Gotta love it.  Live Journal just reminded me of my upcoming birthday!  Suggested I send me something!  Very sweet thought, I admit, but while I was astonished to realize it was Easter merely a week before the once-important-to-me religious festival, and while I'm certainly getting older, I'm not over the top senile yet ( Read more... )

I've just arrived home from my last full day of teaching!  Tomorrow is only half a day, and only half of that because the class graduates and we're going to a restaurant to celebrate ( Read more... )

It's a little less than 72 hours and I finish teaching as an ongoing occupation.  Then?  Then I start on the PhD!  Exciting times.  Strange times.  A complete turn-around of life, back to where I used to be, but this time - for the first time, I am being paid to do so.  Paid to do the things I love doing: read, write, and think ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago, Channel 9 programmed the 2007 (or recent anyway) remake of The Wicker Man followed by the 1973 original.  I'd never seen the remake and what I heard didn't make me curious enough to try.  I now fully concur with my instincts.  What a crock of shit!  A dreadful piece of - of - well, I'm not sure what to call it ( Read more... )

One of the few things I like about where I live - perhaps the only thing - is the garden.  There are small garden spaces back & front: a pocket-sized Sahara out the front, and out the back, a partially brick-paved courtyard type arrangement resembled something transplanted from one of those roadhouses either up north before hitting the true tropics ( Read more... )

It's a quiet morning, sort of cool, sort of not, with the sun coming in dappling the ground, filtered by the trees that have become quite respectably sized in their pots over the last 2 years.  A coolish breeze whiffles through the open windows, calming my little house from east to west, and Plushie the Phat has gone off on a neighbourhood waffle ( Read more... )

Having gone through the process of joining, listing, uploading, I now need a coffee which I neglected to include in my 'interests'.

Wot a wonderful 1st entry - I don't think!!!

sigh