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I've been doing volunteer work in the art gallery - helping install new paintings - and it leaves a very odd impression. I am constantly reminded of doing theatre lighting, because it all has to function well for the audience (also there is never enough space, time or funding). But I also feel very much un-alive. We handle everything with white ( Read more... ) -
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Today was my first morning at the op-shop, which was really quite boring because there weren't many customers, the cash register is super easy (they don't do eftpos or credit cards), and they play crappy radio. Still, I quite enjoyed it, mostly because they color-code the clothes, so I got to put new stuff out and re-arrange things into a rainbow ( Read more... ) -
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I just volunteered to do Thursday and Friday mornings (9-12) at an op-shop near me - and am slightly overwhelmed by the force of Nice Caring Older Ladies. I can't decide whether they are all very proper only sometimes they pretend not to be, or they are not very proper but feel they should be. In any case I don't think I could possibly stand ( Read more... ) -
Cash Outflow, or, I Hate This Goddamn High-Youth-Unemployment-Rate Town
I have decided I must rename my bank account; it is no longer my place to deposit moneys, but my Finally Leaving and Escaping Everything fund (pleasantly acronym'd (acronised? acronified?) as "FLEE"). Maybe if I think of it as such I won't spend it so frivolously. And I don't even spend it that badly; I just get sudden hankerings for a cup of ( Read more... ) -
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For Sale: World's Most Useless Cat
I found this adorable.
Sydney and Melbourne nice, more later.
This is an interesting article by Salman Rushdie on the nature of free speech: we should attack arguments and not people, but this doesn't mean we should censor anything that offends. There is a necessary right to not just air opinions, but air ( Read more... ) -
...is not enough to show I care
A little way down my street there lives a wee little sausage dog, and she is so adorable I now spontaneously want a puppy ( Read more... ) -
my stuff my stuff oh god all my fucking stuff
My brother has been tinkering with my hard drive and seems to have FOUND MY STUFF. I have been doing silly dancing. Everything he describes seems to be perfectly alright, including Nausicaa and Howl's Moving Castle and Napoleon Dynamite, all of which I got very recently and so was kind of cut about losing. And he has emailed me my folder of job ( Read more... )