I am still trundling on with that idea someone had of reading books by authors from A-Z. It seems as good a way to choose books as any, now that I'm thousands of miles away from my toppling over 'to read' stack. To make it a bit more interesting, I decided to add that they had to be new authors - as in, authors I haven't read before ( Read more... )

You know you're settling into a foreign country when you can get excited about getting tickets to a sold-out gig for a comedian no-one back home will even have heard of (And I'm not saying who, cos there will only be some smart-arse ( Read more... )

Aahhhh, a rainy day in Melbourne. And being Melbourne, that means it is really raining. But this is good, for the first time in aaaaages, I have nothing particular to do now. A planned day off, because life has been so busy of late. I realised we've been away 3 times in the last 6 weeks, which is really quite hedonistic, even if one of them was ( Read more... )

What-ho. Long time, no update. No time, see? Which is why I'm writing at..hmm.. 2.20am. On a school night. Tch tch, bad Helen. Oh well, gotta go while the energy lasts and tomorrow when I am on my 6th coffee before lunch I shall blame you lot. Because obviously you made me do this ( Read more... )

Ok, so I got over the other day's miserable-ness. Bad day. But life is still generally good. Homesickness is there and is hard, but is bearable. Job has it's boring shitty bits, but can also be good and is actually quite high-powered. Yesterday I inadvertantly found the file about my recruitment, and reading the CVs of the people I beat was ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, long long ago, I had an obsession for Formula One. Where other teenage girls were covering their walls in Take That, I had pictures of racing cars and maps of tracks stuck to mine. Then one day in the Sixth Form, a friend and I reached for the F1 supplement at the same time and realised that we weren't alone. Turned out, all my ( Read more... )

So last weekend we went to an Australian Rules Football game. The emphasis was most definitely not on 'rules', and they didn't kick it enough for 'football', so I guess that leaves us with 'Australian'. It was very Australian. It was fast, intense, and when you got kicked in the head you just carried on - no worries. Very exciting. None of us ( Read more... )

Ah yes, insomnia. Now I remember. That awful tiredness all day, the bit in the evening where you just haven't got any energy left to spend on pointless tasks like, say, smiling, and then when you've struggled through the day and can finally reward yourself with pyjamas, bed, duvet, darkness, your brain sparks into life. Body groaning gently, mind ( Read more... )

So

I GOT THE JOB!!!

Oh, dear me, I never do multiple exclamation marks. But since I am rather excited, I've pushed the boat out. Look, here's a few more - !!!!

The job looks amazing. I'm going to be a PA at the Heart Foundation, a charity out there that does work in research and education around heart disease. I'm working for the CEO and 4 ( Read more... )

Computery people, please help me! Why oh why will my sparkly new (decrepidly old) computer/internet let me log into livejournal, but not hotmail? There is no sense in that!