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The Blog Roll topic: Write a letter to yourself as you were ten years ago, or will be ten years into
I choose... future!
Dear 32 year-old Frith - may I call you Ms. Frith?
I know it’s traditional to begin these time-travelling letters with a “now don’t freak out” caveat, but excuse me while I, your ten-years-younger self, angst (oh, and, this is a time-travelling letter. Don’t freak out). THIRTY-TWO IN JUST TEN YEARS?!?!?!?!?!!!! Man aliiiiiiive I ( Read more... ) -
Karanga Atuu, Karanga Mai | The Call
(Written with parallel translation, and glossary below. If you live in New Zealand, your challenge is to at least skim the Māori first.)
I tērā wiki, i timata au i tēnei tuhinga mo te mamae ki au mo te reo rangatira i tēnei whenua, tāna iti haere, ā, nō ngā pire o te Taraipiunara ō Waitangi, mo ngā whakamauāhara me ngā wawata o te iwi Māori kua ( Read more... ) -
The mechanics of dialect, transcription, and life as a government agent.
I work for the government. If you read what I have to say about that in this entry, I may have to kill you.
Giggle, giggle. This is New Zealand. And my job didn't even exist until February this year, when special votes were counted and Gumption Green, the 14th of the Tree Pretty Party's MPs and last one into the House of Representatives after the ( Read more... ) -
I wholly reserve the right to be grouchy tomorrow, but tonight, I am HAPPY! And you're AWESOME!
I’m meant to be writing about something that makes me happy. Something, in fact, that “makes (me) ache because it's so beautiful / feel so small in its vastness / implode with wonder.”
It’s Monday night and that is the PERFECT night for writing about this because every Monday night I am completely BUZZED and sitting here on my patchwork quilt just ( Read more... ) -
Princess in a tower
The Blog Roll topic 4: "the princess in the tower, the dragon wrapped about it, the knight below. Discuss."
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Tower and Pedestal
Tell me a story, she said, wide awake with want in her big eyes.
So I sat down by her on the edge of her crazy quilt. Held her fat little hands, smoothed those crazy golden curls, and told her about the princess in ( Read more... ) -
Nudge Nudge Nudge. Wink. (Part 2 of 2)
Read the beginning of this behemoth here.
And in case you were wondering after that impressive cliffhanger in the last episode,
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Nudge nudge, wink wink. (Part 1 of 2)
In which I dissect (from behind a hazmat suit) the theory and practice of flirting. With illustrative anecdotes.
It’s like a pyjama party on the internet. Pull up a bean-bag and let me tell you about my cats wide-ranging knowledge of flirtatiousness. Like any good pyjama party, I am going to range between doling out ladles of take-with-a-grain-or- ( Read more... ) -
Contentment. Ha, kidding. This post contains angry Christian leftie feminism. Ticking ALL the boxes.
In which I present a small sample of what is wrong with the world and why I’m... actually... pretty ok with that. And why I'm not ok with being ok. Got that? Good.
I was happy that ‘contentment’ came out of the hat as our topic for this round. But now I have to write about it. And to write about contentment actually seems really, really odd.
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Plunket on a Saturday night | Community, Mk. II
This is part of a series organised over at The Blog Roll, in which a group (I hope!) of us (and by us, I mean we tentative earnest bloggers) write about the same thing. In theory. They don't know (heh, heh, villainous chuckle here) that I intend to just do my own take. All along, all I wanted to do was tell you guys about this. So this thing ( Read more... )
