I was thinking the other day about how being over your job is a lot like the tail-end of a bad relationship. When both go horribly, you wonder why you are in it, and when it goes well, you think, well, hey, maybe it's not so bad at all, maybe I should stick around and when it inevitably gets hellish again, you think, hang on, why am I still here ( Read more... )

saw thumbsucker again tonight, at the moonlight cinema. there were three busloads of schoolkids who saw it as part of some school excursion, which we agreed was a tiptop excursion far exceeding any of the ones we had in high school, until the "little punks" (said with much irony, given we're not *that* much older) wouldn't quit blabbering ( Read more... )

so, for some reason, today i ended up having a conversation with jens lekman about ukeleles. i volunteer at a radio station and i just happened to be around when he came in for a live session. he seemed to have low ukelele esteem tho, and disparaged the ukelele he was playing a few times before he went into the studio. i thought it was fine (not ( Read more... )

just saw the amazing doubt
see it see it see it if you can.
still working, but hanging by a thread.
going to melbn and perth soon for a mini-holiday. so very excited about that prison break.

has anyone ever quit their job without having another lined up? 'cos i was very very close to quitting today. legally i think i have to give about a month or six weeks' notice if i want to leave, so (the part of me less oriented with the reality of paying bills) i was so tempted just to do it anyway cos the idea of being there for anything more ( Read more... )

last tuesday - interviewed chris geddes from belle and sebastian in which he said interesting things about him & stuart visiting palestine last year.
it's been ten years since "if you're feeling sinister" came out. goddamn.
saturday - saw the incredible andersen project. wow, i just don't know what to say about it that will evoke how damn good and ( Read more... )

“You know, now I can see the situation from both sides,” I said ( Read more... )

Yikes, am a bit calendar-confused, because I did my first radio graveyard shift last night, so my Tuesday 'started' at 1am, then 'ended' at 7am when I went to bed and now I am up again in the afternoon and my brain can't process that it is still Tuesday and I still have about 10 more hours of it still to go! I feel like I've accidentally been given ( Read more... )

it's that strange time of year, that month of marathon socialising (most of it against yr will). i think i have a whisked-out-of-jail-free card for my office xmas party, which is good news indeed. this year is my first as a "christmas orphan", the last two years i spent the day with my (now-ex) boyfriend's family and this time my parents have split ( Read more... )

I went to see The Squid and the Whale the other day, which I really, really loved. My friend, who I saw it with, found it a bit raw because the arguments that the divorcing parents in the film have were exactly the same ones his parents had on splitting up. I guess I'm lucky in that there is no close-to-home personal resonance for me in that way ( Read more... )