Seventeen days till I'm on a plane (that is, if I get my visa in time) and it still feels like a distant dream. I'm afraid to leave all this behind, because lately life has fallen into a nice, steady rhythm which I am afraid to throw into cacophony. There are so many things people from whom I would like.. resolutions; a full-stop to put at the end ( Read more... )

Life always seems to fall into place just as I'm about to give it a good, solid upheaval. I've probably enjoyed the most relaxing week in a fabulously long time; as that most dastardly Property Law assignment went through the chute on Monday I made a promise to give myself some time off, and that I most certainly did. For one, I made a few trips ( Read more... )

"Perhaps it was because she burned so bright that she burned out so soon."
- Uncle Char, at Auntie Elsie's funeralAt 10:30 this morning the church was overflowing with mourners who had come to pay their last respects to Auntie Elsie. Amidst the very evident grief there was an underlying sense of joy that she was with God in heaven and that we would ( Read more... )

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Today is my first day off in a month - day off from waking up at 5:30 am, dropping Dad off at the train station, driving for half an hour to Southbank in unforgiving traffic, dropping Bry off at Musgrave pool/Somerville and then heading over to work - I slept in till 9:52 am. It felt terribly good; Mum rang an hour later to say that Bryan wasn't ( Read more... )

I think this is the first time I've consciously made a decision to give up. Most of the time I slip into it, a gradual progression from being intensely proactive, to being happy for it to go either way, to eventual apathy. Even the most persistent of people get worn down and wearied, and I'm not well-known for my patience.

I'm sorry, but I tried.

The air today is heavy and still, and for the first time this year it isn't raining. I decided to make the most of the blue sky peeking through cotton wool clouds and walk up Warrigal Road to return the DVD. It's the first time in a while that I haven't started a new year with a list - sometimes they were resolutions, other times just a checklist ( Read more... )

crash-landing.I boarded the plane with absolutely no expectations - an 8-day trip (only 7, really) which would probably involve a lot of time with my grandma, shopping and catching up with a select few. What ensued was stranger than I could've imagined (which, given my fancifully rampant imagination, says a lot) and yet peculiarly wonderful ( Read more... )

MY APPLICATION TO GO ON EXCHANGE TO NOTTINGHAM HAS BEEN APPROVED!I will be going during 2nd semester next year, from August to January. The current plan is to go backpacking around Europe with various people from the posse for a month before semester starts; places on the itinerary: UK, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria ( Read more... )

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