I have been hugely underestimating the significance of reading my poetry at the Sydney Writer's Festival up until now. I just got sent an email from the event organiser with the running of the night and I AM THE ONLY POET PERFORMING. Bum bum bum! Now I am sooo nervous already. I thought I would be one of 10 poets? Maybe that was a bit ridiculous ( Read more... )

Na Na Na Cl Na:

Bronwyn was telling us in the car on the way to work today about the following incident she had recently with a student in her Year 9 science class:

Girl in panic: Miss!!!!!!! I spilt sodium chloride on my hand and it's BURNING ME!!
Bronwyn: Uhh, sodium chloride is saltAlso, the rudest student I've had so far in the library ( Read more... )

Last night I had a dream that my dream girl posse (me, Kez, Soph, Helen, Kelly, Claire) dressed up in our most extreme outfits on a quest to win over our old favourite teachers! We went to Northmead High to see Mr Barnett, my old maths teacher, and Helen and I were both carrying Blythe dolls, and I had Smash but I had cut her hair short to look ( Read more... )

I won! 6/10.

Reading a great book from Amerikerryn - "2gether 4ever" by Dene Larson.

Review and excerpts later.

Happy public holidaying,
Al.

At Kerryn's today celebrating our highschool days with a Hottest 100 Party. We're competing for top 10 with the following lists:

Al's Top 10:1. Wolfmother - Mind's Eye ( Read more... )

Hello.

Well, after Sarah Bird got grumpy with me at stump about it, I guess I'm finally going to do it - this journal is ending and another chapter of my life begins. I can't explain why I need to start afresh, I just do. So check out www.livejournal.com/users/altheowl ( Read more... )

When you know last night's dinner was bad: Matthew just told me he saw his dinner on the kitchen bench last night when he got home, and then he looked down and saw a peanut on the floor, and he picked up the peanut and ate it and went to bed.

Today I started eating food that was only favourites to my favourite people. I wonder if I can last a whole week? Commemorative Food of Friends week! It may only be today, but here we go...

Monday, day 1, I have eaten:Eggs for breakfast: in memory of Jonathan Gerber ( Read more... )

I organised a picnic lunch today for my english tute with another girl in the class, Susie. 15 mins into the lunch Mandy says "Where's Kieryn?" (the tutor) I tell her I guess she's not coming ( Read more... )