I will be having playtime with some of my favorite people over the weekend... ones that I haven't seen in ages! HOORAY!! This evening I will be catching up with young Botchy who also happens to be the puppies Godfather. I've been telling them he's coming to visit all week and they have been dancing up a storm over it. The last time I got down with Botchy was right before I left for the NYC. It was the time we were drinking frozen watermelon...
Some of you might recall me complaining about Australian singers the Veronicas and Delta Goodrem back in December. The only thing I loathe more than advertising are supposable 'celebrities' trying to sell me shit. And bloody Delta takes the cake. It's bad enough that her non-existent career in the US has been supplemented with selling skin care products. In the past 48 hours I've seen Delta in two TV commercials trying to sell me soy milk and...
I'm going to the library today. I need to figure out what a PhD proposal is and how I'm going to do one. Only in the Arts does one set out to get a PhD as a 'fall back plan' in case nothing else pops. Admissions aren't until October but apparently you're supposed to really sound like you know what you're talking about at that stage, so for me that means a very early start. What tends to attract me to studying so much (other than being a huge...
Brisbane smells like frangipanis and jasmine; it tastes like Thai and Indian food; sounds like lorikeets and kookaburras; looks electric green and feels like sunshine. Yesterday afternoon was spent wandering, watching, and (of course) writing about my new sensory reactions to my present place of residence. I stress the 'present place' because I've moved ten times in the past ten years. Someone called me a gypsy once, I wrote a poem about it....
