I have suddenly acquired stage fright, due to all my shiny new LJ friends! I have also been nauseous all day, requiring lashings and lashings of ginger beer, as well as frequent applications of this:

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It's just so overwrought and angsty! With cheesy smoke effects! Strange facial expressions! Oh, Andrew Lloyd Webber, never change. Which he clearly ( Read more... )

Well, this is amusing. While poking about among my writing files I found this 'hate list' from nearly ten years ago. I had a personal website back then, as did anyone who wanted an internet presence before the advent of blogging and social networking websites. My website was stunningly designed: it featured frames. I wrote the coding myself. I was ( Read more... )

So the double-edged sword of life in Sydney is that while I loathe the impersonal crowds and the inner-city arrogance, I love so many other aspects of city life. I have always been a city girl at heart, and I love losing myself in crowds, being able to shop until late in Myer or David Jones, and the numerous cultural opportunities like museums and ( Read more... )

I do not feel much like celebrating today. I have gained a new perspective on my country since moving to Sydney just under twelve months ago ( Read more... )

The Writer's Block question is asking how I chose my LiveJournal username. I've answered this many times before, but I like telling the story. It's from a Taxiride song called "Saffron". The chorus makes little sense: 'Everything you know has come undone / a saffron lie'. I'm still not sure what, exactly, a saffron lie might be. But if you use a ( Read more... )

So I decided not to go to uni today as surely I can't be expected to go back full-time immediately after having had a month off, that would be crazy, and also I was feeling sorry for myself as my skin has gone mental with sunburn, hives, eczema, acne, etc ( Read more... )

Something terrible has happened ( Read more... )

Right, that is it. I am saying no to epistolary novels and multiple-source narratives. No more faux:

• Letters;
  
• Emails;
  
• Memorandums;
  
• Blog Posts;
  
• Blog Comments;
  
• IM Conversations;
  
• Notes Passed in Class;
  
• Historical Documents;
  
• Poems;
  
• Novels-within-novels;
  
• Plays-within-novels;
  
• Transcripts of Telephone Conversations;
  
• Script Format for Conversations;
  
• ( Read more... )

I have finally learned my lesson about tempting fate by posting reflections of the year before the year is up, because last year I was able to blithely announce that no one in my life had died, and then a few weeks later my grandfather did. This year, no surveys or memes, only lists.

Highlights of 2009:Moving to Sydney and surviving ( Read more... )

I went to Mamma Mia! today, and while it was some hilarious entertainment, it was not quality theatre. There's only so many times I can take the stage being plunged into darkness with a spotlight on one person singing, while everyone else onstage freezes and acts like they can't hear. That's a lazy and boring technique, but it was the show's ( Read more... )