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Pacific Brands
I guess when a company is responsible, each year, for the production of ( Read more... ) -
new years eve
i ran into an old acquantance on new years eve. we did the obligatory how are you's, what have you been up to's? and she told me that a mutual friend of ours, lisa, had suffered a stroke in November (? the details are sketchy, i had been drinking) and was in hospital ( Read more... ) -
geez i'm on a roll tonight
this is my third post for the night...enjoy it while you can, it maybe another six months before i write again. (hopefully not ( Read more... ) -
Year in Review
it's that time of year. i had a scroll back to find what i had written last year and i found this exercise in my diary from 2008 which was a repeat of 2006...so being the unimaginative person that i am, i thought i'd repeat it this year.
Year in Review
Here's a different type of Year in Review exercise:
My three greatest achievements:
1. being ( Read more... ) -
i'll never love this way again - thanks Dionne
You looked inside my fantasies and made each one come true ( Read more... ) -
benjamin button
last night kimmy and i went and saw the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. we had a number of reasons for seeing it. we both LOVE Cate Blanchett. we both LOVE Brad Pitt...not necessarily as an actor but as a man...in Ang's words - he makes beautiful babies...and he is a great humanitarian. and i wanted to see Brad and Cate together again - Babel is ( Read more... ) -
friends
i have this great set/bunch of friends at work. we don't really spend time outside of work together but we spend time at work together....lunch time....a 'hello' in the corridor....a chat in our corrals together....and that time feels nice. (i'm trying to get in touch with my nice side without cringing or sounding stalkerish or worse, lame ( Read more... ) -
update
i hate it when i title my entries "update"...it means i have nothing witty to say. it means i haven't posted an entry for a while. and it generally means i probably don't have a focus (read 'a clue') about what i'm going to write about. 'update' just means i feel guilty about not writing ( Read more... ) -
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i'm in the process of applying for a new job. this requires endless writing of job applications all usually with the same selection criteria. a trick is of course to just cut and paste from a previous application.
and because i am applying for mainly administration jobs in universities or government departments one of the standard criteria is " ( Read more... ) -
holiday update
today is day four of my holidays. i feel like i haven't done much. i've exercised three out of the four days. i've been shopping one day (today). i've had two tradesmen come to give quotes - one to re-sand the floor after the dining room table exploded (that's a whole other story), the other to tint the front windows so the stairs don't need re- ( Read more... )