I'm petering out, emotionally, mentally, physically at the moment. Things have changed - my living arrangement in particular  (got a housemate) - but I've also hit mid-job blues I think, just with work being so constant and demanding.

I really like orange, i really like work and the friends I've made in Orange are great, but i'm just tired right now ( Read more... )

Some of you have probably wondered at some stage whether my thought-life, my values and worldview have changed since becoming a Christian. The answer is yes, definitely. I just refound a set of answers I wrote for a questionairre on feminism which is an example of how my beliefs shape my view of the world. Thought it might be an interesting insight ( Read more... )

I'm enjoying imagining the horse flu outbreak was actually started by a renegade horse who was sick of being exploited and decided to throw the whole racing industry into financial turmoil.

How cool would that be.

Not that i don't feel for the people whose lives depend on horses, but seriously, as if this much attention would be given to ANY other ( Read more... )

I think my plant has officially died... in recent days all the stems have fallen off by themselves and are now brown and shrivelly.

RIP ZZ

(i am officially a plant murderer)

My dad never ceases to amaze me:

he just sent me a link to a video on youtube.

in recent days he's also signed up to facebook.

he quite routinely reads the Metro lift out in the SMH and asks me about bands

...scary!

Yesterday, I went to Parkes via Canowindra. I've since discovered that's like going to Manly via Baulkham Hills. It took me an extra 45 minutes to get to Parkes from Orange, making me late for a police briefing... so talented i know ( Read more... )

Two of my most cherished friends gave me a really cool looking plant for my birthday. It was even delivered to my door in Orange, 5 months after my birthday. It was so awesome. It looks kind of pre-historic. Anyway, so one day I was reading the paper and saw that "Zamioculcus Zamiifolia" was meant to be an easy-to-grow, hard-to-kill plant. This ( Read more... )

the lessons of life ( Read more... )

pouring oil into burning hot saucepan = flames

My mum's a nurse. She looks after babies, sick ones, that is, but babies never the less. And so it is, she witnesses trends in names. She's been doing this job for 30-odd years, so she's heard a lot in her time ( Read more... )