he returns everything will be different - our family strewn across the country in every direction. The departure at the airport was... (21:47 | 1 Comments)
Monday 27 October 2003
salad "motorbike to heaven" - We are here!! Boxes still strewn about but the important things like the kitchen, the computers, dvd and our delectable blue velour wingback lounge suite are in position. Oscarkitty has arrived and is doing the important work of settling in.... (14:06 | 0 Comments)
Friday 24 October 2003
angie hart "blue" - All timber! Loft bedroom! Built-in redwood bookshelves! Fireplace! Rolling hills! Rooooooooomy! [And still in Melbourne!] It's our barn-o-love and we're packing ourselves up to move into it now. Several late nights and torchlit ventures up to the house to... (15:32 | 1 Comments)
Thursday 9 October 2003
tears for fears "mad world" - Luke and I are back in Melbourne after an insane moving venture over the weekend. In classic style, the boy was completely unprepared meaning we didn't get to leave Sydney until 6pm on Sunday night. Then there was that freak... (15:17 | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 20 August 2003
ladytron "miss black" - Last night I had a loungeroom disco. My first in quite a while and possible because my housemate has gotten all active and is taking Tae Kwon Do and Yoga 3 nights a week. So Oscar and I have been... (19:17 | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 8 July 2003
dressy bessy "just like henry" - Oscar*kitty must be the sweetest little man that ever graced the earth. There he lies curled in a ginger ball, his right paw placed on his tail, dozing next his momma (that's me) while she taps away at the keyboard.... (15:25 | 0 Comments)
Sunday 15 June 2003
curve "missing link" - I'm really missing him. More than I have before. And it makes me feel dizzy and disoriented, because I'm independent right? I can do this on my own can't I? So I sleep longer and zone out, knit and make... (22:01 | 2 Comments)
Tuesday 10 June 2003
lush "never-never" - luke has gone. gone home after two wonderful, magical weeks.... (22:30 | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 4 June 2003
Aimee Mann "Ghost World" - Yesterday was my 24th birthday. That should probably generate some kind of emotional (if not visceral) response yet I still feel like I'm swimming somewhere around 20. This must have something to do with my anxiety about not being taken... (12:23 | 0 Comments)
Saturday 24 May 2003
aberdeen "Homesick" - Received the beautiful aberdeen album in the post just days after making the (super cheap!) order online and boy is it delicious!! And the sweet folks they are, I was blessed with two shiny badges, both gorgeous and twee!... (00:42 | 1 Comments)
Sunday 18 May 2003
The Softies "I Can't Get No satisfaction (thank god)" - A lovely night out with good folks of the vibewire persuasion. Much good eats and talk of cinema -- remember Clue? How great is that film? There was a pure moment of psychic connection across the table at Moroccan... (22:29 | 2 Comments)
Sunday 11 May 2003
the birth canal - It was lovely having mum visit me in my new town, new city, new space. Sentimental as she is, it is comforting to have that expression of love and nurturing surrounding you like as a child. And I feel strangely... (17:37 | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 7 May 2003
Prepping for the Maternal - Watch out Dust Bunnies! Here comes the Supremo Spring/Autumn clean! Motivated by my mother's visit to this city of GoodStuff™, I am hitting the carpet in the rigorous pursuit of tidyness. I will actually unpack my bags from Sydney and... (11:04 | 0 Comments)
Sunday 27 April 2003
Rumblings - Back in Sydney for a spell with a mouth full of ulcers. Coincidence? I think not. Really quite missing home - Melbourne and more specifically, my abode - which has surprised me. Perhaps I thought all the talk of loving... (12:29 | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 16 April 2003
mixed bag - Still to adjust my dressing to Melbourne's weather patterns (or lack of). Bare legs today mean goosebumps. Though ankle socks and mary-janes keep my feet warm. I attempted a deep dish apple pie last night with little in the way... (14:52 | 0 Comments)
Sunday 13 April 2003
storms and teacups - Rainy and dark and chilly it is. The novelty of melbourne's unpredictable and tempestuous weather is still as powerful as ever, I am proud to say. And since it appears as though I have chased away my cold I am... (18:48 | 1 Comments)
Thursday 10 April 2003
Tingly - I started early today, awoke thinking it was time to rise - maybe 9am or so - but found that the clock had barely passed 6. This cold isn't as dreamy as I predicted. It's annoying and I can't breathe... (17:53 | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 9 April 2003
The nose has it - I have my first melbourne cold! I'm stuffy and feeling sorry for myself, so I feel great :) I have arrived. As I've been telling friends, things are going strangely well. A little too well if you ask me. I... (10:26 | 0 Comments)
Friday 28 February 2003
Here - ... is melbourne. My new home apparently. I have landed myself a new pad - cute and elderly, with vegies and herbs and flowers, high ceilings and a housemate with an extensive collection of eighties indie vinyl. And a screening... (10:02 | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 11 February 2003
Tick Tock - A room spilling over with boxes and bags and little room to move. Bags and bags of things to go to charity and not enough boxes to house my books. Luke arrived last night. Strange, not having seen each other... (13:03 | 0 Comments)
Monday 3 February 2003
sleepy eyes - when you get up in the morning and you're still exhausted, I think that's a bad sign. Especially if you stay tired all day. And your eyes sting. I want to sleep for a really long time, and my boxes... (14:53 | 0 Comments)
soundtrack - An emotional weekend spent culling my CD collection for the imminent move. On one hand a very cleansing experience, satisfaction is shedding a skin if you like. But so many of my hours were spent legs crossed on my bedroom... (09:45 | 0 Comments)