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I Feel Good
This is a post that I've wanted to write for weeks now. It's a complicated issue for me, for quite a few reasons ( Read more... ) -
Internet Identity Crisis
I started using the internet back when no one was really quite sure what it was and how to negotiate its complexities. The catchcry was ‘safety’, the warning phrase, ‘anyone could be out there’. My parents constantly warned me not to give out my name or address, or any other identifying details. You never knew who people were ( Read more... ) -
Harry Potter: An elegy
Harry Potter and I go back some way, as the earlier years of this journal attest. I wasn’t quite in the throes of pubescent adolescence when I discovered the books, as I was when I discovered Hanson, the first of my three great teenage obsessions (Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles being the third, and, perhaps, the most enduring). There was a time ( Read more... ) -
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This excellent piece by Geoff Lemon has been doing the rounds, dispensing the sober truth: almost no one is going to be affected by Australia's new carbon tax. $9.90 extra week will break almost no one's bank ( Read more... ) -
Food.
I have several issues with yoghurt ( Read more... ) -
The 'Other' Side of Australia
Qantas treats the five-hour flight like a long-haul journey. We are fed at odd times, and the lights are turned off in the late afternoon in order to mess with our melatonin. The two-hour time difference is slight but a difficult one to adjust to; for the first few days I wake up around 4.30am and can never get back to sleep ( Read more... ) -
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So for Easter I went away to the north coast with my boyfriend and his family. This was the view from the house:
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Goodness, Easter seems to have crept up on me. I'm heading out of town tomorrow and am somehow out of time to wax about my love for "Gethsemane" despite my dislike of Andrew Lloyd Webber and my many problems with Jesus Christ Superstar, as well as my inexplicable preference for Drew Sarich's unique take on the song.
Happy Easter, to those who are ( Read more... ) -
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I hope I can be forgiven for the narcissism inherent in this post. This is silly and melodramatic, but I feel like disaster has followed me lately ( Read more... )
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